Festival Interviews with Women Directors – Hot Docs
2022
- Laura Ángel Córdoba – “Ernesto, Gracias”
- Kathryn Ferguson – “Nothing Compares”
- Patty Ivins Specht – “Deconstructing Karen”
- Bogna Kowalczyk – “Boylesque”
- Pauline Beugnies – “The End of Innocence” (“Petites”)
- Pilar Moreno and Ana Endara – “For Your Peace of Mind, Make Your Own Museum”
- Zaynê Akyol – “Rojek”
- Lina Rodriguez – “Mis Dos Voces” (“My Two Voices”)
- Hanna Polak – “Angels of Sinjar”
- Phyllis Ellis – “Category: Woman”
- Jacquelyn Mills – “Geographies of Solitude”
- Laura Faerman and Marina Weis – “The Wind Blows the Border”
- Noura Kevorkian – “Batata”
- Chloe Sosa-Sims – “Hunting in Packs”
- Olha Zhurba – “Outside”
- Jackie Torrens – “Bernie Langille Wants To Know What Happened To Bernie Langille”
- Jasmín Mara López – “Silent Beauty”
- Stacey Tenenbaum – “Scrap”
2021
Note: A digital version of the 2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival was organized due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Maria Carolina Telles – “You Are Not a Soldier”
- Chris J. Russo – “Lady Buds”
- Bobbi Jo Hart – “Fanny: The Right to Rock”
- Shannon Walsh – “The Gig is Up”
- Svetlana Rodina – “Ostrov – Lost Island”
- Luciana Kaplan – “The Spokeswoman”
- Irene Vélez-Torres – “Bajo Fuego”
- Roser Corella – “Room Without a View”
- Ann Shin – “A.rtificial I.mmortality”
- Celina Escher – “Fly So Far”
- Khaldiya Amer Ali, Marah Mohammad Alkhateeb, Christy Cauper Silvano, and Karoli Bautista Pizarro – “Only the Ocean Between Us”
- Mia Halme – “People We Come Across”
- Annabel Verbeke – “Four Seasons in One Day”
- Maéva Ranaïvojaona – “Zaho Zay”
- Anaïs Taracena – “The Silence of the Mole”
- Jessica Beshir – “Faya Dayi”
- Sheona McDonald – “Dead Man’s Switch: a crypto mystery”
- Yasmine Mathurin – “One of Ours”
- Jennifer Redfearn – “Apart”
- Margaret Byrne – “Any Given Day”
- Louise Detlefsen – “It Is Not Over Yet”
- Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers – “Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy”
- Chloe Fairweather – “Dying to Divorce”
- Caitlin Durlak – “Dropstones”
- Jennifer Ngo – “Faceless”
2020
Note: A digital version of the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival was organized due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Yoruba Richen – “The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show”
- Tamara Mariam Dawit – “Finding Sally”
- Ali Weinstein – “#BLESSED”
- Liz Marshall – “Meat the Future”
- Maria Finitzo – “The Dilemma of Desire”
- Mia Donovan – “Dope is Death”
- Lulu Wei – “There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace”
- Suzanne Crocker – “First We Eat”
- Diana Neille – “Influence”
- Maeve O’Boyle, Lucy Kennedy, and Aideen Kane – “The 8th”
- Stefanía Thors – “The School of Housewives”
- Deepti Gupta – “Shut Up Sona”
- Cecilia Aldarondo – “Landfall”
- Nathalie Bibeau – “The Walrus and the Whistleblower”
- Elizabeth St. Philip – “9/11 Kids”
- Sharon Liese – “Transhood”
- Jennifer Maytorena Taylor – “For the Love of Rutland”
- Andrea Testa – “Mother-Child”
- Priscila Padilla – “Breaking the Silence”
- Judith Helfand – “Love & Stuff”
- Ying Wang – “The World is Bright”
- Iryna Tsilyk – “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange”
- Asia Dér and Sári Haragonics – “Her Mothers”
- Chris J. Russo – “Lady Buds”
- Laura Gabbert – “Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles”
- Pippa Ehrlich – “My Octopus Teacher”
- Elizabeth D. Costa – “Bangla Surf Girls”
2019
- Heddy Honigmann – “Buddy”
- Laurence Mathieu-Leger – “Willie”
- Rama Rau – “The Daughter Tree”
- Baljit Sangra – “Because We Are Girls”
- Pachi Bustos – “Haydee and the Flying Fish”
- Tülin Özdemir – “Red Moon”
- Phyllis Ellis – “Toxic Beauty”
- Jola Dylewska – “Marek Edelman… and There Was Love in the Ghetto”
- Claudia Sparrow – “Maxima”
