The 24th edition of the Hot Docs Forum, the financing event aimed at securing co-productions and funds for feature length documentaries, includes 19 projects representing 16 countries and featuring 23 filmmakers, 12 of whom are women and 11 of whom are black, indigenous and people of color. An additional Wild Card pitch will be selected live at the Forum.
The Forum, which returns to in-person at Toronto’s Hart House after three years of being virtual, also includes an additional 30 projects, which will participate in Hot Docs Deal Maker, a curated one-on-one pitch meeting program.
Commissioning editors, investors and industry experts, including A24, Amazon Studios, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Concordia, Hulu, Paramount, Participant Media, Sandbox Films and Netflix, will attend this year’s Forum.
Industry programmer and Forum producer, Dorota Lech, spoke to Variety about how she selects projects, the advice she gives participating filmmakers, and how she feels about the current doc market.
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The Forum, which returns to in-person at Toronto’s Hart House after three years of being virtual, also includes an additional 30 projects, which will participate in Hot Docs Deal Maker, a curated one-on-one pitch meeting program.
Commissioning editors, investors and industry experts, including A24, Amazon Studios, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Concordia, Hulu, Paramount, Participant Media, Sandbox Films and Netflix, will attend this year’s Forum.
Industry programmer and Forum producer, Dorota Lech, spoke to Variety about how she selects projects, the advice she gives participating filmmakers, and how she feels about the current doc market.
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- 4/27/2023
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
’Diversity: The Initiatives Driving Action, Not Just Talk!’ was a panel at this week’s Sunny Side of the Doc film festival.
The complex issue of diversity and how to tackle it in documentary filmmaking was the topic of conversation at the Sunny Side Of The Doc 2021 panel entitled ’Diversity: The Initiatives Driving Action, Not Just Talk!’ that took place online on June 21.
Speakers included Anna Serner, outgoing CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, Sarah Brunet, who oversees the diversity and inclusion strategy for Creative Europe Media, Tamara Dawit, the Canada Media Fund’s strategic lead on equity and inclusion,...
The complex issue of diversity and how to tackle it in documentary filmmaking was the topic of conversation at the Sunny Side Of The Doc 2021 panel entitled ’Diversity: The Initiatives Driving Action, Not Just Talk!’ that took place online on June 21.
Speakers included Anna Serner, outgoing CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, Sarah Brunet, who oversees the diversity and inclusion strategy for Creative Europe Media, Tamara Dawit, the Canada Media Fund’s strategic lead on equity and inclusion,...
- 6/22/2021
- by Mark Salisbury
- ScreenDaily
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