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Could the 31st Edition of Hot Docs Be the Last for the Ailing Toronto Fest? Organizers Warn It Might Be
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Writer Addie Morfoot reports on the trouble surrounding the 2024 edition of the Hot Docs Film Festival, including government-funding issues and the departure of numerous festival programmers. Morfoot describes the landscape of film festival funding and the role of programmers in the festival space, including comments from former programmer Charlotte Cook, filmmakers Dawn Porter and Yance Ford, and producer Jessica Edwards.