Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Awards 2010

Ballots have been tallied and juries have had their say - time so see the results of the 2010 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Awards.

2010 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Award Winners

Reel Asian Audience Award
Winner: Naoko Ogigami for Toilet

NFB Best Canadian Film or Video Award
Winner: One Big Hapa Family (dir: Jeff Chiba Stearns)

WIFT-T Award
Winner: Seeing Through the Spider's Web (Dir: Jane Kim)

Astral's Harold Greenberg Fund Best Feature Film of Video Award
Winner: Dear Doctor (Dir: Miwa Nishikawa)

TSV Visionary Video Award
Winner: Redress Remix (Dir: Lesley Loksi Chan)

Animasian Award
Winner: Nature on its Course (Dir: Su-An Ng)

LIFT and Fuji Best Film Award
Winner: The Auction (Dir: Gloria Kim)

Movieola Best Short Film or Video Award
Winner: Junko's Shamisen (Dir: Sol Friedman)

So You Think You Can Pitch? Emerging Artist Award
Winner: Sugar Bowl. Shahrzad Nakhai (Producer/Director), Rich Williamson (Director of Photography)

So You Think You Can Pitch? Professional Artist Award
Winner: Searching for Wonder. Tricia Lee (Director), Ryan Reaney (Producer)

The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2010 ran from November 9 - 15, 2010 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2010 Award Winners

Earlier this week I put up my festival faves but now it's time to the how the entire audience felt this year. Votes were made, ballots were tallied and the decisions are in. Here are the 2010 Award Winners for the Toronto After Dark Film Festival.

Audience Awards - Best Feature Film
1. GOLD: The Last Exorcism
2. SILVER: The Human Centipede
3. BRONZE: I Spit on Your Grave (2010)

Vision Awards - Best Independent Feature Film
(The Vision Awards are given out by the Festival in recognition of outstanding independent genre feature filmmaking)
1. GOLD: Heartless
2. SILVER: The Last Lovecraft
3. BRONZE: All About Evil

Audience Awards - Best Canadian Short Film
1. GOLD: Junko's Shamisen
2. SILVER: King Chicken
3. BRONZE (tie): Fireman! and Game Night

Audience Awards - Best International Short Film
1. GOLD: Off Season
2. SILVER: Pumzi
3. BRONZE: Deus Irae

Fans' Choice Awards as voted by by over 100 Festival All-Access Pass Buyers
Best Horror Film - The Last Exorcism
Best Sci-Fi Film - Cargo
Best Action Film - Centurion
Best Comedy - High School
Best Director - Steven R. Monroe for I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Best Screenplay - Huck Botko & Andrew Gurland for The Last Exorcism
Best Leading Actor - Patrick Fabian for The Last Exorcism
Best Leading Actress - Sarah Butler for I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Best Ensemble Cast (tie) - Doghouse and High School
Best Special Effects (tie) - Cargo and RoboGeisha
Best Make-Up - Doghouse
Best Soundtrack - High School
Best Fight - Alien vs Ninja
Best Kills - I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Scariest Film - The Last Exorcism
Most Original Film - Rubber
Most Disturbing Film - I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Best Trailer - RoboGeisha
Best Festival Bumper - 5 Year Young

The Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2010 ran from August 13 - 20, 2010 at the Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

TADFF 2010: Cargo Introduction

The following video clip is from the introduction to Cargo by Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Toronto After Dark programmer, on Sunday August 15, 2010 at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, and is a special message from the films director Ivan Engler:

The Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2010 runs from August 13 - 20, 2010 at the Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

TADFF 2010: Introduction to They Shall Pay with Rivers of Blood

The following video clip is from the screening of They Shall Pay with Rivers of Blood on Saturday August 14, 2010 at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival.

Introduction to They Shall Pay with Rivers of Blood:

The Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2010 runs from August 13 - 20, 2010 at the Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

TADFF 2010: Introduction to Inferno of the Dead

The following video clip is from the screening of Inferno of the Dead on Saturday August 14, 2010 at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival.

Inferno of the Dead introduction:

The Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2010 runs from August 13 - 20, 2010 at the Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Toronto After Dark 2010: Shorts to Creep Us Out!

The Toronto After Dark Film Festival opens in just a few days and I wanted to take a special look at the shorts that are coming to the festival this year. There are two short programs: Canada After Dark which showcases Canadian shorts before each feature film and Shorts After Dark, and International Short Film Showcase that plays on Saturday August 14, 2010 at 4:15pm.

