HOT DOCS
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Mission Statement
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America’s largest documentary festival, conference and market. Each year, the Festival presents a selection of approximately 200 cutting-edge documentaries from Canada and around the globe.
About This Cause
In 1994, Hot Docs was initiated by a professional association of independent filmmakers from across Canada (CIFC, now DOC). In 1996, Hot Docs was separately incorporated as an independent, non-profit organization and a year later acquired charitable status from Revenue Canada. In 1999, Hot Docs made a dramatic shift in how it delivered its mandate, opening the Festival to public audience for the first time and drawing a crowd of 7,000. Starting off with no full-time staff, one computer, one phone, and a calling to find, screen, develop, launch, and support the best docs and their makers; Hot Docs grew out of an existing void in the arts spectrum. Our success stems from growing the profile and public accessibility of creative documentary works, and its ability to manage and sustain growing levels of activity while ensuring programming excellence. Today, Hot Docs is North America's largest documentary festival, conference and market. Hot Docs wrapped its 23rd edition with record-breaking audience numbers reaching an estimated 211,000. The 11-day event featured 462 public screenings of 232 films on 15 screens across Toronto. A full week of industry programming was attended by 2,678 delegates from around the world. Hot Docs mounted a roster of seven workshops, 13 conference sessions, close to 40 networking events and parties, three Kickstart panels for emerging filmmakers, 11 micro-meetings, 16 Close Up With… sessions with broadcasters, the Doc Summit, and the Hot Docs Awards Presentation. Hot Docs also hosted a record 14 official delegations from Australia, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Georgia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Nigeria, the Nordic Region, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Africa and the USA. Hot Docs has an incredibly diverse audience, in part due to its programming of films of diverse subject matter and filmmaker orientation. We also take pride in collaborating with other organizations and events noted for their specializations in servicing specific communities and increasing community access to documentaries that advance their work. Launched in 2006, Docs for Schools presents free daytime screenings for educators and students at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema during the Festival, with filmmakers present for discussions after the screenings. This year, Docs For Schools reached an estimated record-breaking 95,000 students from Toronto and throughout Ontario. The program also provides opportunities to screen current documentaries in schools across Ontario. For each film showcased in the Docs for Schools program, Hot Docs – in consultation with professional educators – prepares detailed educational packages that include lesson plans and links to the Ontario curriculum. In March 2012, in partnership with Blue Ice Film, Hot Docs reopened the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, a landmark, century-old film house located in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood. This remarkable opportunity marked the beginning of a new home and destination for documentary cinema. The only cinema of its kind in the world, the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema showcases first-run Canadian and international documentary films, and offers the opportunity to host other Toronto-based film festivals. In June 2016 it was announced that a generous gift from the Rogers Family enabled Hot Docs to purchase the Cinema from the Blue Ice Group, and that it will continue to offer audiences the best in documentary programming at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.