Following are the 1997 Hot Docs! nominees.

Best Feature Documentary

– Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold – Producers: Yvan Patry, Sam Grana; directors: Daniele Lacourse, Yvan Patry (Alter-Cine/National Film Board)

– Power – Producer: Glen Salzman; director Magnus Isacsson (Cineflix)

– Project Grizzly – Producer: Michael Allder; director, Peter Lynch (nfb)

– Le Sort de l’Amerique – Producer: Eric Michel; director: Jacques Godbout (nfb)

– The Street: A Film With the Homeless – Producer/director: Daniel Cross (Daniel Cross/ Necessary Illusions)

Best Arts Documentary

– Frankie & Walter: One More Time – Producers: Don Copeman, Joan Speirs; director: Larry Bauman (Camera West Film Associates)

– Gugging – Producer/director: Anne-Marie Rocher (Productions Testa/Banff Centre for the Arts)

– True Prince: Vladimir Malakhov – Producers: Leigh Badgley, Tony Papa; director Tony Papa (Papa Bear Productions)

– Canvas of Conflict – Producers: Neil Bregman, Katherine Jeans; director: Katherine Jeans (Sound Venture Productions)

– When East Meets East – Producer/director: Kalli Paakspuu (Calipix Productions)

Best Cultural Documentary

– Fennario: His World on Stage – Producer: Mark Zannis; director: Alec MacLeod (nfb)

– The Last of the Franco-Ontarians – Producers: Michel Cloutier; Jacques Menard; director: Jean Marc Lariviere (Nunacom Communications/nfb)

– The Passerby – Producers: Susan Huycke, Barrie Angus McLean; director: Donald McWilliams (nfb)

– Place of the Boss – Producers: Mike Mahoney, Peter d’Entremont, John Walker (nfb/Triad Films/John Walker Productions)

– The Powder Room – Producer: Michael Allder; director: Ann Kennard (nfb)

– Time on Earth – Producers/directors: David Mortin, Patricia Fogliato (Enigmatico Films)

– Under Wraps – Producers: Teresa MacInnes, Penny Wheelwright; director: Teresa MacInnes (Starry Night Productions)

Best Biography/History Documentary

– A Breath of Rage – Producers: Marcel Simard, Claude Cartier; director: Sophie Bissonnette (Productions Virage)

– Forgotten Warriors – Producers: Michael Doxtater, Carol Geddes, Jerry Krepakevich; director: Loretta Todd (nfb)

– The Matchless Six – Producer: Brenda Hennig; director: Janice Brown (Great North Productions)

– Mischa – Producer: Jennifer Torrance; director: David Vaisbord (nfb)

Best Arts/Culture/Biography Documentary by a Broadcaster

– The National/CBC News: The Americanization of Canada – How We Lost it at the Movies – Producer: Jill Offman (cbc)

– Land & Sea – Return to Cut Throat – Producer/director: Pauline Thornhill (cbc)

– Life & Times: Roberta Bondar – Producer/director: Ann Kennard (cbc)

Best International Documentary Produced by a Broadcaster Outside Canada

– Anaphase – The Film – Producer: Irit Sturm; director: Levi Zini (Tel-Ad Jerusalem Studios)

– Cuba 111 – Producer: Peter Suetens; directors: Dirk Vandesypen; Stev Vanthielen (Belgische Radio en Televisie, brtn)

– The Hong Kong Connection: Moving House – Producer/director: Hermia Leung (Radio Television Hong Kong)

– Investigative Reports: Behind Bars – Producers: Michael Cascio, Gerald W. Abrams, Rasha Drachkovitch; directors: Rob Englehardt, Lasta Drachkovitch

– Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story – Producer: Joseph Consentino; directors: Joseph Consentino, Sandra Consentino (Consentino Films/TNT Program Productions)

Best International Documentary Over 60 Minutes

– Calling the Ghosts – Producer: Mandy Jacobson; directors: Mandy Jacobson, Karmen Jelincic (Bowery Productions)

– Donka, The X-ray of an African Hospital – Director: Thierry Michel

– Gigi, Monicaet Bianca – Producer: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, directors: Benoit Dervaux, Yasmina Abdellaoui (Derives asbl.)

