2022 Festival Awards
Our fifth annual festival was held last month, in-person here in Toronto and virtually once again across Canada. I’m so grateful to our staff, volunteers, audience, and especially to our filmmakers, and I want to recognize those films awarded by our juries and audience. Thank you to all our jury members for their hard work […]
2021 Festival Awards
Our fourth annual festival was held last month, virtually once again across Canada. I’m so grateful to our staff, volunteers, audience, and especially to our filmmakers, and I want to recognize those films awarded by our juries and audience. Thank you to all our jury members for their hard work and for lending us their […]
2020 Festival Awards
Our third annual festival was held last month, virtually across Canada, and once more exceeded my expectations. I’m grateful to our staff, volunteers, audience, and especially to our filmmakers, and I want to recognize those films awarded by our juries and audience. Thank you to all our jury members for their hard work and for […]
Canadian Screen Awards 2013: Shorts
I’ll admit that I could never keep the Geminis and the Genie Awards straight. Looks like the folks at the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television have gotten the hint. This year, they’ve combined the awards into a new format called the Canadian Screen Awards. These awards will honour Canadian work on all screens: cinema, […]
Canada’s Top Ten 2012: Shorts
Note: We’ll be showing Chloé Robichaud’s very funny Chef de meute from this selection on Thursday January 17th at the Carlton Cinemas. Advance tickets are on sale already. On Sunday night, TIFF Bell Lightbox screened all of this year’s shorts named to Canada’s Top Ten. Here are my thoughts on the films (including two I’d […]