Dorota is the Industry Programmer at Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, where she produces The Hot Docs Forum, a public pitching event aimed at garnering financing and co-productions for international documentaries. She is also the Doc Conference Programmer and a Programming Associate at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where she sources and screens international documentaries as well as fiction films from Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Dorota holds a double M.A in Political Science and Gender Studies from McGill University. She speaks English, French, German, Spanish, and Polish, and splits her time between Toronto and Los Angeles.