CBC’s digital channel documentary and the Documentary Organization of Canada | l’Association des documentaristes du Canada (DOC) are proud to present

Giving Voice: Filmmakers Working with Filmmakers, a documentary masters apprenticeship program.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN
DEADLINE: MAY 24TH, 2013

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Giving Voice mentorship program is the opportunity for documentary professionals from across Canada to apprentice with a master documentary filmmaker on a specific project. The program represents a unique opportunity for documentary filmmakers searching for their creative voice.

The program’s objective is to assist documentary professionals who are still early in the careers and interested in transitioning their career, further their filmmaking expertise and deepen their authorial voice. The duration of the Apprenticeship will be up to 5 months during which time the Apprentice will be paid an honorarium.

Giving Voice: Filmmakers Working with Filmmakers is designed as an exchange where both Master and Apprentice benefit from each other’s experience. The Master benefits by working with a passionate and creative resource, while the Apprentice gets unprecedented access to the Master’s creative process and expertise.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE
Apprentice
- Must have a minimum of 2 broadcast credits or equivalent experience in the documentary field
- Must be available to work full time for the designated apprenticeship period
- Must not be currently enrolled as a student
- Must not be employed by or have a family relation to the Mentor or the Mentor company the apprentice is applying with
- Must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada legally entitled to work

Mentor
- Must be a DOC member in good standing
- Must have a project in development or in production
- The Mentor must primarily make documentaries and be recognized by their peers as an established filmmaker
- Must contribute $2500 towards the Apprentice's honorarium
- Cannot be the employer of or have a family relation to the Apprentice with whom they are submitting the application

LIMITATIONS
- The Apprentice cannot be a student at the time of the apprenticeship
- The Apprentice must work on a project the Mentor has underway and not on their own project.

DOWNLOAD THE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS AND APPLICATION CRITERIA HERE.

All submissions to be sent to: adele@docorg.ca(please consult the call for submissions for application format and requirements)

The Société des Réalisateurs de Films (Film Directors' Guild) has announced the films for their 45th Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors' Fortnight), the last of the Cannes Festival sidebars.

17 of the 21 films that will screen are world premieres. Unfortunately, none of the selections are from Canadian filmmakers. Women are underrepresented as usual, though not as badly as in the official selection. Among the women directors is Belgian actress Yolande Moreau from the cast of last year's closing film Camille redoubles (Camille Rewinds). She presents her directorial debut Henri.

The 45th Quinzaine des Réalisateurs takes place May 16–26, 2013, starting one day after the launch of the Festival de Cannes.


45th Quinzaine des Réalisateurs films

FEATURE FILMS

(*denotes first film eligible for the Caméra d’Or)

A Strange Course of Events, Raphaël Nadjari (Israël, France)
Les Apaches*, Thierry De Peretti (France)
Ate ver a luz (Après la nuit)*, Basil Da Cunha (Switzerland)
Blue Ruin, Jeremy Saulnier (US)
The Congress, Ari Folman (Israel, Germany, Poland, France, Belgium)
La Danza de la realidad, Alejandro Jodorowsky (France)
L’Escale*, Kaveh Bakhtiari (Switzerland, France)
La Fille du 14 Juillet*, Antonin Peretjako (France)
Henri, Yolande Moreau (France)
Ilo Ilo*, Anthony Chen (Singapore)
Jodorowsky’s Dune, Franck Pavich (France)
Last Days on Mars*, Ruairí Robinson (UK/Ireland)
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table !*, Guillaume Gallienne (France)
Magic Magic, Sebastian Silva (US)
On the Job, Erik Matti (Philippines)
The Selfish Giant, Clio Barnard (UK)
Tip Top, Serge Bozon (France)
Ugly, Anurag Kashyap (India)
Un voyageur, Marcel Ophuls (France)
El verano de los peces voladores (L’été des poissons volants)*, Marcela Said (France, Chili) 86’
We Are What We Are, Jim Mickle (US)

SHORT FILMS

Gambozinos, João Nicolau (France, Portugal)
Lágy Eső, Dénes Nagy (Belgium, Hungary)
Le Quepa sur la vilni!, Yann Le Quellec (France)
Man kann nicht auf einmal alles tun, aber man kann auf einmal alles lassen, Elsa Sgualdo (Switzerland)
O Umbra de nor, Radu Jude (Romania)
Pouco mais de um mês, André Novais Oliveira (Brazil)
Que je tombe tout le temps, Eduardo Williams (France)
Solecito, Oscar Ruiz Navia (Colombia, Denmark, France)
Swimmer, Lynne Ramsay (UK)

TAIPEI FACTORY

The Pig, Singing Chen (Taiwan), Jero Yun (Korea)
Silent Asylum, Midi Z (Taiwan), Joana Preiss (France)
A Nice Factory, Shen Ko-Shang (Taiwan), Luis Cifuentes (Chili)
Mr. Chang’s New Address, Chang Jung-Chi (Taiwan), Alireza Khatami (Iran)

The Writers' Guild of Canada held their ceremony for the 17th annual WGC Screenwriting Awards last night at Uniun Nightclub. Comedian-actor Ryan Belleville hosted the event.

The winner for Best Movie or Miniseries was the CBC television movie The Phantoms by Andrew Wreggitt. It won against Picture Day by Kate Melville, The Samaritan by Elan Mastai & David Weaver, and Still by Michael McGowan.

The winner for Documentary writing was A Sorry State written by Mitch Miyagawa. The television category was won by the Less Than Kind episode “Jerk Chicken” written by Kim Coghill.

Nominations for the 2013 WGC Screenwriting Awards


Complete winners for the 17th annual WGC Screenwriting Awards

Animation
Sidekick“I, Sidebot” ; Written by Dan Williams & Lienne Sawatsky

Children & Youth
How To Be Indie“How To Make a Christmas Miracle”; Written by John May & Suzanne Bolch

Documentary
A Sorry State; Written by Mitch Miyagawa

Movies & Miniseries
The Phantoms; Written by Andrew Wreggitt

Shorts & Webseries
Ruby Skye P.I.: The Haunted Library “#Creepy”; Written by Julie Strassman-Cohn & Jill Golick

TV Comedy
Less Than Kind“Jerk Chicken”; Written by Kim Coghill

TV Drama
The L.A. Complex“Down in L.A.”; Written by Martin Gero

SPECIAL AWARDS

WGC Showrunner Award
Mark Ellis & Stephanie Morgenstern

The Jim Burt Screenwriting Prize
Wild Medicine by Adam Garnet Jones

Writers Block Award
Anne-Marie Perrotta, Simon Racioppa & Lienne Sawatsky

Tonight, the 20th annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival kicks off with the world premiere screening of Shawney Cohen's The Manor, about the filmmaker's family-run strip club in Guelph, Ontario.

Other highly-anticipated features screening during the festival include After Tiller by Martha Shane and Lana Wilson; Bà nội by Khoa Lê; Buying Sex by Kent Nason and Teresa MacInnes; The Defector: Escape from North Korea by Ann Shin; Dragon Girls by Inigo Westmeier; Fuck for Forest by Michał Marczak; The Last Black Sea Pirates by Svetoslav Stoyanov; Last Woman Standing by Lorraine Price and Juliet Lammers; Oil Sands Karaoke by Charles Wilkinson; Pussy Riot — A Punk Prayer by Maxim Pozdorovkin and Mike Lerner; Terms And Conditions May Apply by Cullen Hoback; The Unbelievers by Gus Holwerda; and Winter, Go Away! by Sofia Rodkevich, Anton Seregin, Madina Mustafina, Elena Khoreva, Anna Moiseenko, Dmitry Kubasov, Askold Kurov, Nadezhda Leonteva, Alexey Zhirayakov and Denis Klebleev.

The 20th annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival continues to May 5 at various venues in Toronto.

http://www.hotdocs.ca/



12 O’Clock Boys

15 Reasons to Live

31st Haul

Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys

After Tiller

Alcan Highway

Alias

Alphée of the Stars

American Commune

Anita

Another Night on Earth

As Time Goes By in Shanghai

The Auctioneer

Ballerina

The Barrel

Bà nội

Before the Revolution

Bending Steel

Big Men

Blackfish

Blood Brother

Blood Relative

Brave New River

Brothers Hypnotic

The Burger and the King

Buying Sex

Captive Radio

Caucus

Chi

Chimeras

Choir Boys

The Circle

Citizens Against Basswood

Cloudy Mountains

Coffee Time

Continental

Convento

The Conversation

The Convict Patient

The Crash Reel

Cutie and the Boxer

Da Vinci

Dead or Alive

Dear Valued Guests

Declaration of War

The Defector: Escape from North Korea

Derby & Groma

The Devil’s Lair

Downloaded

Dragon Girls

A Dream in the Making

Eastern Avenue

Elena

Emperor’s Toys

Entangled

Estela

Eufrosina’s Revolution

Everybody Street

The Exhibition

Exit Point

The Expedition to the End of the World

Fall and Winter

Fatal Assistance

Felix Austria!

Fight Like Soldiers Die Like Children

Finding the Funk

Flo

Forest of the Dancing Spirits

Free the Butterfly

Free The Mind

Fuck for Forest

Furever

Future My Love

Galumphing

Gambling, Gods and LSD

Gangster of Love

The Garden of Eden

Gaza Calling

The Ghosts in Our Machine

Gideon’s Army

God Loves Uganda

Good Ol’ Freda

The Great Hip Hop Hoax

The Great North Korean Picture Show

Happy Birthday Emily

Here One Day

High Five: A Suburban Adoption Saga

Hill of Pleasures

Home

The Human Scale

If I Wasn’t Born

The Impermanence of the Ordinary

Interior. Leather Bar.

International Documentary Challenge

In God We Trust

In Saint-Sauveur Neighborhood

In the Shadow of the Sun

I Am Breathing

I Think This Is The Closest To How The Footage Looked

I Will Be Murdered

JUNIOR

Just As I Remember

Just the Right Amount of Violence

Kickstart Sessions

The Kill Team

The Last Black Sea Pirates

The Last Station

Last Woman Standing

Leonardo

Les Blank Program 1: Maestros

Les Blank Program 2: Well Spent Lives

Les Blank Program 3: Pleasures

Let the Fire Burn

The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne

Like a Breath

Lisa, Go Home!

Live Cinema: Image/Sound Mixing Performance by Peter Mettler and Biosphere

The Lost Village: The Dark Side

Love Still

Lucky

The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear

Maidentrip

The Manor

Man at War

The Man Who Made Angels Fly

The Man Who Saved the World

Mary & Myself

Menstrual Man

Mercy Mercy: A Portrait of a True Adoption

Mistaken for Strangers

Muscle Shoals

My Black Box

Naked Opera

Narco Cultura

NCR: Not Criminally Responsible

New Life of a Family Album

Nine To Ninety

Northern Light

Notes on Blindness: Rainfall

Occupy: The Movie

Oil Sands Karaoke

The Only Son

The Other Shore

Our Nixon

Packing Up the Wagon: The Last Days of Wagon Wheel Lunch

The Path

Petropolis

Picture of Light

Pink or Blue?

Pouters

The Punk Singer

Pussy Riot—A Punk Prayer

Quality Balls—The David Steinberg Story

Ramp

Remote Area Medical

Rent a Family Inc.

River

Rogalik

Rougarouing

Salma

Scotiabank Big Ideas: Anita

Scotiabank Big Ideas: Fight Like Soldiers Die Like Children

Scotiabank Big Ideas: The Unbelievers

Searching for Bill

Second Class

Seventeen

The Shebabs of Yarmouk

Shooting Bigfoot

Sickfuckpeople

Sick Birds Die Easy

Softening

Special Ed

Spring & Arnaud

Stremț 89

Tales from the Organ Trade

TBA - Award Winner 1

TBA - Award Winner 2

TBA - Award Winner 3

Teenage

Terms And Conditions May Apply

These Birds Walk

This Ain’t No Mouse Music!

Tiny: A Story About Living Small

Tough Bond

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard

Trucker and the Fox

The Unbelievers

Unclaimed

Unplugged

Valentine Road

Vegas

Vladimir Putin in Deep Concentration

The War at Home

The War Room

We Always Lie to Strangers

We Cause Scenes

When I Walk

Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington

A Whole Lott More

Who is Dayani Cristal?

Wildwood, NJ

William and the Windmill

Winter, Go Away!

The Women and the Passenger

Wooden People

Wrong Time Wrong Place

Yellow Sticky Notes | Canadian Anijam


THE MANOR - Trailer for a Feature Documentary (1:40) from Six Island Productions on Vimeo.

The Alberta Media Production Industries Associations (AMPIA) has announced the nominations for their 39th annual Alberta Film & Television Awards (Rosie Awards).

On the feature film side, the awards were led by Rufus by Dave Schultz with eight mentions. Its nominations included Best Dramatic Feature Film, Best Director (Drama over 30 Minutes) and Best Screenwriter (Drama over 30 Minutes).

It competes for Best Dramatic Feature Film against Cody Fitz by Kurtis David Harder, Ferocious by Robert Cuffley, Kept by Krunoslav Malnar, and PSEUDO Blood Of Our Own by Gursimran Dhillon.

The television nominations were dominated by CBC's Heartland with a whopping thirteen nominations including Best Dramatic Series.

A Special Achievement Award will be presented to actor-comedian Dave Thomas, who is a co-founder of the seminal comedy series SCTV. It was shot in Edmonton from 1980 to 1982.

The 2013 Rosie Awards will be held in Edmonton on May 25 at the Windspear Centre.


The 2013 Alberta Film and Television Awards Finalists

CLASS CATEGORIES

BEST DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Fish Out of Water
Matt Gillespie, Katery Legault, Karen Pickles & Neil Grahn, Producers. Joe Media Group
Hail Mary
Margaret Mardirossian, David Benson & Sophie Mardirossian, Producers. Anaid Productions
Oil Change
D.H. (Don) Metz & Gord Redel, Producers. Aquila Productions
Pet Heroes
Scott Henuset, Sue Bristow & Darin Wilson, Producers. Corkscrew Media

BEST DOCUMENTARY UNDER 30 MINUTES
Cyber Bullying
Alexandra Lazarowich, Producer. BearPaw Media Productions NCSA
Keystone XL Route
Marian Mew, Producer. CBC Alberta
Portrait of My Father
Chris Krieger & Nick Thomas, Producers. ddg
Sweet City Woman - Lip Dub Documentary
Matt Gillespie, Producer. Joe Media Group
The Passion Play
Philip Spink & Zuzana Novak, Producers. The Passion Play Documentary
WHL Full On: The Championship
Tony Planicka, Producer. Shaw Communications

BEST DOCUMENTARY OVER 30 MINUTES
A Second Chance
Rob Kelly, Mike McKeown & Dave Kelly, Producers. Kelly Brothers Productions
A Sorry State
Josh Miller & Lisa Byrne, Producers. Panacea Entertainment
Legend of A Warrior
Susan Bristow, Corey Lee & Bonnie Thompson, Producers. Corkscrew Media, enriquePoe Moving Pictures & National Film Board of Canada
The McDades: Brother, Brother, Sister Making Music
Ray Harper & Yvonne DuBourdieu, Producers. The McDades Production Company
Unclaimed
Michael Jorgensen, Producer. Myth Merchant Films
Vanishing Point
Julia Szucs & David Christensen, Producers. National Film Board of Canada

BEST DRAMATIC SERIES
Bluff
Jewelle Colwell, Producer. SkyeLove Pictures
Heartland
Tom Cox & Jordy Randall, Producers. SEVEN24 Films
Hell On Wheels
Michael Frislev & Chad Oakes, Producers. Nomadic Pictures
Tiny Plastic Men
Camille Beaudoin & Eric Rebalkin, Producers. Mosaic Entertainment

BEST DRAMATIC PRODUCTION UNDER 60 MINUTES
Hyde
Dustin Chouinard & David Heacock, Producers. Zocalo Film Studio & Dustin Photographic
In Your Orbit
Andrea Mann, Producer. Inner Matter Studio
Long Road
Lori Ravensborg, Producer. Ravenlore Productions & Red Deer College

BEST DRAMA MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES
Borealis
Tom Cox, Jordy Randall & Andrew Wreggitt, Producers. SEVEN24 Films
I Think I Do
Darren Arsenault, Katrina Beatty, Dylan Pearce, Andrew Scholotiuk, & Josh Miller, Producers. Rocky Mountain Picture Company
Merry In-Laws
Michael Frislev & Chad Oakes, Producer. Nomadic Pictures
The Beekeeper
Jim Durward, Producer. Fast Five Films
Truckstop Bloodsuckers
Camille Beaudoin & Eric Rebalkin, Producers. Mosaic Entertainment

BEST DRAMATIC FEATURE FILM
Cody Fitz
Kurtis David Harder & Dustin Saxton, Producers. Umbrella Collective Films
Ferocious
Carolyn McMaster, Producer. CHAOS A Film Company
Kept
Bradley Stuckel, Krunoslav Malnar, Josip Condic, Producers. Plainsight Pictures & Dalmation. Coast Productions
PSEUDO Blood Of Our Own
Harsimran Dhillon, Producer. Canadian Bollywood Films
Rufus
Bruce Harvey & Dave Schultz, Producers. Lonely Boy Productions AB

BEST NEWS SERIES
Alberta Primetime
Rod Tweddle, Producer. CTV Two Alberta
Breakfast Television Edmonton - Christmas Sale and Show
Colin McGarrigle & Claudette Germain, Producer. City Edmonton
CTV News at Six, G4S Shooting
Stephanie Prues, Producer. CTV Edmonton / Bell Media

