Franz Böhm discusses his Hot Docs Audience Award winner Dear Future Children, which takes the pulse of the global youth movement.
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Heather Conway assumes her new role as Hot Docs executive director and co-president on November 4.
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It's Funny Because It's True is the latest partnership between Hot Docs and Netflix. The initiative will create five short docs by emerging filmmakers that explore the comedic side of non-fiction.
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Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema will reopen its doors to audiences on September 10. Following strict health and safety guidelines, the cinema will allow patrons to return to the big screen while
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Doc Accelerator Lab Fellow Niya Abdullahi Wants to Enrich Audiences with the Power of Representation
Niya Abdullahi represents a new generation of filmmakers changing the documentary field. She is one of the participants in this year’s Doc Accelerator Lab, supported by Netflix through the Canadian Storytellers Project,
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A pale-yellow convertible crawls down an open road. Fists pump in the air, flashes of grey hair billow in the wind. The trio at the core of pioneering rock band Fanny are
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Bruce Mau is a designer, educator and, above all, a visionary thinker. While in his mid-20s, he was one of the founders of Zone Books, which has become one of the key
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You read that right – the title of this film insists that Poly Styrene is a cliché. While the cheeky name reflects the punk icon’s self-reflexive wit, this doc reveals that she
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Meet Josephine, Nightmare, and Jay. They’re three Danish goths in their early 20s who are learning how to feel confident in a society that doesn’t embrace their dark style and satanic spirit.
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If one factor marked the Hot Docs 2021 more than any previous live or online iteration, it was the weight of industry. On one hand, the festival’s decision to release all 220
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