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WATCH: New Theo Tams Documentary About Mental Health Streams for Free

WATCH: New Theo Tams Documentary About Mental Health Streams for Free Theo Tams — photo credit: Sick Not Weak.The premiere of Theo Tams: One Last Chance will stream for free on the Hot Docs web site Jan. 20, in advance of Bell Let’s Talk Day, the communication giant’s campaign to raise funds and awareness about mental health. The 40-minute documentary…

Hot Docs Giving Away $200,000 Worth of Tickets to Students, Seniors and New Canadians

Hot Docs Giving Away $200,000 Worth of Tickets to Students, Seniors and New Canadians Hot Docs' executive director Brett Hendrie — photo courtesy of Hot Docs.Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival organizers will be giving $200,000 worth of tickets to students, seniors and new Canadians. One of the top documentary film festivals in the world…

Documentary Film Festival Hot Docs a Bonanza of Titles for the Conscious-Minded

Documentary Film Festival Hot Docs a Bonanza of Titles for the Conscious-Minded Pictured Scott Jones and sister Sherise, Love, Scott is about a young gay musician’s brave recovery after a vicious attacked left him paralyzed — photo courtesy of Hot Docs. Like non-fiction books, documentaries have at least one very distinct advantage over their fictional…

The Bully Project: More Than Just A Film

The Bully Project: More Than Just A Film American director Lee Hirsch and producer Cynthia Lowen, whose timely and riveting — and heart breaking — documentary The Bully Project follows the lives of five bullied children and their families, hopes the film will not only be a teaching tool at schools across North America, but that it starts a whole anti-bullying movement, also called The Bully…