June 16, 2022 An In-Person Hot Docs 2022: Of Memory, Longing, Reconstructing, Questioning */ By Bedatri D.Choudhury AND Tom White Tom White: The Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Film Festival reclaimed its in-person status after a three-year Read more
June 4, 2021 Hot Docs 2021: Can You Feel the Digital Heat? The documentary community is filled with tough pros, but surely all of us can spare a thought for a festival that had to deal with the first outburst Read more
March 30, 2021 IDA-supported Documentaries at Hot Docs 2021 Hot Docs is back for its 2021 festival edition, bringing short and feature-length documentaries from around the world to viewer's home screens Read more
July 12, 2020 A Virtual Success: Hot Docs 2020 In this new age of physical distancing and social isolation, computer screens and television monitors have become the focal point for our contact Read more
September 27, 2019 Who Is Telling Whose Story, To Whom, and Why? Editor’s Note: Filmmaker Lisa Valencia-Svensson was invited to deliver a keynote address at Hot Docs this past spring. What follows is an abbreviated Read more
May 22, 2019 Hot Docs at 26: Brilliant Business, As Usual Everybody loves an anniversary. Hot Docs had its celebrations last year when Canada’s biggest documentary festival turned silver to massive industry Read more
August 30, 2018 Five Essential Steps to Better Pitching During every phase of production, documentary filmmakers are required to articulate their expansive artistic vision and months or years of work in a Read more
May 30, 2018 The Hottest Docs at Hot Docs 2018? Check Out the 'Mid-Length and International' Strand By Daniel and Marc Glassman We'd like to open our report on Hot Docs with a discussion of the festival’s acclaimed Forum , a must-attend event for Read more
April 25, 2018 Celebrating 25 Years of Documentary Film at Hot Docs Over the coming days, hundreds of filmmakers and industry professionals from across the globe will land in Toronto, Canada, to participate in the Hot Read more
April 19, 2018 20 IDA-supported Films Screening at Hot Docs The 25th annual Hot Docs Festival is just one week away. If you are headed to Toronto, you can catch a whopping 20 IDA-supported films on the big Read more