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Awards for the 2007 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

May 1st, 2007 by FFW WorldPulse Festival Newswire - Documentary - Television

Hosted by filmmaker and journalist Avi Lewis, the 2007 Hot Docs Awards Presentation saw twelve awards and more than $50,000 in cash and prizes awarded.

 

A jury of filmmakers, industry professionals and journalists decided the following awards for films in official competition:

 

Best Canadian Feature Documentary: “The Bodybuilder And I”

D: Bryan Friedman

P: Julia Rosenberg, Anita Lee

Generously sponsored by the Documentary Channel and DOC. Awarded by the Documentary Channel: $5000.

 

Special Jury Prize Canadian Feature Documentary: “Driven By Dreams”

D: Serge Giguere

P: Nicole Hubert, Colette Loumede

Generously sponsored by the NFB. Awarded by the NFB: $5000 FAP prize.

 

Best International Feature Documentary: “Losers And Winners”

D: Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken

P: Filmproduktion Loekenfranke

Generously sponsored by CBC International Sales. Awarded by Hot Docs: $5000.

 

Special Jury Prize International Feature Documentary: “Without The King”

D: Michael Skolnik

P: Paola Mendoza, Michael Skolnik

Generously sponsored by A&E Television and OMDC.

 

Best Mid-Length Documentary: “Forgiveness: Stories For Our Time”

D: Johanna Lunn

P: Johanna Lunn, Kent Martin

Generously sponsored by Playback and the Canada Council for the Arts.

 

Best Short Documentary: “Man Up”

D/P: Arturo Cabanas

 

The Don Haig Award

Recipient: Hubert Davis

Awarded by the Don Haig Committtee: $10,000

 

The Lindalee Tracey Award

Recipient: Trevor Anderson

Awarded by the Lindalee Tracey Award organizers: $5000

 

Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award

Recipient: Heddy Honigmann

 

The Audience Award, determined by audience ballot, was awarded to Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine's “War/Dance”

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Awards for the 2007 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

May 1st, 2007 by FFW WorldPulse Festival Newswire - Documentary - Television

Full Frame Grand Jury Award: “The Monastery”

Directed by: Pernille Rose Grønkjær

Prize: Alpha Cine Labs, Seattle l $20,000 in lab services for a tape to film transfer for the winning film or lab services to be used in a two year period from Alpha Cine Labs, Seattle.

 

Full Frame Jury Award For Best Short: “Cross Your Eyes Keep Them Wide”

Directed by: Ben Wu

Prize: $10,000 in film stock. Provided by Kodak.

 

Honorable Mention: “Zo is dat” (The Way It Is)

Directed by: Elizabeth Salgado

 

Full Frame Audience Award: “War/Dance”

Directed by: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine

Prize: $3,000 cash award

 

Center For Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award: “The Ants”

Directed by: Kaoru Ikeya.

Prize: $7,500. Provided by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

 

The Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award: “The Monastery”

Directed by: Pernille Rose Grønkjær

Prize: $2,000. Provided by the Charles E. Guggenheim Family.

 

Seeds Of War: “Uganda Rising”

Directed by: Jesse James Miller, Pete McCormack

and “The Devil Came on Horseback”

Directed by: Annie Sundberg, Ricki Stern

Prize: $5,000. Sponsored by Walter Mosley.

 

Full Frame Spectrum Award: “Banished”

Directed by: Marco Williams

Prize: $10,000. Sponsored by the Fledgling Fund.

 

Honorable Mention: “Leila Khaled, Hijacker”

Directed by: Lina Makboul

 

Full Frame Inspiration Award: “Forever”

Directed by: Heddy Honigmann.

Prize: $5,000. Sponsored by the Hartley Foundation.

 

Honorable Mention: “Lake of Fire”

Directed by: Tony Kaye

 

Full Frame President’s Award: “Lumo”

Directed by: Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III

Prize: $5,000. Sponsored by Duke University.

 

Full Frame Women In Leadership Award: “Shame”

Directed by: Mohammed Naqvi

Prize: $5,000. Sponsored by the White House Project.

 

Full Frame/Working Films Award: “The Devil Came on Horseback”

Directed by: Annie Sundberg, Ricki Stern

Prize: $5,000 cash and $5,000 in-kind for the development of the film’s outreach plan. Sponsored by the Ettinger Foundation and Chicken & Egg Pictures.

 

The Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award For Human Rights: “For the Bible Tells Me So”

Directed by: Daniel Karslake

Prize: $5,000. Sponsored by Julian Price Family Foundation.

