Around the World on a Reel of Film: Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema brings audiences to new places

VINCENT TEETSOV

You may know Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema from film screenings as part of EstDocs, or you may be a local from The Annex who has attended the Cinema for films more regularly. Either way, if you’ve been around Toronto’s streets, you’ve likely gone under the large vertical sign and glistening marquee lights of what was once the Bloor Cinema. It’s had a lot of different names and identities over the years, but throughout this time, it’s been a cultural mainstay of our local community.

It’s one of the founding members of Bloor Street Culture Corridor, which VEMU (The Museum of Estonians Abroad) is also a member of. As Alan Black, the Managing Director of Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, tells me, it’s a place where we can all take part in the transformative power of documentaries.

Hot Docs has worked together with Bloor Street Culture Corridor founder Heather Kelly and the Royal Conservatory of Music since the Cinema opened 8 years ago as Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. It’s a partnership that’s founded on fostering a “group and communal spirit.”

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