Hot Docs 2021 is upon us, and as you can imagine we are all about it this week. Here’s NOW’s review directory, which will be updated over the course of the festival, and here’s today’s episode of NOW What, in which I talk to Citizen Minutes producers Lisa Jackson and Lauren Grant about how they delivered eight short documentaries without ever meeting their directors in the flesh.

And here are all the regular things you expect from us: NOW’s What to Watch column for the week, and our monthly lookaheads for Netflix, Amazon, Crave, Disney+ and CBC Gem. I also wrote a thing yesterday about David Cronenberg announcing a new movie; that’ll be nice, I hope.

Stay warm, everybody. April’s going out cold.