The opening-night film of this year’s Hot Docs film fest will be Nipawistamasowin: We Will Stand Up, a study of the Colten Boushie killing and its context in the Canadian west and Canadian history, the documentary festival announced Tuesday. ( blog.nfb.ca ) Gaetan Dugas, the Quebec flight attendant long believed to be AIDS’ “Patient Zero” in North America, is seen in a still photo in the documentary Killing Patient Zero. ( hotdocs.ca ) Popular Canadian YouTuber Jasmeet Singh Raina, better known as JusReign, as seen in Katerina Civek's creation Supreme Law, coming to Hot Docs. All told the fest says it’s offering 234 films and 18 interdisciplinary projects, and Hot Docs adds that 54 per cent of the directors in this year’s program are women. Among the previously announced Hot Docs films are movies about singers Gordon Lightfoot and Michael Hutchence, jazz legend Miles Davis, NHL trailblazer Willie O’Ree and famed Swedish author Stieg Larsson.

Source: thestar March 19, 2019 15:11 UTC