Hot Docs succeeds despite SARS

The 2003 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 25 to May 4) is likely to be remembered not as a happy celebration of the fest's 10th anniversary, but as the one that succeeded in spite of a potentially crippling health scare, caused by an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Toronto.

June 1, 2003

The 2003 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 25 to May 4) is likely to be remembered not as a happy celebration of the fest's 10th anniversary, but as the one that succeeded in spite of a potentially crippling health scare, caused by an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Toronto.