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Toronto’s HotDocs Finds Success in Virtual Screenings

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By Andrew Barker Senior Features Writer For any festival, the week before announcing the year’s slate of films is typically a period of relief and anticipation: your pics are locked in, the directors have been notified and the schedule is coming into focus.

But for Toronto’s Hot Docs — the largest dedicated documentary festival in the North America — that period happened to coincide with the near-breakdown of the larger social order due to COVID-19, and the fest, initially scheduled to run April 30-May 10, was postponed.

Nonetheless, Hot Docs has endeavored to make the best of an unprecedentedly bad situation. “The guiding light for us has been to try and simplify our decision-making process by looking at our core vision,” says Hot Docs

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