Palace Cinemas has launched a new film festival to be run in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra after forming a partnership with Toronto-based Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
The new festival of leading international and local documentaries, will start in Australia in June this year.
Artistic Director, Richard Moore, said the alliance with Hot Docs was a direct funnel to the best of the best in documentary making.
“With Hot Docs’ recent confirmation that there will be a special country focus on Australia for this year’s festival, I see this as the beginning of a long and healthy relationship between Hot Docs and Australia," he said.
Hot Docs executive director, Brett Hendrie said: “We're thrilled to be able to celebrate some of Hot Docs’ most exciting recent selections by partnering with Richard and Palace Cinemas to showcase a broad array of entertaining, inspiring and boundary-pushing documentaries. It’s a welcome opportunity to bring Hot Docs’ outspoken and outstanding sensibilities to Australian audiences.”
Hot Docs at Palace Cinemas will offer Australian premieres of a curated selection of Hot Docs Festival hits and audience favourites from Toronto’s Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.
Hot Docs is North America’s largest documentary festival, conference and market, will present its 23rd annual edition in Toronto from April 28 – May 8, 2016.
It will feature a selection of approximately 200 documentaries from Canada and around the world.
Hot Docs operates the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, a historic 684-seat theatre and one of the world’s only documentary-focused cinemas.
Festival dates / venues:
Sydney: Chauvel Cinema Tue 21 Jun to Sun 03 Jul
Melbourne: Palace Westgarth Tue 14 Jun to Sun 26 Jun
Canberra: Palace Electric Wed 15 Jun to Sun 26 Jun