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2012 Film Archive

Film
5 Broken Cameras
A.K.
Aaron Burr, Part 2
About Face: The Supermodels, Then and Now
An Affair of the Heart
Aida: A Natural-Born Artist
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
All Divided Selves
The Ambassador
Ask a Silly Question
Back to the Square
Ballroom Dancer
The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song
The Beaches of Agnès
Beauty Is Embarrassing
Bedtime Stories from the Axis of Evil
The Betrayal
Beware of Mr. Baker
Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
Big Easy Express
Black Block
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story
The Boxing Girls of Kabul
Breath
Brooklyn Castle
Buzkashi!
Call Me Kuchu
Canned Dreams
Charles Bradley: Soul of America
Chasing Ice
China Heavyweight
Colombianos
Crayons of Askalan
Crimes Without Honour
Cutting Loose
Death to the Camera
Despite the Gods
Detropia
Doc Talk 1 – Visual Innovation
Doc Talk 2 – In Conversation: Discussing Long-Form Storytelling
Doc Talk 3 – Cinematic Impact
Downeast
Dragan Wende - West Berlin
Dreams of a Life
Drought
Durga
Dylan
El Huaso
Espoir Voyage
Ethel
Family Nightmare
The Field of Magic
Fighting Back
The Final Member
Finding North
Finding Truelove
Fire Academy
Fists of Pride
Five Fragments of the Extinct Empathy
The Fortune in the Throat
Francophrenia (or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is)
The Frog Princes
Gambler
Garden in the Sea
GLOW: The Story of The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
Grandmothers
The Great Liberty
Greetings from the Colony
G-Dog
Herman’s House
Her Cinema Love
Her Master’s Voice
High Tech, Low Life
Home Turf
How to Entertain Audiences & Change the World: Davis Guggenheim and Ted Hope
Hunting Bobby Oatway
The Imposter
Indie Game: The Movie
Inocente
International Documentary Challenge
The Invisible War
In the Year of Hip Hop
Italy Love It or Leave It
I Beat Mike Tyson
Jai Bhim Comrade
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
Jeff
The Job
The Kid and the Clown
Krisis - GR2011 - The Prism
The Language of Love
Laura
The Law in These Parts
Legend of a Warrior
Les ordres
The Lifer and the Lady
Life in Stills
The List
Lost in La Mancha
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Love Story
Low and Clear
Made In China
Mama Illegal
Manhood
The Man That Got Away
Marley
McCullin
Meaning of Robots
Meanwhile in Mamelodi
The Mechanical Bride
Meet the Fokkens
Michel Brault: Shorts
Mom and Me
Mr. Christmas
The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche
My Freedom, Your Freedom
My Mate Manchester United
My Name is Faith
My Thai Bride
Nessa
Not a Carwash
No Room for Rockstars
Off Label
Of Insects and Men
Oma & Bella
One Day After Peace
One Fine Day
Only the Young
Outing
Over My Dead Body
Peace Out
Petra’s Poem
Ping Pong
Planet of Snail
Platform Moon
Playing the Fool
Polish Illusions
Pot Country
Pour la suite du monde
Price of Gold
Private Universe
The Prophet
The Punk Syndrome
Pushwagner
The Queen of Versailles
The Quiet One
Radioman
Rage Against the Darkness: Bunny and Leona
The Record Breaker
The Relationship Doctrine of Don Blanquito
The Reluctant Revolutionary
Revision
The Revisionaries
Scarlet Road
Sexy Baby
Shadows of Liberty
She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column
Shut Up and Play the Hits
Smoke Traders
Soldier/Citizen
Strong – A Recovery Story
Summer of Giacomo
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
TBA - Award Winner 1
TBA - Award Winner 3
Tchoupitoulas
Theo Fleury: Playing With Fire
There is No Sexual Rapport
Tilman in Paradise
Trials, Tribulations & Sustainable Growth of a Cock
The Tundra Book. A Tale of Vukvukai, the Little Rock.
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
¡Vivan las Antipodas!
Wadim
Waiting for Lightning
The Waiting Room
Welcome to the Machine
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
We Are Wisconsin
We Die
When the Trumpet Sounds
Where Heaven Meets Hell
Which Direction to Go?
Who Cares?
Wildness
With My Heart in Yambo
Women with Cows
The World’s Most Fashionable Prison
The World Before Her
Written in Ink
The Young Man Was (Part 1: United Red Army)
Yugo, A Short Autobiography

Full Schedule

2012 Award Winning Films

The Boxing Girls of Kabul

Call Me Kuchu

The World Before Her

Photo Galleries

Festival Highlights - Day 11

Photo highlights from screenings of FINDING TRUELOVE, HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE and WE ARE WISCONSIN.
Festival Highlights - Day 10

