Short Film News (SFN)- The organizers of HotDocs Festival announced the jury members of the 15th edition of this festival.

Elvis Mitchell, the famous American critic, is the chief of jury team and some other critics and filmmakers from Iran, Mexico, Netherlands, Finland, Canada, and England are the jury members.

Massoud Bakhshi (the filmmaker and the person in charge of International Affairs in Documentary & Experimental Film Center, Iran), Elena Fortes Acosta (Festival Director of Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Mexico), Rada Sesic (Programmer of IDFA Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Likka Vehkalahti (Commissioning Editor of YLE TV 2 Documentaries, Finland), Arturo Perez Torres (Filmmaker, Canada), Johanna Schneller (Freelance Journalist, Canada), Michael Burns (Producer, Canada), and Molly Dineen (Filmmaker, UK) are the other jury members in this festival.

The jury group will determine the best selections in the International Spectrum, Canadian Spectrum, and Shorts to Mid-length categories.

HotDocs, the most important Documentary event in the North America, is going to take place from 17 to 27 April in Toronto.