I'm thrilled to see the creepy short Chloe and Attie and spectacular science fiction short Pumzi included in the roster, I've had a chance to see them and they are freaking fantastic short films. I'm looking forward to seeing Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer, because with a title like that how can you go wrong? Also really looking forward to 2010 BAFTA Best Short Film Nominee Off Season, scifi short Primer Contacte / First Contact and cryptography goodness with The Thomas Beale Cipher. Festival goers will also be the first to see several world premieres with Canadian shorts The Other Side, Sock Tease & The Pickles Shane along with Deus Irae from Argentina & United Monster Talent Agency from the USA.

Canada After Dark - Canadian Short Film Showcase

Chloe and Attie
Dir: Scooter Corkle
Canada, 8 min
Screens Wednesday August 18, 2010 at 9:45pm, in front of Heartless

Fireman!
Dir: Adam Brooks
Canada, 2 min
Screens Monday August 16, 2010 at 7pm in front of The Last Exorcism

Game Night
Dir: Geronimo Deadly
Canada, 6 min
Screens Tuesday August 17, 2010 at 7pm in front of Phobia 2

Haunt
Dir: Kevin Doherty
Canada, 10 min
Screens Sunday August 15, 2010 at 4:15pm in front of Cargo

Inferno of the Dead
Dir: Jeremy Gillespie
Canada, 8 min
Screens Saturday August 14, 2010 at 7pm in front of Doghouse

Junko’s Shamisen
Dir: Solomon Friedman
Canada, 11 min
Screens Sunday August 15, 2010 at 7pm in front of Robogeisha

King Chicken
Dir: Nicolas Bolduc
Canada, 8 min
Screens Sunday August 15, 2010 at 9:45pm in front of High School

Massacrator
Dir: Pierre Ayotte
Canada, 4 min
Screens Monday August 16, 2010 at 9:45pm in front of Alien vs. Ninja

The Necronomicon
Dir: Joseph Nanni
Canada, 2 min
Screens Friday August 13, 2010 at 7pm in front of The Last Lovecraft

The Other Side
Dir: Robin Veret
Canada, 15 min
Screens Thursday August 19, 2010 at 7pm in front of Black Death

The Pickles Shane
Dirs: Adam Brodie & Dave Derewlany
Canada, 5 min
Screens Tuesday August 17, 2010 at 9:45pm in front of All About Evil

Pleasure Dome
Dir: Alison S.M. Kobayashi
Canada, 12 min
Screens Friday August 20, 2010 at 7pm in front of Rubber

Re-Wire
Dir: David-James Fernandes
Canada, 14 min
Screens Friday August 20, 2010 at 9:45pm, in front of The Human Centipede

Sock Tease
Dir: Aaron Kopff
Canada, 12 min
Screens Wednesday August 18, 2010 at 7pm in front of Centurion

They Shall Pay with Rivers of Blood
Dir: Buck Anderson
Canada, 7 min
Screens Saturday August 14, 2010 at 9:30pm in front of Evil: In the Time of Heroes

Plus One More Short TBA screening in front of I Spit On Your Grave (2010)

Shorts After Dark - International Shorts Program
10 Short Films, 92 mins in Total, screens Saturday August 14, 2010 and 4:15PM

Barcelona Venice
Dir: David Munoz
Spain, 5 min

DemiUrge Emesis
Dir: Aurelio Voltaire
USA, 3 min

Deus Irae
Dir: Pedro Cristiani
Argentina, 13 min

Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer
Dir: Andrew Jones
USA, 8 min

The Library
Dir: Levi Macdougal & David Dineen Porter
Canada, 4 min

Off Season
Dir: Jonathan Van Tulleken
USA/UK, 13 min

Primer Contacte / First Contact
Dir: Pau Escribano
Spain, 9 min

Pumzi
Dir: Wanuri Kahiu
South Africa/Kenya, 23 min

The Thomas Beale Cipher
Dir: Andrew Allen
USA, 13 min

United Monster Talent Agency
Dir: Greg Nicotero
USA, 7 min

The Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2010 runs from August 13 - 20,2010 at the Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Worldwide Short Film Festival 2010 Award Winners

Many many shorts have been watched and lots of ballots have been counted. Let's take a look at this years winners for the Worldwide Short Film Festival. The wins bring even more opportunities to the winners as Canadian award winners are eligible for Genie Awards, and winners for Best Live-Action Short and Best Animated Short become eligible for the Academy Awards. Jury members for the 2010 Worldwide Short Film Festival are Jason Ryle, João Garção Borges, Rachelle Lefevre, Jing Haase and Aparna Kapur.

