breaking news

The Audience Choice Award (that's you!!) goes to....

Thunder Soul! An excellent choice, audience. This movie had good story telling, awesome afros and the best soundtrack at Hot Docs 2010. If you missed it, keeps tabs on it. I suspect it might be released someday, and the director mentioned that he's working on a fictional movie about the same topic (an all black high school funk band in the 70s that took the American high school band circuit by storm).

The runners up for Audience Choice were:
2. A Drummer's Dream
3. My Life With Carlos
4. Autumn Gold
5. Leave Them Laughing
6. RUSH: Beyond The Lighted Stage
7. Listen To This
8. A Small Act
9. Wasteland
10. Marwencol

My take? Audiences love music movies.

:o(

Sad but true. It's over.

One of the reasons I wanted to start this blog is so that I would have a forum for thanking all of the staff and volunteers at Hot Docs for bringing such an eclectic, informative, entertaining and well-oiled (except for the seats at the Royal) film festival to Toronto. So, thank you Hot Docs. I can't wait for next year.

My final tally:
5 shorts
6 movies in advance or in the Doc Shop
and....
36 feature length films in the theatre!!!

Some more tidbits to follow over the next couple days, including the winner of the audience favorite award and some photos from the fest.

Anyone want to go see a movie tonight?

this isn't over.

Saw 6 yesterday, 5 more today. gotta run. but this isn't over. I have more to say so keep checking back for the next few days.