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Elaine Epstein’s ‘Arrest the Midwife’ Nabs Top Prize at Hot Docs Forum Awards
The Hot Docs Forum, the festival’s industry centerpiece, wrapped Wednesday as hundreds of industry delegates assembled at Toronto’s Hart House.
Elaine Epstein ’s “Arrest the Midwife”—one of 20 projects presented to key funders and decision-makers as well as filmmakers, producers and other observers at the two-day Forum pitch event—won the First Look first prize of Can $20,000 cash. Anna Bogoliubova’s “Autumn of the Patriarch,” a dystopian doc exploring survival strategies of people who live inside the modern Russian dictatorship, won the First Look second prize of $10,000. Producers are Torstein Grude Ruwê Yuxinawá, Oddleiv Vik, Raphael Pëlissou, Valérie Montmartin, Iikka Vehkalahti and Sinisa Juricic.
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