BEST NEWS FEATURE
Alberta Primetime "Storage Wars Alberta"
Daniel Baldassarre, Producer. CTV Two Alberta
Beluga
Dave Litman, Producer. Leader Productions
CBC TV News: From the Ashes
Briar Stewart & Terry Reith, Producers. CBC Edmonton
Diamond Trade
Erin Collins, Producer. CBC Calgary
Friday Night Lights - Okotoks Falcons Football
Alanna Nolan, Producer. Shaw TV Calgary
Sun Child Bisons Football
Adam Cook, Producer. CTV Edmonton / Bell Media

BEST DAILY NEWSCAST
CBC Calgary News at 6
Brooks DeCillia & Leslie Kramer, Producers. CBC Calgary
CBC Edmonton News
Neill Fitzpatrick, Producer. CBC Edmonton
CBC Calgary News at 11
Brooks DeCillia & Diane Yanko, Producers. CBC Calgary
Global Calgary News Hour
Shannon Morrow, Producer. Global Calgary
Global Edmonton News Hour
Michael Fulmes, Producer. Global Edmonton

BEST INFORMATION OR LIFESTYLE SERIES
Breakfast Television
Jennifer Baier & Andrea Pescod, Producers. City Calgary
OMNI's - Multicultural Heroes
Jimmy Bustos & Richard Hardy, Producers. Deslur Films
Out of the Shadows
Rolfe Johannson, Producer. Shaw Cable Systems GP
Showhome Parade
Simon Morgan, Producer. Lindisfarne Productions (AB)
TELUS Optik Local: myEdmonton – “McCawley Apartments”
Blair Miller, Prem Gill, Marni Wedin, Laura O'Grady, Matthew Embry & Ravinder Minhas, Producers. Spotlight Productions
The Proposal
Angelika Gawronski, Producer. Shaw TV Edmonton

BEST TELEVISION COMMERCIAL UNDER $50K
Calgary Fringe Festival
Nick Thomas & Chris Krieger, Producers. ddg
Hughes Car Wash - "Firemen"
Blake McWilliam, Producer. Back Road Productions
Mattress Mattress - "Racecar"
Blake McWilliam, Producer. Back Road Productions
Mountain Crest Blonde
Matt Embry & Ravinder Minhas, Producers. Spotlight Productions
Royal Tyrrell Museum –“They Never Left”
John Cameron, Producer. White Iron
Uptown Girl
Matt Embry & Ravinder Minhas, Producers. Spotlight Productions

BEST TELEVISION COMMERCIAL OVER $50K
Bayer – “Portraits”
Matt Gillespie & Richard Cairns, Producers. Joe Media Group
Crystal Glass - "Brand X"
Hans J. Dys, Producer. FILMBratz Productions
Enbridge NGP – “Safety”
Steve Seeley, Robb Thompson, Dan Pawych, Anne Marie Martignago, Kent Toth, Shelley Cornies, Calvin Sun & Mike Seehagel, Producers. Studio Dialog
Office of Traffic Safety - "Young Drivers"
Hans J. Dys, Producer. FILMBratz Productions
Toyota – “Think Again”
Matt Gillespie, Missy Venaas & Richard Cairns, Producers. Joe Media Group
Transalta – “The Demo”
Matt Gillespie, Missy Venaas, Sue Hutch & Richard Cairns, Producers. Joe Media Group

BEST PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT (PSA)
Calgary Homeless Foundation
Kaelen Ohm, Producer. White Iron
Healthy U - "Alexander First Nation"
Hans J. Dys, Producer. FILMBratz Productions
Father Involvement Initiative - “Game Time”
Simon Morgan, Producer. Lindisfarne Productions (AB)
Father Involvement Initiative - “Tea Time”
Simon Morgan, Producer. Lindisfarne Productions (AB)
Little Warriors - "Hit"
Hans J. Dys, Producer. FILMBratz Productions
Little Warriors - "Prey"
Hans J. Dys, Producer. FILMBratz Productions

BEST MOTIVATIONAL PRODUCTION
Enbridge – “Marshall”
Mike Little, Producer. White Iron
Hand Hygiene - "High 5 Guy"
Hans J. Dys, Producer. FILMBratz Productions
Missing Tim
Mike McKeown, Producer. Kelly Brothers Productions
Science Alberta - "Chemical Engineers"
Jeff August, Producer. Jump Studio
Science Alberta – “Careers in Pipelines”
Steve Seeley, Robb Thompson, Kent Toth, Shelley Cornies, Calvin Sun & Angie Chiang, Producers. Studio Dialog
Working Together With Autism
Mike McKeown, Producer. Kelly Brothers Productions

BEST PROMOTIONAL PRODUCTION
Crave Cupcakes – “Celebrate the Little Things”
Nick Thomas & Chris Krieger, Producers. ddg
Equine Award of Excellence
Mike Little, Producer. White Iron
Love Lies Bleeding
Jean Merriman & Braun Farnon, Producers. White Iron
Tails Trailer
Mike Little, Producer. White Iron
The Bow – “Art in Public Space”
Kerrie Penney, Producer. Freshwater Creative
William F. White Tribute
John Kerr, Producer. Crowsnest Films

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Champion
Mitch Lee, Producer. Redemption
Dig Gravedigger Dig
Matt Gillespie & Romina Imani, Producers. Joe Media Group
"Impasse" by Walk As Chaos
Doug Cook, Producer. Douglas Cook
Out Of Sight
Bruce Harvey & Dave Schultz, Producers. Lonely Boy Productions AB
Reuben and The Dark
Nick Thomas & Chris Krieger, Producers. ddg
Sweet City Woman - Lip Dub
Matt Gillespie & Sue Hutch, Producers. Joe Media Group

BEST MUSICAL OR VARIETY SPECIAL
Alberta Comedy Spectacular - "The New West"
Scott Henuset, Steve Glassman, Brent Kawchuk & Michelle Wong, Producers. Corkscrew Media
Chantal Kreviazuk: Live at Jackson Triggs
Scott Henuset & Brent Kawchuk, Producers. Corkscrew Media
City New Year's Bash 2013
Paul Schmidt, Producer. City Calgary
Corb Lund: Cabin Fever
Steve Glassman, Producer. CBC Alberta
Love Lies Bleeding
Braun Farnon & Jean Merriman, Producers. White Iron Pictures
Stampede 100: A Celebration of 100 Years of the Calgary Stampede
Steve Glassman, Producer. CBC Calgary

BEST CROSS- PLATFORM OR TRANSMEDIA PROJECT
Ahluwalia & Abbasi: Unplugged on the Upper East Side
Punam Kumar Gill, Producer. Punamarts
Alberta Votes 2012 - Election 2012
Neill Fitzpatrick & Brooks DeCillia, Producers. CBC Alberta
Elections Provincial Alberta 2012
Dave Shymanski & J-M Duchesne, Producers. CBC Alberta
Leaks and Losses: Calgary's Leaky Condo Crisis
Kyle Bakx & Brooks DeCillia, Producers. CBC Calgary
Next Stop: Connecting Calgary's C-Train
Scott Dippel, Tara Weber & Brooks DeCillia, Producers. CBC Calgary
Slave Lake: From the Ashes
Michael Leschart, Michelle Bellefontaine & Bill Stadel, Producer. CBC Edmonton

BEST DIGITAL PROGRAM OR PROJECT
Alpine Canada - Ashleigh McIvor
Nick Thomas & Chris Krieger, Producers. ddg
Bayer Liberty
Steve Seeley, Robb Thompson, Calvin Sun, Mike Seehagel, Kent Toth, MacLaren McCann, Producers. Studio Dialog
Bear 71
Bonnie Thompson & David Christensen, Producers. National Film Board of Canada
Lifetime Video Zine - Sled Island 2012
Nick Thomas & Chris Krieger, Producers. ddg
Suncor - Celebrating the 100th Edition of OSQAR
Jeremy Chugg, Producer. Freshwater Creative
Travel Alberta Stories
Matt Gillespie & Jim Thalheimer, Producers. Joe Media Group

BEST SHORT
Glue
Eric Becker & Shirley Vercruysse, Producers. Lazy Susan Productions
Granny Baby
Eva Colmers, Producer. No Problem Productions
If You Really Knew Me
Jill Clark, Producer. Pangloss Productions
Poor Billy
Christian Goutsis & Dan McManus, Producers. Six Degrees
Skeleton Girl
Becky Scott & Leo Wieser, Producers. Skeleton Girl Productions
Walk In The Park
Carlo Ghioni, Producer. Animoralda Media

BEST STUDENT PRODUCTION
Dear 604 / Chere 604
Shawn Knievel & Amanda Trimble, Producers. Red Deer College Motion Picture Arts
Ditch
Shawn Knievel, Producer. Red Deer College Motion Picture Arts
Max
Stephen Sander, Producer. SAIT Polytechnic Film & Video
Riot
Kyle Mosonyi, Producer. Red Deer College Motion Picture Arts
So You're A Quarter Dead
Stephen Sander, Producer. SAIT Polytechnic Film & Video
Til Death Do Us Part
Cody Boyd, Justin Cauti & Sam Reid, Producers. Red Deer College Motion Picture Arts

BEST PRODUCTION REFLECTING CULTURAL DIVERSITY
A Sorry State
Josh Miller & Lisa Byrne, Producers. Panacea Entertainment
Get Your Boots On
Jean Merriman & Karen Sveinson, Producers. White Iron
Sacred Cinema
Mark G. Power & Dawn-Lynne Duffy, Producers. Digital Paradigm
TELUS Optik Local: myEdmonton – “McCaulley Apartments”
Blair Miller, Prem Gill, Marni Wedin, Laura O'Grady, Matthew Embry & Ravinder Minhas, Producers. Spotlight Productions
The Kainai Story
Lindsay Speer, Producer. The Idea Factory!
Vanishing Point
Julia Szucs & David Christensen, Producers. National Film Board of Canada

CRAFT CATEGORIES

BEST DIRECTOR (DRAMA UNDER 30 MINUTES)
Carlo Ghioni, Walk In The Park
Christopher Cinnamon, The Sound of Willie Nelson's Guitar
Dave Schultz, Out Of Sight
Francis Damberger, Tiny Plastic Men - "Unforgiven"
John Kerr, William F. White Tribute
Michal Lavi, Glue

BEST DIRECTOR (DRAMA OVER 30 MINUTES)
Dave Schultz, Rufus
Dean Bennett, Heartland – “The Road Ahead”
Dylan Pearce, I Think I Do
Galen Pendleton, Truckstop Bloodsuckers
Grant Harvey, Heartland – “Helping Hands”
Robert Cuffley, Ferocious

BEST DIRECTOR (NON-FICTION UNDER 30 MINUTES)
Alexandra Lazarowich, Cyber Bullying
Jim Thalheimer, Destination Calgary
Kelly Wolfert, Blow in the Dark/Keith Walker
Mike Little, Equine Award of Excellence
Mike Little, Tails Trailer
Philip Spink, The Passion Play

BEST DIRECTOR (NON-FICTION OVER 30 MINUTES)
Corey Lee, Legend of A Warrior
Hans Olson, The Auctioneer
Michael Jorgensen, Unclaimed
Mike Beley, Oil Change - Overdrive
Rob Kelly, A Second Chance
Stephen A. Smith & Julia Szucs, Vanishing Point

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ALBERTA ACTOR
Duncan Ollerenshaw, Hell On Wheels - "Scabs"
Gino Akbari, The Beekeeper
Nathaniel Arcand, Heartland - "Waiting for Tomorrow"
Paul Sutherland, Ditch
Peter Strand Rumpel, Black Hills
Shaun Johnston, Heartland – “The Road Ahead”

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ALBERTA ACTRESS
Aimee Beaudoin, Truckstop Bloodsuckers
Belinda Cornish, Tiny Plastic Men - "Pleasing Petra"
Kassia Warshawski, Merry In-Laws
Myla Southward, In Your Orbit
Onalea Gilbertson, Home
Sydney Bell, Hell On Wheels - "Slaughterhouse"

BEST TELEVISION HOST
Jennifer Martin, Alberta Primetime
Jill Belland, Breakfast Television
Leah Sarich, Breakfast Television
Ryan Jesperson, Breakfast Television
Tara Stone, Breakfast Television
Ted Henley, City New Year's Bash 2013

BEST NARRATOR
Corey Loranger, Dear 604 / Chere 604
Corey Loranger, Je Suis
Gord Marriott, Oil Change - Overdrive
Gord Marriott, Western Swagger
Jim Thalheimer, Hockey Marathon - Game of a Lifetime
Richard Hardy, OMNI's - Multicultural Heroes

BEST SCREENWRITER (DRAMA UNDER 30 MINUTES)
Cameron Chapman, The Sound of Willie Nelson's Guitar
Cameron Macgowan, Black Hills
Chris Craddock, Mark Meer, Matt Alden, Tony Binns, Riley Beach, Tiny Plastic Men - "Unforgiven"
Jill Clark & Christianne Hirt-Shaw, If You Really Knew Me
Michal Lavi & Cathy Ostlere, Glue
Sandi Somers, Home

BEST SCREENWRITER (DRAMA OVER 30 MINUTES)
Andrew Wreggitt, Borealis
Dave Schultz, Rufus
Jim Durward, The Beekeeper
Mark Haroun, Heartland – “Do The Right Thing”
Robert Cuffley, Ferocious
Tony Binns & Lindsey McNeill, Truckstop Bloodsuckers

BEST SCREENWRITER (NONFICTION UNDER 30 MINUTES)
Dave Kelly, Missing Tim
Jeremy Chugg, Suncor - Celebrating the 100th Edition of OSQAR
Jim Warner, Hail Mary – “Fake It Won't Make It”
Jordan Scott, Pet Heroes
Kelly Wolfert, Skills Alberta 2012
Paige Boudreau, NASCAR - "Pocono Tease"

BEST SCREENWRITER (NONFICTION OVER 30 MINUTES)
Corey Lee, Legend of A Warrior
Jimmy Bustos & Richard Hardy, OMNI's - Multicultural Heroes
Mark G. Power, Ben Coxworth, Jimmy Bustos & Bill Uren, Sacred Cinema
Michael Jorgensen, Unclaimed
Scot Morison, Oil Change - Overdrive
Steven A. Smith, Julia Szucs & Marina Endicott, Vanishing Point

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER (DRAMA UNDER 30 MINUTES)
Craig Wrobleski, Out Of Sight
Craig Wrobleski, Glue
Craig Wrobleski, Lindsay Ell - "Music Is..."
Kaelen Ohm, The Ride
Mike McLaughlin, Granny Baby
Shawn Knievel, Dear 604 / Chere 604

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER (DRAMA OVER 30 MINUTES)
Andrew Scholotiuk, I Think I Do
Bradley Stuckel, Kept
Bradley Stuckel, PSEUDO Blood Of Our Own
Craig Wrobleski, Heartland – “The Road Ahead”
Craig Wrobleski, Rufus
Kyle Mosonyi, Riot

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER (NONFICTION UNDER 30 MINUTES)
Allan Leader, Hail Mary – “Open Tryouts Cincinnati”
Dan Dumouchel, Destination Calgary
Mike McLaughlin, Cyber Bullying
Philip Spink, The Passion Play
Shaun Henning, Travel Alberta Stories
Thomas Dudley, TELUS Optik Local: myCalgary "Drag Queen Confidential"

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER (NON-FICTION OVER 30 MINUTES)
Allan Leader, Unclaimed
Bryce York & Sergio Olivares, Oil Change - Overdrive
Jarrett Craig, Legend of A Warrior
Mike McLaughlan, The Auctioneer
Randy Tommiuk, Kelley Wolfert, & Andrew Scholotiuk, A Sorry State
Ryan Hollings, A Second Chance

BEST EDITOR (DRAMA UNDER 30 MINUTES)
Brent Waters, William F. White Tribute
Craig Hall, Painted Black
Eric Boudreau, Glue
Howard Wirth, Transalta - The Demo
Ken Filewych, Out Of Sight
Ken Filewych, Black Hills

BEST EDITOR (DRAMA OVER 30 MINUTES)
Bridget Durnford, Hell On Wheels - "Blood Moon"
Bridget Durnford, Merry In-Laws
Ken Filewych, Heartland – “The Road Ahead”
Ken Filewych, Ferocious
Ken Filewych, Rufus
Simon Morgan, Homeward Trust - Perspectives on Housing First Program

BEST EDITOR (NON-FICTION UNDER 30 MINUTES)
Dean Evans, TELUS Optik Local: myCalgary - "Drag Queen Confidential"
Howard Wirth & Matt Gillespie, Destination Calgary
Krystal Moss, Cyber Bullying
Michael McIntosh, Oil Change Overdrive - Behind the Scenes
Mike Schmidt, ATB - Long Love This Land
Steve Katakami, Hail Mary – “Just Three Days”

BEST EDITOR (NON-FICTION OVER 30 MINUTES
Brenda Terning, The McDades: Brother, Brother, Sister Making Music
Doug Forbes, Western Swagger
Glenn Sakatch, Love Lies Bleeding
Jonathan Mathew & Nick Zacharkiw, Unclaimed
Paul Smart & Wes Belair, Oil Change - Overdrive
Scott Parker, Vanishing Point

BEST OVERALL SOUND (DRAMA UNDER 30 MINUTES)
Alec Harrison, Transalta - The Demo
Dewi Wood & Ron Osiowy, The Sound of Willie Nelson's Guitar
Frank Laratta, Skeleton Girl
Jeff Sinclair & Jonas Hurtig, Poor Billy
John Iaquinta, John Sawa & Chris Vail, Paranormal Activity 4
Jonas Hurtig, Le Premier Combat

