The oldest nonfiction fest in the U.S. – and an Academy Award qualifying festival for Short Documentary Subject – presents...
OPENING NIGHT
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
(Grand Jury Prize Nashville Film Festival, Official selection AFI Docs)
The Campbell family will be playing a post-screening concert!
FEATURE FILMS
Mugshot
(Official selection Hot Docs)
To be accompanied by an exhibition of the film’s mug shots at the Gangster Museum!
Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere
(Official selection Hot Docs, Traverse City Film Festival)
Subject Poe Ballantine – famous author and former Arlington Hotel cook – will be reading his story about the Arlington (followed by a book signing)!
Stray Dog
(Best Documentary Feature Los Angeles Film Festival, Official selection New York Film Festival)
Director Debra Granik is bringing along subject Ronnie “Stray Dog” Hall and his outlaw biker clan!
An Honest Liar
(Audience Award for Best Feature AFI Docs, Best Feature Documentary Newport Beach Film Festival, Official selection Tribeca Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest)
Subject Amazing Randi in attendance!
Meet the Patels
(Audience Award Best Documentary Feature Los Angeles Film Festival, Best Documentary Film, Audience Award Traverse City Film Festival, Official selection Hot Docs)
Subjects Mama and Papa Patel in attendance!
MUSIC
Mateo
(Official selection Hot Docs, SXSW, Film Society of Lincoln Center Sound + Vision, NYC)
Gringo mariachi subject Matthew Stoneman will be performing both post-screening and at the filmmakers party!
Songs for Alexis
(Official selection Hot Docs, Frameline, Raindance, London)
Transgender rocker subject Ryan Cassata will be playing a concert!
SPORTS
Back on Board
(Official selection AFI Docs, Frameline)
Subject Greg Louganis in attendance!
When We Were Kings
A special retro with director Leon Gast, Rasheda Ali and Muhammad Ali’s grandson Nico in attendance!
Hoop Dreams
20th anniversary screening! Subject Arthur Agee to present Kartemquin Films artistic director and co-founder Gordon Quinn with a lifetime achievement award!
SHORTS
Midnight Archive
Program to be accompanied by curator Ronni ("Walter Potter: The Man Who Married Kittens") Thomas’s “cabinet of curiosities.”
CLOSING NIGHT
To Be Takei
(Official selection Sundance Film Festival, Hot Docs, AFI Docs)
Subject George Takei (who spent his formative years in a Japanese-American internment camp in Arkansas) attending!
For more info on all this and more visit www.hsdfi.org. Hope to see you in Hot Springs – home to both Bill Clinton’s high school and Al Capone’s vacation home!
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