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The Hot Docs Forum awards go to projects from Canada, the USA and the UK
11/05/2021 - Three projects in the
first look programme received a total of CAD 110,000, and an additional CAD 12,000 went to two projects in the Canadian Forum Pitch
The pitch for the UK production
Mother Vera by Cécile Embleton and Alys Tomlinson
The Hot Docs Forum, the backbone of Canadian festival Hot Docs’ industry programme, announced its awards on Monday afternoon. With an array of prizes funded by participants in the Hot Docs
first look programme, an initiative that provides philanthropic supporters and investors in documentary film with curated, behind-the-scenes access to the Hot Docs Forum and market, with a top up from Hot Docs, the winning projects were selected by the participants after they had viewed all of the pitches.
In the second installment of
Realscreen‘s report on the Hot Docs Forum, we take a look at what happened in the second part of the two-day event, which was held May 4 and 5. Part one of
Realscreen‘s report on the forum can be found here.
The digital edition of the 22nd annual Hot Docs Forum concluded last week with eight of 20 projects searching for international funding presented to a panel of experts.
Pitched projects included in part two of the forum included
The Age of Loneliness, about scientists and researchers’ work to understand why many insect species are at risk of extinction; and
The team responsible for making the documentary
Wilfred Buck is CA$10,000 richer as the 2021 online edition of the Hot Docs Forum wraps.
The documentary (pictured) – directed by Lisa Jackson and produced by Jackson and Alicia Smith for Door Number 3 Productions (Canada) and the National Film Board of Canada – won the Canadian Forum Pitch Prize, presented in partnership with DGC National and DGC Ontario.
The film follows a man known as “the Indiana Jones of Indigenous star knowledge,” weaving his past with his present to explore colonization’s impact on Indigenous ways of knowledge.
The Canadian Forum Pitch Prize is awarded to the best Canadian pitch at the Forum as voted on by attending international buyers.