Hot Docs says it’s reopening theatre on a limited basis, searching for new leader

The beleaguered Hot Docs Film Festival says it volition reopen its flagship Toronto theatre connected a constricted ground arsenic it embarks connected a hunt for a caller person this fall.

Canada’s largest documentary movie festival says the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema volition unfastened for third-party rentals and prime spouse screening events aboriginal this month.

The festival says it volition gradually invited backmost unit who were temporarily laid disconnected implicit the summertime aft the theatre was shuttered successful May owed to “urgent fiscal challenges.”

Hot Docs says it volition besides beryllium seeking a caller enforcement manager with enactment acquisition successful the Canadian non-profit arts sector.

The organization’s president Marie Nelson stepped down successful July aft conscionable 1 twelvemonth successful the role.

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Nelson faced overmuch disapproval during her station astatine Hot Docs, with immoderate observers questioning her committedness to the enactment fixed that her superior residence was successful the U.S.

Hot Docs says it has been addressing its shortage by implementing plans to streamline the organization, chopped operating costs and prioritize halfway programming and strategy initiatives.

The struggling enactment is presently led by interim enforcement manager Janice Dawe and managing manager Heidi Tao Yang.