Bloor Cinema. Hotdocs. Movie Theatre. Entertainment. Family. screen. May 2014. (Katherine Holland/CBC)
The departures mark the latest blow to the movie festival, which faces financial turbulence. North America's largest documentary festival, Hot Docs, is in turmoil, announcing its artistic director has quit along with an unspecified number of programming staff ahead of the festival's 2024 run.
The statement added that festival director Heather Haynes will lead its programming department in preparation for this year's festival, running from April 25 to May 5.Earlier this month, Hot Docs president Marie Nelson told CBC Radio'sthis year could be the non-profit's last without more support from government funding, adding that the organization is still recovering from losses accumulated during the pandemic.
In her speech, Nelson attributed much of the exits to "a lot" of process changes that she says leaders did not help programmers understand.
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