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Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary festival, conference and market. Each year, the Festival presents a selection of more than 180 cutting-edge documentaries from Canada and around the globe. Through its industry programs, Hot Docs also provides a full range of professional development, market and networking opportunities for documentary professionals. Hot Docs is a national, charitable organization dedicated to advancing and celebrating the art of documentary. The organization showcases Canadian and international documentaries to the public and delivers professional development, market and network opportunities to documentary professionals through the presentation of an annual documentary festival and complimentary activities. Hot Docs endeavours to provide the highest quality programmes and services to its constituents, and to earn an international reputation for excellence.

Documentary portraits range from Sophie Tucker to Etgar Keret, unusual tales of dybbuks, golems, psychics and an ageing gigolo are unraveled, and filmmakers.

Each year as we approach our Festival dates, the printed catalogue finally arrives at the office and we stare at it in wonder, thinking about the process that went into its creation.I am often asked how the Festival is programmed, so here is the story of how we arrive at our programme:We begin by previewing films that we have read about online. In addition, over the years, we have developed connections with producers, directors and distributors, who are more than happy to inform us about their new productions.