Photo highlights from screenings of DETROPIA, THE WAITING ROOM, WHO CARES?, THE KID AND THE CLOWN, REVISION, THEO FLEURY, POLISH ILLUSIONS and more!
Festival Highlights - Day 9

Photo highlights from the Hot Docs 2012 Awards Presentation, plus screenings of Fighting Back, Queen of Versailles, Scarlet Road and Pushwagner
Festival Highlights - Day 8

Photo highlights from industry and conference events and screenings of FINDING NORTH, CALL ME KUCHU, INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE, THE WORLD’S MOST FASHIONABLE PRISON, CHASING ICE and more!
Festival Highlights - Day 7

Photo highlights from the Hot Docs Forum and Industry Conference Sessions and screenings of My Name is Faith, China Heavyweight and Ballroom Dancer

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Industry Schedule

Event Name
9:00 am Hot Hacks with Mozilla - Day 1
10:00 pm Celebration of Queer and Sex Positive Films at Hot Docs
9:00 am Hot Hacks with Mozilla - Day 2
3:00 pm Micro Meeting: Getty Images Master Class - Use of Archive Footage in BEWARE OF MR. BAKER
5:30 pm Hot Docs Happy Hour
9:00 pm Get Tipsy @ Paupers Pub
9:30 am International Co-Production Day Session 1: Co-Producing with Canada - A Case Study
9:30 am Micro Meeting: documentary
10:00 am Rendezvous Morning Session
10:30 am International Co-Production Day Session 2: Meet the Chinese Delegation
11:00 am Micro Meeting: Shaw Media
11:15 am International Co-Production Day Session 3: Meet the German Delegation
11:45 am International Co-Production Day Session 4: Meet the South African Delegation
12:15 pm International Co-Production Day Session 5: Meet the Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund Cohort
12:30 pm Micro Meeting: TVO
1:59 pm Micro Meeting: CMPA
2:00 pm Rendezvous Afternoon Session
2:30 pm International Co-Production Day Session 6: Meet the UK Delegation
3:00 pm International Co-Production Day Session 7: Meet the Israeli Delegation
3:45 pm International Co-Production Day Session 8: Meet the Nordic Delegation
5:30 pm Hot Docs Happy Hour
9:30 am Industry Conference Session 1: What’s Up Doc? Keynote by Ted Hope
10:00 am Rendezvous Morning Session
11:00 am Micro Meeting: NHK
12:00 pm Doc Mogul Luncheon Honouring Diane Weyermann
12:30 pm Industry Conference Session 2: For Your Aural Pleasure
2:00 pm Micro Meeting: Bell Fund
2:00 pm Workshop: Strategic Distribution 202 with Jon Reiss
2:00 pm Rendezvous Afternoon Session
3:30 pm Micro Meeting: CMF
3:30 pm Industry Conference Session 3: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cinema
5:00 pm How to Entertain Audiences & Change the World: Davis Guggenheim and Ted Hope
5:30 pm Hot Docs Happy Hour
5:30 pm Doc Talk 1: Visual Innovation
9:00 pm Get Tipsy… The Canadian Way
9:00 am Hot Docs Forum Day 1
9:30 am Industry Conference Session 4: Business Model Planning For Your Documentary - An Introduction
10:00 am Rendezvous Morning Session
12:30 pm Kickstart Session 1: The Tool Box
2:00 pm Kickstart Session 2: Strategic Distribution 101
2:00 pm Rendezvous Afternoon Session
2:00 pm NBC News Archive Micro Meeting: Use of Archive Footage in BOOKER’S PLACE
2:30 pm Workshop: Let’s Create My Business Model Canvas(es)
3:30 pm Micro Meeting: Juice
3:30 pm Kickstart Session 3: My First Doc - Case Study with ONLY THE YOUNG and CALL ME KUCHU
5:30 pm Doc Talk 2: In Conversation - Discussing Long Form Storytelling
5:30 pm Hot Docs Happy Hour
9:00 am Hot Docs Forum Day 2
10:00 am Rendezvous Morning Session
10:00 am Workshop: Inventing New Forms of Storytelling
11:00 am Industry Conference Session 5: Reel Stories - The Relationship Between Journalism and Documentary
12:30 pm Micro Meeting: Topspin
2:00 pm Industry Conference Session 6: Crafting Interactive Docs:The Art and Mastery of Interactive Projects
2:00 pm Rendezvous Afternoon Session
4:00 pm Industry Conference Session 7: Measuring and Leveraging the Digital Space
5:30 pm Doc Talk 3: Cinematic Impact
5:30 pm Hot Docs Happy Hour
9:00 pm Doc Lounge
10:00 pm WILDNESS Official After-Party
9:00 am Doc Summit