BEST OVERALL SOUND (DRAMA OVER 30 MINUTES)
Frank Laratta, Rufus
Garrell Clark & Geo Major, Borealis
Garrell Clark, John Blerot & Ian Armstrong, I Think I Do
George Tarrant & Michael Leder, Heartland – “Running Against The Wind”
Michael Playfair & Frank Laratta, Hell On Wheels - "Blood Moon Rising"
Michael Playfair & Frank Laratta, Merry In-Laws

BEST OVERALL SOUND (NONFICTION UNDER 30 MINUTES)
Beau Shiminsky, MMVA 2012
Carey Opper, Hail Mary Eps – “Open Tryouts Cincinnati”
Frank Laratta, AdFarm - Alberta Beef "Famous Taste"
John Iaquinta, ESPN Euro 2012 Opening

BEST OVERALL SOUND (NONFICTION OVER 30 MINUTES)
Beau Shiminsky, A Second Chance
Garrell Clark, John Blerot & Ian Armstrong, A Sorry State
John Blerot, Unclaimed
Justan Ross, John Iaquinta & Jeff Sinclair, Legend of A Warrior
Perry Blackman, Larry MacDonald & Brett Ardiel, The Auctioneer
Stephen A. Smith, David Poisey, Brent Planiden, Matt Coffey & Patrick Butler, Vanishing Point

BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL SCORE (DRAMA UNDER 30 MINUTES)
Aaron Marcri, Tiny Plastic Men - "Business Gay"
Alec Harrison & Andrea Wettstein, Poor Billy
Cayley Thomas-Haug & Curtis Reid, Granny Baby
Dewi Wood, The Sound of Willie Nelson's Guitar
Jeff Bray, Windsage
John Abram, Glue

BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL SCORE (DRAMA OVER 30 MINUTES)
Aaron Macri, Truckstop Bloodsuckers
Mike Shields, Ferocious

BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL SCORE (NON-FICTION UNDER 30 MINUTES)
Andrea Wettstein, Travel Alberta Stories
Mike Shields, Destination Calgary
Mike Shields, ATB - Long Love This Land
Mike Shields, Travel Alberta Stories
Mitch Lee, Landscapes
Todd Forsbloom & Tomas Brabec, Nexen's United Way Kickoff Campaign

BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL SCORE (NON-FICTION OVER 30 MINUTES)
Alec Harrison & Andrea Wettstein, Legend of A Warrior
Laura Vinson & Dave Martineau, Wildie
Mike Shields, Western Swagger
Mike Shields, Unclaimed
Ivan Reese, Mapping Creativity
Beau Shiminsky, A Second Chance

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGNER / ART DIRECTOR
Jay Coxworthy, Merry In-Laws
John Blackie & Bill Ives, Hell On Wheels -"The Lord's Day"
Louise Middleton, Borealis
Peter Kirkegaard & Jason Coxworthy, Transalta - The Demo
Rick Roberts, Heartland – “The Road Ahead”

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER
Andre Ricard, Heartland – “Helping Hands”
Carol Case, Hell On Wheels - "The Lord's Day"
Jennifer Haffenden, Borealis
Jennifer Haffenden, Rufus
Jennifer Haffenden, Out Of Sight
Tim Rutherford, Twas the Night of the Tree Beast

BEST MAKE-UP ARTIST
Gail Kennedy, Hell On Wheels - "Blood Moon Rising"
Gail Kennedy, Borealis
Lisa Belyea, Dig Gravedigger Dig
Sarah McGaw, Truckstop Bloodsuckers
Sharon Toohey, Merry In-Laws

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Darren Bierman, Rufus
Graham Melley, Core
John Cameron, Tails Trailer
Ken Bitz & Jason Lavoie, The Garden Swing
Ken Bitz & Jason Lavoie (Computer Generated), Heartland - "The Road Ahead"
Leo Weiser (Practical), Heartland - “The Road Ahead”

BEST ANIMATOR / MOTION GRAPHIC ARTIST(S)
Carlo Ghioni, Walk In The Park, Animoralda Media
Jeff Bray & Oliver Balmokune, Windsage
Leo Wieser & Steven Hanulik, Skeleton Girl
Steve Seeley, Robb Thompson & Shelley Cornies, Calvin Sun, Mike Seehagel, Enbridge NGP - Safety
Steve Seeley, Robb Thompson, Calvin Sun & Mike Seehagel, Bayer Liberty
Steve Seeley, Robb Thompson, Shelley Cornies, Calvin Sun & Mike Seehagel, Hail Mary – “Open Tryouts Cincinnati”

The Deutsche Filmakademie (German Film Academy) held the ceremonay last night for the 63rd Deutscher Filmpreis or "Lolas" at the Berliner Friedrichstadt-Palast. The evening was hosted by Mirjam Weichselbraun.

The top winner of the night was the comedic feature Oh Boy by Jan Ole Gerster. It won six prizes total including Beat Film – Gold. It also won for Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actor (Tom Schilling), Best Supporting Actor (Michael Gwisdek), Best Editor and Best Film Music.

The winner for Best Film – Silver was Hannah Arendt by Margarethe von Trotta. It also won for Best Actress (Barbara Sukowa). The Best Film – Bronze winner was Cate Shortland's Lore.

The big-budget Cloud Atlas by Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer won the second-most trophies with five. But they were all in the Technical and Craft categories including Makeup – which controversially had actors crossing race and gender lines. The sprawling three-hour film had led the nominations with nine.

Werner Herzog received an Honourary Award for outstanding contribution to German film. The winner of the Audience Awards was Schlussmacher by Matthias Schweighöfer.

Nominations for the 63rd annual Deutscher Filmpreis


Complete list of winners for the 63rd annual Deutscher Filmpreis

Best Film
Gold – Oh Boy, Marcos Kantis, Alexander Wadouh; Director: Jan Ole Gerster
Silver – Hannah Arendt, Bettina Brokemper; Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Bronze – Lore Karsten Stöter, Benny Drechsel; Director: Cate Shortland

Best Documentary
More Than Honey, Thomas Kufus, Helmut Grasser, Pierre-Alain Meier; Director: Markus Imhoof

Best Children's Film
Kaddisch für einen Freund (Kaddish for a Friend), Martin Bach; Director: Leo Khasin

Best Screenplay
Jan Ole Gerster, Oh Boy

Best Director
Jan Ole Gerster, Oh Boy

Best Actress
Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Arendt

Best Actor
Tom Schilling, Oh Boy

Best Supporting Actress
Christine Schorn, Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge (Life Is not for Cowards)

Best Supporting Actor
Michael Gwisdek, Oh Boy

Best Cinematographer
John Toll, Frank Griebe, Cloud Atlas

Best Editor
Alexander Berner, Cloud Atlas

Best Production Design
Uli Hanisch, Hugh Bateup, Cloud Atlas

Best Costume Design
Kym Barrett, Pierre-Yves Gayraud, Cloud Atlas

Best Makeup
Daniel Parker, Jeremy Woodhead, Cloud Atlas

Best Film Music
The Major Minors, Cherilyn MacNeil, Oh Boy

Best Sound
Christian Bischoff, Uve Haussig, Johannes Konecny, Die Wand (The Wall)

Honourary Award
Werner Herzog

Audience Award
Schlussmacher, Matthias Schweighöfer

The Toronto Fringe Festival has announced a call for submissions for its program The 100, a free immersive summer program for 100 emerging artists at the Toronto Fringe. The details are as follows:

The Fringe 100

If you join The 100 you will be given a free, all-access VIP pass to the Toronto Fringe Festival, as well as professional development, mentorship, arts immersion and networking opportunities. During our 12 day festival, you will be empowered to actively engage and interact with Fringe patrons, take workshops with leading industry professionals, learn tips & tricks from intimate artist-mentors and develop entrepreneurial skills under the guidance of Fringe staff and associates.

Workshops and Tent Talks: During the Festival we bring together industry professionals to lead workshops, tent talks and initiate social activations. Our goal is to provide you with practical tools and methods in order to gain a deeper understanding of the industry while learning from leaders in the community.

Mentorship: We connect you to artistic mentors who will offer guidance and advice while linking you to the inner-workings of the Festival and the artistic community.

All Access Fringe Pass: You’ll be given an all access pass to the Fringe Festival and encouraged to see as many shows as you can with your group. Staff and mentors will offer insider tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your Fringe experience.

Social Activations at the Fringe Club: The 100 will have a home-base in the middle of the action at Fringe Club. There, you’ll connect with audience and artists during our ‘100 activations’. These activations will encourage you to use the skills and tools that you’ve been given in workshops in new and innovative ways. Total immersion in everything Fringe!

Ideal participants are:

1. Between the ages of 17 and 25
2. Emerging artists who have a strong interest in producing, marketing, audience development, fundraising, networking and artistic development.
3. Curious about engaging in theatre and the arts.
4. Available during afternoons and evenings of the Festival (July 3-14^th, 2013)
5. Passionate about exploring the world of The Toronto Fringe!

*We encourage participants of all artistic backgrounds to apply; all levels of experience are welcome.

To apply: click here

The deadline for submission is Thursday June 6, 2013 by 5:00 p.m. (EST).

For additional information please contact:

Carys Lewis at outreach@fringetoronto.com

Please note we will only accept online applications.

http://fringetoronto.com/artists/youth/the-100/

Thirty-eight students from 17 U.S. colleges and universities as well as nine students from foreign universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Student Academy Awards competition. Winners will be brought to Los Angeles for a week of industry activities and social events that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):

Alternative
Beyond the Spheres, Meghdad Asadi Lari, Rochester Institute of Technology
Bottled Up, Rafael Cortina, Occidental College
Bye Hyungjik, Hyungjik Lee, Florida State University
The Compositor, John Mattiuzzi, School of Visual Arts
File Not Found, Maria Sequeira, University of Southern California
The Pirate of Love, Sara Gunnarsdottir, California Institute of the Arts
Zug, Perry Janes, University of Michigan

Animation
Couch & Potatoes, Chris Lam and Eunsoo Jeong, San Jose State University
Dia de los Muertos, Lindsey St. Pierre and Ashley Graham, Ringling College of Art and Design
Drifters, Ethan Clarke, California Institute of the Arts
Make a Wish, Hee Jin Kim, School of Visual Arts
Peck Pocketed, Kevin Herron, Ringling College of Art and Design
Runaway, Emily Buchanan and Esther Parobek, Ringling College of Art and Design
Still I Breathe, Sang Ho Lee and Zack Lydon , School of Visual Arts
Watercolors, Robert Kornstein, New York University
Will, Eusong Lee, California Institute of the Arts

Documentary
The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist, Mark Columbus, University of California, Los Angeles
Every Tuesday: A Portrait of The New Yorker Cartoonists, Rachel Loube, School of Visual Arts
Everybody’s Business, Laura Green, Stanford University
Graceland Girls, Jordan Theresa Salvatoriello, Emerson College
A Second Chance, David Aristizabal, University of Southern California
Through the Fire, Eunice Lau, New York University
Vultures of Tibet, Russell O. Bush, University of Texas at Austin
Win or Lose, Daniel Koehler, Elon University
Wonder Workshop, Amitabh Joshi and Erik Spink, School of Visual Arts

Narrative
Caught, Bruce Li, New York University
Cootie Contagion, Joshua Smooha, Florida State University
Footsteps, Thomas (Hyungkyun) Kim, New York University
Josephine and the Roach, Jonathan Langager, University of Southern California
Kalifornija, Tomas Vengris, American Film Institute
The Midwife’s Husband, Deja Bernhardt, University of Texas at Austin
Ol’ Daddy, Brian Schwarz, University of Texas at Austin
Samnang, Asaph Polonsky, American Film Institute
Un Mundo para Raúl (A World for Raúl), Mauro Mueller, Columbia University

Foreign Film
Erbgut (Liquidation), Matthias Zuder, Hamburg Media School, Germany
För Sverige i Tiden (King of Sweden), Jonas Westbom, Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, Sweden
Kanyekanye, Miklas Manneke, AFDA The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and
Live Performance, South Africa
The Library of Burned Books, Alasdair Beckett-King, London Film School, United Kingdom
Miss Todd, Kristina Yee, National Film and Television School, United Kingdom
MO, Jakub Kouril, FAMU, Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic
Parvaneh, Talkhon Hamzavi, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
To Guard a Mountain, Izer Aliu, The Norwegian Filmschool, Norway
Tweesprong (Crossroads), Wouter Bouvijn, Rits School of Arts, Erasmus College Brussels, Belgium

To reach this stage, U.S. students competed in one of three regional competitions. Each region is permitted to send to the Academy up to three finalists in each of the four categories. The Student Academy Awards Executive Committee screened and voted on the finalists in the Foreign Film category.

The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. Past Student Academy Award® winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar® nominations and have won or shared eight awards. Notable alums include John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.

The 40th Student Academy Awards ceremony on June 8 is free and open to the public, but advance tickets are required. Tickets are available now online at www.oscars.org, in person at the Academy box office, or by mail. The Samuel Goldwyn Theater is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. For more information, call (310) 247-3600.

Friday night at a reception hosted by Jian Ghomeshi (CBC Radio One’s Q) at the Windsor Arms Hotel, 11 awards and $89,000 in cash and prizes were presented to Canadian and international filmmakers, including awards for Festival films in competition and those recognizing emerging and established filmmakers.

Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award
WHEN I WALK (D: Jason DaSilva; P: Jason DaSilva, Alice Cook; USA, Canada)
Sponsored by the Documentary Organization of Canada, the award includes a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of Hot Docs.
An additional screening has been added on Sunday, May 5, at 6:30 pm at the Isabel Bader Theatre.

Special Jury Prize – Canadian Feature Documentary
ALPHÉE OF THE STARS (D: Hugo Latulippe; P: Colette Loumède, Éric De Gheldere, Hugo Latulippe; Canada)
Sponsored by the Directors Guild of Canada and DGC-Ontario, the award includes a $5000 cash prize courtesy of Hot Docs.

documentary Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award
Director Nicolas Renaud for BRAVE NEW RIVER (Canada)
Awarded to a first- or second-time Canadian filmmaker with a feature film in the Canadian Spectrum program, the award includes a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of documentary.

Best International Feature Documentary Award
DRAGON GIRLS (D: Inigo Westmeier; P: Inigo Westmeier, Andreas Simon; Germany)
Sponsored by A&E, the award includes a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of Hot Docs.
An additional screening has been added on Sunday, May 5, at 6:30 pm at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.

Special Jury Prize – International Feature Documentary
CLOUDY MOUNTAINS (D: Zhu Yu; P: Han Lei; China)
Sponsored by the Ontario Media Development Corporation, the award includes a $5000 cash prize courtesy of Hot Docs.

HBO Documentary Films Emerging Artist Award
Director Lotfy Nathan for 12 O’CLOCK BOYS (USA)
Sponsored by HBO Documentary Films, the award includes a $3000 cash prize courtesy of Hot Docs.

Best Mid-Length Documentary
THE CIRCLE (D: Bram Conjaerts; P: Kobe Van Steenberghe, Hendrik Verthé; Belgium)
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts, the award includes a $3000 cash prize courtesy of Hot Docs.

Best Short Documentary Award
NOTES ON BLINDNESS: RAINFALL (D: James Spinney, Peter Middleton; P: Peter Middleton, Jen Kerrison; UK, Australia)
The award includes a $3000 prize courtesy of Hot Docs.
Hot Docs is an Academy Award® qualifying festival for short documentaries, and as winner of the Best Short Documentary Award NOTES ON BLINDNESS: RAINFALL will qualify for consideration in the Documentary Short Subject category of the Annual Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided it complies with Academy rules.

Inspirit Foundation Pluralism Prize
Director Khoa Lê for BÀ NỘI (Canada)
Selected by the Inspirit Foundation, the award includes a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of the Inspirit Foundation.
An additional screening of BÀ NỘI has been added on Sunday, May 5, at 7:30 pm at the Hart House Theatre.

Lindalee Tracey Award
This award honouring an emerging Canadian filmmaker with a passionate point of view, a strong sense of social justice and a sense of humour, was presented to two recipients: Antoine Bourges and Rocco Barriuso, both of Toronto.
Each recipient received a $5000 cash prize from Tides/Lindalee Tracey Fund and $5000 in production services from Technicolour Canada.

2013 Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award
Les Blank
Having tragically passed away on April 7, 2013, the award was accepted on his behalf by Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling, his longtime friends and collaborators.

documentary’s Don Haig Award
Winnipeg-based producer Merit Jensen Carr
This award includes a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of documentary.

2013 Doc Mogul Award
Debra Zimmerman (Executive Director, Women Make Movies)

The Netflix Audience Award and audience top ten favourite films of the 2013 Festival, determined by audience ballot, will be announced on Monday, May 6. The public can contribute to a cash prize for the Netflix Audience Award on Hot Docs’ crowd funding service Doc Ignite. Also announced on this day is the Filmmaker Award, determined by ballots cast by Hot Docs 2013 filmmakers.

The 2013 awards for films in competition were determined by three juries.

The Canadian Feature Documentary Jury: Karen Gordon (film reviewer, CBC Radio One’s Metro Morning), Michał Marczak (director, FUCK FOR FOREST), Katherine Monk (national movie writer, Postmedia News Service), Roxanne Sayegh (executive director, Montreal International Documentary Festival).

The International Feature Documentary Jury: Dan Berger (acquisitions, Oscilloscope) Leslie Feist (musician), Raoul Peck (director, FATAL ASSISTANCE), Dawn Porter (director, GIDEON’S ARMY).

The Shorts and Mid-Length Jury: Susan MacKinnon (producer), Ann Pick (producer, director), Rick Salutin (author and journalist, The Toronto Star).

