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Hot Docs’ Doc Mogul Award is given to an individual who, over the course of his or her career, has made an essential contribution to the creative vitality of the documentary industry, both in his or her home country and abroad.

Hot Docs will present Diane Weyermann with the 2012 Doc Mogul Award. Executive Vice President of Documentary Films for Participant Media and founder of the Sundance Documentary Fund, Weyermann will be presented with the Doc Mogul Award at a luncheon in her honour, to be held on Tuesday, May 1, during the 2012 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, April 26 to May 6, in Toronto.

At Participant Media, Weyermann has overseen such documentary projects as the Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning FOOD INC., WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN, STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, JIMMY CARTER MAN FROM PLAINS, DARFUR NOW, and the Academy Award-winning AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH. Prior to joining Participant Media in October 2005, Weyermann was the Director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program and was responsible for the Sundance Documentary Fund, a program supporting documentary films dealing with contemporary human rights, social justice, civil liberties, and freedom of expression from around the world. She launched two annual documentary film labs focused on the creative process, and was also part of Sundance Film Festival’s programming team, where she was instrumental in creating a platform for international documentary work. In addition to her work with art centres and culture programs in the Soros Foundation network, she launched the Soros Documentary Fund (which later became the Sundance Documentary Fund) in 1996. Since the inception of the Fund, Weyermann has been involved with the production of over 300 documentary films from around the world.