By David Topping

Apparently we weren’t the only ones at Hot Docs this year: the festival is boasting, in a press release, that attendance hit 122,000—”an astounding 42% increase over 2008.” And that’s with the same number of films being shown this year as last. The festival also announced the winner of their Audience Award—The Cove, which is unfortunately not a sequel to Leonardo DiCaprio’s The Beach but is, instead, about dolphins.