Press Releases, 2020-21

2021-05-10 - Hot Docs Wraps with Five Top Canadian Docs Sharing $50k CDN Rogers Audience Award and Dear Future Children Taking Festival Audience Award

2021-05-10 - Hot Docs Industry Week Wraps with $110,000 CDN in First Look Pitch Prizes Awarded to Three Hot Docs Forum Pitches

2021-05-07 - Hot Docs Awards $67,000 CAD in Cash and Prizes to Canadian and International Filmmakers

2021-05-06 - Hot Docs Forum Wraps Successful 2021 Online Edition; $10K CAD Canadian Forum Pitch Prize Presented to Wilfred Buck

2021-05-03 - Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Announced as Closing Keynote for Industry Conference

2021-05-03 - President of Toronto’s In Sync Media Lalita Krishna Named Recipient of 2021 Don Haig Award

2021-04-28 - Mindfulness Guru Dr. Deepak Chopra to Participate in Opening Night Q&A

2021-04-27 - Hot Docs Festival to Offer Free Films for Students and Seniors

2021-04-21 - Hot Docs’ Doc Accelerator Lab Welcomes New Fellows to 2021 Festival and Celebrates Success of Its Alumni

2021-04-20 - New Curious Minds at Hot Docs Festival Expands on Film Topics with Expert-Led Discussions and Virtual Events

2021-04-13 - Hot Docs Adds Three New Music Documentaries to Festival Lineup

2021-04-07 - Eight Hot Docs-Blue Ice Docs Fund Recipients Announced - Blue Ice Docs Renews Support With $1 Million CAD Over Four Years

2021-04-06 - Hot Docs Launches Independent Cinemas Relief Fund to Help Support Shuttered Cinemas Across Canada

2021-03-31 - Hot Docs Industry Conference Re-Imagines a More Representative and Equitable Documentary Ecosystem After a Challenging Year

2021-03-30 - $50,000 Rogers Audience Award Honouring Canadian Documentaries to be Presented at Hot Docs Festival

2021-03-17 - Hot Docs Forum Announces 20 Canadian and International Project Selections

2021-03-16 - Hot Docs Announces 13 Additional Special Presentations Titles in 2021 Festival, Streaming Across Canada April 29 - May 9

2021-03-09 - Hot Docs Announces 15 Special Presentations Titles in 2021 Festival, Streaming Across Canada April 29 – May 9

2021-02-22 - Executive Director Brett Hendrie Leaving Hot Docs for New Opportunity with University of Toronto

2021-02-25 - Second Edition of Hot Docs at Home Provincial Spotlight Series to Feature Films from Québec

2021-01-28 - Hot Docs at Home Launches New Ongoing Series Featuring Canadian Films and Stories with a Spotlight on Alberta

2021-01-05 - Full Lineup Announced for Hot Docs Podcast Festival, Streaming Worldwide January 27-29

2021-01-04 - Hot Docs Partners with Bell Let’s Talk and Workman Arts for Free Mental Health Film Series on Hot Docs at Home

2020-11-24 - Hot Docs Podcast Festival Online Announced for January 27-29

2020-11-11 - Seven Canadian Doc Projects to Receive $127,500 in Inaugural Round of Disbursements from New Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund

2020-11-11 - Hot Docs and R&M Lang Foundation Announce 2020 Crosscurrents International Doc Fund Recipient $10,000 CAD Production Grant Awarded to Malaysian Film Shh…Diam

2020-11-11 - Recipients of Crosscurrents International Doc Fund Theatrical Strand Announced, $30,000 Cad Awarded to Against the Tide and Cutting Through Rocks

2020-11-11 - Les Récipiendaires du Fonds CrossCurrents Canada Doc Fund, Appuyé par Netflix, Sont Annoncés : Octroi De 150 000 Dollars À Huit Projets Canadiens

2020-11-11 - Recipients of CrossCurrents Canada Doc Fund, Supported by Netflix, Announced $150,000 CAD Awarded to Eight Canadian Projects

2020-10-15 - New Free Film Series For Viola to Present Stories About and Created by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour

2020-10-14 - Five Canadian Doc Projects to Receive $85k in Funding from Hot Docs Ted Rogers Fund

2020-10-13 - New Season of Doc Soup Starts this October with Ron Howard’s Rebuilding Paradise

2020-10-08 - Hot Docs Partners with Future Cities Canada to Present Two Essential Civic-Themed Docs on Hot Docs at Home

2020-10-07 - Hot Docs to Commission Ten Short Documentaries from Filmmakers Across Canada for New Citizen Minutes Project

2020-08-06 - Hot Docs Partners with The LG New VELVET™ 5G Mobile Device to Launch Free Movers and Shapers Film Series

2020-08-04 - Hot Docs Partners with DriveInTo To Screen Classic Talking Heads Concert Doc Stop Making Sense at Ontario Place on August 11