COVER YOUR EARS | Directed by Sean Patrick Shaul
IMAGINING THE INDIAN | Directed by Aviva Kempner, Ben West
IMMEDIATE FAMILY | Directed by Denny Tedesco
THE LEBANESE BURGER MAFIA | Directed by Omar Mouallem
THE LEBANESE BURGER MAFIA | Directed by Omar Mouallem
THE INTERCEPTORS | Director: Ben Cox
HOLDING MOSES | Director: Rivkah Beth Medow
TOP 10 AUDIENCE FAVES
THE LEBANESE BURGER MAFIA
LABELED: THE MISSING, MURDERED, AND FORGOTTEN
IMAGINING THE INDIAN
IT AIN'T OVER
IMMEDIATE FAMILY
STILL: A MICHAEL J FOX MOVIE
COVER YOUR EARS
GREENER PASTURES
SUBJECT
DEEP RISING
2022 AWARDS
THE LONG RIDER | Directed by Sean Cisterna
MISSION: JOY | Directed by Louie Psihoyos
WHO YOU GONNA CALL? | Directed by Fran Strine
THE LONG RIDER | Directed by Sean Cisterna
OMA | Directed by Griffin Cork
SIXTY SECONDS | Lara Shea
ALONE OUT HERE | Luke Cornish
AMERICAN SCAR | Daniel Lombroso
202i Awards
2020 AWARDS
20i9 Awards
What's your favourite film of NWF2019? VOTE for the CTV Audience Awards! Winners have been announced in FOUR Categories, as well as our OVERALL Audience Award Winner for 2019.
AUDIENCE CHOICE WINNER:
GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH - dir. David Charles Rodrigues
CANADIAN FEATURE:
UNMOTHERED - directed by Marie-France Guerrette
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE:
MAIDEN - directed by Alex Holmes
BELL MEDIA HOT DOCS SHOWCASE:
GORDON LIGHTFOOT: IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - directed by Martha Kehoe, Joan Tosoni
AUDIENCE FAVOURITE MUSIC DOC:
GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH - directed by David Charles Rodrigues
JURY AWARDS
BEST CANADIAN SHORT COMPETITION
BIRCH SONG
HIP HOP: THE NEW GENERATION
REFUGE IN THE ROCKIES
THE DAY DON DIED - Winner
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT COMPETITION
A PIECE OF PAPER
BACKBONE
FEEL OF VISION
LUMPKIN, GA - Winner
PIZZA, DEMOCRACY, AND THE LITTLE PRINCE
20i8 Awards
This year’s audience award race was the closest we’ve ever had, but RBG emerged victorious! Congratulations to all of this year’s winners, and all of the films that screened at NWF2018!
2018 CTV AUDIENCE AWARD
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER: RBG
1.RBG – 2018, Julie Cohen & Betsy West (Directors)
AUDIENCE AWARD RUNNER-UP: LOVE, GILDA
2.Love, Gilda – 2018, Lisa Dapolito (Director)
3.Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary – 2018, Brent Hodge (Director)
4.Three Identical Strangers – 2018, Tim Wardle (Director)
5.When They Awake – 2018, P.J. Marcellino & Hermon Farahi (Directors)
6.Flin Flon: A Hockey Town – 2017, Dustin Cohen (Director)
7.In the Name of Your Daughter – 2018, Giselle Portenier (Director)
8.Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax Records – 2018, Julia Nash (Director)
9.Kusama: Infinity – 2018, Heather Lenz (Director)
10.Bad Reputation – 2018, Kevin Kerslake (Director)
2018 films in competition (Winners in BOLD)
BEST MUSIC DOC
Bad Reputation - Kevin Kerslake
Itzhak - Alison Chernick
Industrial Accident – The Story of Wax Trax Records - Julia Nash
The King - Eugene Jarecki
When They Awake - P.J Marcellino & Hermon Farahi
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary - Brent Hodge
Love, Gilda - Lisa Dapolito
On Her Shoulders - Alexandria Bombach
The Devil We Know - Stephanie Soechtig, Jeremy Seifert
Waking The Sleeping Giant - Jon D. Erickson, Jacob Z. Smith
BEST CANADIAN FEATURE
Anote’s Ark
Flin Flon: A Hockey Town
In the Name of Your Daughter
Sickboy
The Invisible Heart
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT
#FAFATL - Sean Osorio
Killing Hope - Natacha Grangeon & Julia Retali
Negative Space
Super 8 Daze
The Likes and Dislikes of Marj Bagley
BEST CANADIAN SHORT
End of the Ice Age
Picture This
Ride for Promise
Through My Eyes: Hani’s Journey
Undercover Jihadi
BEST ALBERTA DOC
All the World’s a Stage
Forests, Fins & Footprints
Gravitas
Jelena
Process
THANK YOU TO OUR 2018 FILM JURORS
Brad Ambury
Shannon Burns
Dustin Cohen
Clare Gibson
Elizabeth Hay
Steven Hope
Jonn Kmech
Samantha Lacey-Avon
Brenda Lieberman
Tammy Magnusson
Kevin Martin
Scott McDonald
Lacey Paige
Jill Shillabeer
Brennan Tilley
Luc Tremblay
Christian Zyp
20i7 Winners
CTV AUDIENCE AWARD
LETTING GO OF ADELE
2017 films in competition - winners marked in BOLD
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
DISTURBING THE PEACE
LETTING GO OF ADELE
THE LAST ANIMALS
OUT OF THIN AIR
UNREST
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT
GARDENERS OF THE FOREST
GEORDIE JAZZ MAN
GREEN & YELLOW
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
BEST MUSIC DOC
AS I AM: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DJ AM
HIRED GUN
MAY IT LAST: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers
SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
TOKYO IDOLS
BEST CANADIAN FEATURE
THE APOLOGY
BEE NATION
CHASING EVEL: THE ROBBIE KNIEVEL STORY
LET THERE BE LIGHT
VICTOR WALK
BEST CANADIAN SHORT
THE BARBER OF AUGUSTA
CHASING THE LION
FIX AND RELEASE
GABEY & MIKE: A JEWISH SUMMER CAMP LOVE STORY
MELTING STARS
BEST ALBERTA DOC
CREE CODE TALKER
GRANDMA LEARNS TO DRIVE
HANDMADE FILM
LIMIT IS THE SKY
NO ROADS IN
Thank you to our 2017 Film Jurors:
Paul Matwychuk
Scott McDonald
Alex Rogalski
Jill Shillabeer
Brennan Tilley
Luc Tremblay
Christian Zyp
Paul Blinov
Megan Dart
Tendisai Cromwell
John Dunham
Clare Gibson
Jonn Kmech
Brenda Lieberman
Tammy Magnusson