Toronto announces Hot Docs film fest lineup

by Kaitlin | March 21, 2007 at 10:13 am

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I love a good film fest, and a good documentary. Vancouver generally does pretty well at both of these things at our annual VIFF, but Toronto has its own, documentary-specific festival, called Hot Docs. The festival's in May, but the lineup has just been announced. You're right, Toronto, we are a little jealous of you...just this one time, though.

Watch the great trailer for Let's All Hate Toronto to get primed for this year's fest.

Canada is very well represented at this year's fest, with 22 films. And Toronto documentarians, like Garine Torossian and first-time filmmaker Simone Chichester, have a strong presence in the program. But the GTA is itself a star at Hot Docs 2007. The city features prominently in not one, not two, but three films: Arturo Perez Torres' City Idol (with our own boy reporter Ron Nurwisah); Derrick Roemer and Neil Graham's tale of gentrification, Last Call at the Gladstone Hotel; and Albert Nerenberg and Rob Spence's Let's All Hate Toronto, which is a funny film about how everybody else in the country despises us. They're just jealous because we're so cool and have lots of film festivals.

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