– Inverted Perspective – Producer/director: Lily van den Bergh (Open Studio Producties)

– Rats in the Ranks – Producers/directors: Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson (Film Australia)

Best International Documentary Under 60 Minutes

– Aeroplane Dance – Producers: Trevor Graham, Christina Pozzan, director: Trevor Graham (Film Australia)

– L’Aube Dawn – Director/writer: Danis Tanovic (g.s.a.r.a. – s.a.r.a. – Causes Communes)

– The Burning Barrel – Producers/directors: Christina Craton, Tim Schwab (First Light Films)

– Kosky In Paradise – Producers: Bob Weis, Jonathon Green; director: Melissa Rymer (Generation Films)

– Me & My Matchmaker – Producer/director: Mark Wexler (Wexler’s World/Mark Wexler)

– Return To Sandakan – Producer/director: Raymond Quint (Film Australia)

Best Political Documentary

– Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor – Producer/director: Elaine Briere (Snapshot Productions)

– First Nation Blue – Producer: Kent Martin, director: Daniel Prouty (nfb)

– Le Grand Tumulte – Producer: Marcel Simard; director: Magnus Isacsson (Virage Films)

– Rape: A Crime of War – Producer: Silva Basmajian; director: Shelley Saywell (nfb)

Best Social Issue Documentary

– Backroads – Producers/directors: David Finch, Maureen Marovitch (Picture This Productions)

– A Balkan Journey – Producer/director: Brenda Longfellow (Gerda Film Productions)

– Burden of Silence – Producer: Tom Shandel; director: Daniel Gautreau (Getaway Films)

– Packing Heat – Producers: Sally Bochner, Wendy Rowland; director: Wendy Rowland (nfb)

– My Sister’s Keepers – Producer/director: Michael Connolly (Amistad Video and Film)

– The Selling of Innocents – Producers: Elliott Halpern, Simcha Jacobovici, William Cobban; director: William Cobban (Associated Producers)

Best Political/Social Documentary by a Broadcaster

– the fifth estate: The Best of Intentions – Producer/director: Julian Sher (cbc)

– the fifth estate: Butting In – Producer/director: Neil Docherty (cbc)

– The National/CBC News – The Paper King: The World of Conrad Black – Producer: Peter Findlay (cbc)

– The Nature of Things – Skin Deep: The Science of Race – Producer/director: Vishnu Mathur (cbc)

– Witness: The Sound and the Fury – Producer/director: Halya Kuchmij (cbc)

Best Science/Technology/ Environment Documentary

– Ebola: Inside an Outbreak – Producers: Elliott Halpern, Simcha Jacobovici, Ric Esther Bienstock; director: Ric Esther Bienstock (Associated Producers)

– Forbidden Places: Wild Kill – Producer: Aiken Scherberger; director: David McIlvride (Television Renaissance)

– Secrets of the Choco – Producer/director: Ian McLaren (Productions Grand Nord Quebec)

– Separate Lives – Producer: Robert Lang; directors: Deborah Magidson, Robert Lang (Kensington Communications)

Best Science/Technology/ Environment Documentary by a Broadcaster

– Brain Matters, Part 2 – Producer/director: Joey O’Loughlin (Discovery Channel)

– The National/CBC News – Harvesting the City: The Wonder of Garbage – Producer: Janet Thomson (cbc)

– Journeys: Dolphin Dynamics – Producers: Craig Moffit, Lauren Millar; director: Lauren Millar (Indigo Moon Pictures)

– Paragliding in Chile – Producer/director: Morgan Elliott (Discovery Exploration Productions)

– The Planets, Part One – Producer/director: Deanna Kraus (Discovery Channel)

Best Short Documentary

– Bronwen and Yaffa – Producer: Mike Mahoney; director: Peter d’Entremont (nfb)

– Havana Kids – Producer: Katherine Baulu; Boris Rodriguez (Flavourlight Productions)

– Human Nature – Collision Course – Producer: Eric Calvert; director: Greg Lawrence (Corvideocom)

– Lodela – Producer: Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol; director: Philippe Baylaucq (nfb)

– Loteria – Producers/directors: Roberto Ariganello, Frederico Hidalgo (Magpie Media)

– Les Marches de Londres – Producer: Jacques Langlois; director: Mireille Dansereau (Les Productions Cine-Plurielles)

Best Experimental Short Documentary

– The Birth of Sybling and Other Forms of Dissociation – Producer/director: Liz MacDougall

– Letters From Home – Producer/ director: Mike Hoolboom

– Neurofeedback – Producer/director: Chantelle Tucker

Best Children’s Documentary

– Secret Stories – Producer/director: Ole Gjerstad (International Centre of Films for Children and Young People)

– Let Freedom Ring – Producer/director: Michael Kot (Mixed Media Productions)

– Taking Charge – Producer: Chantal Bowen; director: Claudette Jaiko (nfb)

– Children of Jerusalem: Ibrahim – Producer/director: Beverly Shaffer (nfb)