The Junction North International Documentary Film Festival is an annual

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festival in

Greater Sudbury Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the List of the largest cities and to ...

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."Junction North International Documentary Film Festival set for Sudbury"
CBC Sudbury, November 6, 2017. The event is staged by the Sudbury Indie Cinema Coop, which also organizes the city's

Queer North Film Festival The Queer North Film Festival is an annual film festival in Sudbury, Ontario, which presents an annual program of LGBT film. Presented by the Sudbury Indie Cinema Coop, the festival was staged for the first time in 2016. The same organization also ...

. The event was launched in 2013 as Best of Hot Docs, a satellite of the

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. It was renamed to the Junction North International Documentary Film Festival in 2017, enabling it to establish an independent identity and to access arts grant funding. In 2019, the event was staged for the first time at the Sudbury Indie Cinema Coop's new permanent venue on Mackenzie Street."Sudbury Indie Cinema has new home, will open doors for film fest Thursday"
CBC Northern Ontario, February 26, 2019.

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* Documentary film festivals in Canada Festivals in Greater Sudbury Film festivals in Ontario Film festivals established in 2013 2013 establishments in Ontario {{Canada-film-festival-stub