Milk
When it’s on the topic – profit-seeking corporations pushing infant formula on mothers who don’t need it – Milk rocks. That’s true especially when director Naomi Weis’s crew travels to the Philippines, where cash-strapped mothers of infants were provided post-cyclone with formula and found their breast milk had dried up when the formula ran out. See review and showtimes.
Peace Officer
In light of recent newsmaking violence between civilians and the police, there’s a fine doc to be made about the increased militarization of the police in the U.S. See review and showtimes.
Pervert Park
Like the best docs, there’s no black and white in Pervert Park, a fascinating glimpse at a trailer park in Florida inhabited by 120 convicted sex offenders. See review and showtimes.
>>> Filming Obstinately, Meeting Patricio Guzmán
Patricio Guzmán, recipient of this year’s Outstanding Achievement Award, discusses his earlier documentaries (including The Battle Of Chile Chile, Obstinate Memory and The Pinochet Case, all screening at Hot Docs this year) with French filmmaker Boris Nicot in this straightforward, considered profile. See review and showtimes.
>>> From This Day Forward
In this tender story of a family dealing with a father’s male-to-female transition, director Sharon Shattuck looks back on her own experiences. See review and showtimes.
For The Record
Marc Greenberg’s look at America’s legion of court reporters, stenographers and closed-caption writers is slick and insubstantial and really, really dull – like an awards-banquet video that goes on well past the point where the audience has stopped caring. See review and showtimes.
Deep Web
Actor-turned-documentarian Alex Winter last came to Hot Docs with the Napster history Downloaded. His new project is considerably grimmer, marrying a history of the darker side of the Internet with the prosecution of Ross Ulbricht, charged in 2013 with running the illicit online marketplace called the Silk Road under the alias of the Dread Pirate Roberts. See review and showtimes.
