The Toronto-based festival is set to open with Seth and Peter Scriver’s animated documentary Endless Cookie.
The film will be celebrated at the annual Peabody Awards on June 1 in L.A.
Colette Johnson-Vosberg’s documentary Unlabelled and Corey Payette’s musical Starwalker will debut at the 35th edition of the festival.
Making its world premiere at the competition is Zazie Films’ Canada/Luxembourg coproduction La maison de Poupée.
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Principe will be presented the award on May 2 at the Hot Docs Awards Presentation.
The filmmaker will receive a $25,000 cash prize from the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival as part of the award.
Hot Docs director of programming Heather Haynes and industry programs director Elizabeth Radshaw discuss how this year’s event fits in with Hot Docs’ larger organizational realignment.
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The 13 participants will present their projects to a panel of media funders, collaborators and industry delegates at the festival.
The delegation includes the 2025 Jean-Marc Vallée Bursary recipient Alfonso Maiorana.