Batata keeps in the top spot in the race for the Hot Docs Audience Award. The film by Noura Kevorkian stayed atop the lists for the Hot Docs Audience Award and the Rogers Audience Award for Canadian Film after debuting in the number one spot yesterday. Batata is a film ten years in the making that observes Syrian refugees as they forge new lives amid a global migration crisis.
Debuting in the runner-up spot today is Chase Joynt’s groundbreaking study of transgender narratives and history, Framing Agnes. The hybrid film uses performance to revisit controversial gender studies of 1960s that viewed transgender experiences through a narrow heteronormative lens. Yesterday’s runner-up Navalny took a sharp dive down to thirteenth place, while former leader Okay! (The ASD Band Film) held its ninth spot after dropping yesterday.
The Hot Docs Audience Award rankings for May 2 are:
- Batata
- Framing Agnes
- Tolyatti Adrift
- Sam Now
- Sexual Healing
- Aftershock
- American Scar
- The Artist’s Daughter, Oil on Canvas
- Okay! (The ASD Band Film)
- How Saba Kept Singing
- Bigger than Trauma
- We Feed People
- Navalny
- Category: Woman
- Attica
- In the Eye of the Storm: The Political Odyssey of Yanis Varoufakis
- Boycott
- The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith
- Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind
- Smell of Money
