Following are the 1998 Hot Docs! nominees. Productions are Canadian unless otherwise stated.

Best Arts Documentary

– Big Band Boom! The Dal Richards Orchestra – Director: Mark Glover Masterson (Under the Gun Films)

– The Dancing Game – Director: Christa Schadt (Associated Producers)

– Erotica: A Journey into Female Sexuality – Director: Maya Gallus (Sienna Films)

– Guy Maddin: Waiting For Twilight – Director: Noam Gonick (Wait Inc.)

– Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas – Director: Ali Kazimi (Peripheral Visions Film & Video)

Best Arts/Culture/Biography by a Broadcaster

– Christopher & Mary Pratt: Life & Times – Director: Andrew Gregg (cbc)

– Robert Bateman: Life & Times – Director: Andrew Gregg (cbc)

– Tom Jackson: Life & Times – Director: Halya Kuchmij (cbc)

Best Biography Documentary

– The Boys Who Loved Hockey – Directors: Lori Kuffner,Gail Tilson (Independent Moving Pictures)

– bp (pushing the boundaries) – Director: B. Nash (Cinemat)

– Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet – Director: Brenda Longfellow (Gerda Film Production)

Best Children’s Documentary

– Totem Talk – Director: Annie Frazier Henry (Full Regalia Productions)

Best Cultural Documentary

– A Mother’s Grief – Director: Karen Shopsowitz (Associated Producers)

– Quatre femmes d’Egypte – Director: Tahani Rached (National Film Board)

– Sitting on a Story – Director: Pat Barker (Barker Solar Productions)

– Towards a Promised Land – Director: Ina Fichman (Maximage Productions)

– Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship – Director: Maureen Judge (Makin’ Movies)

Best Experimental Short Documentary

– El Dia La Noche Y Los Muertos – Director: Steve Mykolyn (Calavera Productions)

– Heartland – Director: Laura Taler

– James O’Reilly in Parkdale – Director: Alex Pugsley (Cumberland Country Productions)

Best History Documentary

– Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies & the American Dream – Director: Simcha Jacobovici (Associated Producers)

– Kim’s Story: The Road From Viet Nam – Director: Shelley Saywell (Bishari Film Productions)

– Let’s Play House – Director: Alex Gibney (The Fifties Inc.)

– Seven Brides for Uncle Sam – Director: Anita McGee (nfb)

Best International Documentary Over 60 Minutes

– In My Father’s House – Director: Fatima Jebli Ouazzani (MM Producties – Netherlands)

– Mabo: Life of an Island Man – Director: Trevor Graham (Film Australia – Australia)

– Memories D’Immigres (in Three Parts) – Director: Yamina Benguinui (Bandits Production – France)

– Wasteland (Auf Der Kippe) – Director: Andre Schwartz (Wuste Film Production – Germany)

Best International Documentary Under 60 Minutes

– The Disappearance Of Tisoeur: Haiti After Duvalier – Director: Harriet Hirshorn (u.s.)

– The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Jean-Jacques Beineix’s ‘Assigne a Residence’ – Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix (Home Box Office – u.s.)

– I Don’t Know Where, Or When, Or How… – Director: Zelimir Gvardiol (Spiesfilm – Yugoslavia)

– An Imaginary Life – Director: Don Featherstone (Film Australia – Australia)

– Out For Love… Be Back Shortly – Director: Dan Katzir (Dan Katzir – Israel)

Best Political Documentary

– Chile, The Obstinate Memory – Director: Patricio Guzman (nfb)

– Fury For the Sound: The Women at Clayoquot – Director: Shelley Wine (TellTale Productions)

– Gerrie & Louise – Director: Sturla Gunnarsson (Blackstock Pictures/Eurasia Motion Pictures)

– Never-Endum Referendum – Director: Paul Jay (High Road Productions)

Best Political/Social Documentary by a Broadcaster

– Between Here and Heaven: In Search of Jamie Marr – Director: Wayne Abbott (cbc)

– Hunting Bobby Oatway – Director: John Kastner (cbc)

– Murder, Money and Mexico – Director: Neil Docherty (cbc)

Best Documentary by a Broadcaster Outside Canada

– Desert Storm’s Deadly Weapon – Director: Jeremy Lovering (A&E Television Networks – u.s.)

– The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row – Director: Marc Levin (Blowback Productions – u.s.)

– Heart of a Child – Directors: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon (Simon & Goodman Picture Company – u.s.)

– The Search for Mother Russia’s Children – Director: Tom Roberts (hbo – u.s.)

Best Science/Technology/ Environment Documentary

– The Dolphin: Born To Be Wild – Director: Harold Arsenault (Greenspace Productions)

– Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve – Director: Mitchell Azaria (Good Earth Productions)

– Influenza/La Grippe – Director: Bruno Carriere (nfb)

– Rat Among Us – Director: Alfred Vendl (Great North Productions)

Best Science/Technology/ Environment Documentary by a Broadcaster

– Body Doubles: The Twin Experience – Director: Antony Thomas (Carlton Studios – u.k.)

– Clear Water, Cloudy Future – Director: David Way (tvontario)

– John/Joan – Director: Morris Karp (cbc)

– Mind Over Matter – Director: Jane Mingay (Discovery Channel))

– Yellowstone to Yukon: The Wild Heart of North America – Director: Caroline Underwood (cbc)

Best Short Documentary

– Champions of the Wild: Grizzlies – Directors: Christian Bruyere, Ian Herring (Omni Film Productions)

– Nowhere Else To Live – Director: Alan Handel (Alan Handel Productions)

– Rainmakers – Thailand – Director: Luc Cote (Adobe Productions)

Best Social Issue Documentary

– Confessions of a Rabid Dog – Director: John L’Ecuyer (Sienna Films)

– Deadly Inheritance – Director: Daniel Sekulich (Northern Lights Television)

– L’Epreuve du Feu – Director: Bernard Emond (Coop Video de Montreal)

– Rendez-vous de Sarajevo – Director: Helen Doyle

(nfb)

– Tu as crie Let Me Go – Director: Anne-Claire Poirier (nfb)

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Also in this report:

– Hot Docs! brings in international players p. 36

– A sampling of Canada’s emerging doc directors p. 36

– Opportunities at the NFB doc studio p. 37

– An indie filmmaker chronicles his Seven Days in Cambodia p. 38

– Hot Docs! distrib options p. 39