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Hot Docs Artistic Director Hussain Currimbhoy, Programmers Step Down Ahead of 2024 Edition
Artistic director Hussain Currimbhoy and several programmers have stepped down ahead of this year's edition of Hot Docs.
Artistic director Hussain Currimbhoy and several programmers have stepped down ahead of this year’s edition of Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival. The colleagues Watamaniuk named are Samah Ali, Vivian Belik, Jesse Cumming, Angie Driscoll, Margaret Pereira, Gabor Pertic, Kaitlynn Tomaselli, Mariam Zaidi and Yiqian Zhang. While no reason was provided for the exits, Marie Nelson recently told CBC that this year’s festival could be the last without more support from government funding partners, and that the organization is still recovering from pandemic era losses, including the two-year shutdown of the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.
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