2020 Decision Makers

Below is a list of the participating decision makers for the 2020 Hot Docs Festival. The list will continue to be updated in the weeks leading up to the Festival.

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Australia

• SBS, Krishan Arora

Austria

• Autlook Filmsales, Katrin Fürnkranz

Belgium

• RTBF - Docs & History, Isabelle Christiaens

Brazil

• Globo TV, Renée Castelo Branco

Canada

• A71 Entertainment, David Miller
• AMI-tv, Andrew Morris
• ArtHouse Cinematheque, Marjan Alizadeh
• Bell Media, Genevieve Bouchard
• Bell Media, Tina Apostolopoulos
• Bell Media, Corrie Coe
• Bell Media - Canal D, Jean-Pierre Laurendeau
• Blue Ant Media, Nick Solowski
• Blue Ice Films, Robin Smith
• Bogeydom Licensing, George Ayoub
• Canamedia, Andrea Stokes
• CBC, Lesley Birchard
• CBC, Jenna Bourdeau
• CBC, Charlotte Engel
• CBC - documentary Channel, Jordana Ross
• CBC - documentary Channel, Sandra Kleinfeld
• CBC The Nature of Things, Sue Dando
• Corus Entertainment, Kathleen Meek
• Corus Entertainment, Andrew Johnson
• Filmoption International, Lizanne Rouillard
• Films Transit International, Jan Rofekamp
• Films We Like, Mallory Andrews
• Game Theory Films, Hilary Hart
• Indiecan Entertainment Inc., Avi Federgreen
• ISO, Kerry Swanson
• ISO, Megan MacKay
• Kew Media Group, Nikolas Bars
• Knowledge Network, Patrice Ramsay
• Knowledge Network, Rudy Buttignol
• Les Films du 3 Mars, Benjamin Hogue
• levelFILM, Lainie Elton
• Mongrel Media, Tom Alexander
• Mongrel Media, Andrew Frank
• Ouat Media, Sabrina Spence
• Rogers Documentary Fund, Robin Mirsky
• Shopify, Colin McRae
• Syndicado, Greg Rubidge
• The Bell Fund, Nancy Chapelle
• TVO, Christine Lee
• TVO, Naomi Boxer
• TVO, Jane Jankovic
• TVO, Linda Fong
• Unobstructed View, Kerry Kupecz
• VICE Canada, Vanessa Case
• VICE Canada, Shawney Cohen

Czech Republic

• Doc Alliance, Kristyna Balaban

Finland

• YLE, Arto Hyvonen
• YLE - Coproductions, Erkko Lyytinen
• YLE - TV1 and Thema, Nina Tuominen

France

• ARTE France, Mark Edwards
• ARTE France - La Lucarne, Rasha Salti
• ARTE G.E.I.E., Philippe Muller
• ARTE G.E.I.E., Peter Gottschalk
• CAT & Docs, Aleksandra Derewienko
• France Télévisions - France 5, Caroline Behar
• Mediawan, Arianna Castoldi
• Windrose, Pauline Mazenod

Germany

• 3 Box Media, J. Valentin Romero
• ARD - MDR, Silke Heinz
• ARD - SWR, Simone Reuter
• ARD - WDR, Jutta Krug
• ARTE ARD - RBB, Christian von Behr
• Kloos Und Co., Stefan Kloos
• Magnetfilm, Georg Gruber
• MONODUO, Ben Bassauer
• NEW DOCS, Elina Kewitz
• Spiegel TV, Kay Siering
• ZDF - ARTE Germany, Wolfgang Bergmann
• ZDF/ARTE, Marita Huebinger

Iran

• Press TV, Roohollah Rezaei

Israel

• Channel 8, Rinat Klein Maron
• Cinephil, Olivier Tournaud
• yesDocu, Guy Lavie

Japan

• NHK, Takahiro Hamano
• NHK, Hidetoshi Nakamoto
• NHK, Yoko Imai
• United People, Kenji Sekine

