Invisible City (2009) dir. Hubert Davis
Documentary
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“Invisible City” premieres in Hot Docs with a certain degree of anticipation, certainly for the Canadian filmmaking community. Director Hubert Davis’ first doc “Hardwood” was fantastic and earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Short Subject. His first dramatic short, “Aruba” was equally fantastic. And so arrives “Invisible City”, a National Film Board feature doc, continuing Davis’ themes of family and despair in the inner city of urban Toronto. The intentions are worthy, shedding much needed light on the ‘invisible’ community of Toronto’s Regent Park and its families with so much working against success resulting in a self-perpetuating cycle of despair. Unfortunately, a consistent frustration persists from the inability of the documentary to expose the true emotions of its characters. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Alan Bacchus 
