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Documenting Truths: The Hot Docs Audience Award Winners That Shaped Canadian Perspectives

March 4, 2025March 3, 2025The Bottom LineCanadian documentaries, documentaries, Hot Docs

The unchanging power of documentary films is their ability to reflect and shape social views, providing a glimpse in the intimate convincingly that completely different experiences are on the very same. That is done right

Born Hungry Premiering at Hot Docs

May 23, 2024May 20, 2024Documentaries, FestivalsBarry Avrich, Born Hungry, Hot Docs, Hot Docs 2024, Sandra Simpson, Sash Simpson

Sash Simpson’s life story is one of resilience and transformation. Abandoned as a young boy on the streets of Chennai, India, Sash survived by eating out of garbage bins before being adopted by a Canadian

Unfinished Journey Hits Theatres

April 4, 2024April 2, 2024DocumentariesAeyliya Husain, Afghanistan, Canadian documentaries, Hot Docs

In 2021, due to the Taliban’s return to power, Afghanistan saw a chaotic departure of its citizens seeking safety from the oppressive rule. Among these individuals were four exceptional women whose experiences are the focus

Film Festivals in Canada: A Guide to the World’s Best

June 15, 2023July 8, 2026Festivals, FilmmakersCanada, festivals, Hot Docs, TIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival

Canada is known not only for its breathtaking landscapes and maple syrup, but also for its vibrant and diverse film festival scene. From coast to coast, Canada hosts some of the world’s most prestigious and

Talent on Tap – How Saba Kept Singing Comes to Hot Docs

May 9, 2022June 2, 2022InterviewDavid Wisnia, Hot Docs, How Saba Kept Singing, Sara Taksler

It’s hard to imagine the Holocaust and the evil that was perpetrated in the camps in Auschwitz. In all the fear, the horror, the sadness and the darkness – there was music and there was

News Today: Hot Docs and D-Box

August 9, 2016August 9, 2016Today's Top StoriesCrossCurrents Doc Fund, D-Box, Emmys, Hot Docs, Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Doc Fund, Partnership, Ted Rogers Fund

Big News on Hot Docs! Now there are 3 different options to finance your documentary for Hot Docs, Choose from the new Ted Rogers Fund, the CrossCurrents Doc Fund, or the Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Doc Fund.