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Hot Docs is delighted to announce that audience ballots compiled over the festival's 10 days give first-time director Marshall Curry's STREET FIGHT the highest rating in the annual audience poll, making it the winner of the 2005 Audience Award. STREET FIGHT was also named Best International Documentary by Hot Docs' Festival Jury.

The Audience Award is sponsored by History Television.
 
The audience picks for the top 10 films at Hot Docs 2005 are:
 
1)      STREET FIGHT (D: Marshall Curry);
2)      WATERMARKS (D: Yaron Zilberman);
3)      BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND THE ROOSTER'S CROW (D: Nadja Drost);
4)      MURDERBALL (D: Dana Adam Shapiro, Henry Alex Rubin);
5)      THE DEVIL'S MINER (D: Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani);
6)      VENDETTA SONG (D: Eylem Kaftan);
7)      STROKE (D: Katarina Peters);
8)      ABEL RAISES CAIN (D: Jenny Abel, Jeff Hockett);
9)      WETBACK - THE UNDOCUMENTED DOCUMENTARY (D: Arturo Perez Torres);
10)  NO MORE TEARS SISTER: ANATOMY OF HOPE AND BETRAYAL (D: Helene Klodawksy).