Hot Docs | Through the glass, part 4
photos and text by Ray Pride
Just as "eh" and "oot and aboot" can mark a Canuck, Torontonians note U.S. citizens by their insistence on calling the city's tallest landmark the "CNN Tower," rather than the "CN Tower."
Bill Evans headed Winnipeg's late, lamented FilmExchange All-Canada festival; now he's Director of Programming for December's Whistler Film Festival.
Toronto-based doc filmmaker Stuart Samuels was co-director and producer of "Visions Of Light," the most comprehensive feature look at the art of cinematography. Samuel's latest nonfiction pic about the hopes of the 1960s, "27," is named for the age Hendrix, Joplin and Jim Morrison where when they died, and is a likely Toronto International preem in September.
Arto Halonen, recently feted in Thessaloniki with a career nod, is a Finnish docmaker whose doc about surreal doings in Turkmenistan and corporations that kowtowed to the oil-and-gas-rich dictatorship, "Shadow of The Holy Book" is making the circuit; coming soon to Seattle. At the Canadian Filmmakers party.
Ray Pride is a contributing editor of Movie City News and Filmmaker and movie critic of the Chicago weekly Newcity as well as a photographer. He observes independent film at Movie City Indie; links to his work are at his own site.
Just as "eh" and "oot and aboot" can mark a Canuck, Torontonians note U.S. citizens by their insistence on calling the city's tallest landmark the "CNN Tower," rather than the "CN Tower."
Bill Evans headed Winnipeg's late, lamented FilmExchange All-Canada festival; now he's Director of Programming for December's Whistler Film Festival.
Toronto-based doc filmmaker Stuart Samuels was co-director and producer of "Visions Of Light," the most comprehensive feature look at the art of cinematography. Samuel's latest nonfiction pic about the hopes of the 1960s, "27," is named for the age Hendrix, Joplin and Jim Morrison where when they died, and is a likely Toronto International preem in September.
Arto Halonen, recently feted in Thessaloniki with a career nod, is a Finnish docmaker whose doc about surreal doings in Turkmenistan and corporations that kowtowed to the oil-and-gas-rich dictatorship, "Shadow of The Holy Book" is making the circuit; coming soon to Seattle. At the Canadian Filmmakers party.
Ray Pride is a contributing editor of Movie City News and Filmmaker and movie critic of the Chicago weekly Newcity as well as a photographer. He observes independent film at Movie City Indie; links to his work are at his own site.
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
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