Archive: Year 2019
GREEN DOX
The Hottest August
Director
Brett Story
Producers
Brett Story
Danielle Varga
Cinematographer
Derek Howard
Editor
Nels Bangerter
Sound
Ernst Karel
Website
2019
United States, Canada
34 min
Color
Seven months after Donald Trump assumes the American presidency, acclaimed filmmaker Brett Story journeyed to all five boroughs of New York City asking people a simple question: what are your hopes for the future? The result is a precise and artfully framed meditation, both incisive and moving, that encapsulates the uneasy way many of us live now. Sam Adams in 'Slate' writes, "Even face to face with a bleak future, The Hottest August is stepped in (the) kind of delight...that reminds us that there's beauty in the world, and a future that's worth fighting for."
Director
Brett Story is an award-winning nonfiction filmmaker based in Toronto whose films have screened at festivals internationally, including the Viennale, True/False, Oberhausen, It’s All True, and Dok Leipzig. Her 2016 feature documentary, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and was a nominee for Best Feature Documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards.
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