Hot Docs is not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing and celebrating the art of documentary and creating production opportunities for documentary filmmakers.
Held in Toronto each spring, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America’s largest documentary festival, conference and market. Each year, the Festival presents approximately 200 Canadian and international films to audiences exceeding 220,000. The conference and market for documentary professionals offers a dynamic slate of industry sessions and events, including the renowned Hot Docs Forum.
Year-round, Hot Docs supports the Canadian and international industry with professional development programs and a multi-million-dollar production fund portfolio, and fosters education through documentaries with its popular free program Docs For Schools.
Hot Docs also owns the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, a 650-seat, century-old screening venue in Toronto, which is a year-round home for documentaries. In 2020, the organization launched the Hot Docs at Home online streaming platform, providing audiences across Canada with access to first-run docs, curated series, and events.
The IM4 Lab was created by Indigenous filmmaker, Loretta Todd, alongside media matriarchs Doreen Manuel, Cease Wyss, and Tracey Kim Bonneau. IM4 is in collaboration with Emily Carr University to offer workshops training Indigenous peoples in XR. IM4 is dedicated to Indigenizing VR/AR/360 by enabling Indigenous communities to find effective ways to incorporate these technologies into educational, cultural, language, artistic and commercial applications.
We support Indigenous artists and media professionals by providing immersive learning and production opportunities and building an Indigenized tech eco-system. Our governance structure is based upon respect and reciprocity, which also honours Indigenous diversity of expression. At the core of the IM4 Lab is the guidance of media matriarchs, who bring experience and commitment to serving the community.
imagineNATIVE is the world's largest presenter of Indigenous screen content. The organization is recognized locally, nationally, and internationally for excellence and innovation in programming and as the global centre for Indigenous media arts. imagineNATIVE is a registered charity committed to creating a greater understanding of Indigenous peoples and cultures through the presentation of contemporary Indigenous-made media art including film, video, audio, and digital media.
Founded by film, television and interactive media industry stakeholders, the Institut national de l’image et du son trains and supports emerging and practising professionals by offering them an inspiring space in which to develop and perfect their skills. L’inis offers training programs aligned with the needs of the community and the evolving requirements of Québec and Canada’s francophone audiovisual and digital industry. L’inis provides a unique practical, stimulating and inclusive learning pathway supporting the creation of today and tomorrow’s stories
Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre Company transforms the way people see theatre, each other and the world around them. Our historic building was taken over by artists in 1976. Today it is an award-winning cultural charity that produces new theatre in-the-round, in communities, on the road and online.
Exchange remains at the heart of everything we make and do. Now our currency is brand new drama and reinvigorated classics, the boldest artists and a company of highly skilled makers - all brought together in a shared imaginative endeavour to trade ideas and experiences with the people of Greater Manchester (and beyond).
The Exchange’s unique auditorium is powerfully democratic, a space where audiences and performers meet as equals, entering and exiting through the same doors. It is the inspiration for all we do; inviting everyone to understand the past, engage in today's big questions, collectively imagine a better future and lose themselves in the moment of a great night out.
The Royal Exchange was named Regional Theatre of the Year in 2016 and School of the Year at The Stage Awards 2018.
Media Trust was founded in 1994 with the vision to create a more fair and equal society, by levelling the playing field for media representation in the UK. Since then, we’ve built influential partnerships with the media and creative industry to facilitate mutual skills sharing and strengthen the voice of charities and under-represented communities. Our award-winning training supports charities to develop their communication and digital skills, and we also match charities looking for pro bono support with industry volunteers looking to give back. Meanwhile, our innovative industry-led talent programmes are giving young and diverse creatives the access, mentoring and other support to break into the media.
The Ottawa International Animation Festival is North America's oldest and largest animation festival, featuring the world's most quirky, provocative, and inspiring animation. It is one of the world’s leading animation events providing screenings, exhibits, workshops and entertainment since 1976. OIAF is an annual five-day event bringing art and industry together in a vibrant hub.
