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People's Choice Award Sponsor Presenting Sponsors People’s Choice Award Sponsor Presenting Sponsors APRIL 28–MAY 8, 2011 : HOT DOCS CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL WELCOME TO HOT DOCS 2011 photo: Paul Galipeau Find Your Films Ticket And Pass Prices Choose your films from this schedule or visitwww.hotdocs.ca for more INDIVIDUAL TICKETS $14 detailed film descriptions. LATE-NIGHT SCREENINGS (AFTER 11 PM) $5 With this schedule you can browse films by program, or search for films LATE- using the subject and title indexes on pages 25 and 27. REGULAR NIGHT SCREENING PRICE A pull-out schedule-at-a-glance can be found on page 13, which includes SCREENING TICKETS* a map of Festival venues. TICKETS* Buy Your Tickets FESTIVAL PASS Our most popular pass 10 9 $98 ADVANCE Tickets —one you can share! ONLINE: WWW.hotdocs.CA BY PHONE: 416.637.5150 ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT LATE- IN PERSON: The documentary Box Office NIGHT PASS 0 9 $10 131 Bloor Street West New Location! 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Screening venue box offices accept cash only. *Tickets are subject to availability. **Screenings cannot run concurrently. FREE Daytime Screenings Ready to redeem your pass for tickets? Generously supported by Scotiabank Group Festival Pass and All-You-Can-Eat Late-Night Pass holders can call Seniors (60+) and students with valid ID can take advantage of free or visit Hot Docs documentary Box Office in advance, or visit the daytime screenings (starting before 6 pm). Pick up your same day screening venue’s box office on the day. tickets at the screening venue’s box office on the day of the screening, Bloor Cinema All-Access Pass, Premium Pass and Premium Pass subject to availability. for Two holders can visit the screening venue’s box office on the day. A block of tickets will be held for these pass holders, subject Are you a filmmaker? to availability. Visit www.hotdocs.ca for information on Kickstart passes or industry accreditation. Passes are non-transferrable unless otherwise noted. Hot Docs was established in 1993 as an initiative of the Documentary Organization of Canada/Documentaristes du Canada, and was separately incorporated as an independent, charitable organization in 1996. 416.637.5150 : hotdocs.ca : 03 HOT DOCS CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL : APRIL 28–MAY 8, 2011 SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS POM Wonderful Presents: THE Greatest Movie EVER SOLD OPENING NIGHT FILM charming and candid Chaz bravely stands up INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE POM WONDERFUL to demystify the transgender experience. BUCK PRESENTS: THE GREATEST FRI, APR 29 9:15 PM BLOOR D: Cindy Meehl | USA | 88 min SUN, MAY 1 4:00 PM TBLB2 MOVIE EVER SOLD SUN, MAY 8 6:45 PM TBLB2 A real-life horse whisperer overcomes his dark childhood and emerges as kind of an equine-rooted D: Morgan Spurlock | USA | 90 min INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE philosopher, proving his own maxim: horses make Provocateur Morgan Spurlock sells out to bring BEING ELMO: better people. Unforgettable, and deservedly the us a “doc-buster” financed entirely by product winner of an Audience Award at Sundance. placement, marketing and advertising. Smart, A Puppeteer’S JOURNEY incisive and hilarious, it pulls the curtain TUE, MAY 3 6:30 PM BLOOR D: Constance Marks | USA | 76 min THU, MAY 5 1:15 PM BADER back on our deeply embedded, hyper-branded Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this Sundance SUN, MAY 8 4:15 PM BADER entertainment landscape. Special Jury Prize winner sneaks us behind THU, APR 28 6:30 PM WINTER the scenes at Sesame Street to reveal INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE FRI, APR 29 4:15 PM BADER the inspirational story of Kevin Clash, shy THE BULLY PROJECT puppeteer and creator of the everyone’s D: Lee Hirsch | USA | 94 min THE ADVOCATE FOR FAGDOM favourite Muppet. Savage teasing, repeated threats, a gun is D: Angélique Bosio | France | 92 min FRI, MAY 6 7:15 PM BADER pulled—and all this just on the bus ride to school. SAT, MAY 7 7:15 PM BADER Romantic-Queercore-punk-zombie pornographer, SUN, MAY 8 4:30 PM TBLB1 Filmmaker Lee Hirsch spends a shocking year on gleeful crusher of cliché, righteousness and the front lines of America’s bullying epidemic. repressive politics: