Hot Docs has named the winners of two special awards for the 2016 edition of the festival, and announced it will be honouring Canadian filmmaker Rosie Dransfeld with a “Focus On” retrospective.

Over the past 15 years, Dransfeld she has both produced and directed a number of documentaries, including 2008’s Broke, which one the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary. Her other documentary credits include Who Cares?, Anti-Social Limited and CBC doc The Wand. She is currently producing two more documentaries for The Transplant Project, set to air on CBC’s The Nature of Things and the Documentary Channel. Previous “Focus On” honourees include Carole Laganiere (2015), John Zaritsky (2014), Peter Mettler (2013) and John Kastner (2012). The films to be showcased in Dransfeld’s retrospective will be revealed in March.

Hot Docs also announced this week it would award the 2016 Outstanding Achievement Award to American documentary filmmaker Steve James. His credits include the 1994 Oscar-nominated documentary Hoop Dreams, Stevie (2002), The War Tapes (2006) and The Interrupters, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form. His most recent documentary Life Itself won the best documentary of the year award from a number of associations, including The Producers Guild of America and The Critics’ Choice Awards.

Finally, Hot Docs will present Finnish filmmaker and former YLE commissioning editor Iikka Vehkalahti with the Doc Mogul Award. The prize is meant to recognize an individual who has made an essential contribution to the “creative vitality” of the doc industry. While at Finnish pubcaster YLE, he commissioned hundreds of documentaries, including The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004), Recipes for Disaster (2008) and The Steam of Life (2010).