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FREE MONTHLY PROGRAM NOVEMBER 2018 Starting Wednesday, November 7 MARIA BY CALLAS PAGE 2 + You Are What You Act with laughter expert Albert Nerenberg PAGE 3 A delicious intro to the Filipino food movement PAGE 5 Our Beautiful City with CBC’s Suresh Doss PAGE 5 Last chance! November 1–5 Hot Docs PodcastPAGE Festival7 “A fascinating look at celebrity.” “A scientific pioneer.” “(A) brilliant and captivating – NOW Magazine – CBC documentary.” – Variety The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons The Woman Who Loves Giraffes The Price of Everything Learned From a Mythical Man Opens Friday, November 16 Opens Friday, November 23 Opens Friday, November 9 Page 2 Page 2 Page 2 “An engaging, troubling, and “Marvellously entertaining.” comprehensive account.” – POV Magazine – Daily Mail (UK) The Reckoning: Hollywood’s Worst Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary Nothing Like a Dame Kept Secret World of Ben Ferencz Opens Friday, November 30 Page 3 Opens Friday, November 23 Opens Friday, November 30 Page 3 Page 3 PRESENTING PARTNER @HOTDOCSCINEMA /HOTDOCSCINEMA HOTDOCSCINEMA.CA 506 BLOOR STREET WEST (at Bathurst Street) 2 HOTDOCSCINEMA.CA OPENING at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema in November TICKETS MEMBERS BRONZE: $8 Silver: $6 $13 SAVE Gold: Free StARTS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 Maria by Callas D: Tom Volf | 2018 | France | 113 min Arguably one of the greatest sopranos of the twentieth century, Maria Callas—singer, socialite, muse, and lover—always felt misunderstood. Known as a diva to the public and a fragile, hard-working to her confidants, the “voice of the century” finally gets to tell her own story—forty years after her death. Beautifully strung together with previously unseen footage and photographs, personal Super 8 films, private live recordings, intimate letters, and rare behind-the- scenes archival footage, Maria by Callas is an intimate portrait of an “Fascinating... a must-see for exceptional performer. opera lovers.” – NOW Magazine OPENS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned From a Mythical Man D: Tommy Avallone | 2018 | USA | 70 min “Bill Murray crashed my karaoke session.” “Bill Murray photobombed our engagement pictures.” Reports of the comedy icon spontaneously interacting with complete strangers are legion—but why would someone so famously averse to publicity create scores of moments guaranteed to be instantly and wildly public? Join filmmaker Tommy Avallone on a laugh-out-loud detective quest to discover which “See the movie. It’s well worth the journey “Bill Murray stories” are true and, more to the point, what’s in it for to find out what happens.” – Chicago Sun-Times the mythical man himself. This whimsical investigation is an inspiring reminder for everyone, whether famous or perfectly average: all we have is the fantastically strange and fleeting now. OPENS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16 The Woman Who Loves Giraffes D: Alison Reid | 2018 | Canada | 82 min Years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and Dian Fossey worked with mountain gorillas, 23-year old Canadian Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented expedition to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild. Despite returning home with ground- breaking research, the numerous barriers Dagg faced as a female scientist proved harder to overcome. Denied tenure at University of Guelph, she blazed her own trail as a feminist activist for over three decades—and now she’s finally getting her due. Through letters and stunning 16mm footage, this inspiring portrait retraces Dagg’s journey to becoming the world’s first “giraffeologist” and the triumphs and A sold-out hit with Doc Soup audiences! battles along the way. OPENS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23 The Price of Everything D: Nathaniel Kahn | 2018 | Canada | 98 min Nominee—Grand Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival 2018 Basquiat paintings regularly fetch tens of millions of dollars, and the recent sale of a little-known Da Vinci topped $450 million. But what are the forces that drive this white-hot art market? With unprecedented access to in-demand artists like Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, and to prominent collectors and dealers, Academy Award–nominee Nathaniel Kahn coaxes out the dynamics at play in pricing the priceless, holding up a mirror to our values and our times—where everything can be bought and sold. “Colorful and inquisitive.” – The New York Times HOTDOCSCINEMA.CA 3 OPENING at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema in November OPENS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23 The Reckoning: Hollywood’s Worst Kept Secret D: Barry Avrich | 2018 | Canada | 78 min In October 2017, the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke—the catalyst for #MeToo, #TimesUp, and the airing of countless other sexual misconduct allegations, in Hollywood and beyond. Acclaimed filmmaker Barry Avrich, who had documented Weinstein’s success and fury in his 2010 doc Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, returns to chronicle the takedown of the disgraced movie mogul. Featuring interviews with reporters, insiders, and alleged Two new docs from victims, as well as divisive Canadian figures Marie Henein and acclaimed director Barry Avrich Margaret Wente, The Reckoning brings controversial voices and undeterred women to the forefront in an unsettling look at one of the most explosive watersheds of sexual politics. OPENS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz D: Barry Avrich | 2018 | Canada | 83 min Official Selection—Toronto International Film Festival 2018 At age 27 in his first case, Ben Ferencz, a Harvard-educated lawyer, prosecuted 22 men at Nuremberg—the biggest murder trial in history. Since then, Ferencz has been on a lifelong crusade to fight for justice, advocating for the establishment of an international rule of law and the International Criminal Court. In this gripping documentary, award-winning filmmaker Barry Avrich tells the story of one of the Holocaust’s most heroic figures—and one of the “Veteran Canadian doc director Barry Avrich world’s most committed human rights lawyers—who believes, firmly, has made one of his finest films.” – Classical 96.3 in “law, not war.” OPENS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Nothing Like A Dame D: Roger Michell | 2018 | UK | 84 min Gathered around a table in the English countryside, Dame Eileen Atkins, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Joan Plowright, and Dame Maggie Smith—four old friends who have experienced the ups and downs of life together—chat, laugh, and reflect on everything from their early days as young theatre performers to the work they’ve done over the course of their careers in film and television. Directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Venus), Nothing Like a Dame, which invites you to spend time with these icons as they look back with the wisdom of their years, is candid, funny, poignant—and unmissable. “The laughter and pure hysteria are infectious in this wildly enjoyable film.” – The Guardian One Night Only! THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 6:30 PM You Are What You Act D: Albert Nerenberg | 2018 | Canada | 78 min “Fake it until you make it.” We’ve all heard this expression before. But does smiling actually make you happier? Does changing your posture make you more confident? Will acting in love save your relationship? Albert Nerenberg thinks so. In his highly-entertaining follow-up to his seminal film Laughology, the acclaimed director and laughter expert explores how behaviour can affect how we feel. By looking at how Hollywood’s biggest stars become their roles, Nerenberg suggests acting has the untapped potential to transform the way we express ourselves and pursue wellness. Featuring interviews with some of the world’s leading cognitive psychologists, You Are What You Act will have you considering: What influences us more, our minds or our bodies? Toronto Premiere Join director Albert Nerenberg for a Q&A after the screening. 4 HOTDOCSCINEMA.CA Special Premiere The Raft Dolphin Man D: Marcus Lindeen | 2018 | Denmark | 97 min D: Lefteris Charitos | 2017 | Canada, Greece, France | 80 min In the summer of 1973, five men and six women Journey from the Mediterranean to Japan, from embarked on a 101-day scientific sea-adventure, India to the Bahamas, to uncover the story of free- Stay after the screening for an Stick around for a Q&A with Producer crossing the Atlantic on a small raft named the diving legend Jacques Mayol, who, on top of breaking extended Q&A with director Marcus Ed Barreveld following the screening. Acali. 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