Category Archives: Festivals and Awards

Best Canadian Film is Now Worth $100K

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Congratulations to Sarah Polley for winning the Toronto Film Critics Association’s 2012 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award.

The award comes with $100,000, making it by my estimation Canada’s riches post-release prize.

The TFCA is a group of about 40 film writers. The award used to be $15,000 but Rogers Communications has recently upped the ante.

Polley won with Stories We Tell, a personal documentary, and also won in 2006 with her debut feature Away From Her.

My take: all the more reason to make excellent movies in Canada. $100K is not bad profit for any Canadian film. Second and third place get $5,000 as well.

More details here.

IMAA and Canada Council Call for Filmmakers Deadline: November 23, 2012

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The Independent Media Arts Alliance and the Canada Council are looking for filmmakers to produce seven two minute films.

The films will honour the 2013 recipients of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.

“All information regarding this project is confidential, including the names and residences of the GGAVMA recipients until the announcement date of March 12. Successful commissioned artists will be told the name of the recipient he or she will be working with to produce the video. This year’s recipients are located in Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary, Halifax (area), Toronto (area), Ottawa (area) and Georgian Bay (area).”

Your reward? $5,000.00, plus unlimited warm and fuzzies.

For full deets, see On Screen Manitoba.

Telefilm Not Short on Talent Deadline: November 1, 2012

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Telefilm Canada is accepting submission of short films for the next Not Short on Talent programme, which will unspool at Clermont-Ferrand in February 2013.

The program of shorts will be curated by Danny Lennon, film festival programmer and founder of Prends ça court!, who will strive for an appropriate regional balance, so as to encourage films from all regions of the country. Priority will be given to films that have never been presented in public (world premieres).

The deadline is Thursday, November 1, 2012.

Super Channel Feature Documentary Award Deadline: November 30, 2012

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Are you a Canadian director/producer with at least one hour-long television documentary credit?

If so, Super Channel wants to help you break into theatrical documentaries.

Pitch them by Friday, November 23, 2012, and you might win:

  • “15-20 hours of mentorship from a senior feature documentary producer
  • $3,000 to attend the Hot Docs Forum 2013 and to further enhance the project.”

See the Super Channel Feature Documentary Award guidelines and submission form.

Canadian Screen Awards needs Jurors

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Even though the film submission deadlines have passed, there’s still time to apply to become a juror for the innagural Canadian Screen Awards.

The Genies and the Geminis got together and merged into the The Canadian Screen Awards for Television & Digital Media. Martin Short will host the awards show on CBC next March.

If you want to help choose the winners, apply to be a juror now.