There’s more buzz than money circulating at Hot Docs this week as few theatrical deals have so far emerged for local docs.

Kinosmith has, however, grabbed the Canadian rights to two titles at the festival: Toronto-based filmmaker Paul Saltzman’s Prom Night in Mississippi and Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country, a Danish film about indie video journalists in Burma by Anders Hogsbro Ostergaard.

The Toronto distributor and U.S.-based Oscilloscope plan a joint North American release for Burma VJ in July.

Kinosmith’s Robin Smith also plans a September release for Prom Night, with Morgan Freeman in Canada to help promote the doc about a racially integrated prom in his hometown.

Elsewhere, E1 Entertainment’s Toronto distribution arm led by Bryan Gliserman picked up the Canadian rights to The Yes Men Fix the World, a documentary about anti-corporate pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. And U.S. distributor First Run Features bought the controversial Hot Docs title Defamation, a documentary about anti-Semitism from Israeli director Yoav Shamir. First Run plans a fall theatrical release.

Earlier during the festival, Zeitgeist Films picked up the U.S. rights to opening-night’s Act of God, and plans an October release of Jennifer Baichwal’s film. Zeitgeist also released her 2006 film Films Manufactured Landscapes.

Hot Docs programmer Sean Farnel on Thursday said few big deals at the festival means the hundreds of smaller, modest deals will receive prominence, especially at the Toronto Documentary Forum.

Farnel added that films generating heat among buyers at Hot Docs, towards likely post-festival deals, include the 65_RedRoses from Canadian directors Philip Lyall and Nimisha Mukerji; Mugabe and the White African by Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson; and Danish filmmaker Mads Brugger’s The Red Chapel.