It was a big night for The Walt Disney Studios at the 14th Annual Golden Trailer Awards at the Saban Theatre on Friday night. The preview for Iron Man 3 took two awards, Best Summer Blockbuster and the top prize, Best In Show. The Wreck It Ralph trailer nabbed Best Animation/Family, Monsters University had the Most Original Trailer, and as a capper, Disney studio marketers were given the first-ever Top Of The Box Office award for their campaign on 2012’s Marvel’s The Avengers. The studio got two additional offstage nods for Best Animation/Family TV Spot on Monsters University and Most Original Spot for Brave.

Between volleys of jokes by headliner Rob Schneider host Aisha Tyler, 18 of 67 total awards were handed out. Justin Chon of the Twilight movies presented, as did Lake Bell, writer, director and star of In A World…, a critically acclaimed new comedy which has its dramatic climax at a Golden Trailer Awards ceremony.

Among other kudos, the Skyfall promo took Best Action, and Best Documentary went to the Brooklyn Castle trailer, and Best Video Game went to the Tomb Raider preview. The 18 show awards are listed below. The full list, which includes the best of the year in TV Spots, posters, foreign trailers, festival trailers and more, can be found on the Golden Trailer website.

The heroes of the GTA show are trailer cutters— the people whose artistry has turned movie ads into wildly popular entertainment, generating over 5 billion streams a year. Stand-out agencies at last night’s event were Trailer Park, for the Iron Man 3 and Monsters University trailers, and Buddha Jones, which won trophies for Best Independent Trailer for Silver Linings Playbook, Best Horror for Mama, and the coveted Golden Fleece Award—best trailer for a bad movie—for Hit and Run.

Evelyn Brady-Watters reflected, “It’s thrilling when innovative trailers for small dramas or docs win Best In Show, but this year, the blockbusters really show off the power of a great, creative trailer. The Iron Man 3 preview is a world-wide phenomenon, and last year’s two-time nominee for Marvel’s The Avengers anchored a campaign that earned $1.5 billion and our new Top of the Box Office award.”

Monica Brady, Executive Producer of the GTA, added “This year we’re seeing such well-crafted material, with great sound design. At the theater the other night, the audience was actually clapping for the trailers – they’re really gearing people up for this summer season.”

Founded in 1999, the Golden Trailer Awards are the world’s top honors for Movie Previews and Marketing. The 2013 jury comprised: Bill Block, Producer and CEO of QED International (District 9); Brian Cavanaugh-Jones, Producer/President, Automatik Entertainment (Safe); Daniel Diamond, President of QED International (You Got Served); Andrew Dunn, Cinematographer (The Perks of Being a Wallflower); Drew Goddard, Writer/Director (Cabin in the Woods); Angelique Higgins, Producer and Partner in Launchpad Productions; Andrew Panay, Producer and CEO of Panay Films (Hit and Run); David Paterson, Producer (Bridge to Terabithia); Nicholas Stoller, Writer/Director (5 Year Engagement); and Lee David Zlotoff, Writer/Producer (MacGyver).


Complete list of winners for the 14th Annual Golden Trailer Awards

*Nominated Trailers are (listed in Alphabetical Order by Film Title)
*Order= Film Title, Studio/Production Company, Trailer house

Best in Show
Winner:
Dark Knight Rises "Chant", Warner Bros., Open Road Entertainment
Nominees:
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Sony Pictures, Mark Woollen & Associates
The Muppets "Their Movie", Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Buddha Jones
Snow White and the Huntsman "Forever", Universal Pictures, Wild Card
Chronicle "Camera", 20th Century Fox, Buddha Jones

Theatrical Trailers Nominees

Best Action
Winner:
Snow White and the Huntsman "Forever", Universal Pictures, Wild Card
Nominees:
GI Joe: Retaliation "Teaser", Paramount Pictures, AV Squad
The Hunger Games "Trailer 2", LIONSGATE, Mojo LLC
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol "Trailer 1", Paramount Pictures, AV Squad
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows "Collide", Warner Bros., mOcean

Best Animation/Family
Winner:
The Muppets "Their Movie", Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Buddha Jones
Nominees:
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, Columbia/Paramount, Ignition Creative
Hugo "Imagine," Paramount Pictures, The Ant Farm
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted "Trailer 1", Paramount Pictures, TRANSIT
Mirror Mirror "Beyond Imagination", Relativity Media, Trailer Park

Best Comedy
Winner:
Bridesmaids (Red Band Trailer), Universal Pictures, Workshop Creative
Nominees:
Bernie, Millennium Entertainment, Cimarron Entertainment
Rock of Ages, Warner Bros., Mojo LLC
Ted "Trailer 2 Red Band", Universal Pictures, Vibe Creative, Inc.
Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil, Magnet, AV Squad

Best Documentary
Winner:
George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Grove St. Prod., The Ant Farm
Nominees:
Bully, The Weinstein Company, AV Squad
Dreams of a Life, Soho Moon, Picture Production Company
Rebirth, Oscilloscope, Zealot Productions Inc
Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap, Indomina Media, Anthony James Productions

Best Drama
Winner:
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Sony Pictures, Mark Woollen & Associates
Nominees:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Paramount/Warner Bros., Mojo LLC
The Ides of March, Sony Pictures, Mojo LLC
The Iron Lady, The Weinstein Company, AV Squad
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Focus Features, Mark Woollen & Associates

Best Horror
Winner:
The Devil Inside "Who", Paramount Pictures, Buddha Jones
Nominees:
Chernobyl Diaries, Warner Bros., AV Squad
The Pact –UK Trailer, Eone, The Editpool
Paranormal Activity 3 "Where", Paramount Pictures, Buddha Jones
The Woman in Black "Darkness", CBS Films, Buddha Jones

Best Independent
Winner:
Take Shelter, Sony Pictures Classics, The Grossmyth Company
Nominees:
The Descendants, Fox Searchlight, Acme Trailer Company
Martha Marcy May Marlene, Fox Searchlight, Empire Design
Midnight in Paris, Sony Pictures Classics, In Sync Advertising
Safety Not Guaranteed, Film District, Acme Trailer Company

Best Music
Winner:
Another Earth, Fox Searchlight, Ignition Creative
Nominees:
The Intouchables, The Weinstein Company, Wink Creative
The Muppets "The Pig With the Froggy Tattoo", Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Buddha Jones
Safe House "Domestic Trailer", Universal Pictures, Vibe Creative Inc.
The Watch "Teaser", 20th Century Fox, Workshop Creative

Best Romance
Winner:
Like Crazy, Paramount Pictures, Ignition Creative
Nominees:
The Lucky One "Find You", Warner Bros., Open Road Entertainment
One Day, Focus Features, Empire Design
Ruby Sparks, Fox Searchlight, Motive Creative
The Vow "Moments", Screen Gems, mOcean

Best Thriller
Winner:
The Grey "Teeth Redband", Open Road Films, Buddha Jones
Nominees:
The Bourne Legacy, Universal Pictures, Empire Design
Colombiana, Sony Pictures, Big Picture Entertainment
Safe House "Domestic Trailer", Universal Pictures, Vibe Creative Inc.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Studio Canal, Empire Design

Best Video Game Trailer
Winner:
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Atari, Platige Image
Nominees:
APB Reloaded "Be All You Can't Be", Gamers First/[a]list games, Ayzenberg Group
I Am Alive "Launch Trailer", Ubisoft, Hammer Creative
Resistance 3 "E3 Teaser", Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Create Advertising Group
Tomb Raider, Square Enix, Ignition Creative

The Don LaFontaine Award for Best Voice Over
Winner:
Arrietty "UK Trailer", Studio Canal, The Editpool
Nominees:
To the Arctic "Journey", Warner Bros., Aspect Ratio
The Rum Diary "Strange", Film District, Buddha Jones
Trollhunter, Momentum, Picture Production Company

Golden Fleece
Winner:
Apollo 18 "Classified", Dimension Films, Aspect Ratio
Nominees:
John Carter, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Ignition Creative
Larry Crowne, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Motive Creative
New Year's Eve "One Night Domestic, Warner Bros., Trailer Park
W./E., The Weinstein Company, In Sync Advertising

Most Original Trailer
Winner:
Chronicle "Camera", 20th Century Fox, Buddha Jones
Nominees:
The Bourne Legacy, Universal Pictures, Empire Design
Haywire "First Date", Relativity Media, Buddha Jones
The Muppets "The Pig with the Froggy Tattoo", Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Buddha Jones
The Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists (Band of Misfits), Sony Pictures Releasing, Empire Design

Summer 2012 Blockbuster Trailer
Winner:
The Dark Knight Rises "Chant", Warner Bros., Open Road Entertainment
Nominees:
The Avengers "Personal", Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, mOcean
GI Joe: Retaliation, Paramount Pictures, AV Squad
Men in Black III, Columbia Pictures for Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Ant Farm
Prometheus "Not Alone", 20th Century Fox, Wild Card

Trashiest Trailer
Winner:
Piranha 3DD, Dimension, AV Squad
Nominees:
God Bless America, Magnet, AV Squad
The Human Centipede 2, IFC Films, Kinetic
Knights of Badassdom, IndieVest Pictures, AV Squad
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie "Redband", Magnet/Magnolia, Zealot Productions Inc.

Technical Categories

Best Motion/Title Graphics
Winner:
Anonymous "Domestic Trailer 2", Columbia Pictures, Greenhaus GFX
Nominees:
The Amazing Spider-Man "Domestic Trailer 2", Columbia Pictures, Greenhaus GFX/Create Advertising
Haywire "First Date", Relativity Media, Buddha Jones
The Hunger Games "Trailer 1", Lionsgate, Mojo LLC
Snow White and the Huntsman "Domestic Trailer 2", Universal Pictures, Greenhaus GFX

Best Sound Editing
Winner:
The Woman in Black "Darkness", CBS Films, Buddha Jones
Nominees:
Battleship, Universal Pictures, Ignition Creative
George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Grove Street Prod., The Ant Farm
Prometheus, 20th Century Fox, Skip Film
Silent House "Time", Open Road Films, Buddha Jones

Best Trailer – No Movie
Winner:
Babylon, The Solid State
Nominees:
Dancing in Jaffa, Mighty Pictures for Tiara Blu and kNow Productions
One Direction: The Movie "Together", Create Advertising Group

Foreign Theatrical Trailer Categories

Best Anime
Winner:
The Secret World of Arrietty "Stand Tall", Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture, Trailer Park

Best Foreign Action Trailer
Winner:
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, Flatiron, Red Circle, Inc.
Nominees:
Detective Dee and the Mystery Phantom Flame, Indomina Media, Anthony James Productions
Headhunters, Magnolia Pictures, Kinetic
Point Blank, Magnet, AV Squad
The Raid: Redemption, Sony Pictures Classics, Kinetic Trailers

Best Foreign Animation/Family Trailer
Winner:
Arrietty "UK Trailer", Studio Canal, The Editpool
Nominees:
Brave "Japan Trailer", Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, mOcean
Don Gato y Su Pandilla "Trailer 1", Warner Bros. Mexico, FIX COMUNICACION
Don Gato y Su Pandilla "Trailer 2", Warner Bros. Mexico, FIX COMUNICACION
The Secret World of Arrietty "Stand Tall", Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Trailer Park

Best Foreign Comedy Trailer
Winner:
The Intouchables, Senator, TRAILERHAUS GmbH
Nominees:
The Decoy Bride, Cinema NX, Create Advertising London
A Few Best Men, Auburn Entertainment, The Solid State
A Few Best Men, Ingenious, Zealot Production Inc.
Two Little Boys, New Zealand Film Commission, The Solid State

Best Foreign Documentary Trailer
Winner:
Anton Corbijn Inside Out, HanWay Films, Zealot
Nominees:
Jig, Bankside Films, Zealot
Pink Ribbons, Inc, ONF NFB, Zealot Productions Inc.
Presunto Culpable, Cinepolis Distribucion, FIX COMUNICACION
The Tall Man, BlackFella Films The Solid State

Best Foreign Drama Trailer
Winner:
Sarah's Key, The Weinstein Company, AV Squad
Nominees:
The Cup, Village Roadshow/Myriad, Zealot Productions Inc
In Darkness, Sony Pictures Classics, Kinetic
The Lady, Cohen Media Group/Europa, Zealot Productions Inc
Oranges and Sunshine, Cohen Media Group/Icon, Zealot Productions Inc.

Best Foreign Graphics in a Trailer
Winner:
Coriolanus, LIONSGATE, Create Advertising London
Nominees:
Don Gato y su Pandilla, Warner Bros. Mexico, FIX COMUNICACION
The Flowers of War "UltimateTrailer", New Pictures Film Corp. Ltd, Beijing Trailer Movie Culture Media Co.
Three, Strand Releasing, Big Science Film Inc.
Tonight You're Mine, Roadside Attractions, Big Science Film Inc.

Best Foreign Horror/Thriller Trailer
Winner:
The Hunter, Magnolia, Zealot Productions Inc.
Nominees:
La Cara Oculta, Fox International/Dynamo, Zealot Productions Inc.
Cold Sweat, Wheelhouse Creative
The Silence "Obsession", Soda Pictures, Wonderland
The Woman in Black, Momentum Pictures, Create Advertising London

Best Foreign Romance Trailer
Winner:
Delicacy, StudioCanal/Cohen Media Group, Wink Creative
Nominees:
El Cielo en tu Mirada, Videocine Distribucion/Sobrevivientes Films, Art Kingdom
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen "Hooked", LIONSGATE, Wonderland
Tonight You're Mine, Roadside Attractions, Big Science Film Inc
Upside Down, Onyx Films, Motive Creative

Most Original Foreign Trailer
Winner:
The Sleeping Beauty, Strand Releasing, Big Science Film Inc.
Nominees:
Bullhead, Drafthouse Films, Intermission Film
Detective Dee and the Mystery Phantom Flame, Indomina Media, Anthony James Productions
Hell, Paramount Pictures Germany, Fleischmann Trailer
Trollhunter, Momentum, Picture Production Company

TV Spots

Best Action TV Spot
Winner:
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows "Beat", Warner Bros., AV Squad
Nominees:
The Avengers "Become", Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, mOcean
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 "Every Journey", Warner Bros., Aspect Ratio
The Hunger Games "Family", Lionsgate, Mojo LLC
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol "Harder", Paramount Pictures, AV Squad

Best Animation/Family TV Spot
Winner:
Puss in Boots "Curiosity", Paramount Pictures, Aspect Ratio
Nominees:
Hugo, Paramount Pictures, Ignition Creative
The Muppets "Prepare Physical", Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, mOcean
The Pirates! Band of Misfits "Epic Love Story", Sony Pictures, Green Monster Advertising
Puss in Boots "Fiesta Kids", Paramount Pictures, TRANSIT

Best Comedy TV Spot
Winner:
21 Jump Street "Arrest", Columbia Pictures, Workshop Creative
Nominees:
Bridesmaids, Universal Pictures, In Sync Advertising
The Hangover Part II, Warner Bros., Seismic Productions
Horrible Bosses, Warner Bros., Seismic Productions
The Sitter "Lullaby Online", 20th Century Fox, Buddha Jones

Best Drama TV Spot
Winner:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close "Messages", Warner Bros. Wild Card
Nominees:
The Descendants "Matters Most", Fox Searchlight Pictures
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo "Investigation", Columbia Pictures, Workshop Creative
The Hunger Games "Big Event Countdown", Lionsgate, Mojo LLC
J. Edgar, Warner Bros., Seismic Productions

Best Foreign TV Spot
Winner:
Africa First, Focus Features, Big Science Film Inc.
Nominees:
Goon "Behind the Scenes", Alliance, Trailer Park
Goon "Met His Match", Alliance, Trailer Park

Best Graphics in a TV Spot
Winner:
Martha Marcy May Marlene "MReview", Fox Searchlight, Acme Trailer Company
Nominees:
50/50 "Inspired Review", Summit Entertainment, Motive Creative
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 "Triumphant Review", Warner Bros., Mojo LLC
Limitless "More", 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Buddha Jones
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol "Masthead:15", Paramount Pictures, AV Squad

Best Horror TV Spot
Winner:
Cabin in the Woods "Secret" Lionsgate, AV Squad
Nominees:
The Devil Inside "Church", Paramount Pictures, Buddha Jones
Final Destination 5 "Ticking End", Warner Bros., AV Squad
Fright Night "Fear the Night Awards", DreamWorks/Disney, AV Squad
The Raven "Severed", Relativity Media, Workshop Creative

Best Independent TV Spot
Winner:
The Artist ":60 Spotlight", The Weinstein Company, AV Squad
Nominees:
Carnage, StudioCanal, Picture Production Company
The Descendants "Paradise", Fox Searchlight, Motive Creative
Friends With Kids "Dare", Roadside Attractions, Trailer Park
Martha Marcy May Marlene "Leader", Fox Searchlight, Acme Trailer Company

Best Music TV Spot
Winner:
Moneyball "Academy Song", Columbia Pictures, Workshop Creative
Nominees:
The Descendants "Paradise", Fox Searchlight, Motive Creative
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close "I Miss", Warner Bros., Mojo LLC
The Hangover Part II, Warner Bros., Seismic Productions
Puss In Boots "Fiesta Kids", Paramount Pictures, TRANSIT

Best Romance TV Spot
Winner:
The Vow "Forever", Screen Gems, mOcean
Nominees:
Crazy, Stupid, Love "In It", Warner Bros., Trailer Park
The Lucky One "Reveal", Warner Bros., Trailer Park
My Week With Marilyn, The Weinstein Company, In Sync Advertising
One Day, Focus Features, Kinetic

Best Summer Blockbuster 2012 TV Spot
Winner:
Snow White and the Huntsman "Ravenna", Universal Pictures, Vibe Creative Inc.
Nominees:
Battleship, Universal Pictures, Industry Creative
Men In Black III "The Mission", Columbia Pictures, Workshop Creative
Snow White and the Huntsman "Bound", Universal Pictures, Wild Card
Snow White and the Huntsman "Kingdom" Universal Pictures, Aspect Ratio

