Alex is a recent University of Toronto graduate. He is studying Mandarin, going to film festivals, and prepping on his film lore like QT in the 80s. If you're in Beijing over the next few years and do film journalism, get in touch!
If Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, last year’s Hot Docs opener, was the fist-pounding celebration of artistic defiance in China, then Chimeras is the prevaricating party-pooper. And I mean that in a good way. Mika Mattila has the courage and the skill to bring us stories of contradictory men who work within the system, without judging their motives or choices.
“It’s just very complicated,” say Teresa MacInnes and Kent Nason, multiple times, over the course of our interview on their new documentary on sex work in Canada and abroad. The married couple and filmmaking partnership are premiering Buying Sex on 1 May at Hot Docs.