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
- Doc Society , Malinda Wink
- 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
- SRC Société Radio Canada , Georges Amar
- 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
China
- Tencent GuYu, Summer Song
- Tencent GuYu, Bob Jin
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., 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
Hungary
- HBO Europe, Hanka Kastelicova
Iran
- Press TV, Roohollah Rezaei
Israel
- Channel 8, Rinat Klein Maron
- Cinephil, Olivier Tournaud
- yesDocu, Guy Lavie
Italy
- RAI 3 (DOC3), Fabio Mancini
Japan
- NHK, Takahiro Hamano
- NHK, Hidetoshi Nakamoto
- NHK, Yoko Imai
- NHK Enterprises, Ken-Ichi Imamura
- 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
Poland
- TVP, Magdalena Borowska
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
Taiwan
- CNEX, Ruby Chen
Turkey
- TRT World, Choy Lin Mok
UK
- BBC Storyville, Hayley Reynolds
- Bertha Doc House, Elizabeth Wood
- Doc Society, Maxyne Franklin
- Dogwoof, Oli Harbottle
- Espresso Media International, Jessica Reilly
- 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
- 30West, Adriana Banta
- 7th Art Releasing, Udy Epstein
- A&E Networks, Christine Kecher
- A24, Sarba Das
- Aggregate Films, Emma Ho
- Al Jazeera English, Reem Haddad
- Amazon Original Movies, Ally Pennebaker
- 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
- Impact Partners, Jenny Raskin
- 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, Jason Spingarn-Koff
- NETFLIX Originals, Sarafina DiFelice
- Participant Media, Kristi Whisler
- Participant Media, Elise Pearlstein
- Passion River Films, Mat Levy
- PBS - American Documentary l POV, Chris White
- PBS - American Documentary l POV, Justine Nagan
- PBS - ITVS, Noland Walker
- PBS - WNET, Lesley Norman
- PBS International, Tracy Beckett
- 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
- Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs
- 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
- Tribeca Film Institute, Jose Rodriguez
- Vision Films, Myles Shane
- Vision Films, Lise Romanoff
- Women Make Movies, Debra Zimmerman
- Women Make Movies, Barbara Ghammashi