Best Thriller TV Spot
Winner:
Contagion, Warner Bros., Seismic Productions
Nominees:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo "Character", Columbia Pictures, Workshop Creative
The Hunger Games "Big Event Countdown", Lionsgate, Mojo LLC
Martha Marcy May Marlene "Name", Fox Searchlight, Acme Trailer Company
Safe House "Home-Big Game", Universal Pictures, AV Squad

Best Video Game TV Spot
Winner:
Need for Speed: The Run, Electronic Arts, Industry Creative
Nominees:

Best Voice Over TV Spot
Winner:
Final Destination 5 "Die Again", Warner Bros., TRANSIT
Nominees:
The Muppets "How Many", Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Buddha Jones

Most Original TV Spot
Winner:
The Descendants "Paradise", Fox Searchlight, Motive Creative
Nominees:
Final Destination 5 "Reverse", Warner Bros., TRANSIT
Martha Marcy May Marlene "Name", Fox Searchlight, Acme Trailer Company
Real Steel "Victory", DreamWorks, The Ant Farm
The Three Stooges "Stoogesta", 20th Century Fox, The Refinery AV

Poster Categories

Best Action Poster
Winner:
The Hunger Games "Teaser Poster", LIONSGATE, Ignition
Nominees:
Drive "One Sheet",FilmDistrict, The Refinery
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 "Companion One Sheets", Warner Bros., WORKS ADV
Safe "Final Poster", LIONSGATE, Ignition

Best Animation/Family Poster
Winner:
The Hunger Games "Final Poster", LIONSGATE, Ignition
Nominees:
Dark Shadows "One Sheet", Warner Bros., Ignition Print
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island "One Sheet", Warner Bros., Ignition Print
The Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists (Band of Misfits), Sony Pictures Releasing, Empire Design

Best Comedy Poster
Winner:
The Hangover Part II "One Sheet", Warner Bros., WORKS ADV
Nominees:
Killer Joe "One Sheet", LD Entertainment, Ignition Print
The Rum Diary "Version 4", theweekend.biz/FilmDistrict, The Refinery
The Trip, IFC Films, Mojo LLC

Best Documentary Poster
Winner:
Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap, Indomina Films, Cold Open
Nominees:
Bully, The Weinstein Company, PLANETFAB
Into the Abyss, IFC Films, Mojo LLC

Best Drama Poster
Winner:
The Ides of March "One Sheet", Sony Pictures, Ignition Print
Nominees:
The Iron Lady "Domestic One Sheet", The Weinstein Company, AV Squad Print / Blood & Chocolate
J. Edgar "One Sheet", Warner Bros. WORKS ADV
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy "One Sheet", Focus Features, Ignition Print

Best Foreign Poster
Winner:
Avgust Vosmogo, Glavkino, AV Squad Print / Blood & Chocolate
Nominees:
The Conquest "Key Art", Music Box Films, Greenlight Creative
Monsieur Lazhar "Key Art", Music Box Films, Greenlight Creative
Young Goethe In Love "Key Art", Music Box Films, Greenlight Creative

Best Horror Poster
Winner:
Scream 4, The Weinstein Company, Tarhan Creative Inc.
Nominees:
Apartment 143, Magnolia Pictures, Cold Open
Dream House, Universal Pictures, Mojo LLC
Intruders "One Sheet", Millennium Entertainment, Ignition Print

Best Independent Poster
Winner:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy "One Sheet", Focus Features, Ignition Print
Nominees:
Another Earth "One Sheet", Fox Searchlight, Ignition Print
The Iron Lady, The Weinstein Company, PLANETFAB
The Trip, IFC Films, Mojo LLC

Best International Poster
Winner:
The Dark Knight Rises "UK Quad", Warner Bros., Ignition Print
Nominees:
Apollo 18 "International One Sheet", The Weinstein Company, Ignition Print
In Time "International One Sheet", 20th Century Fox International, Ignition Print
The Rum Diary "Version 2", theweekend.biz/FilmDistrict, The Refinery

Best Romance Poster
Winner:
The Lucky One "One Sheet", Warner Bros., WORKS ADV
Nominees:
My Week With Marilyn "Version 1", The Weinstein Company, PLANETFAB
My Week With Marilyn "Version 2", The Weinstein Company, PLANETFAB

Best Summer 2012 Blockbuster Poster
Winner:
The Dark Knight Rises "Teaser One Sheet – City", Warner Bros., Ignition Print
Nominees:
The Bourne Legacy, Universal Pictures, Cold Open
Dark Shadows "One Sheet", Warner Bros., Ignition Print
The Expendables 2 "Teaser Poster", LIONSGATE, Ignition

Best Teaser Poster
Winner:
The Hunger Games "Teaser Poster", LIONSGATE, Ignition
Nominees:
The Dark Knight Rises "Teaser One Sheet City", Warner Bros. Ignition Print
Project X, Warner Bros., WORKS ADV
The Woman in Black, CBS Films, Cold Open

Best Thriller Poster
Winner:
The Ides of March "One Sheet", Sony Pictures, Ignition Print
Nominees:
Drive, Icon, Empire Design
The Hunger Games "Final Poster", LIONSGATE, Ignition
The Hunter "Final Poster", Magnolia Pictures, The Refinery

Best Video Game Poster
Winner:
Hawken "One Sheet", Meteor Entertainment, Ignition Print
Nominees:
Imposters "One Sheet", Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Ignition Print
MOH2/Warfighter "One Sheet", Electronic Arts, Ignition Print
Syndicate "One Sheet", Electronic Arts, Ignition Print

Best Wildposts
Winner:
Drive "Vertical Campaign", theweekend.biz/FilmDistrict, The Refinery
Nominees:
Crazy, Stupid, Love. "Banners", Warner Bros., WORKS ADV
Dark Shadows "Portrait Bus Shelters", Warner Bros., Ignition Print
The Hunger Games "Character Posters", LIONSGATE, Ignition

Most Original Poster
Winner:
The Ides of March "One Sheet", Sony Pictures, Ignition Print
Nominees:
The Iron Lady "Domestic One Sheet", The Weinstein Company, AV Squad Print /Blood & Chocolate
Killer Joe "One Sheet", LD Entertainment, Ignition Print
Sound of My Voice "Teaser", Fox Searchlight Pictures

Trashiest Poster
Winner:
Piranha 3DD, Dimension Films, AV Squad Print / Blood & Chocolate

Standees

Best Standee for Feature Film
Winner:
The Hunger Games "Standee", LIONSGATE, Ignition
Nominees:
Abduction "Standee", LIONSGATE, Ignition
The Cabin in the Woods "Standee", LIONSGATE, Ignition
Conan the Barbarian "Standee", LIONSGATE, Ignition

Advertising In Theater & On Screen

Best Pre-show Theatrical Advertising
Winner:
21 Jump Street "In Theater NCM", Sony Pictures, Mob Scene
Nominees:
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, Columbia/Paramount, Picture Production Company
Disney Universe "Kids", Disney, Ayzenberg Group

Original/Experiential Cinematic/Movie Advertising

Most Innovative Advertising for a Feature Film
Winner:
Shame "Alternative Newspaper Ad", Fox Searchlight Pictures
Nominees:
The Hunger Games "Faux Motion Ad – Cutting Edge", LIONSGATE, Ignition
The Hunger Games "Faux Motion Ad – Liquid Skyliner", LIONSGATE, Ignition
The Muppets "Two Muppets", Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Buddha Jones

Most Innovative Advertising for a Brand/Product
Winner:
The Hunger Games "Faux Motion Ad – Smile Away", LIONSGATE, Ignition
Nominees:
Haywire, LIONSGATE, Flyer Entertainment
Rise of the Planet of the Apes "Academy :30", 20th Century FOX Home Entertainment, Flyer Entertainment
Star Wars The Complete Saga "Every Moment :30", 20th Century FOX Home Entertainment, Flyer Entertainment

Most Innovative Advertising for a Video Game
Winner:
Prototype 2 "Timeline", Activision/Radical Entertainment, Buddha Jones

Film Festival Category

Best Film Festival Trailer
Winner:
New York Film Festival 2011, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Kinetic
Nominees:
French Film Festival, The Solid State
Message Sticks, The Solid State
New Directors/New Films 2012, Film Society of Lincoln Center/Museum of Modern Art, Kinetic
Tipsy Goes to the Movies, Sonoma International Film Festival Trailer 2012, Screaming Pixels

The Australian Directors Guild held their 31st Annual ADG Awards this weekend. The event was hosted by Adam Zwar, while attendees included Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Susie Porter and Denise Roberts.

Women directors swept the top honours with Cate Shortland winning Best Direction in a Feature Film for her German-language World War II drama Lore; Rachel Perkins winning for Best Direction in a TV Drama Series for Redfern Now (Pretty Boy Blue); and Jessica Hobbs winning for Best Direction in a TV Mini Series for Devil's Dust (Parts 1 & 2). Grace McKenzie won for Best Direction in a Documentary Feature for Audrey of the Alps and Madeleine Parry took Best Direction in a Documentary (Stand Alone) for Meatwork.

Jessica Redenbach took out the Award for Best Direction in a Short Film for Tender, Jennifer Peedom for Best Direction in a Documentary Series for Life at 7.

A special award, acknowledging the career achievement of a First Assistant Director, was presented to industry favourite Jamie Leslie. The ADG also presented Lifetime Achievement Awards to Martha Ansara and Michael Thornhill.


Complete list of winners for the 31st Annual Australian Directors Guild Awards

Best Direction in a Feature Film
Cate Shortland, Lore

Best Direction in a Short Film
Jessica Redenbach, Tender

Best Direction in a Student Film
Adrian Goodman, Wakey Wakey

Best Direction in a Documentary Feature
Grace McKenzie, Audrey of the Alps

Best Direction in a Documentary (Stand Alone)
Madeleine Parry, Meatwork

Best Direction in a TV Drama Series
Rachel Perkins, Redfern Now (Pretty Boy Blue)

Best Direction in a TV Mini Series
Jessica Hobbs, Devil's Dust (Parts 1 & 2)

Best Direction in a Documentary Series
Jennifer Peedom, Life at 7

Best Direction in a Telemovie
Glendyn Ivin, Beaconsfield

Esben Storm Award — Best Direction in a Children’s TV Program
Daniel Nettheim, Dance Academy Series 2, Ep 25 “The Second”

Best Direction in a Music Video
Nash Edgerton, Duquesne Whistle

Best Direction in a TV Drama Serial
David Gould, Home and Away Ep 5438

Best Direction in a TV Comedy
Dario Russo, Danger 5

Best Direction in a Cross Platform Project
David Barker, Bad Reality

Best Direction in a TV Commercial
Tim Bullock, Flatties

Best Direction in an Original Online Project
Christiaan Van Vuuren and Connor Van Vuuren, Bondi Hipsters

Special Award for Career Achievement of a First Assistant Director
Jamie Leslie

Lifetime Achievement Awards
Martha Ansara
Michael Thornhill

HOT DOCS WRAPS 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH RECORD-BREAKING AUDIENCES OF 180,000
MUSCLE SHOALS NAMED AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER AND
THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR AND THESE BIRDS WALK TIE FOR FILMMAKERS AWARD

Toronto, May 6, 2013 – Hot Docs has wrapped its 20th anniversary edition with record-breaking audience numbers reaching an estimated 180,000. The 11-day event featured 418 public screenings—
157 of which went rush—of 204 films on 16 screens across Toronto, an internationally renowned conference and market for documentary professionals, and Docs for Schools, a phenomenally popular education program for youth. New this year, Hot Docs presented the Scotiabank Big Ideas series, featuring live onstage discussions with documentary subjects Anita Hill, Roméo Dallaire, Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss, and celebrated its 20th anniversary with a free outdoor screening to thank its loyal audiences. The Festival welcomed 180 guest filmmakers and 55 guest subjects from across Canada and around the world to present their films and take part in special post-screening Q&A sessions with audiences. Official film selections were chosen from a total of 2386 films submitted to the Festival.


“'Toronto has become a world capital for cinema lovers, and feeding their appetite for 20 years has been great fun,” says Chris McDonald, Hot Docs executive director. “We are very proud of our smart and savvy audience, as well as those razor sharp filmmakers who join us each year.”

After the final screening yesterday, audience votes were tallied for the Audience Award, presented by Netflix. The winner is MUSCLE SHOALS (D: Greg “Freddy” Camalier, USA), the story of a tiny backwater Alabama town’s impact on popular music. Second in the audience poll is BLOOD BROTHER (D: Steve Hoover, USA), in which the director follows his friend’s sudden move to India to care for HIV-positive orphans; and third in the audience poll is A WHOLE LOTT MORE (D: Victor Buhler, UK), which looks at the impact of the auto crisis on a company whose 1200 employees have developmental disabilities. The cash prize for the Audience Award, which will be shared by the top three films in the audience poll, was crowd-funded from audiences through Hot Docs’ Doc Ignite platform. Currently in excess of $6300, the public can further contribute to this cash prize until Friday, May 10.

The top ten audience favourites as determined by audience vote are:

1. MUSCLE SHOALS (D: Greg “Freddy” Camalier, USA)
2. BLOOD BROTHER (D: Steve Hoover, USA)
3. A WHOLE LOTT MORE (D: Victor Buhler, UK)
4. THE PUNK SINGER (D: Sini Anderson, USA)
5. LAST WOMAN STANDING (D: Lorraine Price, Juliet Lammers; Canada)
6. SPRING & ARNAUD (D: Katherine Knight, Marcia Connolly; Canada)
7. THIS AIN'T NO MOUSE MUSIC! (D: Chris Simon, Maureen Gosling, USA)
8. MENSTRUAL MAN (D: Amit Virmani, Singapore, India)
9. THE CRASH REEL (D: Lucy Walker, USA)
10. THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE (D: Liz Marshall, Canada)


Also during this year’s Hot Docs Festival, attending filmmakers with official selections in the Festival were invited to vote for their favourite film. This year two films tied for the Filmmakers Award: THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR (D: Tinatin Gurchiani; Georgia, Germany), which looks at the lives Georgian youth through a casting call, and THESE BIRDS WALK (D: Bassam Tariq, Omar Mullick; USA), which looks at a children’s shelter in Karachi.

A full week of industry programming was attended by 2514 delegates from around the world. Hot Docs mounted a roster of three workshops, 12 conference sessions, 18 networking events and parties, three Kickstart panels for emerging filmmakers, 12 micro meetings, 14 new Close Up With… sessions with broadcasters, two new Rent-an-Expert sessions, the Doc Summit, International Co-Production Day panels, and the Hot Docs Awards Presentation. Hot Docs also hosted eight official delegations from China, Germany, Japan, Nigeria, the Nordic Region, Poland, South Africa and the USA.

The Hot Docs Forum, Hot Docs’ key international co-financing market event, Hot Docs Deal Maker, Hot Docs’ new one-on-one curated pitch event, and Distribution Rendezvous, Hot Docs’ tailored meeting service for completed films seeking distribution, saw brisk pitching, networking and deal-making. In total, 20 projects representing 12 countries were presented to a panel of over 180 key commissioning editors and funders at the Hot Docs Forum. A total of 55 projects were pitched at approximately 400 meetings during Hot Docs Deal Maker, and Distribution Rendezvous facilitated approximately 530 meetings.

Doc for Schools, Hot Docs’ education program that runs during the Festival and offers free in-theatre and in-school screenings of select Festival films, reached a record number of students in 2013. Close to 78,000 students participated in the program, including schools in Toronto and throughout Ontario.

Hot Docs (www.hotdocs.ca), North America’s largest documentary festival, conference and market, presented its 20th annual edition from April 25 – May 5, 2013. An outstanding selection of 204 documentaries from Canada and around the world were presented to Toronto audiences and international delegates. Hot Docs also mounted a full roster of conference sessions and market events and services for documentary practitioners, including the renowned Hot Docs Forum, Hot Docs Deal Maker and The Doc Shop. In partnership with Blue Ice Group, Hot Docs operates the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, a century-old landmark located in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood.

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX CELEBRATES A CENTURY OF CHINESE CINEMA WITH UNPRECEDENTED FILM SERIES, EXHIBITIONS AND SPECIAL GUESTS
- Programme features 80 films, free exhibitions and guests including Chen Kaige, Johnnie To and Jackie Chan -
- Tickets on sale May 21 at 10 a.m. for TIFF Members, May 27 at 10 a.m. for non-members -

Noah Cowan, Artistic Director, TIFF Bell Lightbox, announced today details for a comprehensive exploration of Chinese film, art and culture. A Century of Chinese Cinema features a major film retrospective of over 80 titles, sessions with some of the biggest names in Chinese cinema, and a free exhibition featuring two internationally acclaimed visual artists. The flagship programme of the summer season, A Century of Chinese Cinema runs from June 5 to August 11, 2013.

"A Century of Chinese Cinema exemplifies TIFF's vision to foster new relationships and build bridges of cultural exchange," said Piers Handling, Director and CEO of TIFF. "If we are, indeed, living in the Chinese Century, it is essential that we attempt to understand what that entails. There is no better way to do so than through film, which encourages cross-cultural understanding in our city and beyond."

"The history, legacy and trajectory of Chinese film has been underrepresented in the global cinematic story, and as a leader in creative and cultural discovery through film, TIFF Bell Lightbox is the perfect setting for A Century of Chinese Cinema," said Noah Cowan, Artistic Director, TIFF Bell Lightbox. "With Chinese cinema in the international spotlight, an examination of the history and development of the region's amazing artistic output is long overdue. The unprecedented scale and depth of this programme should help make up for that lost time."

