As I waited in line for Last Call At The Gladstone Hotel Saturday afternoon, bartenders from the Gladstone Hotel were behind me. "It makes us look bad, I hear," they were saying. "Like, not us personally, but the hotel. Real bad." If you are a recent transplant to Toronto, or just barely over the drinking age, then you probably had no idea that the Gladstone was once a cockroach infested, drug-addled, festering slum that was......

Last Call at the Gladstone Hotel's Neil Graham (left) and Derreck Roemer. One of the things that makes Toronto's film festivals great is the mix. In the words of documentary director Kevin McMahon, "I can go to see a screening and see both my neighbour and a filmmaker in the lineup." But most local filmmakers have been too busy to see many movies at this year's Hot Docs. The festival is one of the......

The elite of the documentary film world gathered this morning at Revival for a press conference announcing the lineup of this year's Hot Docs festival. It's a powerhouse program, which TVO's Rudy Buttingnol attributes to the filmmakers and the growing importance of the medium. "Documentaries are helping change the way people think," says Buttingnol, who will also receive the inaugural Outstanding Industry Achievement Award. "Just look at how governments around the world are now trying......