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Hot Docs Announces Winners of 2011 Festival
Hot Docs, the largest documentary film festival in North America, has just announced the winners of their 2011 festival, which took place from April 28-May 8, 2011 in Toronto. 199 films were screened at this year’s festival, which saw an 11% jump in attendance. “Our audiences are clamoring for great docs, and our filmmakers are raving about the festival’s fantastic audiences. It is a perfect storm,” says Hot Doc’s executive director Chris McDonald.
In addition to the winners of the nine jury awards listed below, other award-winners are Sundance Channel People’s Choice Award winner Somewhere Between, Filmmakers Award winner At the Edge of Russia and PC Bang: The Rise of the Esports Hero, which won the Shaw Media-Hot Docs Rendezvous Pitch Prize, which includes $5,000 to assist in the production of the film.
For more information on the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, or to read more information on the winning films, visit www.hotdocs.ca/.
Best Canadian Feature: Family Portrait in Black and White, directed by Julia Ivanova
Special Jury Prize, Canadian Feature: At Night, They Dance, directed by Isabelle Lavigne and Stéphane Thibault and The Guantanamo Trap, directed by Thomas Selim Wallner
Best International Feature: Dragonslayer, directed by Tristan Patterson
Special Jury Prize, International Feature: The Castle, directed by Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti
Best Mid-Length Documentary: Our Newspaper, directed by Eline Flipse
Best Short Documentary: Flying Anne, directed by Catherine van Campen
HBO Documentary Films Emerging Artist Award: Michal Marczak for At the Edge of Russia
documentary’s Don Haig Award, presented annually to a Canadian documentary moviemaker, was awarded to Toronto-based writer/director Rama Rau.
The Lindalee Tracey Award, which honors emerging Canadian documentary moviemakers, was presented to Alexandre Hamel.
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- Comment by balkan music on 10/14/11 at 12:37 pm
I definetely recommend “Family Portrait in Black and White”. It shows the real situation in Eastern Europe, it present a honest, moving viewpoint of what it’s like to live in rural Ukraine.
- Comment by Estudiar ingles en el extranjero on 11/20/11 at 9:35 am
This is strange thing.Your observation is fine from one corner if we see things.Lots of people do have this view but things are like that.
- Comment by Atlanta escort on 11/23/11 at 7:53 am
I have gone through them,they gave me all sorts of important things that are related to my subject.
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