The Don Haig Award is an annual award, presented by the

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for distinguished achievement by a Canadian independent documentary film producer with a film in that year's festival program.Daniele Alcinii
"Hot Docs ’18 honors Ina Fichman with Don Haig Award"
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'', April 13, 2018. Despite the requirement to have a film in that year's festival lineup, however, the award is not presented for that specific film, but in consideration of the recipient's overall body of work. From 2017 to 2021 the recipient was empowered to choose an emerging female documentary filmmaker to receive a 5,000 career development grant.Regan Reid
"Daniel Cross receives Don Haig Award"
'' Playback'', May 1, 2017. The award is named in memory of pioneering Canadian documentary producer

Don Haig Don Haig (22 July 1933 — 2 March 2002) was a Canadians, Canadian filmmaker, editor, and producer. Haig's work in film and television spanned nearly five decades. Over the course of his career, he won Academy Awards, Academy, Genie Awards, Geni ...

. The award was originally presented in 2004, in partnership between the Don Haig Foundation and the

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, before being transferred to Hot Docs in 2006. In some early years, the award jury also presented a special jury prize to a second filmmaker, although this has not happened since 2012.

Winners

Canadian Film Centre

*2004 -

Aubrey Nealon Aubrey Nealon (born 1971 in New Denver, British Columbia) is a Canadian film and television director, producer and writer, most noted as the creator and showrunner of the CTV drama series ''Cardinal''. Nealon began his career as a teen actor, wit ...

*2005 - Rob Stefaniuk

Hot Docs

*2006 - Guylaine Dionne *2007 -

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*2007 -

Yung Chang Yung Chang is a Chinese Canadian film director and was part of the collective member directors of Canadian film production firm EyeSteelFilm. Chang is a graduate of Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal (BFA 99), the ...

*2009 -

Brett Gaylor Brett Gaylor is a Canadian documentary filmmaker living in Victoria, British Columbia. He grew up on Galiano Island, British Columbia. He was formerly the VP of Mozilla's Webmaker Program. His documentary, ''Do Not Track'', explores privacy and ...

Raju Mudhar, "Festival's top prize to Regent Park documentary". ''

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'', May 9, 2009. *2010 -

Philip Lyall Philip, also Phillip, is a male name derived from the Macedonian Old Koine language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominen ...

Nimisha Mukerji Nimisha Mukerji is a Canadian film and television director. She has directed episodes of '' The Imperfects'', '' Mech-X4'', and '' Gabby Duran & the Unsittables''. Career Mukerji's debut feature, '' 65 Redroses'' (2009), was one of the first of ...

*2011 - Rama Rau *2012 -

Mia Donovan Mia Donovan is a Canadian photographer and filmmaker. She is best known for her documentary '' Inside Lara Roxx'' released through EyeSteelFilm about 21-year-old Canadian Lara Roxx who in the spring of 2004, left her hometown Montreal heading t ...

*2013 - Merit Jensen Carr *2014 - Michael McNamara *2015 - Anne Pick *2016 - Ed Barreveld *2017 - Daniel Cross *2018 - Ina Fichman *2019 -

Peter Raymont Peter Raymont (born February 28, 1950) is a Canadian filmmaker and producer and the president of White Pine Pictures, an independent film, television and new media production company based in Toronto. Among his films are '' Shake Hands with the De ...

Lauren Malyk
"Peter Raymont wins the Don Haig Award"
'' Playback'', April 29, 2019. *2020 -

Bob Moore Bob Moore may refer to: * Bob Moore (musician) (1932–2021), American session musician * Bob Moore (executive) (1929–2024), co-founder of Bob's Red Mill * Bob Moore (American football) (born 1949), American football tight end * Bob Moore (Au ...

Kelly Townsend
"EyeSteelFilm’s Bob Moore wins Hot Docs’ Don Haig Award"
'' Playback'', May 4, 2020. *2021 - Lalita KrishnaKelly Townsend
"Lalita Krishna named Hot Docs’ 2021 Don Haig Award winner"
'' Playback'', May 3, 2021. *2022 -

Mila Aung-Thwin Mila Aung-Thwin is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, producer and activist whose films deal with social justice. He had a multi-disciplinary education in arts, journalism, and photography. In 1998, he met his fellow director/producer Daniel Cros ...

*2023 - Bonnie Thompson *2024 - Alison Duke *2025 - Cornelia Principe

Special jury award

*2006 - Sean Garrity *2009 -

Tracey Deer Tracey Penelope ''Tekahentakwa'' Deer (born February 28, 1978) is a First Nations ( Mohawk) screenwriter, film director and newspaper publisher based in Kahnawake, Quebec. She has written and directed several award-winning documentaries for Rez ...

*2012 -

Charles Officer Charles Officer (October 28, 1975 – December 1, 2023) was a Canadian film and television director, writer, actor, and professional hockey player. Early life and education Charles Officer was born in Toronto, Ontario on October 28, 1972. He ...

Peter Knegt Peter Knegt is a Canadian writer, producer, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of six Canadian Screen Awards and his CBC Arts column Queeries received the 2019 Digital Publishing Award for best digital column in Canada. Knegt began his career as ...

"‘World Before Her,’ ‘Call Me Kuchu’ Lead Hot Docs Winners"
'' IndieWire'', May 5, 2012.

Development grant recipients

*2017 - Kalina Bertin *2018 -

Fanny Drew Fanny Drew is a Canadian film producer, who was a cofounder of Colonelle Films with Sarah Mannering and Geneviève Dulude-De Celles.François Lévesque"Colonelle films au-delà des frontières" ''Le Devoir'', January 19, 2019. She is most noted a ...

Sarah Mannering Sarah Mannering is a Canadian film producer, who was a cofounder of Colonelle Films with Fanny Drew and Geneviève Dulude-De Celles.François Lévesque"Colonelle films au-delà des frontières" ''Le Devoir'', January 19, 2019. She is most noted as ...

*2019 - Fazila Amiri *2020 - Hnin Ei Hlaing *2021 - Elizabeth D. Costa

References

External links

*{{official, https://hotdocs.ca/ind/don-haig-award Canadian documentary film awards Awards established in 2004 2004 establishments in Ontario