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Hot Docs 2021: Zo Reken, One Of Ours claim top prizes
Emanuel Licha, Yasmine Mathurin and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers won honours at the annual doc fest
By Kevin Ritchie
Courtesy of Hot Docs
Emanuel Licha's Zo Reken looks at the long aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Directors Emanuel Licha, Yasmine Mathurin and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers have won the top Canadian film awards at the 2021 Hot Docs film festival.
At a livestreamed ceremony earlier this evening, Montreal’s Licha picked up the $10,000 Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award for Zo Reken, a portrait of Haitians and aid workers in Port-au-Prince dealing with the ongoing humanitarian crisis sparked by an earthquake 11 years ago.