Director
Hot Docs will commemorate Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation with the commissioning of In the Name of All Canadians, a compilation of six short documentaries inspired by Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. From Indigenous rights to multiculturalism to the controversial ‘notwithstanding clause,’ participating filmmakers have each selected a specific aspect of the Charter to explore, looking at how it resonates in the stories of their fellow Canadians.
Producer
Most people experience trauma at least once. For many, the memories fade with time. But for some, they make it impossible to move beyond trauma.
Writer
Most people experience trauma at least once. For many, the memories fade with time. But for some, they make it impossible to move beyond trauma.
Director
Most people experience trauma at least once. For many, the memories fade with time. But for some, they make it impossible to move beyond trauma.
Director
Examines the case of Omar Khadr, a Toronto-born teen captured in Afghanistan by U.S. forces in 2002 and branded by some as a child soldier and accused by many others of being a terrorist and murderer.
Director
아프리카의 많은 아이들이 책 대신 총을 들고 전장에서 무자비한 살인 도구로 쓰인다. 1994년 르완다 학살의 현장에서 UN 평화 유지군을 이끌었던 캐나다의 로미오 달레어 장군은 퇴역 이후 사회운동가로서 대화와 소통을 통해 소년들을 전장에서 구하고자 한다. 전선에 아이들을 내보내는 것은 '죄악'이라는 그의 목소리가 강하게 담겨 있다.
Director
Acclaimed doctor James Orbinski, former head of Doctors Without Borders, returns to Africa to confront the harsh reality of conditions there and explores what it means to be a humanitarian.
Director
It is easy to overlook Herschel Island – a tiny speck of land just off the Yukon coast – where the Inuvialuit hunter Nuligak once followed the great journeys of caribou, polar bears, and whales. The island lays silently on the margins of geography, entrapped in the footnotes of history, a forgotten place frozen in time. It was on Herschel Island that a young Inuvialuit boy, Nuligak (later named Bob Cockney by the missionaries) came of age-fascinated by Herschel, but equally repelled by the excess of so-called civilization. Through Nuligak’s touching yet tragic life-story expressed through his writings and echoed by his grandchildren’s poignant return to the Island-we are offered a unique view into an often troubling past and a potentially hopeful future.
Associate Producer
The story of Canadian Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire and his controversial command of the United Nations mission to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. The documentary was inspired by the book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda which was published in 2003.