Cinephiles and Sinophiles alike will find much to dig into over the course of A Century of Chinese Cinema. The programme is the result of an unprecedented partnership with the China Film Archive, the Hong Kong Film Archive and the Chinese Taipei Film Archive. The films, many of which are new prints, digital restorations or archival 35mm prints - and several of which have never before been seen in North America - trace the shared cultural and historical connections between the cinemas of the Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and offer a range cinematic options for all tastes. From classics of the silent era (Laborer's Love, Red Heroine) to the Golden Age (The Goddess, Spring In A Small Town); post-1949 content (Unfinished Comedy, The Winter) to the rise of genre films (A Better Tomorrow, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin); new post-Cultural Revolution voices (Red Sorghum, Boat People) as well as contemporary masters (In the Mood for Love; Still Life).

A Century Of Chinese Cinema is not only a film programme. TIFF’s continued championing of the visual arts marks yet another milestone with a major new commission by the acclaimed visual artist Yang Fudong, presented with two new installations by leading cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Admission to the exhibition is free. Yang Fudong's debut feature film, An Estranged Paradise, will also be screened as part of the TIFF Cinematheque Free Screen series and Christopher Doyle will present a special performance as part of the show's opening weekend. Please see accompanying press release for more details.

A veritable who's who of Chinese cinema will descend on TIFF Bell Lightbox over the course of the series, starting with the Opening Night festivities on June 6 when renowned director Chen Kaige introduces his Palme d'Or-winning masterpiece, Farewell My Concubine. Chen will also introduce his landmark debut, Yellow Earth, as well as take part in our In Conversation With… programme to discuss his filmmaking career. Jackie Chan returns to Toronto to share - and introduce - works from his past (Drunken Master I and The Legend of Drunken Master, Police Story) and future (a preview of the upcoming Police Story 2013). Cinematographer Christopher Doyle introduces the beloved Chungking Express as well as Comrades: Almost a Love Story; producer-director Johnnie To walks audiences through his action-packed career for an In Conversation With… appearance, and introduces his films Election and Election II; and Nansun Shi, one of Asia's most respected producers, shares her industry experience and her thoughts on two much-loved genre films A Better Tomorrow and A Chinese Ghost Story. Distinguished scholar David Bordwell discusses martial arts film, and actresses Nora Miao and Ivy Ling Po introduce, respectively, Fist of Fury and The Love Eterne, films in which they starred. TIFF's own Noah Cowan will introduce Spring in a Small Town, often cited as the greatest Chinese film ever made.

FILM PROGRAMME AND GUEST HIGHLIGHTS

The Century of Chinese Cinema's opening night programme features a screening of Farewell My Concubine, one of the most popular Chinese films of all time, with opening remarks by director Chen Kaige.

Highlights of the 80-plus-strong film programme include a wide range of offerings under five broad themes:

The Golden Age was defined by the classics of Shanghai cinema, and the work of the tragically short-lived Greta Garbo of China, Ruan Lingyu. The period, running through the 1930s and 1940s, was known not only for the den-of-iniquity and East-meets-West reputation of cosmopolitan Shanghai, but also the challenges of a nation bordering on anarchy. Signature films of the period include The Goddess (Wu Yonggang, 1934) and Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948; introduced by TIFF Bell Lightbox Artistic Director Noah Cowan).

A New China picks up in the wake of the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The cinematic output of the new nation saw filmmakers wrestle with the volatile years leading up to the Cultural Revolution. Major films of the era included sweeping patriotic epics, such as Red Detachment of Women (Xie Jin, 1961), alongside gritty war films such as Shangrao Concentration Camp (Sha Meng, 1951), and piercing satires such as the recently rediscovered Unfinished Comedy (Lu Ban, 1957). Meanwhile, an influx of Mainland talent launched a new era in Hong Kong and Taiwan, with such works as the social drama In the Face of Demolition (Li Tie, 1953), and the hit romance, The Winter (Li Han-hsiang, 1969).

Swordsmen, Gangsters and Ghosts: The Evolution of Chinese Genre Cinema highlights the genre films that first brought Chinese cinema to the international stage, including the wuxia (swordplay) films that date back to China's earliest filmmaking days. The genre came alive again in the late 1940s with Wong Fei-hung: The Whip That Smacks the Candle (Wu Pang, 1949), and flourished through the 1960s and 1970s, with films like A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1969), and Bruce Lee's international ascendance in Fist of Fury (Lo Wei, 1972), while Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000) brought a renewed international attention to martial-arts film in the new millennium. Meanwhile, guns and gangsters became a Hong Kong trademark, beginning with the long-neglected masterpiece, The Story of a Discharged Prisoner (Patrick Lung Kong, 1967), which was remade as John Woo's landmark 1986 A Better Tomorrow. More recently, a new generation has reinvigorated the genre with films like Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, 2002).

New Waves looks at the moment when Chinese film dominated the international art- film scene. The work ranges from the Hong Kong New Wave exemplified by Ann Hui (Boat People, 1982) and Tsui Hark (Peking Opera Blues, 1986); to the new generation of Taiwanese masters led by Hou Hsiao-hsien (A City of Sadness, 1989) and Edward Yang (A Brighter Summer Day, 1991); and the Mainland's Fifth Generation directors, including Zhang Junzhao (One and Eight, 1983) and Chen Kaige (Yellow Earth, 1984; Farewell My Concubine, 1993).

In the lead-up to the new millennium, a series of sexy, exciting and formally daring new films built on the New Waves' innovations and sparked a renewed global interest in Chinese cinema. The signature films of New Directions include Chungking Express (Wong Kar- wai, 1994), Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994) and The Missing Gun (Lu Chuan, 2002).

Complementing the film programme are an exciting slate of prestigious guests, talks and roundtable discussions. For our In Conversation With… series, TIFF Bell Lightbox Artistic Director Noah Cowan sits down with Mainland director Chen Kaige (June 7 at 8 p.m.) as well as Hong Kong action director Johnnie To (July 13 at 4 p.m.). International superstar Jackie Chan introduces three of his best films: Drunken Master (June 12 at 6 p.m.) and The Legend of Drunken Master (June 12 at 9 p.m.) and Police Story (June 13 at 6 p.m.). Audiences will also get a glimpse of Chan's Police Story 2013 when he unveils a trailer for the upcoming film.

Other programming highlights include: a roundtable discussion on the Fourth and Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers with a key filmmaker from each era (Xie Fei and Chen Kaige, respectively) as well as Chen Biqiang, Senior Research Fellow at the China Film Archive and scholar Bart Testa. Film scholar David Bordwell speaks on the dynamic language of martial-arts cinema and joins fellow scholar James Udden in a discussion about the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien; scholar Bart Testa looks at Ann Hui's Boat People (1982); Hong Kong Film Archive programmer Winnie Fu and film scholar Sam Ho introduce the legendary Wong Fei-hung: The Whip That Smacks the Candle; and director Xie Fei and China Film Archive Director Fu Hongxing introduce Xie's films The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls and Black Snow. Buried Treasures of Chinese Silent Cinema will showcase three of the earliest Chinese films in existence alongside a roundtable discussion: Laborer's Love (Zhang Shichuan, 1922), Romance of the Western Chamber (Hou Yao, 1927) and Red Heroine (Wen Yimin, 1929).

A commemorative iBook will be produced in the fall, featuring a multimedia look back at A Century of Chinese Cinema.

EXHIBITION
An important component of the programme is the main gallery exhibition, which runs from June 7 to August 11 in an exhibition curated by TIFF's Noah Cowan and Shanghai-based curator Davide Quadrio. Yang Fudong's New Women, a 5-channel video installation, is a new commission from the internationally-renowned visual artist. The work is inspired by the decadent atmosphere of Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s, a period that has been captured in some of the best-loved Chinese films (several of which are a part of the A Century of Chinese Cinema programme) and remains influential among Chinese artists - and filmmakers in particular - today. The work examines the East-meets-West blend for which Shanghai was (in)famous via the nude form and examines how women, and ideas about women, have represented China's search for modernity over the past hundred years. As a part of the TIFF Cinematheque Free Screen series, our continuing free series dedicated to experimental film and video works, we will also be presenting Yang Fudong's first feature film, An Estranged Paradise in a new 35mm print. Yang Fudong is represented by ShanghART in Shanghai and Marian Goodman Gallery in New York and Paris.

Christopher Doyle is best known as one of the world's great cinematographers (Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love), but, in addition to acting, directing and writing, he is also an accomplished visual artist. Away With Words is a long-term project exploring the nature of wordless language, an attempt to reconcile and complicate his residence in a space between cultures and languages. The project is comprised of two multi-channel installations, one of which looks at the five Chinese elements (fire, earth, air, water, wood) through footage collected from a variety of sources including Doyle's own film work, while the other examines Doyle's multiple identities: Christopher Doyle, his given name, and Du-Ke Feng, the Chinese name under which he often works, interview and argue with one another on separate screens - Doyle calls it "a kind of Cinematographer's Fight Club." Doyle will also present a live performance of Away With Words (June 8 at 10 p.m.), extending the work into a third dimension.

The public is invited to join us for a complimentary tour of the exhibition. These 30-minute guided tours start June 9 and run weekly on Thursdays at 6 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. in the main gallery. Tours will also be offered in Cantonese and Mandarin every Sunday at 12 p.m.

FULL FILM PROGRAMME (CURRENT AS OF MAY 6, 2013; ADDITIONAL TITLES TO BE ANNOUNCED)

THE GOLDEN AGE
Spring Silkworms (Cheng Bugao, 1933)
The Goddess (Wu Yonggang, 1934)
New Women (Cai Chusheng, 1935)
The Big Road (Sun Yu, 1935)
Crossroads (Shen Xiling, 1937)
Song at Midnight (Ma-Xu Weibang, 1937)
Street Angel (Yuan Muzhi, 1937)
The Spring River Flows East I & II (Cai Chusheng/Zheng Junli, 1947)
Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948)

A NEW CHINA
This Life of Mine (Shi Hui, 1950)
Shangrao Concentration Camp (Sha Meng, 1951)
In the Face of Demolition (Li Tie, 1953)
Parents' Hearts (Chun Kim, 1955)
New Year's Sacrifice (Sang Hu, 1956)
Unfinished Comedy (Lu Ban, 1957)
Red Detachment of Women (Xie Jin, 1961)
Li Shuangshuang (Lu Ren, 1962)
The Love Eterne (Li Han-hsiang, 1963)
Two Stage Sisters (Xie Jin, 1964)
The East Is Red (Wang Ping, 1965)
Red Crag: Life in Eternal Flame (Shui Hua, 1965)
The Arch (Cecile Tang, 1968)
The Winter (Li Han-hsiang, 1969) Execution in Autumn (Lee Hsing, 1972) China Behind (Cecile Tang, 1974)

SWORDSMEN, GANGSTERS AND GHOSTS: THE EVOLUTION OF CHINESE GENRE CINEMA
Wong Fei-hung: The Whip That Smacks the Candle (Wu Pang, 1949)
One-Armed Swordsman (Chang Cheh, 1967)
The Story of a Discharged Prisoner (Patrick Lung Kong, 1967)
A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1971)
Fist of Fury (Lo Wei, 1972)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Lau Kar-leung, 1978)
Drunken Master (Yuen Woo-ping, 1978)
Long Arm of the Law (Johnny Mak, 1984)
Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985)
A Better Tomorrow (John Woo, 1986)
A Chinese Ghost Story (Ching Siu-tung, 1987)
Once Upon a Time in China, Once Upon a Time in China Part II (Tsui Hark, 1991, 1992)
A Chinese Odyssey: Part I & II (Jeff Lau, 1994)
The Legend of Drunken Master (Lau Kar-Leung, 1994)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002)
Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, 2002)
Election (Johnnie To, 2005)
Election 2 (Johnnie To, 2005)
The Banquet (Feng Xiaogang, 2006)

NEW WAVES
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (Tsui Hark, 1980)
The Spooky Bunch (Ann Hui, 1980)
Boat People (Ann Hui, 1982)
One and Eight (Zhang Junzhao, 1983)
Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige, 1984)
The Black Cannon Incident (Hu Jianxin, 1985)
Sacrificed Youth (Zhang Nuanxin, 1985)
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1985)
The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
The Old Well (Wu Tianming, 1986) Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark, 1986) The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986) King of the Children (Chen Kaige, 1987) Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou, 1987)
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)
Black Snow (Xie Fei, 1990)
Bloody Morning (Li Shaohong, 1990)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991) Center Stage/Actress (Stanley Kwan, 1992) The Peach Blossom Land (Stan Lai, 1992)
The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou, 1992)
Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige, 1993)
The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls (Xie Fei, 1993)
A Borrowed Life (Wu Nien-jen, 1994)

NEW DIRECTIONS
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994)
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan, 1996)
Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan, 1997)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
The Missing Gun (Lu Chuan, 2002) Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (Lu Chuan, 2004) Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006)

For information on the films, guests and events that comprise A Century of Chinese Cinema visit tiff.net/century. Tickets for the film programmes go on sale May 21 at 10 a.m. for TIFF Members and May 27 at 10 a.m. for non-members. Ticket packages are available: Martial Arts & Gangsters 6-Pack and Melodrama and New Women 6-Pack.

Admission to the exhibition is free.


TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX GALLERIES TO EXHIBIT MAJOR NEW COMMISSIONS BY YANG FUDONG AND CHRISTOPHER DOYLE

Toronto – Noah Cowan, Artistic Director, TIFF Bell Lightbox, announced today details of A Century of Chinese Cinema, the flagship programme of TIFF’s summer season. A comprehensive exploration of Chinese film, art and culture, the programme features a major exhibition showcasing the work of leading international visual artist/filmmaker Yang Fudong and famed cinematographer Christopher Doyle. The free exhibitions run from June 7 to August 11, 2013. In addition, a major film retrospective of over 80 titles and onstage sessions with some of the biggest names in Chinese cinema trace the shared cultural and historical connections between the cinemas of the Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

“Chinese cinema is a dynamic, living thing. It issues from multiple cities, multiple genres and from multiple art forms,” said Cowan. “We are grateful that Yang Fudong and Christopher Doyle have created these extraordinary new works for this exhibition. These two artists base their practice in film and cinema history and not only represent Chinese cinema’s most exciting contemporary developments, but also its future.”

Two concurrent exhibitions will take place at TIFF Bell Lightbox. In the main gallery, TIFF has commissioned New Women, a major new installation by Yang Fudong, one of Mainland China’s leading artists, inspired by 1930s Shanghai cinema. The five-screen work has been curated by TIFF’s Noah Cowan and Shanghai-based curator Davide Quadrio. In the TIFF Bell Lightbox Atrium, Away With Words, a two-part installation by Christopher Doyle, draws from recent Hong Kong cinema history and was curated by Cowan.

One of the most important members of the contemporary Chinese art scene, Shanghai-based Yang Fudong was educated in painting but moved to photography and film in the late nineties and has exhibited in some of the most important venues around the world. Yang’s work epitomizes the tension between China’s recent and rapid modernization and its traditional values and culture, and is informed equally by traditional Chinese painting and by both avant-garde filmmaking and film noir. Yang first came to the Western art world’s attention at Documenta XI in 2002 and the Venice Biennale in 2003 with his debut film, An Estranged Paradise, which will screen as part of the TIFF Cinematheque Free Screen series on June 5 at 7 p.m. in a new 35mm print. Referencing a range of influences from Godard to Jarmusch to 1920s and 1930s Shanghai films, it established the artist as an important new voice of not only his own nation but of the global artistic scene.

Yang’s interest in classic Shanghai film continues with the commission New Women. The five-channel video installation is inspired by the decadence of Shanghai’s swinging 1920s and 1930s, a period that has been captured in some of the best-loved Chinese films – several of which are screen in the A Century of Chinese Cinema programme. That era was defined by “hai pai,” the East-meets-West culture of the city, and the associated imagery remains influential among Chinese artists today. New Women takes a hai-pai approach to examine how women, and ideas about women, have represented China’s search for modernity over the past century. According to Yang Fudong, New Women was informed by An Estranged Paradise, his debut feature film. Yang Fudong is represented by ShanghART in Shanghai and by Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris and New York.

The Australian-born and long-time Hong Kong-based Christopher Doyle is best known as one of the world’s great cinematographers; his work on films including Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love and Hero has not only brought awards and accolades, but signaled new directions for cinematography in general. The public will have many opportunities to enjoy Doyle’s film work over the course of A Century of Chinese Cinema, but will also have a rare chance to experience Doyle’s visual art.

Away With Words is a long-term project exploring the nature of wordless language, an attempt to reconcile and complicate Doyle’s residence in a space between cultures and languages. The project is comprised of two multi-channel installations. One installation looks at the five Chinese elements (fire, earth, air, water, wood) through footage collected from a variety of sources including films Doyle has shot. In the other installation, Doyle examines his multiple identities: Christopher Doyle, his given name, and Du-ke Feng, the Chinese name under which he often works, interview one another on separate screens – Doyle calls it “a kind of Cinematographer's Fight Club” – while a third screen showcases a collage borrowed from several sources. Doyle will also present a free live performance of Away With Words on June 8 at 10 p.m., expanding the work into a third iteration.

The public is invited to join us for a complimentary tour of the exhibition. These 30-minute guided tours start June 9 and run weekly on Thursdays at 6 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. in the main gallery. Tours will also be offered in Cantonese and Mandarin every Sunday at 12 p.m.

For information on the films, gallery hours, guests and events that comprise A Century of Chinese Cinema visit tiff.net/century.

Admission to the exhibition is free.


