Veteran PR singer Heather Conway will step down as executive director and co-chair of the prestigious Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Film Festival in Toronto five months later.
Its May 13 release will follow the packaging of the 2022 issue of Hot Docs on May 8. Conway, former executive director of English language services at CBC/Radio Canada, the country’s public broadcaster, served as senior director at North America’s largest documentary festival. November 4, 2021.
Previously, he served as CEO of Edelman Canada, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Communications, former film producer and broadcaster for Alliance Atlantis Communications and VIP for TD Bank Financial.
On March 30, Conway held a press conference before returning to the festival’s in-person event at Toronto’s Hot Docs Cinema amid a pandemic that will begin on April 28. “I’m excited to welcome moviegoers and filmmakers to Toronto theaters to share incredible stories at this year’s festival,” Conway told reporters.
On Thursday, two weeks before the 2022 festival, Hot Docs announced that Conway would step down as the organization’s executive director and take on the role of “new strategic planning consultant” when festival president Chris MacDonald takes over. exclusive leadership of the organization.
And Erin Lau, CEO of Hot Docs, and Paul Lewis, director of the World Science Congress and Today’s Producers Conference, have been named interim co-directors of the festival.
Conway and McDonald could not comment on the drastic changes in Hot Docs’ top management.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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