Heidi Tao Yang

Heidi Tao Yang is currently the Director, Funds & Labs at Hot Docs, overseeing a multi-million dollar portfolio which provides grants and equity funds for international and Canadian documentary films. In that role, she works with filmmakers from around the world on their projects and manages Hot Docs’ investment in the filmmakers' work and professional development. Heidi has over a decade's experience in producing and developing fiction and nonfiction for film and TV. She has programmed and produced conferences with marquee speakers for the Toronto Screenwriting Conference and WIFT-T. Heidi is an alumnus of the Producer’s Lab at the Canadian Film Centre. If there is a spare moment, she tries to fit in reading a book.