The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival has booked a world premiere for Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart, directed by Tony-winning Broadway producer Dori Berinstein.
Loggins, who went from being half of the hit duo Loggins and Messina in the 1970s to composing hit songs for Hollywood movie soundtracks for Top Gun and Footloose, will see the film about this life and career bow in the Special Presentations section.
Loggins also won a Grammy in 1980 for writing the Doobie Brothers hit “What a Fool Believes” with Michael McDonald, and in 1981 for “This Is It.” Berinstein’s doc Conviction of the Heart also had a preview screening at the Newport Folk Festival in July 2025.
Hot Docs, to run April 23 to May 3, also booked a world bow for Mark Myers’ The Tower That Built a City, about Toronto’s skyline-defining CN Tower and its surroundings. And there’s an international premiere for TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing, directed by Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez; a North American premiere for the emigrant doc A Fox Under a Pink Moon, directed by Mehrdad Oskouei and Soraya Akhalaghi; and Canadian premiere for the latest work by Oscar nominees: Sam Green’s The Oldest Person in the World, and Time and Water by Sara Dosa (Fire of Love).
Alo receiving Canadian premieres is Maya Annik Bedward’s Black Zombie, which bows this weekend at SXSW; Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić’s To Hold A Mountain, winner of Sundance’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for a documentary; The Ballad of Judas Priest from directors Sam Dunn; and American Doctor, by director Poh Si Teng.
Hot Docs will unveil its full 2026 festival lineup on March 24.
