Like most niche fests, Hot Docs emerged humbly when the Documentary Organization of Canada established it in 1993 as an industry insider’s event, but it's since grown into a premiere worldwide event.
Gereon Wetzel’s films El Bulli: Cooking in Progress and How to Make a Book with Steidl deal with the experience–the total work of art–or the Gesamtkunstwerk.
The CRTC bought Bell’s two-step hook, line and stinker, snapping their own credibility so thoroughly as to turn Tony Clement into something few ever thought would be possible: a folk hero.
Leaders of industry, government and labour sat down with filmmakers, broadcasters, academics, new-media designers, engineers and students to ask a question that seems to have fallen off the agenda: where are the women?