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Toronto – Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, and Dimitri Eipides, International Programmer for the Festival, announced today that the city of Athens, Greece will be the focus of the 2013 City to City programme at the 38th Toronto International Film Festival®.

“City to City looks for cinematic hot spots around the world," said Bailey. “We want to introduce our audience to new generations of filmmakers unafraid to rewrite the rules. When we started thinking about the startlingly original films emerging recently from this ancient and contemporary city, the perfect choice for us this year was Athens."

“After a long period of hibernation, Greek cinema has finally found its way back to the forefront. A number of young filmmakers — most of them fresh out of film school or, at best, with a couple of shorts to their name — turned things around. Where others saw devastation, they saw inspiration,” said Eipides. “Working with minimal means, often exchanging services on each other’s productions, they churned out films which gained attention around the world. Hopefully this new wave of international exposure will give Greek cinema the confidence to communicate its message from a position where national boundaries will no longer matter.”

This is the fifth year for the City to City series which showcases filmmakers living and working in a selected city, regardless of where their films are set. Cities featured in past programmes include Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Buenos Aires and Mumbai. The announcement of the City to City lineup will be made in July. The City to City ticket package will go on sale beginning in late June. The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5 to 15, 2013.

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The Accademia del Cinema Italiano (Academy of Italian Cinema) has announced the nominations for the 57th David di Donatello Awards.

Leading the way with 13 nominations were Daniele Vicari's Diaz and Giuseppe Tornatore's La migliore offerta (The Best Offer). The former received mentions for Best Film, Best Director, Best Producer and Best Supporting Actor (Claudio Santamaria). The latter was nominated in the top categories of Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Producer, but not in any of the acting categories.

The other nominees for Best Film were Gabriele Salvatores's Educazione siberiana (Siberian Education), Bernardo Bertolucci's Io e te (Me and You), and Roberto Ando's Viva la liberta (Long Live Liberty). Ando, however, was the only Best Picture nominee to miss out on a Best Director nod. The fifth spot went to Matteo Garrone for Reality.

Winners already announced were Best Documentary going toAnija – la nave (Anija – The Boat) by Roland Sejko; and Best Short Film going to L'esecuzione (The Execution) by Enrico Iannaccone.

The 57th David di Donatello Awards will take place on June 14 at the Via di Villa Patrizi in Rome.


Complete list of nominations for the 57th David di Donatello Awards

Best Film
Diaz
Educazione siberiana (Siberian Education)
Io e te (Me and You)
La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)
Viva la liberta (Long Live Liberty)

Best Director
Bernardo Bertolucci, Io e te (Me and You)
Matteo Garrone, Reality
Gabriele Salvatores, Educazione siberiana (Siberian Education)
Giuseppe Tornatore, La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)
Daniele Vicari, Diaz

Best Debut Director
Leonardo Di Costanzo, L’intervallo (The Interval)
Giorgia Farina, Amiche da morire
Alessandro Gassman, Razzabastarda
Luigi Lo Cascio, La città ideale (The Ideal City)
Laura Morante, Ciliegine (The Cherry on the Cake)

Best Screenplay
Niccolò Ammaniti, Umberto Contarello, Francesca Marciano, Bernardo Bertolucci, Io e te (Me and You)
Giuseppe Tornatore, La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)
Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso, Reality
Ivan Cotroneo, Francesca Marciano, Maria Sole Tognazzi, Viaggio sola
Roberto Andò, Angelo Pasquini, Viva la liberta (Long Live Liberty)

Best Producer
Fabrizio Mosca, Alì ha gli occhi azzurri (Alì Blue Eyes)
Domenico Procacci, Diaz
Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz, Educazione siberiana (Siberian Education)
Isabella Cocuzza, Arturo Paglia, La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)
Angelo Barbagallo, Viva la liberta (Long Live Liberty)

Best Actress
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Viva la liberta (Long Live Liberty)
Margherita Buy, Viaggio sola
Federica Victoria Caiozzo, a.k.a. Thony, Tutti i santi giorni
Tea Falco, Io e te (Me and You)
Jasmine Trinca, Un giorno devi andare

Best Actor
Aniello Arena, Reality
Sergio Castellitto, Una famiglia perfetta
Roberto Herlitzka, Il rosso e il blu
Luca Marinelli, Tutti i santi giorni
Valerio Mastandrea, Gli equilibristi
Toni Servillo, Viva la liberta (Long Live Liberty)

Best Supporting Actress
Ambra Angiolini, Viva l’Italia
Anna Bonaiuto, Viva la liberta (Long Live Liberty)
Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, Gli equilibristi
Francesca Neri, Una famiglia perfetta
Fabrizia Sacchi, Viaggio sola
Maya Sansa, Bella addormentata

Best Supporting Actor
Stefano Accorsi, Viaggio sola
Giuseppe Battiston, Il comandante e la cicogna
Marco Giallini, Buongiorno papà
Valerio Mastandrea, Viva la liberta (Long Live Liberty)
Claudio Santamaria, Diaz

Best Director of Photography
Fabio Cianchetti, Io e te (Me and You)
Gherardo Gossi, Diaz
Marco Onorato, Reality
Italo Petriccione, Educazione siberiana (Siberian Education)
Fabio Zamarion, La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)

Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat, Reality
Ennio Morricone, La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)
Mauro Pagani, Educazione siberiana (Siberian Education)
Franco Piersanti, Io e te (Me and You)
Teho Teardo, Diaz

Best Original Song
"Fare a meno di te" by Gianluca Misiti and Laura Marafioti, performed by La Elle - Buongiorno papà
"Novij den" music & lyrics: Mauro Pagani, performed by Dariana Koumanova - Educazione siberiana (Siberian Education)
"La vita possibile" music: Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi, lyrics and performance: Francesco Renga - Razzabastarda
"Tutti i santi giorni" music & lyrics: Simone Lenzi, Antonio Bardi, Giulio Pomponi, Valerio Griselli, Matteo Pastorelli e Daniele Catalucci, performed by Virginiana Miller - Tutti i santi giorni
"Twice born" music & lyrics: Arturo Annecchino, performed by Angelica Ponti - Venuto al mondo

Best Production Design
Paolo Bonfini, Reality
Marco Dentici, E’ stato il figlio
Marta Maffucci, Diaz
Rita Rabassini, Educazione siberiana (Siberian Education)
Maurizio Sabatini and Raffaella Giovannetti, La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)

Best Costume Design
Patrizia Chericoni, Educazione siberiana (Siberian Education)
Grazia Colombini, E' stato il figlio
Alessandro Lai, Appartamento ad atene
Maurizio Millenotti, La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)
Roberta and Francesca Vecchi, Diaz

Best Makeup
Dalia Colli, Reality
Enrico Iacoponi, Viva la liberta (Long Live Liberty)
Enrico Iacoponi and Maurizio Nardi, Educazione siberiana (Siberian Education)
Mario Michisanti, Diaz
Luigi Rocchetti, La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)

Best Hair
Carlo Barucci and Marco Perna, Viva la liberta (Long Live Liberty)
Stefano Ceccarelli, La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)
Giorgio Gregorini, Diaz
Francesco Pegoretti, Educazione siberiana (Siberian Education)
Daniela Tartari, Reality

Best Editing
Benni Atria, Diaz
Clelio Benevento, Viva la liberta (Long Live Liberty)
Walter Fasano, Viaggio sola
Massimo Quaglia, La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)
Marco Spoletini, Reality

Best Sound
Gaetano Carito, Bella addormentata
Fulgenzio Ceccon, Viva la liberta (Long Live Liberty)
Maricetta Lombardo, Reality
Gilberto Martinelli, La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)
Remo Ugolinelli and Alessandro Palmerini, Diaz

Best Visual Effects
Mario Zanot, Diaz
Andrea Marotti, Dracula di dario argento
Paola trisoglio and Stefano marinoni, Educazione siberiana (Siberian Education)
Wonderlab di Bruno Albi Marini, Reality
Gianluca Dentici per Reset Vfx, Viva la liberta (Long Live Liberty)

Best European Film
Skyfall, Sam Mendes
Amour, Michael Haneke
Anna Karenina, Joe Wright
Quartet, Dustin Hoffman
De rouille et d'os (Un sapore di ruggine e ossa / Rust and Bone), Jacques Audiard

Best Non-European Film
Argo, Ben Affleck
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino
Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell
Lincoln, Steven Spielberg
Life of Pi, Ang Lee

Best Documentary
Anija – la nave (Anija – The Boat), Roland Sejko
Bad weather, Giovanni Giommi
Fratelli & Sorelle – storie di carcere, Barbara Cupisti
Nadea e Sveta , Maura Delpero
Pezzi, Luca Ferrari

Best Short Film
Ammore, Paolo Sassanelli
Cargo, Carlo Sironi
L'esecuzione (The Execution), Enrico Iannaccone
Preti, Astutillo Smeriglia
Settanta, Pippo Mezzapesa

Young David
La migliore offerta (The Best Offer), Giuseppe Tornatore
Il principe abusivo, Alessandro Siani
Una famiglia Perfetta, Paolo Genovese
Venuto al mondo, Sergio Castellitto
Viva l'Italia, Massimiliano Bruno

GLAAD honored California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, Grammy-nominated singer Adam Lambert, and the best in entertainment and journalism on Saturday night at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in San Francisco. Mel B, Guillermo Diaz, Tamala Jones, Jinkx Monsoon, Rex Lee and Laverne Cox were among the special guests.

The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their lives. The GLAAD Media Awards also fund GLAAD's work to amplify stories of LGBT people and issues that build support for equality.

At the ceremony, filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom presented GLAAD's Golden Gate Award to her husband, Gavin Newsom. In accepting the award, Newsom said, "There's one fundamental that defines the best of this city, and the best of this organization, and that is we don’t tolerate our diversity, we truly celebrate our diversity. We highlight all those wonderful and interesting differences, but at the end of the day we unite around our common humanity. As Dr. King so eloquently said, 'We are all bound together by a web of mutuality.' We're all in this together."

Melanie Brown, a judge on America's Got Talent and former Spice Girl, presented GLAAD's Davidson/Valentini Award to out singer Adam Lambert. Speaking of the challenges associated with being an out entertainer, Lambert said, "We are right in the middle of two generations with two different perspectives but one common thread - love. With all the differences of opinion both within the LGBT community and elsewhere, the best we can do is to keep it real and to spread a message of acceptance. If we can inspire even one person to open their mind, or another to be who they want to be, whether they're gay or straight, old or young, man or woman, black or white – then it's worth being objectified by the sometimes frustrating world of media sensationalism."

Lambert continued, "Thank you to GLAAD for recognizing my efforts, because I put a lot of effort into this. I think about it a lot (it makes me crazy), but my goal is to try to represent both myself and my community proudly."

The reigning World Series champion San Francisco Giants received the Corporate Leader Award. The Giants are the first professional sports team honored by GLAAD. They were the first ever professional sports team to host an HIV/AIDS benefit game in 1994, and have generated more than $1.3 million for Bay Area HIV/AIDS education. The Giants were also the first major league sports team to record a video for the It Gets Better project, and this month will hold their 11th Annual LGBT Night Out.

Travis Fine, the writer/director of Any Day Now, accepted the award for Outstanding Film - Limited Release. Writer and artist Dan Parent accepted the award for Outstanding Comic Book for the ongoing comic book series Kevin Keller. Journalist Marc Lamont Hill accepted the award for Outstanding Digital Journalism Article for his piece "Why Aren't We Fighting for CeCe McDonald?" which appeared on Ebony.com.

GLAAD also presented Special Recognition Awards to Kevin McClatchy, former owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team who came out in a New York Times article last year, and Brittney Griner, an out basketball player and this year's number one draft pick for the WNBA.

RuPaul's Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon performed for the capacity crowd. Guests included: Tamala Jones (Castle); Guillermo Diaz (Scandal); Jessica Clark (True Blood); Rex Lee (Suburgatory); Teri Polo, Sherri Saum, Peter Paige (The Fosters); Jaymes Vaughn, James Davis (The Amazing Race); Kyle Richards (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills); Jennifer Biesty, Ryan Scott, Josie Smith-Malave (Top Chef); Laverne Cox, E.J. Bonilla (Musical Chairs); Travis Fine, Isaac Leyva (Any Day Now); Dan Parent (writer, artist Kevin Keller); Marc Lamont Hill (HuffPost Live); Prop 8 plaintiffs Jeff Zarrillo, Paul Katami, Kris Perry, Sandra Stier; LGBT advocates Karen and Eric Andresen, Shane Bitney Crone, Jennifer Tyrrell and Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler; former Pittsburgh Pirates owner Kevin McClatchy; number one WNBA draft pick Brittney Griner; GLAAD National Spokespersons Wilson Cruz and Omar Sharif, Jr.

Following is a complete list of GLAAD Media Award recipients announced Saturday in San Francisco. Additional awards were presented in New York on March 16 and in Los Angeles on April 20.

• Golden Gate Award: Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom
• Davidson/Valentini Award: Adam Lambert
• Corporate Leader Award: San Francisco Giants
• Outstanding Film - Limited Release: Any Day Now (Music Box Films)
• Outstanding Music Artist: TIE: Adam Lambert, Trespassing (19 Recordings, RCA Records) and Frank Ocean, Channel Orange (Def Jam)
• Outstanding Comic Book: Kevin Keller (Archie Comics)
• Outstanding Digital Journalism Article: "Why Aren't We Fighting for CeCe McDonald?" by Marc Lamont Hill (Ebony.com)
• Outstanding Digital Journalism - Multimedia: "Edie Takes on DOMA" In the Life (ITLMedia.org)
• Outstanding Blog: Rod 2.0 (http://rodonline.typepad.com)

SPANISH-LANGUAGE

• Outstanding TV Journalism Segment: "En el cuerpo equivocado" Noticias 19 (KUVS TV-19 [Sacramento, Calif.])

Additional awards were presented in New York on March 16 and in Los Angeles on April 20.

The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives. The GLAAD Media Awards also fund GLAAD's work to amplify stories of LGBT people and issues that build support for equality. GLAAD Media Award nominees were published, released or broadcast between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012.

To receive the latest updates on the GLAAD Media Awards, follow @glaad on Twitter and use the hashtag #glaadawards.

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Tonight, during the Closing Ceremony of this 66th Festival de Cannes, the Jury presided over by Steven Spielberg revealed the award winners.

Audrey Tautou hosted Uma Thurman on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to award the Palme d’or to the best film among the 20 in Competition. The winner this year was La Vie d'Adele - Chapitre 1 & 2" (Blue is the Warmest Colour) by Abdellatif Kechiche. The film is a lesbian love story, and many consider it an appropriate choice especially in light of France's legalization of gay marriage this week.

Jérôme Salle’s Zulu starring Orlando Bloom and Forest Whitaker, was screened at the end of the ceremony.


FEATURE FILMS

Palme d'Or
LA VIE D’ADÈLE - CHAPITRE 1 & 2 (Blue Is The Warmest Colour) by Abdellatif KECHICHE
with Adèle EXARCHOPOULOS & Léa SEYDOUX

Grand Prix
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS by Ethan COEN and Joel COEN

Award for Best Director
Amat ESCALANTE for HELI

Jury Prize
SOSHITE CHICHI NI NARU (Like Father, Like Son / Tel Père, Tel Fils) by KORE-EDA Hirokazu

Award for Best Screenplay
JIA Zhangke for TIAN ZHU DING (A Touch Of Sin)

Award for Best Actress
Bérénice BEJO in LE PASSÉ (The Past) by Asghar FARHADI

Award for Best Actor
Bruce DERN in NEBRASKA by Alexander PAYNE

SHORT FILMS

Palme d'Or
SAFE by MOON Byoung-gon
Special Mention - Ex-aequo:
HVALFJORDUR (Whale Valley / Le Fjord des Baleines) by Gudmundur Arnar GUDMUNDSSON
37°4 S by Adriano VALERIO

CAMERA D'OR
ILO ILO by Anthony CHEN presented in the Directors' Fortnight

The Jury of the CST has awarded the "PRIX VULCAIN DE L’ARTISTE-TECHNICIEN" to:

Antoine HEBERLÉ, director of photography for the film GRIGRIS (directed by Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN), for a result showing remarkable finesse and humility, with the sole intention of serving the film, in conditions that we imagine were very difficult.

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Un Certain Regard 2013 presented in his competition 17 films hailing from 15 different countries. 6 of the works were first films.The Bling Ring directed by Sofia Coppola opened the program out of competition. Under the presidency of Thomas VINTERBERG (director - Denmark), the Jury was comprised of ZHANG Ziyi (actress - China), Ludivine SAGNIER (actress - France), Ilda SANTIAGO (Head of Festival do Rio - Brazil) and Enrique GONZALEZ MACHO (producer, distributor, exhibitor - Spain).

“Dear Thierry, dear Gilles Jacob, dear Cannes Film Festival,

Thank you for giving us the responsibility of choosing and celebrating films from a very powerful Certain Regard selection 2013.

It is a great honor for us, and the selection has been outstanding in many ways.
One of the finest achievements in filmmaking is to create unforgettable moments - moments that stay with us - as a collective memory - as a collective mirror of our existence.

Clay figures, extreme beauty, violence, homosexual blow jobs, systematic humiliation of the human kind, Léa Seydoux’s legs, great Brando imitations are just some of the unique images that will follow us for a while.

This selection was insistingly unsentimental, and still poetic. It was political, highly original, sometimes disturbing, diverse and first of all, very often - unforgettable.

I once again thank you Thierry, for sharing such a fine extract of the best movies around, with all of us.”

