“Vivek Chaudhary’s I, Poppy, A Film About An Activist Son Fighting Corrupt Officials and Systemic Oppression in India, While His Mother Tends of The Family Palm, Piced Uped Ust. Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival On Friday Night. The Top Jury Prize Win at the Festival Means Chaudhary’s Film”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Top Jury Prize Win at the Festival Means Chaudhary’s Film, WHICH World Premiered at Hot Docs, Will Qualify for Consideration in the Best Documentary Ferds. The Win for I, POPPY ALSO MARKS THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW WHERE A PROSTEST DOCUMENTARY FROM INDIA Won The Top Jury Prize at Hot Docs.
Last Year, Nishta Jain’s Farming the revolutionA Film About Indian Farmers Rising Up Against New Laws, Took Home The Hot Docs Best International Feature Documentary Honor. Other Winners this Year at Hot Docs Included the Special Jury Prize for the International Feature Documentary Going to Director Sasha Wortzel’s River of grass, A Film About Environmental Challenges and Other Issues AROUND The Florida EvergLades.
The BEST EMERGING INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER Trophy Went to Amilcar Infante and Sebastian Gonzalez Mendez, Directors of Unwelcomed, A doc about a migrant crisis in chile after the Country’s Most Violent Anti-Iimigrant Protest, Sparked by An Influx of Migrants from Venezuela. And the best canadian feature docurentary award went to director amalie atkins’ Agatha’s AlmanacA Portrait of A Simple Life Led by a Fiercely Independent Mennonite Woman on Her Anecestral Farm in Southern Manitoba.
In Other Prize-Giving, The Special Jury Prize for a Canadian Feature Documentary Was Given to denis cote for for Paul. The Quebec Director’s Documentary About A Young Man Who Domestic Chores for Dominant Women to Cope with Depression and Social Anxiety Had A World Premiere in Berlin.
The best Social Impact Documentary Trophy Went to Taal AFIFI AND GIOVANNA STOPPONI FOR Khartoust, A doc about displaced Sudanese filmmakers Helping Five of their fellos Citizens to re-anoact on screen their descent Into Civil War.
In all, 14 Awards Were Handed Out in Toronto on Friday Night As the Hot Docs Festival Continutes Through Sunday, May 4.
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