Get ready for the ultimate showcase of Canadian indie films at The Canadian Independent Film Festival 2024 – CIFF, May 25h and 26th, 2024.
Winners 2024:
Best Animation
PACO of Ana Victoria Pinero
Best Student Film
Out of my Skin of Hannah Fortin
Best Feature Film
We Came to Wreck Everything of AK Austin
Diversity Award
Impasse of Nabil Shahar
Best Drama
An Actor Prepares of Nicholas Koy Santillo
Best Fantasy
Gutter of Theodore Drusba
Best Experimental
Thorn of Pauline Nawwar
Best French-Spoken Film
The Passion of Paul-Emile Borduas of Michael Cutler
Best Director – Feature
FRAME of JP Charlebois, MYRAI
Best Actor
David La Haye in FRAME
Best Short Script
An Actor Prepares of Nicholas Koy Santillo
Best Actress
Aida Sabra in Impasse
Best Comedy
Not that Kind Of Horny of Sean Carson
Best Secondary Actor/Actress
Yara Zakhour in Tnaash
Best Cinematography
The King’s Sacrifice of Raphaël Houde Belle-Isle
Best Sound
Alfie of Alexandra Nadeau
Best Editing
P’tit Bouddha of Jean-Sébastien Dutil
Best Short Documentary
Who We Are of Ziyba Ibragimova
Best Feature Doc
Thoughts and Prayers of Romy Goulem
Best Feature Script
Doors of Miracles of Patricia Poulos
Best Social Doc
Mothers: Out Of A Pandemic – Shonna Foster
Honorable Mention
Broken Courage – David Peck, Nathanael Draper
List of the selected movies 2024:
| Project Title | Project Type | Directors |
| Giselle | Student, Short Script | |
| Who We Are | Documentary, Short | Ziyba Ibragimova |
| Missing String | Short, Student | Hugo Remy |
| America the Land of the Free? | Television Script | |
| 212 | Documentary, Experimental, Short | Christopher Shoust |
| A Game of Gold | Screenplay | |
| Hell and Highwater | Documentary | Jeremy Williams |
| Out of my Skin | Short, Student | Hannah Fortin |
| Reflection | Short Script | |
| Las Olas (The Waves) | Short | Monica Iyah Mustelier |
| tOuch | Documentary | Todd “Max” Carey |
| Stormy Weather Cafe | Short | Chad Verilli |
| Gutter | Short | Theodore Drusba |
| Thoughts and Prayers | Feature | Romy Goulem |
| The Return | Short | BOHDAN DONALD TANASIJCZUK |
| The Line (La ligne) | Short, Student | Myriam Guérin |
| SADIE AND THE GROVE | Screenplay, Short Script, Television Script | |
| Don’t Bother Looking | Screenplay | |
| Storm Tide | Screenplay | |
| Think of me | Short | Anne-Virginie Bérubé |
| Freesia | Screenplay | |
| CATHERINE IN LOVE | Short | Nikki (Nikila) Cole |
| Last Tattoo | Screenplay, Short Script | |
| SACRED SUN | Screenplay | |
| We Sold Our Souls For The Cause | Short | Olivier Surprenant |
| Yuka | Short Script | |
| Longwood | Screenplay | |
| 8 Rooms | Animation, Short | Anita Louise Lebeau |
| GORDON’S MERCY | Screenplay | |
| Alta California | Screenplay | |
| A Secret Life | Screenplay | |
| TIME | Short Script | |
| Winter Bird | Screenplay | |
| Begin Again | Short | Gabriel Venneri |
| Mermaid In The Garden of Escapism | Experimental, Short | Lynn Yuan |
| Libras (Pilot) | Television Script | |
| FishBowl | Short | Ryan M. Andrews |
| Blue Hour | Screenplay | |
| An Actor Prepares | Short | Nicholas Koy Santillo |
| Mothers: Out Of A Pandemic | Documentary, Short | Shonna Foster |
| Chavez Ravine | Screenplay | |
| Broken Courage | Documentary, Feature | David Peck, Nathanael Draper |
| Sunrise | Screenplay | |
| The Way the Song Whispers | Short Script | |
| The King’s Sacrifice | Short | Raphaël Houde Belle-Isle |
| Alfie | Documentary | Alexandra Nadeau |
| Puck It Up | Screenplay, Television Script | |
| Tesla’s Medicine: The Universal Fluid | Documentary, Web / New Media, Other | Robert William Connolly |
| TRACE Tracing Rare African Canadian Extraordinaire | Documentary | Sonia Oduwa Aimiumu |
| Blue Danube | Screenplay | |
| Syndrome | Experimental, Short, Web / New Media | Dominic Robitaille |
| THE 89TH TEMPLE | Screenplay | |
| All Sacred Things | Documentary, Short | Derek Sands |
| Another Day | Short | Théophile Mur |
| Scorched Earth | Screenplay | |
| The Light At The End | Short Script | |
| The Embalmed Embalmer | Short, Student | Léann Ménard |
| Holodomor:Voices of Survivors (Ukrainian Famine/Genocide) | Documentary | Ariadna Ochrymovych |
| Empty Nest | Short | Neil Schell |
| A Cursed Story | Delia Voicu | |
| What Would Lombardi Say | Screenplay, Short Script | |
| PACO | Animation, Short | Ana Victoria Pinero |