Korea

• EBS, Gunny Hyoung

Netherlands

• EODOCS, Margit Balogh
• Movies That Matter, Margje De Koning
• SND Films, Sydney Neter
• VPRO, Barbara Truyen

Norway

• VGTV - Norway, Andreas Gjellebæk Sverdrup

Qatar

• Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Adel Ksiksi
• Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Mohammed Belhaj
• Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Ahmed Mahfouz Nouh

Singapore

• iwonder, Mark Bridges

Sweden

• SVT, Axel Arno

Switzerland

• RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse, Gaspard Lamuniere

UK

• BBC Storyville, Hayley Reynolds
• Dogwoof, Oli Harbottle
• MetFilm Sales, Vesna Cudic
• Scorpion TV, David Cornwall
• Sideways Film, Kazz Basma
• Taskovski Films, Tijana Djukic
• Taskovski Films, Irena Taskovski
• The Guardian, Lindsay Poulton
• The Whickers, Jane Mote
• Together Films, Sarah Mosses

USA

• WORLD Channel WGBH, Christopher Hastings
• 7th Art Releasing, Udy Epstein
• A&E Networks, Christine Kecher
• A24, Sarba Das
• Aggregate Films, Emma Ho
• Al Jazeera English, Reem Haddad
• Argot Pictures, Jim Browne
• Brainstorm Media, Meyer Shwarzstein
• Breaker, Jake Craven
• BRIC TV, Aziz Isham
• CAA, Travis Tammero
• CAA, Amanda Lebow
• Catapult Film Fund, Megan Gelstein
• Catapult Film Fund, Lisa Chanoff
• Chicken & Egg, Kelly Duane de la Vega
• Cinereach, Leah Giblin
• Cinetic Media, Dana O'Keefe
• Cinetic Media, Alexis Galfas
• Cinetic Media, Eric Sloss
• Cinetic Media, Jason Ishikawa
• CNN Films, Alexandra Hannibal
• Condé Nast Entertainment, Sarah Lash
• ESPN, Adam Neuhaus
• Field of Vision, Charlotte Cook
• Film Movement, Jimmy Weaver
• Film Sprout, Caitlin Boyle
• First Run Features, Marc Mauceri
• Flourishing Films, Efuru Flowers
• Ford Foundation / JustFilms, Andrew Catauro
• Ford Foundation / JustFilms, Chi-hui Yang
• Fork Films, Jess Kwan
• Fork Films, Kat Vecchio
• Gravitas Ventures, Nolan Gallagher
• HBO Documentary Films, Jesse Weinraub
• Hulu, Belisa Balaban
• Impact Partners, Lauren Haber
• Independent, Jannat Gargi
• Indie Visible, Matthew Chandler
• International Documentary Association, Toni Bell
• International Documentary Association, Simon Kilmurry
• Juno Films Inc., Elizabeth Sheldon
• Kickstarter, Elise McCave
• Louise Rosen Ltd, Louise Rosen
• Magnolia Pictures, John Von Thaden
• MIT Open Doc Lab, Katerina Cizek
• Music Box Films, Lisa Holmes
• National Geographic, Ryan Harrington
• NETFLIX Originals, Sarafina DiFelice
• Passion River Films, Mat Levy
• PBS - American Documentary l POV, Chris White
• PBS - ITVS, Noland Walker
• PBS - WNET, Lesley Norman
• PBS International, Tom Koch
• Perspective Fund, Denae Peters
• Propagate, Cyrus Farrokh
• Screen Media, Conor McAdam
• Shoreline Entertainment, Sam Eigen
• Sub Genre, Brian Newman
• Sundance Institute - Documentary Film Program, Kristin Feeley
• The Film Collaborative, Lynette Gryseels
• The Film Collaborative, Bryan Glick
• The Film Sales Company, Lucas Verga
• The New York Times Op-Docs, Lindsay Crouse
• The New York Times Op-Docs, Kathleen Lingo
• Torch Films, Adam Zaslavsky
• Vision Films, Myles Shane
• Vision Films, Lise Romanoff
• Women Make Movies, Debra Zimmerman
• Women Make Movies, Barbara Ghammashi