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Hot Docs is pleased to announce that the Rogers Audience Award and accompanying $50,000 cash prize, courtesy of Rogers, will be presented at the 2024 Hot Docs Festival.

Feature-length documentaries screening as part of Hot Docs Festival that have a Canadian director and are CAVCO certified will be eligible for the Rogers Audience Award. 

Audience members can vote in cinemas by scanning the QR code on screen after the film. Voting closes 60 minutes after each screening. Votes will be tallied and the winning films with the highest average scores will be announced at a special encore screening on Sunday, May 5.   

Eligible films:

• 7 Beats per Minute
• Adrianne & the Castle
• Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
• Ari's Theme
• Beethoven’s Nine: Ode To Humanity
• Born Hungry
• Curl Power
• Disco's Revenge
• A French Youth
• Intercepted
• Karuara, People of the River
• Lost in the Shuffle
• Me, Michael and I
• A Mother Apart
• My Dad's Tapes
• Okurimono
• Red Fever
• Seguridad
• Singing Back the Buffalo
• The Soldier's Lagoon
• An Unfinished Journey
• Wilfred Buck
• Yintah

Please note: Voting is available for screenings up to and including Friday, May 3.