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Scene: The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema’s Grand Opening
Guests line up for free snacks.
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- Guests line up for free snacks.
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- The theatre is equipped with a new digital projector.
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- The cinema also has a new screen.
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- The balcony area remains mostly unchanged, except that the seats have been reupholstered.
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- Chris McDonald, executive director of Hot Docs, addresses the crowd.
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- Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Sport Michael Chan gives a speech.
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- Hot Docs Executive Director Chris McDonald.
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- Hot Docs Executive Director Chris McDonald and Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Sport Michael Chan.
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- The night’s screening was Big Boys Gone Bananas, a documentary about a documentary filmmaker who criticized Dole corporation (in a previous documentary, natch) only to have them come after him with all their legal and PR might.
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- MPP Michael Chan in the foreground, Neil Tabatznik, principal of the Blue Ice Group, in the foreground.
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- Neil Tabatznik, principal of the Blue Ice Group, gives a speech.
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- The cinema’s renovated entranceway.
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- The underside of the cinema’s renovated marquee.
WHERE: The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
WHEN: Wednesday, March 14
WHAT: The newly renovated Bloor Hot Docs Cinema held its grand reopening Wednesday night. A crowd of over 600 gathered to inspect changes made by the venue’s new owner, the Blue Ice Group, and to watch Big Boys Gone Bananas, a documentary about a documentarian who runs afoul of the Dole corporation. The night was the official start of the Bloor’s new life as a year-round home for Hot Docs, the annual documentary film festival. Today is the cinema’s first day of regular screenings.
