On May 5, the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary, which recognizes the top Canadian feature as determined by audience poll with a cash prize of CAD 50,000, was announced at a free encore screening at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. Yintah (D: Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano | P: Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano, Bob Moore | Canada) received the prize, courtesy of Rogers.
Hot Docs Audience Awards
At the close of the Festival, it was determined that
Yintah also placed first in the overall audience poll, winning the Hot Docs Audience Award. The top mid-length film in the audience poll was
Fire Tower and the top short film was
Nothing Special.
- Yintah
- American Cats: The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly
- A Mother Apart
- Black Box Diaries
- Wilfred Buck
- Luther: Never Too Much
- The Ride Ahead
- Echo of You
- Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
- Kelly – Someone Else's Dream
- My Dad's Tapes
- Secret Mall Apartment
- Red Fever
- A French Youth
- Teaches of Peaches
- Devi
- Singing Back the Buffalo
- Porcelain War
- Disco's Revenge
- This Is Going to Be Big