 

Full Frame/Emerging Pictures Audience Award: “Angels in the Dust”

Directed by: Louise Hogarth

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Awards for the 2007 Cartoons on the Bay

May 1st, 2007 by FFW WorldPulse Festival Newswire - Animation-Games

TV Series For Infants: “Charlie And Lola”

United Kingdom, Tiger Aspect Productions

For strong dialogues, visually original, integrating real kids voices making the characters authentic

 

TV Series For Children: “Ruby Gloom”

Canada, Nelvana

For great design in which Ruby Gloom clearly is the leader of a group of eccentric friends in a cartoonesque world

 

TV Series For All Ages: “Minuscule”

France, Futurikon

For innovatively creating a world from real life footage and 3D characters, using humor and sound effects for adventurous stories

 

TV Series Of Action & Adventure: “The Secret Show”

United Kingdom, The Secret Show.

A spy comedy with funny identifiable characters. Energetic story-telling that put you on the edge of your seat

 

Educational & Social Program – Unicef: “The Little Short-Sighted Snake”

Estonia, A Film Estonia

A simple setting delivering many values. Effectively using humor and character to reach educational goals

 

Pilot Of TV Series: “Monster Safari”

USA, Nickelodeon

For characters with potential for a series of funny situations. Good animation and a strong pilot story about bad Yeti breath

 

TV Special: “Anna And The Moods”

Iceland, Caoz

A modern fairytale for teenagers with good direction and special design about a serious subject in a humorous style

 

Short Film: “Wives Supermarket”

Italy, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Dipartimento di Animazione

Funny little story with a surprising twist using a well-developed retro style

 

Best Character: “Guide Dog”

USA, Bill Plympton

Outstanding expressive character with credible emotions in a humorous dynamic style

 

Best Programe: “Charlie And Lola” – Season 2

United Kingdom, Tiger Aspect Productions

Strong and original concept, high standard of production, authentic characters you want to grow up with

 

Best European Programe: “Peter & The Wolf”

United Kingdom, Breakthru Films

High quality on every level of production. Bringing a fascinating new artistic vision to a European classic

 

Best Soundtrack Of The Year: “Class Of 3000”

USA, Cartoon Network Studios

Passion for music in the story is supported by an engaging rich soundtrack

 

Special Mentions: “How To Cook Italian By Arturo & Kiwi”

Italy, MY TV - Rai Fiction

For its fun and usefulness

 

“Ayakashi”

Japan, Toei Animation

For its graphics and distinct atmosphere

 

“Santapprentice”

France, Alphanim

For its visual style and imaginative world

The Jury of Rai Subscribers has assigned the

 

Pulcinella Awards 2007 To TV Series For Infants: “Pet Pals”

Italy, Gruppo Alcuni.

Expressed by children because they travel and discover new things, because there are a lot of different colored animals; because the little flea with the signs manages to resolve all situations; because I love little dogs.

Expressed by parents Easy to watch. It is fun and relaxing for children and maintains a proper balance between education and entertainment.

TV Series For Children: “Growing Up Creepie”

USA, Mike Young Productions, Llc

For the humour in certain moments, for the irony expressed and the originality of the message interaction between the animal world and the human world produced between a little insect and the teenage Creepie. All this combined with a captivating musical score.

 

TV Series For All Ages: “Minuscule”

France, Futurikon

The graphics are very realistic and because of its dynamism it has a great capacity to captivate the audience. The story is humorous and its morale can be easily applied to everyday life. The sound effects are very realistic and fun. The prize was unanimously voted. .

 

Carta Giovani Euro<26 Award: “Wives Supermarket”

Italy, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Dipartimento di Animazione

The Jury for Carta Giovani is composed of 23 children who watched all the programmes in competition. The award was assigned to “Wives Supermarket”. In this little musical the lead characters indecision turns into a trap in which he becomes the victim. Carmelo is a symbol of a society of consumers with his capriciousness and his superiority attitude, but…before he knows it he ends up in the same situation. Instructive, creative, original are the adjectives repeated by the jury that unanimously chose this little Italian masterpiece.

 

Rai Sat YOYO: “Charlie And Lola”

United Kingdom, Tiger Aspect Productions

Prize for the most voted program on Rai Sat YOYO website

 

Rai Sat SMASH: “Guide Dog”

USA, Bill Plympton

Prize for the most voted program on Rai Sat SMASH website

 

Rai Trade presenta Norman Mclaren - The Master’s Edition

 

The International Jury of the Pulcinella Awards 2007:

Jan-Willem Bult (Head of Youth department and Creative Director, KRO, The Netherlands), Maurizio Forestieri (Artist, Italy),

Beth Gardiner (Executive Director, Development and Programming, Playhouse Disney, USA), Céline Limorato (Head of the Animation and Children’s Television, France 5, France),

Wolfgang Wegman (Deputy Head of Children’s and Family Programmes, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Germany)

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