Hot Docs 2008

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Hot Docs Talks: Iran to You
Hot Docs Talks
Guest filmmakers and delegates from Iran, this year’s Spotlight country, discuss their projects and the conditions for making documentaries in their homeland.
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Hot Docs Talks: Open Source/Fair Use
Hot Docs Talks
Even as technology gives filmmakers the tools to mash, remix, sample, and satirize, the creative license to do so is stifled by the restrictive terms of powerful copyright holders’ vision of the law. A presentation and discussion of the potential and challenges of Open Source Cinema.
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Hot Docs Talks: The Feeling of Being There
Hot Docs Talks
Outstanding Achievement honouree Richard Leacock has described his goal in shooting documentaries to convey “the feeling of being there.” Leacock and other guest filmmakers discuss this and other notions of practicing documentary cinematography.
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Hot Docs Talks: The Long Haul
Hot Docs Talks
The “longitudinal” documentary - films which follow their subjects and stories over years - is an increasingly rare form. In this discussion, guest filmmakers who have made such works discuss what it takes to stay with the story and to tell it in ninety minutes.
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