The Canadian premiere of “Never Look Away” will be at Hot Docs showing on 27/30April2024 and 4May2024. Margaret Moth was a fearless almost Gothlike camera woman hailing from New Zealand as is director Lucy Lawless with her directorial debut. You may ask when viewing the film if she was addicted to the danger of operatingContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Never Look Away””
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RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “The Bones”: Dino Intrigue!
Watch the documentary “The Bones” and you will never see dinosaurs the way you used to. I have taken my children to see the dinosaurs at The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and now it is the grandchildren. Children are fascinated with dinosaurs but if you take them when they are too young, they mayContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “The Bones”: Dino Intrigue!”
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Daughter of Genghis”: A Lesson for Daughters and Sons of Trump
We follow the life of single Mongolian mother Gerel Byamba over the period of seven years. Extreme nationalists in Mongolia vilified Chinese control of the economy, the degradation of women and the threat of Chinese corruption of the “pure Mongolian genes” through Chinese controlled brothels and intermarriage with Mongolian women. Gerel Byamba’s husband died inContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Daughter of Genghis”: A Lesson for Daughters and Sons of Trump”
RKS 2024 Film: “Occupied City”: Amsterdam Yesterday and Today: A Bloody Chapter in its History
Director and writer Steve McQueen has crafted a solid and very long historical documentary based on wife Bianca Stigter’s “Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940-1945”. In the Second World War German forces occupied Amsterdam and slowly but methodically drew the noose around the necks of its Jewish population. Some 60,000-80,000 of Amsterdam’s Jews wereContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Occupied City”: Amsterdam Yesterday and Today: A Bloody Chapter in its History”
RKS 2024 FILM: HOT DOCS 2024:“My Sextortion Diary” (Todo Lo Cubre la Sol): A Currency of Threats and Humiliation
Patricia Franquesa, a Spanish filmmaker, meets her ex-boyfriend at a restaurant in Madrid for lunch. Her laptop is stolen by two men as is visible on security camera footage. She reports the matter to the Madrid police. Two months later a hacker informs her three “compromising pictures” on her laptop will be distributed to allContinue reading “RKS 2024 FILM: HOT DOCS 2024:“My Sextortion Diary” (Todo Lo Cubre la Sol): A Currency of Threats and Humiliation”
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Aqueronte”: A Mystical Voyage of Light, Sound and Images for Your Imagination
“Aqueronte”, a film by Manuel Muñoz Rivas, is one of the four films showing in the Hot Docs Made in Spain Shorts Programme screening on 3May2024. Despite the fact it is not a documentary short it is a short of a mystical voyage of light, sound and images your mind can journey on with. AContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Aqueronte”: A Mystical Voyage of Light, Sound and Images for Your Imagination”
RKS 2024 Film: “Queendom”: Tough Going for Performance Artist in Nouveau Tsarist Russia
Gennadiy, known in costume as Jenna, is a performance artist in Russia who managed to escape to France obtaining asylum there fortunate enough not to have “fallen out of a window”, gunned down or to have consumed that FSB special plutonium tea. You see Jenna is a queer that loves to parade about the streetsContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Queendom”: Tough Going for Performance Artist in Nouveau Tsarist Russia”
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Qoryqpa” (Streets Loud with Echoes)
Being a part of the Soviet Empire when the Berlin Wall fell Kazakhstan declared itself an independent democracy but not having much of a history of democracy it quickly slipped back into the comfortable ways of totalitarianism. It was the 19July2018 murder of Kazak 25-year-old figure skating Olympic bronze medalist (Sochi 2018 Olympics) Denis TenContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Qoryqpa” (Streets Loud with Echoes)”
RKS 2024 Film: “What are you supposed to do with your hands?”: Be Yourself or Be Controlled Like a Puppet?
Crazy8’s has been organizing 8-day filmmaking challenges since 1999. Those filmmakers selected after a successful pitch are given 8 days to produce a short. On 20April2024 all 6 selected finalists present their short in Vancouver followed by a gala evening. In “What are supposed to do with your hands?” anxiety ridden and later in lifeContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “What are you supposed to do with your hands?”: Be Yourself or Be Controlled Like a Puppet?”
RKS 2024 Film: “Accidental Texan”: Zorba the Greek Meets Good Old American Values
“Accidental Texan” is one of those feel-good movies and we all require one of those every once in awhile. Erwin Vandemeer (Rudy Pankow) is an aspiring actor on his first substantial role filming in New Orleans but he destroys the opening scene and is promptly fired. His agent drops him. His acting career may beContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Accidental Texan”: Zorba the Greek Meets Good Old American Values”
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