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   Jury Awards

Entertainment Partners Canada Award for Best Canadian Feature-Length Narrative or Documentary:

BE LIKE OTHERS directed by Tanaz Eshaghian

Honourable Mention:
SHE’S A BOY I KNEW directed by Gwen Haworth

Colin Campbell Award for Best Canadian Short presented by Movieola-The Short Film Channel.

FOR A RELATIONSHIP directed by Jim Verburg (screened in the Montréal, mon amour program)

Honourable Mention:
NO BIKINI directed by Claudia Morgado Escanilla (screened with LIKE A VIRGIN)

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

Barb Taylor for directing TOMBOY (screened with FREE TO BE...YOU & ME)

Audience Awards

Inside Out Award for Best Feature Film or Video

WERE THE WORLD MINE directed by Tom Gustafson
2nd place RAZZLE DAZZLE: A JOURNEY INTO DANCE directed by Darren Ashton
3rd place FINN’S GIRL directed by Laurie Colbert and Dominique Cardona

Elle Flanders Documentary Award for Best Documentary Film or Video Presented by NOW Magazine

SHE’S A BOY I KNEW directed by Gwen Haworth
2nd place THE BELIEVERS directed by Todd Holland
3rd place WILD COMBINATION: A PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR RUSSELL directed by Matt Wolf

Mikey/Schmikey Award for Best Short Film or Video

PARIAH directed by Dee Rees (screened in the Dykes in the City program)
2nd place RAPE FOR WHO I AM directed by Lovinsa Kavuma (screened in the Notes from South Africa program)
3rd place CONGRATULATIONS DAISY GRAHAM directed by Cassandra Nicolaou (screened in the Hogtown Homos program)

   
 
   

DEANNA BOWEN is a Toronto-based media installation artist. She received her Diploma of Fine Arts from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1992 and her Master’s Degree in Visual Art from the University of Toronto in 2008. Her work has been exhibited nationally (Ontario, British Columbia, Yukon, Manitoba) and internationally (Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy) in numerous film festivals and galleries. She will be screening a video installation at the Women’s Art Resource Centre in April 2009 as part of the Images Festival and is currently working on a feature-length experimental documentary about her family’s migration from Alabama entitled sum of the parts.

    
    MATHIEU CHANTELOIS is the editor-in-chief of the biggest French-language movie magazine in the country, Famous Québec. He’s also a film critic for On fait tous du show-business for Radio- Canada. He has a Master’s Degree in Journalism from Carleton University and completed the academic requirements for his PhD in Sociology, probing circuit parties and the evolution of gay body culture. Mathieu was a cast member on the reality TV show "U8TV: The Lofters," on the Life Network, and has been hosting shows for PrideVision and OUTtv for the past six years. Mathieu is also the Chair of the Board for the 519 Church Street Community Centre.

    
    MIKE HOOLBOOM is a Canadian media artist whose new book of interviews with fab Canadian fringe media artists, Practical Dreamers, is finally out, ten years after the sold-out volume one Inside the Pleasure Dome: Fringe Film in Canada. His ongoing web project fringeonline.ca offers an in-depth look at a number of artists, with clips, podcasts, interviews and more. In the fall, Coach House Books will publish his first novel, The Steve Machine.

    
    S. BEAR BERGMAN is a writer, a theatre artist, an instigator, a gender-jammer and a good example of what happens when you overeducate a contrarian. Ze is also the author of Butch Is a Noun (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2006) and three award-winning solo performances that continue to tour, as well as a frequent contributor to anthologies on all manner of topics from the sacred to the extremely profane. A longtime activist on behalf of anyone who wants to learn and be different at the same time (particularly queer/trans youth and students), ze continues to work at the points of intersection between and among gender, sexuality and culture

    
      BENNY NEMEROFSKY RAMSAY is a Montréal-born artist working predominantly in video, text and sound. His work examines translation, methods of communication and the ways emotional expression changes shape when mediated by technology and popular culture. Benny’s work has shown in festivals and galleries throughout Canada, Europe and East Asia and has won prizes at festivals in Germany, Portugal and Canada as well as taking First Prize at the Globalica Media Arts Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland. He currently divides his time between Canada and Europe.

    
      MARIKO TAMAKI is a Toronto writer and performer with an avid interest in freaks, weirdos, and other fabulous forms of human behaviour. Mariko has published two non-fiction collections: True Lies: The Book of Bad Advice (2002) and Fake ID (2005), and one novella, Cover Me (2000). Her most recent work, the graphic novel Skim (illustrated by her cousin Jillian Tamaki), was released by Groundwood Books in March. Forthcoming is a second graphic novel, Emiko Superstar, illustrated by Vancouver’s Steve Rolston, which will be released as part of DC Comics’ MINX series in September. In addition to writing, Mariko also works in theatre as part of a variety of performance troupes including renegade co-op TOA.

    
 
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