C.J. Prince
378 articles written by C.J. Prince
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Helen Simon Describes the Difficulties of Making the Important Doc ‘No Lullaby’
No Lullaby is a difficult film to watch, but that’s precisely why Helen Simon made it. Simon tells the story of Tina Reuther, a woman who was repeatedly abused sexually by her father while growing up. Tina never spoke...
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Hot Docs 2014: Actress, The Joe Show, E-Team
Actress Robert Greene finds inspiration for his latest documentary in his next-door neighbour Brandy Burre. Burre was an up and coming actress, known mostly for a recurring role on HBO’s The Wire, but an unexpected pregnancy made her decide...
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Hot Docs 2014: Absences, Guidelines, The Engineer
Absences As director Carole Laganière’s mother begins to lose her memory from Alzheimer’s, she turns her camera to three other people suffering a major loss: a Croatian immigrant revisits her home country to find her estranged mother, an American...
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Dave Jannetta and Poe Ballentine Talk ‘Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere’
In the small town of Chadron, Nebraska, math professor Steven Haataja vanished without a trace shortly after starting his new job. It took several months to find his body, and the discovery only brought on more questions. Haataja was...
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Hot Docs 2014: An Honest Liar, Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, Whitey
Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Filmmaker Dave Jannetta has made a sort of companion piece to author Poe Ballentine’s (real name Ed Hughes) book of the same title. Ballentine resides in Chadron, Nebraska, a small,...
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Hot Docs 2014: The Overnighters, Watchers of the Sky, The Creator of the Jungle
Now that I’ve seen over a dozen of Hot Docs’ selections so far, I can see patterns begin to emerge between films. The three films profiled in today’s piece, all of which are the best documentaries I’ve seen so...
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The Creator of the Jungle (Hot Docs review)
The Creator of the Jungle tells the story of Garrell, a man who has spent 45 years building a giant playground in a forest. He started as a child, and with age the scale of his work increased dramatically....
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Hot Docs 2014: Joy of Man’s Desiring, Harmontown, No Lullaby, Before The Last Curtain Falls
With almost 200 documentaries playing at Hot Docs, the amount of variety on display is quite staggering. Social issues, personal stories, biographies, abstract docs and true crime stories are some examples of the plethora of topics regularly seen at...
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Hot Docs 2014 Preview: The Case Against 8, 112 Weddings, Doc of the Dead
Hot Docs 2014 kicks off next Thursday, and Way Too Indie has already been getting sneak peeks of some of the many, many (197 to be exact) documentaries that will play from April 24 – May 4. One of...
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Oculus
Don't be fooled by Paranormal Activity and Insidious getting mentioned in the marketing for Oculus. While those films (or, more specifically, their franchises) are about big jolts and loud noises, Oculus surprisingly goes for a more subdued and unsettling...
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The Reunion
Anna Odell’s The Reunion is split into two distinct halves, each half appearing to be directly inspired by a different film. The first half, called “The Speech”, clearly owes a lot to Thomas Vinterberg’s The Celebration. It opens at...
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2014 Reel Indie Film Festival Submissions Now Open!
After a great inaugural year, the Reel Indie Film Festival (RiFF) is getting ready for its second anniversary. Founded in 2013 as a companion to Indie Week, an independent music festival launched in 2003, RiFF screens independent films that...
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Finding Vivian Maier
In 2007, John Maloof bought a box of old negatives at an auction while researching for a book. When the photos turned out to be irrelevant to his research, he put the box of negatives away for several years...
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Hot Docs 2014 Lineup Announced
The Hot Docs film festival finally unveiled its line-up today, revealing plenty of exciting new titles along with screenings of documentary classics and undiscovered gems. The festival announced 197 titles from 43 countries that will screen over 11 days....
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In Fear
The inevitable problem that comes with a great set-up is that, at some point, questions have to be answered. Jeremy Lovering's In Fear is, as the title suggests, focused on what people do when they're overcome with fear. Lovering...