Jeanette Loakman

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Hot Docs: The pleasure of the business

Hanging out on the patio, shades on and talking documentary – hard to believe it was Hot Docs ’99. Doing a 180-degree turn on last year’s doc scrum and freeze fest, the board of Hot Docs moved the whole proceedings out…

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Doc mentorship

As Toronto’s documentary festival gets into gear, so do this year’s four producers with the Ontario Film Development Corporation’s Hot Docs Mentorship ’99….

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Virtual Innovations: U.K. behind sked on DTV

Much like the train system in the U.K., digital television is coming in later than the timetable suggested it would do. The E.T.A. touted around for the coming of the digital broadcast was this month; the date now looks more like…

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Dutch doc fest wrap

Amsterdam: Trams, cars, the threat of being mowed down by bicycles as you step out into the street and producers schmoozing their proposals to all and sundry – it could almost be Toronto, but the canals give it away – this…