The Hottest Show on Earth

1977 Canadian documentary film

1977 (1977)

Running time

27 minutesCountryCanadaLanguageEnglish

The Hottest Show on Earth is a Canadian short documentary film released in 1977.^[1] Directed by Terence Macartney-Filgate, Derek Lamb and Wolf Koenig for the National Film Board of Canada, the film centred on the environmental and financial benefits of efficient building insulation, using both animation and humour to engage viewers on a potentially dry and boring topic.^[1]

The film won the Canadian Film Award for Best Short Documentary at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Chris Robinson and Tom McSorley, The Corners are Glowing: Selected Writings from the Ottawa International Animation Festival. CRC Press, 2022. ISBN 9781000648096.
^ Jay Scott, "Unseen Silent Partner sweeps film awards". The Globe and Mail, September 22, 1978.

External links

The Hottest Show on Earth at IMDb
The Hottest Show on Earth at the National Film Board of Canada catalog

Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Short Documentary

Canadian Film Awards
1968–1978

Never a Backward Step (1968)
Good Times, Bad Times (1969)
Wild Africa (1970)
Les Philharmonistes (1971)
Coming Home (1973)
Janis (1975)
Ahô: The Forest People (1976)
The Inquiry Film: A Report on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline (1977)
The Champions (1978)

Genie Awards
1980–2011

Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed (1980)
Plusieurs tombent en amour (1981)
P4W: Prison for Women (1982)
The Devil at Your Heels (1983)
Pourquoi l'étrange Monsieur Zolock s'intéressait-il tant à la bande dessinée? (1984)
Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive (1985)
Final Offer (1986)
Dads and Kids (1987)
God Rides a Harley (1988)
Comic Book Confidential (1989)
Strand: Under the Dark Cloth (1990)
The Famine Within (1991)
Deadly Currents (1992)
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1993)
In the Gutter and Other Good Places (1994)
The Champagne Safari (1995)
Bones of the Forest (1996)
Tu as crié: Let Me Go (1997)
A Place Called Chiapas (1998)
Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation (1999)
Grass (2000)
Westray (2001)
Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)
FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2003)
The Corporation (2004)
Scared Sacred (2005)
Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
Radiant City (2007)
Up the Yangtze (2008)
A Hard Name (2009)
Last Train Home (2010)
At Night, They Dance (2011)

Canadian Screen Awards
2012–present

Stories We Tell (2012)
Watermark (2013)
Super Duper Alice Cooper (2014)
Hurt (2015)
I Am the Blues (2016)
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)
Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019)
Wandering: A Rohingya Story (2020)
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (2021)
To Kill a Tiger (2022)
Twice Colonized (2023)

Short Documentary

Avec tambours et trompettes (1968)
Juggernaut (1969)
KW+ (1970)
The Sea (1971)
Selling Out (1972)
Grierson and Faire hurler les murs (1973)
At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch and Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1975)
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976)
Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whales (1977)
The Hottest Show on Earth (1978)
Priory: The Only Home I've Got (1980)
No More Hiroshima (1986)
The World Is Watching (1989)
Stunt People (1990)
The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein (1991)
A Song for Tibet (1992)
Le singe bleu (1993)
Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule (1995)
Maman et Ève (1996)
Unveiled: The Mother/Daughter Relationship (1997)
Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998)
Hemingway: A Portrait (1999)
The Delian Mode (2009)
Sirmilik (2011)
The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2012)
Chi (2013)
Jutra (2014)
Bacon and God's Wrath (2015)
This River (2016)
Take a Walk on the Wildside (2017)
My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes (2018)
Take Me to Prom (2019)
Sing Me a Lullaby (2020)
Nalujuk Night (2021)
Patty vs. Patty (2022)
Madeleine (2023)