Hot Docs Delegate Count Breaks Record, Forum Wraps, ‘Wilfred Buck’ Wins Canadian Pitch Prize
Jennie Punter The Hot Docs Forum, the festival’s two-day international co-financing market event, wrapped Wednesday after 20 teams, representing 16 countries, pitched their projects to a virtual roundtable of more than 50 top documentary funders and decision makers from around the globe.The Canadian Forum Pitch Prize was awarded to director Lisa Jackson’s “Wilfred Buck” (pictured above), which tells the story of a man who is called the Indiana Jones of Indigenous star knowledge while exploring colonization’s impact on Indigenous ways of knowing.