Short Film News (SFN) - The Hot Docs Awards Presentation, held yesterday evening at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto.

The Best International Feature Documentary Award went to The English Surgeon by Geoffrey Smith from UK, while the Special Jury Prize for international feature documentary was awarded to Tamar Yarom's To See if I'm Smiling.

Boris Despodov won the new HBO Documentary Films Emerging Artist Award for his film, Corridor #8.

The Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award was presented to Junior by Isabelle Lavigne, and Nik Sheehan's Flicker won Special Jury Prize for Canadian feature documentary.

The Best Short Documentary Award (up to 29 min) was awarded to The Apology Line by James Lees.

Iranian director, Mehrdad Oskouei won Best Mid-Length Documentary Award (30-59 min) for It's Always Late for Freedom.

The Hot Docs annual Outstanding Achievement Award presented to documentary pioneer Richard Leacock, while Montreal-based director Yung Chang, whose film Up the Yangtze recently broke Canadian box office records for documentaries, was named recipient of this year's Don Haig Award.

The Festival continues through to Sunday, April 27. The Audience Award, determined by audience poll and the CIDA Award for best Canadian film on an international development issue will be announced on Monday, April 28.