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Hot Docs Executive Director Brett Hendrie Moves On After 20 Years With Festival

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Naman Ramachandran Brett Hendrie will leave Canada’s Hot Docs, one of the leading documentary festivals in the world, after 20 years with the organization, the last eight as executive director.Hendrie is departing to take on a new role at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

He will leave after programming and logistics are finalized for the upcoming online festival, which takes place Apr. 29 through May 9.

He will continue providing advice to festival management until the end of the event.Under Hendrie’s tenure, the festival grew to record audiences of 228,000 and the value of filmmaker awards and prizes reached CAD$305,000 ($241,700), including the annual $50,000 ($39,625) Rogers Audience Award.

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