Festivals
Toronto Film Festival 2010
Nadine Labaki's Where Do We Go Now? Captures People's Choice Award
The 36th Toronto International Film Festival wrapped on Saturday, Sept. 17th with the Awards Reception at the Intercontinental Hotel Toronto.
The People's Choice Award for Best Feature Film went to Nadine Labaki's Where Do We Go Now?, the heartwarming war set tale of a group of women’s determination to protect their isolated, mine-encircled community from the pervasive and divisive outside forces that threaten to destroy it from within.
The People's Choice Documentary Award was presented to Jon Shenk's The Island President, a whirlwind political documentary in which Mohamed Nasheed wins the presidency after a 20-year battle for democracy in the Maldives, only to face an unfathomable challenge: to save his island nation from rising seas. Gareth Evans' The Raid, in which a SWAT team is trapped in a rundown apartment block in Jakarta filled with heavily armed drug dealers and killers, earned the People's Choice Midnight Madness Award.
The FIPRESCI Prize for Discovery, voted on by international critics, was awarded to Axel Petersen's Avalon, an assured, darkly humorous Swedish portrait of an affluent class in hedonistic self-denial. The FIPRESCI Prize for Special Presentations went to French director Gianni Amelio's The First Man, an Italian realization of an unfinished Albert Camus novel exploring the legacy of colonialism with the tenderness of a memoir and the unflinching gaze of a war reporter.
Nathan Morlando's Edwin Boyd, about a soldier returning from war only to find that the world has no place for him, won the Skyy Vodka Award for Best Canadian First Feature, while the Toronto City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film was awarded to Philippe Falardeau's Monsieur Lazhar, a drama exploring the loss, exile, and the truths we tell our children. The award for Best Canadian Short Film went to Ian Harnarine's Doubles With Slight Pepper, the humble but moving story of a family in crisis.
THE 2011 AWARD WINNERS
FIPRESCI PRIZE (Prize of The International Critics)
Discovery -- Avalon, dir. Axel Petersen (Sweden)
Special Presentations -- The First Man, dir. Gianni Amelio (Italy)
CADILLAC PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
Feature Film -- Where Do We Go Now?, dir. Nadine Labaki (Lebanon)
Honorable Mention:
A Separation, dir. Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
Starbuck, dir. Ken Scott (Canada)
Documentary -- The Island President, dir. Jon Shenk (U.S.A.)
Honorable Mention:
First Position, dir. Bess Kargman (U.S.A.)
Pearl Jam Twenty, dir. Cameron Crowe (U.S.A.)
Midnight Madness -- The Raid, dir. Gareth Evans (Indonesia)
Honorable Mention:
You're Next, dir. Adam Wingard (U.S.A.)
God Bless America, dir. Bobcat Goldthwait (U.S.A.)
AWARDS FOR CANADIAN FILMS
Best Canadian Short Film
Doubles with Slight Pepper, dir. Ian Harnarine
Skyy Vodka Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film
Edwin Boyd, dir. Nathan Morlando
City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian Feature Film
Monsieur Lazhar, dir. Philippe Falardeau
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THE 2010 AWARD WINNERS
FIPRESCI PRIZE (Prize of The International Critics)
Discovery -- Beautiful Boy, dir. Shawn Ku (U.S.A.)
Special Presentations -- L'Amour Fou, dir. Pierre Thoretton (France)
CADILLAC PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
Feature Film -- The King's Speech, dir. Tom Hooper (UK/Australia)
Honorable Mention:
First Grader, dir. Justin Chadwick (United Kingdom)
Documentary -- Forces of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie, dir. Sturla Gunnarsson (Canada)
Honorable Mention:
Nostalgia for The Light, dir. Patricio Guzman (France/Germany/Chile)
Midnight Madness -- Stake Land, dir. Jim Mickle (U.S.A.)
Honorable Mention:
Fubar II, dir. Michael Dowse (Canada)
AWARDS FOR CANADIAN FILMS
Best Canadian Short Film
Les Fleurs de L'age, dir. Vincent Biron
Skyy Vodka Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film
The High Cost of Living, dir. Deborah Chow
City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian Feature Film
Incendies, dir. Denis Villeneuve
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