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Hot Docs 2016: ‘Credit for Murder’ and ‘Tickled’

April 21, 2016Wylie Writes Staff1 Comment

Credit for Murder (DIR. Vladi Antonevicz) By: Shahbaz Khayambashi A video appears on YouTube which depicts the ritualistic slaughter of two men by masked individuals: one man is beheaded and the other is shot.  The video appears to come from Russia.  The Russian authorities say it is fake, until one man is identified after his father comes forward.  This is the beginning of an unusual and captivating story about Russian neo-Nazis, recounted by a Jewish filmmaker…

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TIFF Kids ’16: CodeGirl

April 9, 2016Addison Wylie0 Comments

The Technovation Challenge features teams of young women who have acquired resources and the proper pre-production to invent a mobile app.  If accepted in the competition, their team’s ideas must pass through multiple rounds until a winning collaborative is awarded first place along with $10,000 to finalize their project.

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Life Off Grid

March 25, 2016Shannon Page0 Comments

Jonathan Taggart’s bare-bones documentary about people disconnected from electric or natural gas infrastructure has a loose, unpolished feel.  It’s a fitting accompaniment to an exploration of people who live in a way that many of us would find bafflingly inconvenient.

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My Beautiful Broken Brain

March 24, 2016Addison Wylie1 Comment

After a night of friends and leisure, Lotje Sodderland suffered an unrelated stroke;  resulting in her short-term memory and various reactionary impulses being wiped away.  She chronicles her progress on her iPhone, as well as her sadness, her epiphanies, and candid vlog entires.

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The Last Man on the Moon

February 26, 2016Shannon Page1 Comment

Based on an autobiography of the same name, Mark Craig’s The Last Man on the Moon documents the experiences and recollections of retired US naval pilot and NASA astronaut Eugene Cernan who, in addition to a couple of other trips to space, was commander of the 1972 Apollo 17 lunar landing.  As the last one of his mission to re-enter the vessel, Cernan remains – to this day – the last human being to have set foot…

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Crazy About Tiffany’s

February 19, 2016Addison Wylie2 Comments

Audiences who caught Dior and I – Frédéric Tcheng’s doc highlighting Christian Dior’s Haute Couture collection – were left feeling good even though the doc had a standard structure.  Matthew Miele’s Crazy About Tiffany’s  – a documentary that captures Tiffany & Co. – will give those movie goers that extra boost they were looking for.

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Star Men

February 12, 2016Addison Wylie0 Comments

Four English astronomers hit the road to celebrate fifty years of their time with each other and in their field of work.  They stop at telescopes they have histories with and reflect on the past.  It’s a reunion that could’ve been more special and intimate if filmmaker Alison Rose wasn’t trying to retrofit these men and their stories into a boring documentary.

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