 Hi, art lovers! | | |  | CBC Arts | | | The 30th edition of the Hot Docs Festival is now underway, and you can bet we’ve been queuing up to see some great films this weekend. Find our list of must-sees below, and if a trip to downtown Toronto isn’t on your immediate to-do list, we have streaming recos as well, courtesy of CBC News Entertainment. I should mention that Hot Docs isn’t the only non-fiction film fest that’s happening this spring. A bunch of our staff picks will be screening at Doxa (Vancouver) and NorthwestFest (Edmonton), too.
But in the meantime, we’ll have even more Hot Docs coverage on the site next week. Watch for essays by filmmakers including Omar Mouallem. The Edmonton-based director is at Hot Docs with The Lebanese Burger Mafia. It’s a supersized version of this great short doc: the story of a beloved Albertan franchise … that most Canadians have never heard of. We’ll have interviews with some of the filmmakers, too.
As for films of our own … If you follow any of CBC Arts’s social accounts, you might have seen a bunch of dance videos on your feed yesterday. Saturday was International Dance Day and Canadian Independent Bookstore Day, so our video team felt obliged to mark the double-barrelled #occasion. On the site, you’ll find bios of all the dancers, plus info on the bookstores featured in their performances. | | | | | And because we promised you eye candy ... | | | | |  | Sarah Anne Johnson | | Woodland, a new solo exhibition from Sarah Anne Johnson, opens May 6 at the Stephen Bulger Gallery as part of Toronto’s Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. | | | | |  | Wynne Neilly | | And on the subject of the festival … Remember the news about the Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award that I mentioned last week? Before it arrives at the National Gallery of Canada, an exhibition featuring this year’s winners will be at Arsenal Contemporary Art as part of Contact. Find it there through June 17. These images are by Wynne Neilly, one of the honourees. | | | | |  | Mitsuo Kimura | | As a companion to an upcoming film program (POP Japan), the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto will be launching a free public art exhibition on May 9. Mitsuo Kimura is among the featured artists. | | | | |  | Holly MacKinnon | | Because it’s still cherry blossom season … in Toronto, at least. (Painting by newsletter reader Holly MacKinnon. She’s showing this piece as part of a group show at Wishbone art gallery in Montreal.) | | | | |  | Hot Docs | | | | | The nine documentaries our writers can’t wait to see. | | | | |  | Hot Docs | | | | | You’ve got it! These five films are about women whose stories demand to be heard. | | | | |  | Satan Wants You | | | | | | | A new film at Hot Docs tells the story of Michelle Remembers, the ’80s bestseller that spawned a worldwide witch hunt. | | |  | Renée Condo | | Renée is one of 25 artists who made this year’s Sobey Art Award long list. The National Gallery of Canada announced the news last week, and you can learn more about the nominees on its website. A little about Renée: she is based in Montreal and her art often references beadwork patterns from her Mi’gmaw culture. | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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