3 Awesome Things Happening in
Docs
• Crowd funding is working and growing. You are
building your budget and your audience
• There are a few hot & new players on the block with
money.
• Direct distribution to audiences is effective and
starting to pay.
Film & Video statistics
(April 28, 2009 — January 1, 2013)
Total pledged: $102.7 million
Total collected: $85.7 million
Total backers: 891,979
Funded projects: 8,567
Film
Subcategory
Pledged
Funded
Projects
Documentary
$42.64 million
2,394
Narrative Film
$31.74 million
2,331
Short Film
$16.68 million
3,000
Webseries
$6.83 million
619
Animation
$4.87 million
223
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Deadline: March 14, 2013
Selecting 50 projects with specific genre groupings
One-to-one pre arranged meetings
Features, docs, series, interactive
LOOKING FOR: SMART Science/ SMART History
**No Honey Boo Boo**
144 Submissions from 46 countries
Selecting 20 project
Forum pitches will be only in the morning.
Takeaway: Same great format – stakes and quality even higher!
Hot Docs Industry Conference
Conference Sessions
•
Spotlight on developing trends, craft and business focused sessions,
and Kickstart panels specifically for emerging doc makers
Workshops
• Master’s Feedback: Filmmakers with a project at rough-cut stage
will get feedback from award-winning masters in intimate discussions.
• Mozilla Hot Hacks : 6 projects selected to collaborate with
programmers in an intensive two-day prototyping workshop.
• Inventing New Forms of Storytelling: Get your hands dirty
with non-linear storytelling with the team at Zeega
Rent-an-Expert
•
Sign up for small round table meetings with
specialized experts and get answers to your
questions.
Close-Up With…
•
Commissioners and key funders talk about what
they’re looking for in round table sessions.
Distribution Rendezvous
•
Applications open Feb. 19 – pre-arranged meetings
with distributors, sales agents and festival
programmers for finished and rough-cut films.
5 projects and 1 Audience Award Prize
$68,010 dollars raised
840 supporters
Takeaway: The success of Doc Ignite and other crowd-funding platforms
show that there is an interest and appetite from documentary audiences to
see quality productions make it to the marketplace.
• Encouraging private investment in Ontario’s creative
industries
Business Model Canvas Workshop
• 10 projects will be guided through the Alexander Osterwalder
method of business model generation
HOT DOCS FESTIVAL 2013
• 20th Anniversary edition
• Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
• We receive +2300 submissions from around
the world each year. A team of programmers
view all submissions and select +180 to screen
at the festival.
• Hot Docs screens on 16 screens over 11 days,
hosting live Q&As with hundreds of guest
filmmakers and subjects.
• Hot Docs welcomes 2,000 doc professionals
from around the world for our forum and
industry activities.
Audience line ups at the 2011 documentary Box
Office on Bloor Street West in the heart of Yorkville
The Audience is Strong and Growing
Stronger!
Hot Docs has experienced exponential growth, and in
2012 we welcomed audiences of over
165,000.
Hot Docs - Demographic Information
Our audiences represent a highly educated, upwardly mobile, urban, culturally diverse, socially
conscious demographic who are loyal to the Hot Docs brand.
43% of our audiences have an income
of $80,000 or higher
67% of our audiences members
are female
Hot Docs - Demographic Information
86% of our audiences have a
university or graduate degree
43% of our audiences are between
the ages of 25 - 44
Digital Assets: DocLibrary
Hot Docs hosts the DOClibrary at www.hotdocslibrary.ca. Publicly funded, it provides freestreaming access to over 100 Canadian documentaries. Hot Docs has licensed the streaming
rights for these films until 2014 on a non-exclusive basis.
Digital Assets: DocShop
Hot Docs hosts the DocShop at www.docshoponline.ca; it provides a B2B service for broadcasters
and buyers to screen completed documentaries available for acquisition. Annually, over 1,800 docs
submit to the festival and “opt-in” to have their DVD digitized and included in the DocShop.
Digital Assets: Festival Content
Hot Docs annually produces hundreds of hours of interviews with attending festival filmmakers and
subjects, plus capturing festival public Q&As, and video capture of dozens of industry conference
sessions, masterclasses, awards gala, etc.
iTunes: Hot Docs branded ‘channel’ of past festival hits.
Cross-promoted at the festival.
KinoSmith: “Hot Docs Collection” DVD line. Cross-promoted at
the festival, also sold at our Box Office.
Cineplex: Hot Docs piloted cross-country
simulcast of festival films into 40 cinemas.
Since its inception, the Shaw Media-Hot Docs Funds
have supported a total of 102 projects
with $2,321,000 in grants and no-interest loans.
The Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund
provided 14 African projects with a
total of $240,000 in development and production
grants in its first two rounds of
disbursements.