Five directors at the largest doc film festival in North America,
April 18, 2018,
74 Minutes
Episode 11 is about the Hot Docs International Film Festival. I have traveled to Toronto several times and each time I come home inspired by all the great new docs I saw and the new ones coming down the road. Within Hot Docs they have "The Forum," which is a two day pitching event. Each producer team is given about six or seven minutes to pitch in front of an audience and a panel of international buyers. They show a clip from their new documentary and the panel comments on why this new film might or might not work for their network. It is great to see all the films that will be in theaters or on tv a year from now. And they sell about 125,000 tickets to half a dozen theaters in the ten day festival period. If you make documentaries and want to go to the biggest doc festival in North America, this is the one.
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