TIFF’s Packed Documentary Slate Includes ‘Vice Is Broke,’ ‘The Last Republican’ and ‘No Other Land’

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Addie Morfoot Contributor Documentaries about the rise and fall of media company Vice, former Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger and disability rights activist Patrice Jetter are heading to the Toronto Film Festival.

TIFF‘s Docs program gets underway Sept. 5 and will feature 21 nonfiction films from 24 countries. The program will open with the world premiere of Eddie Huang’s “Vice Is Broke,” an investigation into the once high-flying digital news outlet that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year after boasting a valuation of $5.7 billion in 2017.

Huang, the former host of Vice’s “Huang’s World” has a unique perspective on the story, said Thom Powers, lead TIFF documentary programmer. “Eddie gives an insider account of what happened at Vice Media,” said Powers. ” He has a personal axe to grind because when the company filed for bankruptcy, he was one of its many creditors.

The film is both funny and poignant as he interviews other people who made Vice into a significant cultural force. In “The Last Republican,” director Steve Pink Kinzinger (“Hot Tub Time Machine”) profiles conservative politician Kinzinger as he breaks ranks with the GOP to criticize Donald Trump after the Jan.