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The marquee of Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema is lit up and seen from street view at night. The marquee text is white and green with a green border.

Hot Docs Announces Changes to Governance

by Pat Mullen
June 19, 2024June 20, 2024
Hot Docs

Hot Docs announces that co-chairs Lalita Krishna and Robin Mirsky have stepped down amid a major restructuring of the board of directors.

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Ontario Feels the Pinch

by Adam Benzine
June 11, 2024
Essays

Ontario documentary filmmakers discuss the challenges of industry funding, distribution and creation post-COVID.

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Submissions Open for the DOC Institute Honours

by POV Staff
September 5, 2023
Industry

The DOC Institute is now accepting submissions for the annual DOC Institute Honours, including the Rogers-DOC Luminary Award and Vanguard Award.

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Artistic Director Shane Smith Steps Down from Hot Docs

by Pat Mullen
June 14, 2023
Hot Docs

Shane Smith to step down as artistic director of Hot Docs after eight years with the festival, which included some of the festival's top years.

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Hot Docs Names Marie Nelson Next President

by Pat Mullen
May 1, 2023
Hot Docs

Hot Docs names Marie Nelson as the next president to oversee the organization, festival, and Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.

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Anita Lee, Nisha Pahuja Win DOC Institute Honours

by Pat Mullen
December 8, 2022
Industry

Anita Lee and Nisha Pahjua received the DOC Institute Honours as the Rogers-DOC Luminary Award winner and DOC Vanguard Award winner.

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The Slow Rise of Asian Canadian Docs

by Allan Tong
November 23, 2017September 2, 2021
Essays/Features

At a Toronto variety store, amid racks of candy, lottery tickets and cigarettes, a Korean couple battles their Canadian-born children. The father demands that his kids finish school, get married and start

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Congratulations to the #documentary Oscar nominees Congratulations to the #documentary Oscar nominees! 🏆

Best Documentary Feature:
✉️ The Alabama Solution 
✉️ Come See Me in the Good Light
✉️ Cutting through Rocks
✉️ Mr. Nobody against Putin
✉️ The Perfect Neighbor

Best Documentary Short:
✉️ All the Empty Rooms
✉️ Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
✉️ Children No More: "Were and Gone"
✉️ The Devil Is Busy
✉️ perfectly a strangeness 🫏

Best Song 
✉️ "Dear Me" - Diane Warren: Relentless 
✉️ "Sweet Dreams of Joy" Viva Verdi

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Back at @hotdocs_ for 1 screening only, catch fest Back at @hotdocs_ for 1 screening only, catch festival favourite #TheGardenerAndTheDictator this weekend as Jane Hui Wang shares her family story.

🎟: use HDCxGD20 to save 20% on tickets!
📆: Jan 18, 7:00 PM 
📰: Read more in Liam Lacey's interview with Wang! (Link in bio.)

#Documentary #Toronto #movies #HotDocs
Miette pastry chef Meg Ray and Maria Thomsson from Miette pastry chef Meg Ray and Maria Thomsson from Rödlöga, Sweden at the world premiere of Sweet Störy at @psfilmfest. Here, they share their favourite sweets in this story of cross-cultural cooking. 🌴

#psiff2026 #sweets #baking #megray #documentary
We're at the @psfilmfest this year, with coverage We're at the @psfilmfest this year, with coverage rolling including the world premiere of Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Story! Stay tuned for more. 

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#Elvis #elvispresley #carolconnors #psiff2026
Oscar nominee Carol Connors marches into @psfilmfe Oscar nominee Carol Connors marches into @psfilmfest to her theme from Rocky, and then performs "You Loved My Night Away" - a song she wrote for Elvis Presley the night he died and hasn't released until now.

At the world premiere of the #documentary Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connor Story. 

#CarolConnor #elvis #elvispresley #psiff2025
#StateOfFirsts director Chase Joynt talks about fo #StateOfFirsts director Chase Joynt talks about following congresswoman Sarah McBride on her historic campaign amid the culture wars and the targeting of trans rights, and making a vérité doc after hybrids like No Ordinary Man and Framing Agnes. #PalmSprings #PSIFF #Documentary #movies
@yanunifilm executive producer Laura Nix tells the @yanunifilm executive producer Laura Nix tells the @psfilmfest audience about what drew her to sharing @juma_xipaia's story and working with director Richard Ladkani to raise awareness about the fight for the Amazon. 🌴

#palmsprings #yanuni #documentary #psiff2025 #Amazon
Andrea Werhun and @nicobazuin tell us about changi Andrea Werhun and @nicobazuin tell us about changing the narrative on sex work and being maximalists with colour in #ModernWhore. 💋

📝: @redroomrantings
📖: POV 124
🔗: In Bio
📽: U.S. premiere @psfilmfest; coming soon to theatres

#Documentary #film #andreawerhun #POV124
Song Sung Blue is the latest documentary to get a Song Sung Blue is the latest documentary to get a  Hollywood remake. Kate Hudson and director Craig Brewer tell us about reimagining the doc as a movie musical!

🔗: in bio
📽: in theatres Dec. 25
📽: rent the doc on Vimeo

#SongSungBlue #KateHudson #NeilDiamond #movies #Documentary
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