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DOCspace at Hot Docs 2010

Interview with Soundtracker director Nick Sherman

Gordon Hempton is a man who has made a career out of the value in peace and quiet. An audio-recordist who has spent over thirty years capturing wilderness soundscapes, Hempton has built up an Emmy Award-winning catalogue and become a crusader for spaces untouched by noise pollution.

Hot Docs announces Audience Choice and Filmmakers Award at most successful festival to date

Hot Docs has revealed that the 2010 Audience Award winner is Mark Landsman's Thunder Soul followed by John Walker's A Drummer's Dream and German Berger's My Life With Carlos followed in votes. The inaugural Filmmakers Award, voted by filmmakers with official selections in the 2010 Festival, goes to Jan Tenhven's Autumn Gold.

Read an interview with Julian Pinder, director of Land, which screens May 9

"The production was basically finished by the time any financing came in. It was me dragging a few hundered pounds of equipment through 50c weather, in places with no electricity in the jungle. I did lighting, sound, camera, everything. It was a bit of a physical nightmare" - Julian Pinder, director, Land.

Over $72,000 in prizes handed out at Friday's Awards Presentation

CBC's Jian Ghomeshi hosted the Awards Presentation on Friday, May 7 at the Isabel Bader Theatre. The Best Canadian Feature Award was presented to Toronto filmmaker Shelley Saywell for In the Name of the Family and the Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature was presented to Vancouver-based Academy Award-winning filmmaker John Zaritsky for Leave Them Laughing.

Festival faves announced for Sunday night screenings

Gasland, DISH: Women Waitressing & Art of Service, Made in India, Geral / B1, A Small Act, A Moth in Spring/Mark, Green Sea/Cooking Up Dreams and Enemies of the People are having one final repeat screening in the Festival Faves: TBA time

TDF prize winners - EyeSteel Film and Storyline Entertainment

Over $55,000 in cash prizes were awarded to projects at this year’s Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF), Hot Docs’ two day international co-financing market event, which wrapped yesterday. Thirty projects representing 12 countries were presented to a panel of over 120 commissioning editors and other funders and a gallery of over 450 industry observers.

NFB Doc Summit 2010 - May 7

The NFB and Hot Docs will  present the seventh edition of the Doc Summit on Friday, May 7 from 9 am - 12 pm, Rogers Industry Centre, first floor. The focus of the Doc Summit is to discuss the sector’s challenges and opportunities, and to brainstorm on what the industry will look like when it’s working best.

thesubstream @ hotDocs '10: Spotlight on Bhutto

Watch the substream's interview with Duane Baughman, director of Bhutto, which had its international premiere on May 1 followed by a second screening on May 4.

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Industry Events - Thursday, May 6

Today is the second and final day of the Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF) at Koerner Hall. The fourth NFB Coffee Talk on Women Directing Justice takes place at 11 am. Conference Sessions today are on Poetics of Online Documentary at 2 pm followed by Kim Longinotto discussing her work at 2:30 pm. NFB Coffee Talks and Conference Sessions run in the Industry Centre in Victoria College.

Hot Docs footage at some of this week's screenings

Watch Hot Doc's footage of director Juan Baquero and Toronto's mayor at the premiere of Listen to This , Josh Dolgin a.k.a musician "Socalled", director Garry Beiteil at a screening of The "Socalled" Movie

About Hot Docs

Hot Docs is North America's largest documentary film festival. From April 29 to May 9, 2010 Hot Docs screened over 170 documentaries from more than 40 countries, bringing together hundreds of Canadian adn international filmmakers and industry delegates to Toronto. During Hot Docs, DOCspace provided ongoing news and events coverage and carried out interviews with a number of Canadian documentary directors including John Zaritsky - Leave Them Laughing, Alethea Arnaquq Baril - Inuit High Kick, Maya Gallus - Dish, Juan Baquero - Listen To This, Julian Pinder - Land, George Tsioutsioulas - The Story of Furious Pete as well as and Gisele Gordon (Canadian Spectrum programmer) and and prGisele Gordon (Canadian Spectrum) and the American director Nick Sherman- Soundtracker. Thank you to the filmmakers for providing stills, clips and interviews. And see you all at Hot Docs 2011!

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