Hot Docs

The most important documentary festival

in North America. Hot Docs is where

documentary filmmakers go to find

distribution, co-production partners,

and funding. The Hot Docs Forum connects

filmmakers with commissioners and funders.

Hot Docs values documentaries with strong

editorial vision, compelling access, and

the potential to change minds. They programme

across all documentary forms — observational,

essay film, hybrid. The Hot Docs Forum

considers works in progress.

Many of the most significant documentaries

of the past 30 years have premiered here

Hot Docs is essential for documentary

filmmakers. The Forum is as important as

the festival itself for works in progress

seeking completion funding. Submit early

and consider submitting to the Forum if

your film is not yet complete.