Viva Bruce LaBruce! WED, MAY 4 7:00 PM BADER Scintillating film clips and fabulous interviews BLOOD IN THE MOBILE FRI, MAY 6 4:15 PM BADER with John Waters, Harmony Korine, and Gus D: Frank Piasecki Poulsen | Germany, Denmark Van Sant reveal Toronto’s gift to the world. | 82 min INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE FRI, MAY 6 9:00 PM BLOOR Are the minerals in your mobile phone contributing CAROL CHANNING: LARGER SAT, MAY 7 8:45 PM TBLB2 to the violence in eastern Congo? Filmmaker THAN LIFE Frank Poulsen documents one of the world’s INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE most notorious mines and exposes its links to D: Dori Berinstein | USA | 87 min BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: the bloodshed that plagues the region. Broadway powerhouse Carol Channing is as THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE WED, MAY 4 6:30 PM BLOOR vivacious at 90 as when she first captivated FRI, MAY 6 4:30 PM CUMB2 audiences in Hello, Dolly! nearly 50 years CALLED QUEST ago. Iconic and incomparable, her expansive D: Michael Rapaport | USA | 98 min INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE career—and late-life romance with her junior Actor Michael Rapaport’s directorial debut hits the BOBBY FISCHER AgAINST high sweetheart—is profiled. road with Q-Tip, Phife, Ali and Jarobi, charting the THE WORLD MON, MAY 2 6:15 PM BLOOR band’s triumphant and turbulent 20-year career THU, MAY 5 3:45 PM TBLB2 D: Liz Garbus | USA | 93 min SUN, MAY 8 9:00 PM TBLB2 as they reunite for a series of sold-out gigs. An authentic portrait of true hip-hop pioneers. Bobby Fischer was the rock star of the chess world, but underneath his brilliance lurked INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE SAT, APR 30 6:30 PM TBLB1 a tormented soul. A gripping, impressively CONAN O’BRIEN Can’t STOP researched look at how this American Cold INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE D: Rodman Flender | USA | 89 min War hero became a vilified, paranoid recluse. BECOMING CHAZ Dumped from The Tonight Show and banned SUN, MAY 1 1:30 PM BADER from appearing on television, radio or the D: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | USA | 85 min TUE, MAY 3 7:00 PM TBLB3 Internet for six months: what’s a firebrand A revealing look at Chaz (formerly Chastity) comic to do? Hit the stand-up road looking for Bono’s journey through gender reassignment. laughs…and revenge. Go, Coco! A reluctant public figure whose parents’ fame SAT, APR 30 9:00 PM BLOOR thrusts him into the spotlight, the utterly SUN, MAY 1 11:45 PM BLOOR MON, MAY 2 11:00 AM ROM 04 : 416.637.5150 : hotdocs.ca APRIL 28–MAY 8, 2011 : HOT DOCS CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS CAROL CHANNING: LARGER THAN LIFE FIGHTVILLE DOLPHIN BOY BeinG ELMO: A Puppeteer’S Journey IN Heaven, UNDERGround. THE Jewish Cemetery IN BERLIN-Weissensee DOC IT! SHOWCASE THE GOOD LIFE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE A showcase for teenage doc makers, Doc It! D: Eva Mulvad | Denmark | 84 min IN HEAVEN, UNDERGROUND. presents the brightest of these young voices, THE JEWISH CEMETERY screening a selection of work from submissions Born with a silver spoon, headstrong daughter received from across the country and beyond. Annemette yearns for her affluent younger IN BERLIN-WEISSENSEE Visit www.hotdocs.ca for a complete list of films. years. Fortune squandered, living together on one D: Britta Wauer | Germany | 90 min modest pension, she and her mother now struggle This Berlinale Audience Award winner is an SAT, MAY 7 11:00 AM ROM to keep tempers in check and wine on the table. enchanting portrait of a 130-year-old Jewish Screening with WORLD PREMIERE cemetery in the German capital. A delightful DOLPHIN BOY SURPRISEVILLE array of characters celebrates life and the D: Tim Travers Hawkins | UK | 10 min immortality of memories. D: Dani Menkin, Yonatan Nir | Israel | 72 min MON, MAY 2 9:00 PM TBLB1 SUN, MAY 1 7:00 PM BADER The unexplained wonders of dolphin-assisted WED, MAY 4 10:45 AM BADER TUE, MAY 3 3:45 PM BADER therapy are captured on camera in this SUN, MAY 8 9:00 PM BADER SUN, MAY 8 7:30 PM TBLB1 inspiring tale of a boy who had lost touch with reality after a brutal beating, and the dolphins WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL that helped heal his deep emotional scars.
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