Items tagged with "Hot Docs"
Australia’s Queen of Honky Tonk on new doc and album ‘I’m Wanita’
360°Sound spoke with Wanita Bahtiyar, “Australia’s Queen of Honky Tonk,” and Matthew Walker, director of the documentary I’m Wanita, over Google Meet. The film, which made its world premiere at Hot Docs, follows Wanita on her quest to become a country music star. The red-headed singer in her late 40s lives in Tamworth, Australia’s country […]
Doc director and drummer talk ‘FANNY: The Right To Rock’
360°Sound spoke with Bobbi Jo Hart, director of the new documentary FANNY: The Right To Rock, and Fanny’s drummer Alice de Buhr. Fanny were the first all-female rock band to sign with a major label, but far too few people today even know who they are. The four-piece released four studio albums between 1970 and […]
Questlove talks ‘Summer of Soul’ documentary
In the Hot Docs Festival keynote, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson spoke with film critic Radheyan Simonpillai about his new documentary Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised). The film chronicles a 1969 Harlem music festival that featured such artists as Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Gladys Knight, and Sly and the Family Stone. […]
Hot Docs 2021: Preview of Music Documentaries
Phil Childers and I are thrilled to be covering Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival for 360°Sound. The largest documentary fest in North America, Hot Docs will be online this year and run from April 29 to May 9. Our exclusive coverage will be focused on the music documentaries making their Hot Docs premiere. Here’s a […]
TT The Artist’s Doc to Make World Premiere
The musical documentary Dark City Beneath the Beat will make its world premiere as part of Toronto’s Hot Docs online festival, which runs from May 28 to June 6. Singer/rapper/producer TT The Artist, the director of the film, spoke with 360°Sound last month about her 65-minute film, which spotlights the music genre and dance culture […]