- Thomas VINTERBERG


PRIZE OF UN CERTAIN REGARD
THE MISSING PICTURE by Rithy PANH

JURY PRIZE
OMAR by Hany ABU-ASSAD

DIRECTING PRIZE
Alain GUIRAUDIE for STRANGER BY THE LAKE

A CERTAIN TALENT PRIZE
For the ensemble cast of LA JAULA DE ORO by Diego QUEMADA-DIEZ

AVENIR PRIZE
FRUITVALE STATION by Ryan COOGLER

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The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury headed by Jane Campion and including Maji-da Abdi, Nicoletta Braschi, Nandita Das and Semih Kaplanoğlu, has awarded the 2013 Cinéfondation Prizes during a ceremony held in the Buñuel Theatre, followed by the screening of the winning films.

The Cinéfondation Selection consisted of 18 student films, chosen out of nearly 1 550 entries coming from 277 film schools around the world.

“The Jury were unanimous in their choice for the awarded films and want to congratulate the filmmakers for the excellence and maturity of their cinematic voices.”

First Prize
NEEDLE directed by Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Second Prize
WAITING FOR THE THAW (En attendant le dégel) directed by Sarah Hirtt
INSAS, Belgium

Third Prize ex-aequo
ÎN ACVARIU (In the Fishbowl) directed by Tudor Cristian JURGIU
UNATC, Romania
PANDY (Pandas) directed by Matúš VIZÁR
FAMU, Czech Republic

The awarded films will receive €15,000 for the First Prize, €11,250 for the Second and €7,500 for the Third.

The First Prize winner is also guaranteed that his first feature film will be presented at the Festival de Cannes.

It’s finally time to unveil the free outdoor program of the 34th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, presented by TD in collaboration with Rio Tinto Alcan! In keeping with its formula, now an artistic and entertainment signature unique to Montreal, the world’s biggest jazz festival offers over 2/3 of its program free of charge! From June 28 to July 7, this unique event sets up shop in the heart of the Quartier des Spectacles, on a site perfectly conceived to offer an unparalleled entertainment experience, drawing 2 million visits to its 10 stages and hundreds of concerts and entertainment activities in a convivial and safe atmosphere.

Here’s a glimpse at what awaits us in 10 days and nights of discoveries, delights and surprises arrayed for aficionados of jazz, but also fanatics of blues, rock, world music, folk and other music genres born in the spectrum of jazz influence. In this vast range of formulas and formats, you’re guaranteed to discover a wealth of hidden treasures, gems of the next generation and essential legends, thousands of musicians invited from some thirty countries, playing electric guitars alongside balafons, double bass next to turntables, in intimate musical rendezvous and large-scale concerts in the heart of downtown, from noon into the wee hours… Yes, it’s free music at its absolute summer best!

The TD Stage on the Place des Festivals hosts three absolutely essential massive outdoor events to gather and delight Fest fans at 9:30 p.m. Feist gets the ball rolling on Friday, June 28 in the TD Grand Opening Event in collaboration with SiriusXM. At the midpoint of the festival, Tuesday, July 2, brilliant French songwriter-composer-producer-manager and DJ Wax Tailor ignites the party. After burning up the Métropolis in 2010 (opening for Caravan Palace) and L’Astral last year with his invigorating and cinematic blast of orchestral trip-hop and hip-hop, this leading light of the international electronica scene invites in an array of super special guests: Jennifer Charles, Charlotte Savary, Mattic, A.S.M. and Voice. On Sunday, July 7, the 34th edition of the Festival closes under the colours of Mali with 2 of its most brilliant stars, Amadou & Mariam, our Antonio Carlos-Jobim Award honorees this year! The Rio Tinto Alcan Closing Event welcomes this magical, vibrant duo, who throw a party wherever they appear and unleash a refreshing joie de vivre as powerful as their funky rhythms. Their irresistible musical chemistry reaches full potency on their 7th album, Folila, which they’ll unveil here accompanied by another luminous figure from the inexhaustible Malian music scene: Fatoumata Diawara.

In addition to these three Grands événements, the Place des Festivals welcomes the prestigious Performances TD series at 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. Get ready for absolute crowd favourites The Barr Brothers (June 29), who promise a moment of musical magic at the crossroads of folk, rock and blues. On July 1, 30-piece orchestra Mucca Pazza land with their musical hybrid, guaranteed to get the party started! On July 3, Nick Waterhouse makes his first visit to the Festival with the songs from his debut album, Time’s All Gone, which revives the golden age of R&B.

On the same stage, the action kicks off at 6 p.m. with the artists of the Gammes TD series. Effendi’s explosive JazzLab assembles Rémi Bolduc, Alexandre Côté, Frank Lozano, Aron Doyle, Richard Gagnon, John Roney, Alain Bédard and Isaiah Ceccarelli and returns to the Festival on June 29 to mark its 10th anniversary. Then, June 30, the Brad Turner Quartet, celebrated for their creativity and improvisational sensibility, make their Fest debut. On July 4, we welcome pianist and Oscar Peterson protégé Robi Botos, who’s blazed a trail between blues, jazz and the Romany heritage of his ancestors and confirmed his ranking among the leading figures of the next jazz generation by winning the 2012 TD Grand Jazz Award.

On Ste. Catherine St., the super-accessible Rio Tinto Alcan Stage invites fans to the Soirées jazzy Rio Tinto Alcan series at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. On July 3, Kellylee Evans, who charmed us all with Nina, her 2011 Juno-winning tribute album to Nina Simone, presents a turn towards hip-hop and R&B with her recent album, I Remember When. On July 5, French singer Laïka follows in the wake of the grand dames of jazz vocal, presenting a song recital of great finesse, revisiting standards with a subtle emotion. The following evening (July 6), robust Cajun quartet Lost Bayou Ramblers, proud standard-bearers of the Louisiana scene, present their latest album Mammoth Waltz, steeped in rock energy.

With summer holidays barely begun, it’s time for the entire family to head back into class with La Petite école du jazz (Little School of Jazz), presented by Rio Tinto Alcan every day at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., from June 28 to July 7! Les Zélèves, a vocal harmony quintet led by Victor-Jacques Ménard, along with James Gelfand and his quartet, and the festival mascot, Ste-Cat, are delighted to bring jazz to young and old alike with this dynamic, interactive and fun-filled musical initiation, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year! Immediately afterwards, at 3 p.m. on June 29-30 and July 6, families can keep the festivities going and stretch their legs to music at the Musique en famille avec les ateliers Samajam, a playful percussion workshop presented by Rio Tinto Alcan, principal partner in the Samajam stay-in-school project since 2011.

Head over to the essential Spectacles blues Loto-Québec series at 7 p.m. for blues, blues and more… rock! On July 1, the Festival welcomes Canadian guitarist David Gogo, passionate defender of the blues twice named Guitarist of the Year by the Maple Blues Awards, here to unveil an album due this summer. On July 3, fiery blues singer Angel Forrest promises a hot, hot evening featuring her brand new single, Mother Tongue Blues. To close out the series with a very special shot of rock’n’roll July 7, the Porn Flakes roll out a triple-bill devoted to the Rolling Stones (which continues in the Soirées blues Loto-Québec series): a set of ’60s hits, the legendary Exile on Main Street album in its entirety (9 p.m.) and an overview of the ’70s and beyond (11 p.m.).

Les Soirées blues Loto-Québec take command of the night at 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. with the most talented ambassadors of the genre. The human incarnation of practically the entire history of Québécois blues from the ’70s forward, singer-guitarist Bob Walsh carries his ever-blazing blues torch in July 2, testifying songs from his latest album, There’s a Story Here… French harmonica blower and singer Nico Wayne Toussaint, a devotee of Chicago blues, hits the Festival for the first time July 4 with a repertoire of mainly originals, including a couple in French. The following night (July 5), get set for a refreshing duo from the west coast, The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer, Shawn “The Harpoonist” Hall and Matthew “The Axe Murderer” Rogers, and raw, primal, feverish blues that transcends time to cross the ancient icons (Robert Johnson) with the modern slingers (Jack White).

The mercury should be at the perfect level for the Tropiques Bell series at 8 p.m.! Twenty years after her first Festival visit, grand dame Lorraine Klaasen comes in June 29 to share her most recent creation, Tribute to Miriam Makeba, Juno winner for Best World Music Album this year. On July 5, Christine Salem, maloya singer from Ile de La Réunion in the Indian Ocean, brings a new album, Salem tradition, in which her deep, warm voice is marvelously suited to the Indian Ocean blues she lays over a bed of diabolical rhythms. The series concludes July 7 with the Fest debut of world music discovery Fatoumata Diawara and Fatou, her spellbinding acoustic guitar album weaving traditional Wassoulou chants laced with modern rhythms and tinged with a jazz/blues ambience.

The evening rolls on with the Groove Bell series at 10 p.m., when Fest fans can enjoy the first ever Festival visit by versatile English saxophonist Soweto Kinch (June 29), veteran jazzman and hip-hop star, armed with his new album, The Legend of Mike Smith. On July 3, Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band serve up their magic potion mixing funk, soul, calypso, Afrobeat and spoken word as shaken up on their latest album, produced by Meshell Ndegeocello. Multilingual/multicultural supergroup Nomadic Massive fire up the party July 6 with songs blending soul, reggae and Afro-Caribbean rhythms from their latest EP, Any Sound.

As evening falls, the Brunantes CBC/Radio-Canada series lights up the stage at 7 p.m., presenting many of the musicians nominated for the TD Grand Jazz Award. Among them, 2013 Révélation Jazz Radio-Canada winner Jérôme Beaulieu lands on June 30 with his repertoire of contempo jazz peppered with rock and pop, and with songs from a new album on the way. On July 4, Quetango Quartet fuse tango, jazz and progressive rock and unveil material from their brand new album, Musica Urbana. One of the most brilliant young pianists on the Canadian scene, John Roney follows July 5 with pieces from his 3rd album, St-Henri, reaching beyond the realm of post-bop to embrace modern sounds.

Come on down at 9 p.m. for concerts in the Rendez-vous series. On June 30, Canadian composer and saxophonist Becky Noble, named “Best New Talent” at the 2012 Jazz en rafale festival, heads in with her first album of original material, Salish Folk Song. Finally back after a lovely performance in 2009, Japan’s Nobuki Takamen presents recent album Three Wishes on July 4, gilded with lyrical, melodious, fluid jazz compositions. The series concludes July 7 with Francis et ses peintres, led by fantasist French singer Katerine, unveiling pop songs joyously jazzily remodeled, as found on their recent release, 52 reprises dans l’espace.

In the Lounge Heineken series, fans can bask in the sounds of two concerts, at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., while enjoying a cocktail. On June 29, Jordan Officer, master of the 6-string, invites us to an intimate rendezvous before heading off to New York, playing songs from his new, bluesier EP. Veteran bluesman Martin Goyette, known for his super-unique voice, blows in July 3 with the blues, funk, rock and soul of new album Sweet Warm Jelly. Texan guitarist and singer Shakey Graves follows July 4-5 with his old school acoustic blues.

Beginning at midnight, the dancefloor in L’Astral lights up into the wee hours with the Open House series. Born in semi-secrecy in a Montreal loft three years ago, the Speakeasy Electro Swing soirées invade the place June 28-30 to get nighthawks dancing up a storm. July 1-3, S. MOS & Friends of France load in the keyboards, turntables and other machines, fusing the smoothest rap flows with the finest in jazz rhythms. Then, the hottest Franco-Anglo duo on the Montréal reggae-dub scene, Sud-West Ghostbeard & Poirier, take up the baton July 4-7 with one marching order: get everyone dancing until they can dance no more!

Twice every evening at 10 p.m. and midnight, the Musique au Balmoral series presents free 45-minute concerts without intermission. June 28-30, double bassist Alexandre Bellegarde offers his tasty jazz-world in a duo with a different guest each night. Ranked among the finest guitarists of his generation, Stéphane Tellier moves in July 1-2 for a high-voltage duet with another six-string ace renowned for his fingerstyle mastery: Dan Livingstone. July 3-4, Shlomo and Julie offer their charming blend of folk, acoustic blues, ragtime…. The series closes with Viva Nova July 5-6, featuring singer, guitarist, percussionist and keyboardist Micäel Lüssi and a repertoire of Brazilian jazz, captivating rhythms and elegant grooves.

Nighthawks can also cut loose on the dancefloor in the Savoy at midnight in the Nightcap Heineken series. Montreal combo Le Matos set the tone June 28-30 with their electro-house nocturne. Next, July 1-3, local groovemasters Afrodizz, specializing in high-octane Afrobeat and funk. Papagroove close things out July 4-7 with the wild rhythms of their fresh-baked album, Civilized Ghetto!

Rio Tinto Alcan stage (corner of Ste. Catherine and Jeanne-Mance), CBC / Radio-Canada stage (corner of Clark and Ste. Catherine), Place des Festivals and Lounge Heineken (Parc des Festivals, corner of De Bleury St. and De Maisonneuve Blvd.)

Every day of the Festival, the festivities kick off at noon! The finest jazz bands from high schools and cegeps show off their burgeoning chops for Festival fans on the Rio Tinto Alcan stage in the series JazzFest des jeunes, presented by Rio Tinto Alcan atnoon and 3 p.m. The action continues in the afternoon: high-energy musical entertainment takes over the Place des Festivals (at 1 p.m., 2 p.m.), the Place des Arts esplanade (4 p.m.), or the Lounge Heineken (in front of the stage) at noon, 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. At 4 p.m., Les Envolées du Festival presents university groups on the CBC/Radio-Canada stage (and, on June 28 and July 2-5, in the Grande-Place in Complexe Desjardins), just before fans roll into the Rencontres festives, at 5 p.m., featuring two bands playing their own separate sets at either end of the Place des Festivals, then meeting in the middle for a joyous “musical battle”—right in the midst of the crowd! This year, the musical fireworks come from 5 equally explosive orchestras: Streenix, Swing Tonique Jazz Band, Roma Carnivale, Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra and Fanfare Severni battle it out in a fusillade of brass, energy and good vibes!

On June 29 at 10 p.m., we’ve added a free concert to the Métropolis program: the Jean Millaire Blues Marathon—100 years of Muddy Waters. It was the perfect occasion: this year, celebrations mark the 100th anniversary of Muddy Waters’ birth all over America. And who better than Jean Millaire, renowned since the late ’60s as the best blues guitarist in Québec, to host this free event? Four hours of continuous music, with more than 15 artists onstage. Party time!

Festival fans can always find everything they need to fill up and quench their thirst on the Festival site. A craving? They can snack it up at the Barbecue, the hot-dog and Häagen-Dazs ice cream bar carts or, for a more exotic touch, taste the delectable creations at the mango-flower or porchetta kiosks. They can enjoy Italian homemade pasta at Wienstein & Gavino’s, delicious Argentinean grilled sandwiches at L’Atelier d’Argentine or a wide variety of cold soups, sandwiches and salads at SoupeSoup. They can also select from the wide variety of thirst-quenching options on the site, from the relaxed ambience of the Lounge Heineken to the friendly counters of the Jazz Bars Heineken, Bar Amarula or Bistro Express SAQ, the tempting terrasses of the Bar Terrasse, Terrasse Amarula or Bistros SAQ, delectably diverse port tastings at the Kiosque Porto Cabral or coffee at Café Jura… Finally, theTerrasse Élixirs, the enlarged Balmoral terrasse, located right on the Place des Festivals, can welcome Festival fans in full sunshine and in the heart of the action! Also, the Festival once again joins forces with Naya to offer the Fontaine Naya, a “refueling service” for bottled spring water offered for a small fee, in an effort to reduce the number of water bottles purchased. And for the more jazzistically-inclined “musicovores”, the Festival souvenir boutiques offer an extensive array of official Festival products, including t-shirts bearing the Ste-Cat logo, albums by everyone from legends to newly-discovered artists, posters, caps, etc.

The Galerie Lounge TD, located in the exhibition hall of Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme, Place des Arts, during the Festival, offers a treasure trove of works by artists from every provenance who share a common passion for jazz. The 34th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal is proud to present, from June 28 to July 7, Bleu Blanc Rouge, a piece by Serge Lemoyne reproduced as a limited-edition silkscreen, numbered and signed. Additionally, throughout the Festival run, fans can purchase a silkscreen of official poster Crossroads, inspired by the Afro-American musical and cultural crosspollination at the very roots of jazz, as well as other original works by our artist in residence for over 25 years, Yves Archambault.

Without the support of our precious public and private partners, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, now an event of global renown and prestige—this big, beautiful non-profit musical celebration—could not exist in this famous format, offering large-scale urban entertainment free of charge. We offer our warmest thanks to principal sponsor and official presenter TD as well as Rio Tinto Alcan, co-presenter of the Festival, for their renewed support. Thanks also to Bell, Loto-Québec, the Société des alcools du Québec, Heineken, SiriusXM and all our loyal longtime suppliers and collaborators. We thank the Gouvernement du Québec, the Government of Canada and their different ministries and organisms as well as the Ville de Montréal, Tourisme Montréal and the Fonds pour la création musicale for their involvement. Thanks also to our media partners and the entire Festival team.

The free Official Info-Jazz Program (printed in 200,000 copies) and the Info-Jazz pamphlet—the complete pocket sized schedule of which we printed 500,000 copies—contain all the details about the event and can be picked up at the Métropolis, in Place des Arts and, over the next few days, in all the participating concert halls, in SAQ and Renaud-Bray branches in Greater Montreal, in Montreal tourist information centres as well as in most downtown hotels, and major book and music stores. Both programs and pamphlets will be available at the four Info-Jazz La Presse+ kiosks.

You can visit the Info-Jazz Internet site at montrealjazzfest.com or call the Info-Jazz La Presse+ line (514 871‑1881 or, toll-free, 1 85JAZZFEST). A tourist service is also available to help you organize your stay at this year’s Festival, by offering a number of à la carte packages (montrealjazzfest.com/packages-travel).