Telus Audience Choice Award
Luxury / Luksus, directed by Jaroslaw Sztandera

The Bravo!FACT Award for Best Canadian Short
Winner: Les Poissons / Fishes, directed by Jean Malek
Special Mention: Lipsett Diaries / Les Journaux de Lipsett, directed by Theodore Ushev

The Jackson-Triggs Award for Best Emerging Canadian Filmmaker
J.B. Sugar for his documentary Wood If

The Deluxe Award for Best Live Action Short
Hamy Ramezan for Over the Fence / Viiko Ennen Vappua

The Deluxe Award for Best Performance in a Live-Action Short
Noni Hazelhurst and Anthony Phelan for A Parachute Falling in Siberia

The Kodak Award for Best Cinematography in a Canadian Short
Cinematographer Maya Bankovic for Slip

Best Animated Short
Joanna Lurie for The Silence Beneath the Bark / Le Silence sous L'Écorce

The Best Experimental Short
Chelsea McMullan for Slip

Best Documentary Short
Vance Malone for The Poodle Trainer

Screenplay Giveaway Prize
Geoff Redknapp for his script The Last Christmas

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Worldwide Short Film Festival ran from June 1-6, 2010 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Inside Out 2010: Awards

Juries have deliberated and audience ballots have been counted. Here are the results! The 2010 Inside Out Awards are:

Canadian Jury Awards:

Entertainment Partners Canada/ Canada Film Capitol Award for Best Canadian Feature
Mark by Mike Hoolboom

Colin Campbell Award for Best Canadian Short
Our Compass by Tess Vo

Best Up-and-Coming Toronto Film or Video Maker Award presented by Charles Street Video
Chris by Don Bapst

International Jury Award:

Bill Sherwood Award for Best First Feature
Plan B by Marco Berger, Argentina 2009

Audience Awards:

RBC Royal Bank Award for Best Feature Film or Video
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister by James Kent, UK 2010

Elle Flanders Award for Best Documentary Film or Video
Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls by Leanne Pooley, New Zealand 2009

Mikey/Schmikey Award for Best Short Film or Video
The Armoire by Jamie Travis, Canada 2009

The Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival 2010 ran from May 20-30, 2010 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Hot Docs 2010 Awards

Ballots have been counted and juries have decided on this years Hot Docs Awards. Here are the results:

Audience Top Ten:
1. Thunder Soul (D: Mark Landsman; USA)
2. A Drummer's Dream (D: John Walker; Canada)
3. My Life with Carlos (D: German Berger; Chile, Spain, Germany)
4. Autumn Gold (D: Jan Tenhaven; Austria,
5. Leave Them Laughing (D: John Zaritsky; Canada, USA)
6. Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (D: Scot McFadyen, Sam Dunn; Canada)
7. Listen to This (D: Juan Baquero; Canada)
8. A Small Act (D: Jennifer Arnold; USA)
9. Waste Land (D: Lucy Walker; UK, Brazil)
10. Marwencol (D: Jeff Malmberg; USA)

International Feature Award:
A Film Unfinished (D: Yael Hersonski; P: Noemi Schory, Itay Ken Tor; Israel)

The Special Jury Prize - International Feature: The Oath (D: Laura Poitras; P: Laura Poitras, Nasser Arrabyee, Aliza Kaplan, Jonathan Oppenheim; USA, Yemen)

Best Canadian Feature Award: Shelley Saywell for In the Name of the Family (P: Shelley Saywell, Deborah Parks; Canada)

The Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature: John Zaritsky for Leave Them Laughing (P: Montana Berg, Canada/USA)

The Best Mid-Length Documentary Award: I Shot My Love (D: Tomer Haymann; P: Barak Haymann, Tomer Haymann, Carl Ludwig Rettinger; Israel, Germany)

Best Short Documentary Award: Tussilago (D: Jonas Odell; Sweden)

The HBO Documentary Films Emerging Artist Award: Jeff Malmberg, director of Marwencol (USA)

2010 Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award: Kim Longinotto, A retrospective of Longinotto's work is being show as part of this year's Festival.

documentary's Don Haig Award: Philip Lyall and Nimisha Mukerji, the directors of Hot Docs 2009 official selection and audience top ten favourite, 65_REDROSES.

The Lindalee Tracey Award: Ayanie Mohamed

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival ran from April 29 - May 9, 2010 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada