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Yung Chang

Yung Chang is also the recipient of the 2008 Yolande and Pierre Perrault award for most promising filmmaker at the 2008 Rendez-vous du cinema québecois; received the 2008 Don Haig Award at Hot Docs; and the Charles Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in North Carolina.


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Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

Charles Officer (Mighty Jerome, Hot Docs 2011 Official Selection) received an honourable mention.

At the initiative of Wyndham Wise, then executive director of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus, now the Documentary Organization of Canada, a national association of independent documentary filmmakers, Hot Docs was launched in 1994 by a team led by Debbie Nightingale.