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For the first time in two years the Hot Docs Canadian Intl. Documentary Festival is hosting in-person premieres and screenings, after Covid-19 forced the 2020 and 2021 editions of the annual event to unfold virtually. To celebrate, Hot Docs’ programming director Shane Smith selected 226 films from 2563 submissions to screen in-person and online beginning April 28 in Toronto. The lineup includes 63 world and 47 international premieres across 15 programs.

From Lyme Disease (“The Quiet Epidemic”) to Hong Kong’s history of protest (“Blue Island”) to the lucrative world of international pigeon racing (“Million Dollar Pigeons”), the 29th edition of Hot Docs offers up an assortment of titles from 63 countries that tackle a myriad of issues.

“I think of it as a buffet or dinner table that we are setting,” says Smith. “We are looking for as much diversity in the courses that are being served. We are putting together this delicious menu and finding as much variety as we can.

Three years ago, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival drew nearly 230,000 attendees to venues across Toronto. It was a record-breaking turnout, and a hopeful harbinger that even amid the growing disruption of streaming platforms, audiences were flocking more than ever before to North America’s largest documentary festival.

It has not returned to cinemas since.

After the coronavirus pandemic prompted a last-minute online pivot in 2020, Hot Docs was again forced to host a virtual fest last year. Now, as the curtain is set to rise on its 29th edition, the festival’s director of programming, Shane Smith, admits to a case of nerves after the long absence. “Some of us haven’t been on stage for a while,” he tells Variety. “But it’s going to be great to get back into the groove, get that muscle memory reactivated.”

This year’s edition will offer a reminder not only...

Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary tells story of man who takes on agrochemical corporation after terminal cancer diagnosis.

Screen can reveal the exclusive first-look trailer for Jennifer Baichwal’s upcoming Hot Docs opening night selection Into The Weeds ahead of its world premiere on April 28.

Sphere Films (formerly WaZabi Films) handles worldwide sales excluding Canada and will be introducing the film to buyers at the Cannes Marché next month. Mongrel Media distributes in Canada.

Into The Weeds tells the story of Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, a former Bay Area groundskeeper who takes on a multinational agrochemical corporation after a terminal cancer diagnosis.

Four episodes into “9-1-1: Lone Star” and fans of the “9-1-1” spinoff series are well aware that Rob Lowe’s character, Owen, has been diagnosed with cancer. Unfortunately, he has yet to get up the courage to share this grave news with his son, T.K. (Ronen Rubinstein).

In TheWrap’s exclusive clip from tonight’s episode of the first-responder drama, Judd (Jim Parrack) encourages Owen to open up to his child, approaching him with this very important message during a very important moment for Owen: his hair gel routine.

Judd tells his firefighter friend about how he needs his wife, Grace (Sierra McClain), to help him get through his Ptsd and that Owen “shouldn’t have to deal with this cancer crap” on his own and that he has to tell T.K.

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A tornado is coming to 9-1-1: Lone Star, and the 126 is going to be left searching for signs of life in its aftermath. As last week's episode foreshadowed, one of nature's gravest disaster events is going to befall Austin, Texas on Monday night's new episode, titled "Act of God." In this exclusive

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For Owen Strand and the rest of Austin’s Ladder 126, Monday’s 9-1-1: Lone Star (Fox, 8/7c) is really going to blow.

The episode, appropriately titled “Act of God,” finds both Owen and Michelle’s teams racing to save some Texans from the path of a (potentially) deadly tornado. TVLine has an exclusive first look at the episode, which will air as a promo during Super Bowl 54 on Sunday.

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There was an even greater presence among the jurors of the festival, with people have worked as actors on shows like Dexter to writers and directors having worked on films like On Golden Years. The jurors included Emmy Award nominee journalist and educator Ernabel Demillo, or ABC Network Casting Head Marci Phillips. David Zayas, an actor on Gotham and Donna McKenna, a casting director and producer,...

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"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck! We are so fucked. Fu-u-u-u-u-ck!" The speaker is Terry Gilliam, inspired Python animator and director of wacky acquired-taste masterpieces like Time Bandits, Brazil and Twelve Monkeys. He is giving his personal assessment - and a pretty fair assessment it is, too - of the progress on his doomed movie The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. It is a project which is collapsing about his ears, and documentarists Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe are there with their digital video cameras to witness its awe-inspiring collapse.

Their compelling fly-on-the-wall study, hilarious and heartbreaking at once, shows poor Mr Gilliam's visionary project disintegrating like a slow-motion car crash. The double hernia and slipped disc that zonked his lead actor, Jean Rochefort, the flash floods that swept away his camera equipment, the overhead Nato jets which wrecked his soundtrack, the actors who didn't show up, and finally, the implacable...