Hot Docs has named the film nominees eligible to receive awards at this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, which runs from April 24 to May 4.

All awards will be decided by festival juries and the winners will be announced during the Hot Docs Presentation and Reception on May 2.

There are 10 Canadian features in competition, taking part in the Canadian Spectrum Competition Program, that are eligible for the Hot Docs Best Canadian Feature Documentary award along with the Hot Docs Directors Guild of Canada Special Jury Prize-Canadian Feature Documentary. Some features are also eligible for the Hot Docs Earl A. Glick Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award.

They include Agatha’s Almanac (Minema Cinema Productions), directed and produced by Amalie Atkins; Rosana Matecki’s Canada/Venezuela/Ecuador coproduction Casas Muertas, produced by Matecki along with Mariana and Patricio Andrade; and Seth and Peter Scriver’s Endless Cookie (Scythia Films, Stellar Citizens, Tiger Mister Productions), produced by Daniel Bekerman, Chris Yurkovich, Alex Ordanis, Jason Ryle and Seth Scriver.

Other Canadian features eligible for those awards are Matt Gallagher’s Shamed (Border City Pictures; pictured), produced by Cornelia Principe; Ryan Sidhoo’s directed and produced The Track; Denis Côté’s Paul (Coop Vidéo de Montréal), produced by Karine Bélanger and Hany Ouichou; and Virginia Tangvald’s Canada-France coproduction Ghosts of the Sea (micro_scope, NFB, Urban Factory), produced by Isabelle Couture, Élaine Hébert, Nathalie Cloutier, Frédéric Corvez and Maéva Savinien.

Julien Elie’s Shifting Baselines (GreenGround Productions), produced by Andreas Mendritzki, Aonan Yang and Julien Elie; Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man (NFB), produced by Coty Savard; and Damien Eagle Bear’s directed and produced #skoden round out the eligible Canadian features.

The Canadian feature documentary jury comprises CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, head of programme Mads K. Mikkelsen; artistic director; Vancouver’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Sarah Ouazzani; and principal content consultant/co-curator, Independent Lens (ITVS), Noland Walker.

Canada’s Noam Gonick’s Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance (NFB), produced by Justine Pimlott, is eligible for the Hot Docs Bill Nemtin Award For Best Social Impact Documentary.

The jurors for the award are writer, director, producer and OYA Media Group co-founder Alison Duke; commissioning editor of European culture channel ARTE, Sabine Lange; and filmmaker Ali Weinstein.

That same jury also decides Hot Docs’ Best Mid-Length Documentary award, which includes two eligible Canadian films.

The first is Aisha’s Story, co-directed by Elizabeth Vibert and Chen Wang and produced by Vibert and Salam Barakat Guenette, and the second is Stefan Verna’s Night Watches Us (NFB), produced by Kat Baulu and Ariel Nasr.

Eight Canadian short films are eligible for the Hot Docs Betty Youson Award for Best Canadian Short Documentary.

They are: Luiza Cocora’s Balance, Megan Wennberg’s Bloody Mess, Asia Youngman’s Delta Dawn, Serville Poblete’s King’s Court, Martin Edralin’s La Mayordomia, Axel Robin’s My Memory-Walls, Alain Delannoy’s The Snip and Mingzhe Zhou’s View From Home.

The jury for the award includes filmmaker Aeyliya Husain, series producer for the New York Times series Op-Docs Yvonne Ashley Kouadjo and filmmaker, programmer and independent curator Ruth Somalo.

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