Hot Docs' president Marie Nelson says a 'perfect storm' led to Canada's largest documentary film festival's artistic director and 10 of its programmers quitting just before it was set to announce its 2024 lineup.
Hot Docs' president Marie Nelson says a "perfect storm" led to Canada's largest documentary film festival's artistic director and 10 of its programmers quitting just before it was set to announce its 2024 lineup.
"Programming team members approached HR, senior management, the president and then the board in good faith to share our concerns." "There is every desire that I would turn the corner next week and have more of our programmers decide to come back and join us. We understand the value of the programmers to this festival," she said.
But the programmers said Hot Docs leadership didn't want to be public about problems within the organization. "We need to listen to workers when they're talking about workplace challenges. We should all, as a community be rallying around people to ask, 'What are the conditions of the workplace?'" said Story, whose film is about employees at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island fighting to unionize.
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