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Leading documentary festival Hot Docs has selected the 20 projects to be featured during the online edition of its project marketplace, Hot Docs Forum, which will run from May 4-5.
Among the 25 filmmakers in the projects, 10 directors are black, indigenous or of color, and 20 directors are women. The projects represent 16 countries.
Lisa Valencia-Svensson, Hot Docs Acting Director of Industry Programs, said this year’s edition is “a bold and powerful blend of film art and journalism.”
He added: “The list of projects gives us hope for the future of non-fiction cinema in its many forms, and we are excited about the films that are on the horizon and that will soon reach audiences around the world.”
Dorota Lech, producer of the Hot Docs Forum, said the projects reflect Hot Docs “unwavering commitment to encouraging emerging filmmakers who, due to the financial constraints of the industry, are combined with a lack of access to festivals as venues. meeting to approach bubbles of resources such as collective support and financing, have been the most affected by the events of last year ”.
Lech added, “We are tremendously inspired by artists who persisted in finding creative approaches to filmmaking, persevered in shaping and sharing stories from around the world, and breaking through countless barriers to submitting inspired apps.”
The Hot Docs Forum will have presentation teams present their project live online via a remote conferencing service to top decision makers, who will then provide their comments and suggestions. Subsequently, captured video speeches and comments will be posted to the Document Store for full access online industry pass holders to view.
Participating decision makers confirmed to date include A&E Networks, A24, Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Al Jazeera English, American Documentary POV, ARD-NDR, ARD – SWR, ARD – WDR, ARTE France, ARTE GEIE, Bell Media, BBC Storyville, CBC, Catapult, Chicken & Egg, CNN Films, Discovery Channel, Doc Society, EBS Korea, ESPN, Field of Vision, Ford Foundation, Fork Films, France Télévisions, The Guardian, Hulu, iQIYI, Impact Partners, ITVS, Knowledge Network, National Geographic, NBC Universal, Netflix, The New York Times – Op Docs, NHK, Participant Media, RAI, SBS, SVT, Sundance Film Institute, TVO, Vice Studios, YLE and ZDF / ARTE.
Participants in the Hot Docs Sight Show, which offers curated access for philanthropic supporters and documentary investors, will once again fund and award the Sight Pitch Award. Now in its fifth year, the award awards cash prizes to the best Forum releases, as determined by first-sight entrants.
For the thirteenth year in a row, the Canadian Forum Pitch Prize will be awarded to the best Canadian pitch, as determined by a committee of non-Canadian commissioned editors present.
This year’s Hot Docs Forum selection committee includes Dorota Lech, Samara Chadwick, Heidi Fleisher, and Stephanie Owens. Selected projects will also participate in Hot Docs Deal Maker, a curated program of one-on-one presentation meetings. 35 additional projects also selected for Hot Docs Deal Maker will be announced on April 14.
The 28th edition of the Hot Docs Film Festival will run online from April 29 to May 9. Last year’s winners included “Stray” (pictured), directed by Elizabeth Lo.
The following projects will be featured at this year’s Hot Docs Forum:
AFRICAN MOOT
Production companies: Undercurrent Film and Television (South Africa), Social Transformation and Empowerment Projects (South Africa)
Director: Shameela Seedat
Producers: Francois Verste, Shameela Seedat
AGAINST THE TIDE
Production Companies: Snooker Club Films (India), A Little Anarky Films (India)
Director: Sarvnik Kaur
Producers: Koval Bhatia, Sarvnik Kaur
THE AGE OF LONELINESS
Production Companies: Studio112 (Canada), Izi Films (United States)
Director: Jenni Morello
Producers: Leslie Norville, Bennett Elliott, Jenni Morello
BLACK MOTHERS
Production Companies: Dandara Productions (USA), Topeka Pictures (USA)
Director: Débora Souza Silva
Producers: David Felix Sutcliffe, Débora Souza Silva
BLIX
Production companies: Pink Productions, sro (Czech Republic), Sisyfos Film Production AB (Sweden)
Director: Greta Stocklassa
Producers: Radovan Síbrt, Alžběta Karásková
BREAKING THE BRICK
Production company: La Ventana Cine (Chile)
Director: Carola Fuentes
Producer: Rafael Valdeavella
BRIGIDY BRAM: THE STORY OF KENDAL HANNA
Production Companies: Daydream Reels (USA), Best Yet Entertainment (Bahamas), Metamension (South Africa)
Directors: Kareem Mortimer, Laura Gamse
Producers: Laura Gamse, Kareem Mortimer, Bernard Myburgh
FIRE OF LOVE
Production Company: Fire of Love Productions (Canada / USA)
Director: Sara Dosa
Producers: Shane Boris, Ina Fichman, Sara Dosa
A HAWK AS BIG AS A HORSE
Production company: Les Steppes Productions (France)
Director: Sasha Ear
Producer: Louis Beaudemont
THE LAST NOMADES
Production companies: Wake Up (Serbia), Cut-Up (Montenegro), Kinematograf (Croatia)
Directors: Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić
Producers: Biljana Tutorov, Velisa Popovic, Diana Mladjenovic
SUNLIGHT BRIDGE
Production Companies: Walking Productions (US), Setting Sun Productions (US)
Director: Vicky Du
Producers: Danielle Varga, Vicky Du
MADE IN ETHIOPIA
Production companies: Made in Ethiopia (USA), Gobez Media (Canada)
Directors: Xinyan Yu, Max Duncan
Producers: Tamara Dawit, Xinyan Yu, Max Duncan
MOTHER VERA
Production Company: She Makes Productions (UK)
Director: Cécile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson
Producer: Laura Shacham
OWN EINSTEIN
Production company: Frequent Flyer Films (Canada)
Director: Michelle Shephard
Producers: Bryn Hughes, Carolyn Abraham
PROJECT X
Production Companies: Project X (Japan), Hanashi Films (UK), Cineric Creative (US)
Director: Shiori Ito
Producers: Hanna Aqvilin, Eric Nyari, Shiori Ito
SONG OF THE SWAN
Production Companies: Visitor Media (Canada), Mercury Films (Canada)
Director: Chelsea McMullan
Producers: Chelsea McMullan, Sean O’Neill, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier
UVA MARJOLAINE FILM WITHOUT TITLE
Production companies: Memento (France), Sweet Work Films (United States)
Director: Marjolaine Grappe
Producers: Thierry Marro, Dana Nachman
VARADO: THE CURSE OF GOLD
Production companies: YUZU Productions (France), Compass Films (Iceland)
Directors: Nicos Argillet, Stéphane Correa
Producers: Christian Popp, Heather Millard
BUCK WILFRED
Production Companies: Door Number 3 Productions (Canada), National Film Board of Canada (Canada)
Director: Lisa Jackson
Producers: Lisa Jackson, Alicia Smith
YOGA VILLAGE
Production companies: Shanghai Jiemian Cailian Press Technologies Co. (China)
Director: Rongfei Guo
Producers: Wenxin Zhong
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