Hot Docs has selected the projects that will be pitched on May 2 and 3 at the second annual Toronto Documentary Forum. The final 36 projects were selected with the help of Julie Anderson, director of documentary programming at HBO; Mark Atkin, acquisitions & development consultant for Australia’s SBS; and Sydney Suissa, senior VP of factual programming for Alliance Atlantis.
Approximately 119 submissions were received, which marks a 20% increase over last year. At that event, over 50% of the projects pitched successfully raised additional funding.
This year the following projects will take their turn at the pitching table:
Australia
Eliot Jarvis Productions, A Machine to Kill For
Jotz Productions, Vietnam Symphony
Canada
Asterisk Productions, Biomimicry
Les Productions Virage, Changer le Monde!
Les Productions Virage, L’Homme et l’abeille
Paradigm Pictures, Diet Wars
Mosaic Entertainment, Galileo’s Sons
Nomad Films, A History of Reading
Necessary Illusions Productions, Seeing is Believing
Esperanto Productions, She Got Game
90th Parallel Film & Television, Shopping (Retail Therapy)
Galafilm, To Kill or to Cure
Take 3 Productions, Tyler’s Barrel
Denmark
Zentropa Real, The Five Obstructions
Milton Media, The Return of the Star-People
Magic Hour Films, A Survivor’s Tale
Finland
Magic Path Entertainment, Virgins
Making Movies Oy, Zhang’s Diner
France
Tetra Media, Asian Crisis: The Storm
Article Z, Mad Mundo
Same Films, Letters from the Ghost Train
Germany
Zero Film, The Revenge of the Nerds
awf-productions, Smoke Sacrifices
Ireland
Gallowglass Pictures, Paddy Moriyasu
Sweden
Hysteria Film, In the Mind of a Terrorist
United Kingdom
Urban Films, The Deported
United States
Lumiere Productions, Ghosts of Attica
Telling Pictures, Hooked Up
Berkeley Film Group, More Than a Love Story
Chilmark Productions, Love’s Journey
Center for New American Media, Sex: Female
Friedman-Nadler Productions, Stealing the Fire
Vriens International Productions, To Live with Terror
Nancy Porter Productions, Typhoid Mary
Two Tone Productions, Two Towns of Jasper
Moxie Firecracker Films, Waxter Girls