Hot Docs

Toronto's Hot Docs, which finished up on Sunday, is Canada's largest Documentary Film Festival. On the advice of friends, I went down there for a couple of days. Quite overwhelming. At the industry centre, you could find people exchanging cards, meeting each other and pitching projects. This guy had the right idea:



I chatted and gave out some cards. It seemed to be the thing to do. Met many interesting people.

(UPDATE: Oh yeah, I also ran into a former editor of mine, Meg Hewings, and she was on her bike (because of the threat of a transit strike in T.O. - which came to pass!), and watching films in the dark all week. Her web diary on HOUR.CA talks about all the cool films I was missing.)

Drew some sketches. That woman was standing near me, and looked striking. The worried guy is out of the Hot Docs Catalog, and is a hockey player from the film Junior. Then, R. Crumb, because I bought a DVD of the movie Crumb cheap.