- Emily Gan – “Cavebirds”
- Aude Leroux-Lévesque – “A Place of Tide and Time”
- Danielle Sturk – “El Toro”
- Nance Ackerman, Ariella Pahlke, and Teresa MacInnes – “Conviction”
- Marcela Arteaga – “The Guardian of Memory”
- Shannon Walsh – “Illusions of Control”
- Megan Wennberg – “Drag Kids”
- Nicole Schafer – “Buddha in Africa”
- Pailin Wedel – “Hope Frozen”
- Karen Stokkendal Poulsen – “On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship”
- Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni – “Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind”
- Marwa Zein – “Khartoum Offside”
- Maya Newell – “In My Blood It Runs”
- Tasha Hubbard – “nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up”
2018
- Laura Bari – “Primas”
- Alba Sotorra – “Commander Arian”
- Biljana Tutorov – “When Pigs Come”
- Audrey Gordon – “Siblings”
- Margarita Cadenas – “Women of the Venezuelan Chaos”
- Hind Bensari – “We Could Be Heroes”
- Sandra Luz López Barroso – “Artemio”
- Christy Garland – “What Walaa Wants”
- Trisha Ziff – “Witkin & Witkin”
- Elizabeth Mirzaei – “Laila at the Bridge”
- Cynthia Wade and Sasha Friedlander – “Grit”
- Elan Bogarín – “306 Hollywood”
- Katrina Costello – “The Silver Branch”
- Paula Eiselt – “93Queen”
- Sarah Menzies – “Afghan Cycles”
- Azadi Moghadam – “The Broker”
- Lindsey Cordero – “I’m Leaving Now (Ya Me Voy)”
- Samara Grace Chadwick – “1999”
- Christina D. King and Elizabeth A. Castle – “Warrior Women”
- Irene Lusztig – “Yours in Sisterhood”
- Laura Marie Wayne – “Love, Scott”
- Yasemin Samdereli – “Night of All Nights”
- Shameela Seedat – “Whispering Truth to Power”
- Joannie Lafrenière – “Snowbirds”
- Almudena Carracedo – “The Silence of Others”
- Beatrice Behn – “The Artist & the Pervert”
- Katja Fedulova – “Faith Hope Love”
- Elwira Niewiera – “The Prince and the Dybbuk”
- Shasha Nakhai – “Take Light”
- Jessica Leski – “I Used to Be Normal”
2017
- Selma Vilhunen – “Hobbyhorse Revolution”
- Sofia Bohdanowicz – “Maison du bonheur”
- Marie Clements – “The Road Forward”
- Tasha Hubbard – “Birth of a Family”
- Vaishali Sinha – “Ask the Sexpert”
- Karin Jurschick – “Playing God”
- Kalina Bertin – “Manic”
- Stacey Tenenbaum – “Shiners”
- Ann Shin – “My Enemy, My Brother”
- Ashley Sabin – “Do Donkeys Act?”
2016
- Marcie Hume – “Magicians: Life in the Impossible”
- Rama Thiaw – “The Revolution Won’t Be Televised”
- Helena Třeštíková – “Mallory”
- Hélène Choquette – “A Dog’s Life”
- Catalina Mesa – “Infinite Flight of Days”
- Laura Dunn – “The Seer”
- Hollie Fifer – “The Opposition”
- Beth Murphy – “What Tomorrow Brings”
- Trisha Ziff – “The Man Who Saw Too Much”
- Zaynê Akyol – “Gulîstan, Land of Roses”
- Heidi Brandenburg – “When Two Worlds Collide”
- Katja Gauriloff – “Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest”
- Anjali Nayar – “Gun Runners”
- Monika Grassl – “Girls Don’t Fly”
- Francesca Scalisi – “Half-Life in Fukushima”
- Alethea Arnaquq-Baril – “Angry Inuk”
- Susanne Regina Meures – “Raving Iran”
- Nicole Ma – “Putuparri & the Rainmakers”
- Tal Barda – “The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev”
- Tiffany Hsiung – “The Apology”
- Christy Garland – “Cheer Up”
- Min Sook Lee – “Migrant Dreams”
- Aude Leroux-Lévesque – “Living with Giants”
- Nettie Wild – “KONELĪNE: our land beautiful”
- Nimisha Mukerji – “Tempest Storm”
- Maria Arlamowsky – “Future Baby”
- Joanna Sokolowski and Kate Trumball-LaValle – “Ovarian Psycos”
- Aslaug Holm – “Brothers”
- Molly Reynolds – “Another Country”
- Samira Goetschel – “City 40”
- Viveka Melki – “After Circus”
- Susan Gluth – “Urmila: My Memory Is My Power”
- Eva Orner – “Chasing Asylum”
- Rama Rau – “League of Exotique Dancers”
2015
- Amber Fares – “Speed Sisters”
- Erinnisse Rebisz – “Shoulder the Lion”
- Rebecca Parrish – “Radical Grace”
- Laurie Kahn – “Love Between the Covers”
- Tonje Hessen Schei – “Drone”