intelligent—it "takes off when it abandons the archives and focuses on the creators," but "it plays to the converted," and its attempt to relate comics to social context is "fleeting." 1990s–2000s Mann continued to make documentaries throughout the 1990s and 2000s. His 1999 film was Grass, a documentary about the history of the United States government's war on marijuana in the 20th century. Narrated by actor Woody Harrelson, it premiered at the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival and won the Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary. His 2003 film, Go Further, saw him re-team with Harrelson on a film that followed a group of environmental activists riding around in a large, bio-fueled bus. The film debuted at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2003, and at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2003, where it was first runner-up for the People's Choice Award. It was also nominated for a Genie Award for Best Documentary. In 2003, Mann co-founded a film distribution company called FilmsWeLike with Gary Topp. FilmWeLike's curation has been described by Vice as a "veritable auteur smorgasbord." In 2009, he released a documentary on mushrooms and mushroom hunting called Know Your Mushrooms. 2010s–present In 2014, Mann directed the Robert Altman-based documentary Altman. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian praised the film. His latest film is Carmine Street Guitars (2018). The film depicts Carmine Street Guitars, a long-running guitar store in New York City. It premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, and had its Canadian premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. It went into general theatrical release in April 2019. Impact Mann has served as mentor to and worked with many filmmakers from the Toronto New Wave of the 1980s, including Atom Egoyan, Bruce McDonald, Jeremy Podeswa, and Peter Mettler. Filmography Imagine the Sound (1981) Poetry in Motion (1982) Comic Book Confidential (1988) The Twist (1992) Dream Tower (1994) Grass (1999) Go Further (2003) Tales of the Rat Fink (2006) Know Your Mushrooms (2008) In the Wake of the Flood (2010) featuring author Margaret Atwood Altman (2014) Carmine Street Guitars (2018) References External links Ron Mann's website Ron Mann archives at the University of Toronto Media Commons 1959 births Living people Canadian documentary film directors University of Toronto alumni Film directors from Toronto Directors of Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners for Best Documentary Film