October
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imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Announces 2021 Festival Award Winners
Caroline Monnet Wins Dramatic Feature Award for Bootlegger
Landon Dyksterhouse wins Documentary Feature Award for Warrior Spirit
On Sunday, October 24, 2021 at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival online Awards Presentation, the esteemed Festival juries considered film, video, audio, and digital media works Indigenous artists from around the world to select winners in 18 categories with $56,500 in cash prizes and in-kind services.Hosted by Crystle Lightning, theimagineNATIVE’s Awards Presentation also included musical performances by Classic Roots and Crown Lands.
The 2021 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Award Winners are:
Experimental Audio Award
with support from imagineNATIVE with a $2500 cash prize
The Battle Within – Janet Marie Rogers
Narrative Audio Award
with support from imagineNATIVE with a $2500 cash prize
Warrior Kids Podcast: The Boy and the Whale – Dr. Pamela Palmater
Emerging Digital + Interactive Award
with support from imagineNATIVE with a $2500 cash prize
A Drive To Top Surgery – Raven Two Feathers
Mid-Career Digital + Interactive Award
with support from imagineNATIVE with a $2500 cash prize
A Strong Fire – Wendi Sierra
Innovation in Storytelling Award
in recognition of Kent Monkman with support from Sobeys and Kent Monkman with a $7500 cash prize
Puisi – Pilutaq Lundblad
Documentary Short Award
with support from TVO with a $2500 cash prize
Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again – Courtney Montour
Documentary Feature Award
in recognition of the legacy of Alanis Obomsawin with support from CBC with a $5000 cash prize
Warrior Spirit – Landon Dyksterhouse
Live Action Short Award
in recognition of founders Cynthia Lickers-Sage and Vtape, with support from Vtape and Jason Ryle, with a $7500 cash prize
Angakusajaujuq – The Shaman’s Apprentice – Zacharias Kunuk
Dramatic Feature Award
with support from imagineNATIVE with a $7500 cash prize
Bootlegger – Caroline Monnet
New Voice in Storytelling Award
in honour of Jane Glassco and Ellen Monague with support from CJ Foundation and Indigenous Education & Engagement at Humber College with a $2500 cash prize
Adaawk – Lorna Brown
Indigenous Language Production Award
with support from Indigenous Media Initiatives with a $2500 cash prize
Matuna, la sombra del Guerrero – Rafael Roberto Mojica Gil
August Schellenberg Award of Excellence
with support from Joan Karasevich Schellenberg and ACTRA National with a $2500 cash prize
Dr Shirley Cheechoo
Sun Jury Award
with support from the Directors Guild of Canada with a $2500 cash prize
Hiama – Matasila Freshwater
Moon Jury Award
with support from the Directors Guild of Canada with a $2500 cash prize
Run Woman Run – Zoe Hopkins
APTN/Web Series Pitch Prize
with support from APTN and Bell Fund for $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizing
additional support from William F. White, Picture Shop, Formosa, Streamland Media, Innovate By Day, TIFF, and Women in Film & Television – WIFT Toronto
The Feather News by Ryan Moccasin, Shawn Cuthand and Daniel Knight
Harmonize Prize
with support from Slaight Music with a $5500 cash prize
Additional support from MBS Equipment Company, and in-kind support from Nagamo Publishing
Andrew Joseph Stevens
The imagineNATIVE Audience Choice Award, Feature Film with support from MBS Equipment Canada, and the Audience Choice Award, Short Film with support from BMO, will be announced after the Festival.
imagineNATIVE became the first and only Indigenous film festival in the world to be a Qualifying Festival for the Best Live Action Short category for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2019. This means that Angakusajaujuq – The Shaman’s Apprentice by Zacharias Kunuk, the 2021 winner for Best Live Action Short,will be eligible to submit for the Best Live Action Short category at the Oscars.The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is the world’s largest Indigenous festival showcasing film, video, audio, and digital + interactive media made by Indigenous screen-content creators. The Festival presents compelling and distinctive works from Canada and around the globe, reflecting the diversity of Indigenous nations and illustrating the vitality and dynamism of Indigenous arts, perspectives, and cultures in contemporary media.imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
October 19 – 24, 2021
Toronto, Ontario
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We would like to thank Damien Nelson-Want & Able Arts Consulting for the invitation and press releases.
Joséphine Bacon, Devery Jacobs, and C,S, Gilbert Crazy Horse in Bootlegger Directed by Caroline Monnet
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