2024 Hot Docs Festival Winners List

Nishta Jain’s Farming the Revolution, a movie about Indian farmers rising up in opposition to new legal guidelines, picked up one of the best worldwide characteristic documentary prize on the Scorching Docs Canadian Worldwide Documentary Pageant on Friday night time.

The highest jury prize win on the pageant means Jain’s movie, which world premiered at Scorching Docs, will qualify for consideration in one of the best documentary characteristic class on the Academy Awards.

Different winners included the particular jury prize for the worldwide characteristic documentary went to Loss of life of a Saint. The doc follows director Patricia Bbaale Bandak as she returns to her birthplace in Uganda after giving beginning to her personal daughter on the identical day her mom was killed by two gunmen in that African nation 24 years earlier.

One of the best rising worldwide filmmaker trophy went to Ismael Vasquez Bernabe, director of The Weavers’ Songs, a Mexican doc about weavers in San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca. One of the best Canadian characteristic documentary award went to Pablo Alvarez-Mesa for The Soldier’s Lagoon, which retraces Simón Bolívar’s marketing campaign to liberate Colombia two centuries in the past.

In different prize-giving, the particular jury prize for a Canadian characteristic documentary was given to administrators Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee for Any Different Means: The Jackie Shane Story, a few pioneering Black trans performer from Nashville who left the highlight on the peak of her fame.

One of the best social influence documentary trophy went to Erin Lau and Amber Espinosa-Jones for Standing Above the Clouds, which chronicles the journey of three Native Hawaiian households to defend their sacred mountain the place a telescope is ready to be constructed on Mauna Kea.

Additionally Friday night time, Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck acquired an impressive achievement award in Toronto. The prize-giving capped off a chaotic 2024 version for Scorching Docs that included inventive director, Hussain Currimbhoy, and 10 programmers abruptly leaving the pageant organizing group forward of its kick-off on April 25.

In all, 15 trophies have been handed out on Friday night time on the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto throughout a ceremony with no media invited on account of restricted capability, Scorching Docs organizers stated.

The departure of Currimbhoy and his programming group led Scorching Docs president Marie Nelson — the previous ABC Information and Disney exec who took the helm on the Canadian pageant in June 2023 — to put in Heather Haynes as pageant director and to guide the ultimate movie picks forward of this yr’s Scorching Docs getting underway.