Hot Docs 2009 Festival Guide

Welcome to the Hot Docs screening schedule, where you can browse all of the films in this year’s festival.

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Below are films from this program: Lets Make Money.


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Cash & Marry

Women of Vienna beware! Marko and Atanas are determined to find brides and secure their passports to 'Fortress Europe'. Love and marriage are redefined in this playful odyssey into Austria's immigrant netherworld.

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Clubland

Toronto's booze-soaked club district, the largest in North America, is also ground zero for condo development. Bleary-eyed residents, frustrated police and irate city councillors face-off against the Club Kings.

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H2Oil

Alberta's oil sands now make Canada America's major oil supplier, but the billion-dollar industry extracts a terrible price: some of the cleanest water on earth is used to make the dirtiest oil in the world, with catastrophic results.

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Jackpot

"One of these days, there's gonna be a shootout here," drawls Rick, a regular at Toronto's Delta Bingo, a refuge for those down on their luck who fervently believe that happiness is just one number away.

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Let’s Make Money

What do banks do with our money? The intricate web of the world's financial system is surveyed in pursuit of the answer to this timely question, all leading to a harsh take on the consequences of greed.

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Nauru, An Island Adrift

The tiny Micronesian island of Nauru is a microcosm of economic and environmental devastation. Once the second richest country in the world with the highest income per capita, Nauru's phosphate resources are now depleted, along with its prosperity.

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Necrobusiness

During the late 1990s, paramedics and undertakers in Lódz, Poland, colluded to pocket government subsidies intended for relatives of the recently deceased. Instead of saving lives, they were taking them - for all that they were worth.

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Orgasm Inc.

Extraordinary behind-the-scenes access reveals a drug company's fevered race to develop the first FDA-approved Viagra for women - and offers a humorous but sobering look inside America's cash-fuelled pharmaceutical industry.

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Shadow Billionaire

The secretive, lurid life of reclusive tycoon Larry Hillblom, the founder of DHL, is unravelled following his disappearance, and claims from bar girls throughout Asia that he fathered their children.

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The Entrepreneur

Malcolm Bricklin, infamous in Canada for the financing fiasco surrounding the launch of his eponymous sports car, is a pure breed entrepreneur. With amazing access, we follow Bricklin attempting yet another epic auto import adventure.

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Voorje

Nature collides with industry as a delicate spider balances on a silken web, metallic automobiles speed through a concrete maze, and majestic birds take flight over lush forests. These images build into a powerful reminder of mankind's relationship to Mother Earth.

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