| “SQUADRE” | Screenplay | |
| The Passion of Paul-Emile Borduas | Short | michael cutler |
| What Once Was – Short | Short Script | |
| New Roots, Old Recipes | Documentary, Short | Natasha Hermann |
| FRAME | Feature | JP Charlebois, MYRAI |
| SHIFT | Short Script | |
| The Valentine’s Card | Screenplay, Short Script | |
| Across The Lawn | Student, Short Script | |
| Proper Placement | Screenplay | |
| Logic of Love | Other | |
| The Handsome Dancer | Short | Maxime Girard |
| We Came to Wreck Everything | Feature | AK Austin |
| A rendez-vous with Grace (Originally: Beyond Belief) | Screenplay | |
| Ten Little Guppies | Short Script | |
| What The River Taught Me | Experimental, Short | Martin Leon, Felix St-Jacques |
| Nonna Carmina | Documentary | Dahlia Orzari |
| You, Forever | Other | Brenda Kovrig |
| Panhandle | Screenplay | |
| Not That Kind of Horny | Documentary, Short | Sean Carson |
| RAINY SEASON | Short | Jason Wan Lim, R. Trevor Griffiths |
| Mail Order Bride | Short | Oliver Jonathan Assiran |
| P’tit Bouddha (Little Buddha) | Documentary, Short | Jean-Sébastien Dutil |
| Color Troopers: The Legacy Continues | Short, Student | Tsz Ho Alan Pat |
| Olvidado | Screenplay | |
| DOORS OF MIRACLES | Screenplay | |
| The Liberation Men | Feature | Terry Jansen & Danny Crossman |
| Disconnect | Short, Student, Other | Riley Wadden |
| Route 91 Strong | Screenplay | |
| Your Grandmother is a Witch! | Screenplay |
List of the nominees 2024:
| Solitary Maninder Chana Short Beauty Behind The Madness Stephanie Nicole Millar Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student Giselle Student, Short Script Who We Are Ziyba Ibragimova Documentary, Short Missing String Hugo Remy Short, Student America the Land of the Free? Television Script 212 Christopher Shoust Documentary, Experimental, Short A Game of Gold Screenplay Lanterns Flicker Yoni Collins Documentary Running with Robots Sanita Fejzic, Natalie Finkelstein Animation Performing Memories Esteban Guti Documentary, Music Video, Short Notre Dame de Moncton Denise Bouchard Feature Plains Romanne J.A Walker Documentary, Feature, Other Hell and Highwater Jeremy Williams Documentary Out of my Skin Hannah Fortin Short, Student Puppet Killer Lisa Ovies Feature Reflection Short Script Game, Set, Match Zachary Viola Short, Student Las Olas (The Waves) Monica Iyah Mustelier Short No More Time Peter Szabo Short Abundance Sepehr Samimi Documentary, Short tOuch Todd “Max” Carey Documentary Love At Last Sight Joel Michael Reimer Short Hevel Dan Vaida Short Stormy Weather Cafe Chad Verilli Short Gutter Theodore Drusba Short Thrown into Canada Aleem Karmali Documentary, Feature Thoughts and Prayers Romy Goulem Feature The Return BOHDAN DONALD TANASIJCZUK Short Definitely The Hard Way Graeme Bachiu Documentary The Line (La ligne) Myriam Guérin Short, Student Aboriginal Metaphysical Towustasin Experimental, Music Video, Short SADIE AND THE GROVE Screenplay, Short Script, Television Script Rise of Afrobeats in the Prairies Ivan Touko, Fahad Suleiman Documentary, Short Don’t Bother Looking Screenplay Storm Tide Screenplay Think of me Anne-Virginie Bérubé Short Hometown Mysteries – A Farmhouse Murder Rob Letourneau Feature The YEG Soccer Project Ricardo Arturo Casanova Documentary, Short Float Away Doug Cook Music Video Freesia Screenplay My Basketball Journey – Year 1 (Motivational Youth Documentary) Malcolm Msechu Documentary, Short, Student The Suckamoto Sales Incident Jeff Robinson Short CATHERINE IN LOVE Nikki (Nikila) Cole Short Last Tattoo Screenplay, Short Script SACRED SUN Screenplay Disgruntled Bryanna Vachon Short, Student Paddle To The Amazon Chris Forde Documentary We Sold Our Souls For The Cause Olivier Surprenant Short Beyond Silenced Brigitte Noel Short Yuka Short Script Teatime Tamara Sevunts Short Longwood Screenplay PRESERVING TASTE Gelareh Kiazand Documentary Chad Valyear – Up From The Dark Steve Sugarman Documentary, Short 8 Rooms Anita Louise Lebeau Animation, Short Switch Nathan Dunphy Short, Student GORDON’S MERCY Screenplay Alta California Screenplay A Secret Life Screenplay Far Horizon: Flat Earth vs NASA paul may Documentary The Good Word Constance Hilton Short Almost Lost Aaron Huang Feature Song of Spring Yang Dong Documentary Cover Your Ears Sean Patrick Shaul Documentary, Feature T-Bone Zachary Bennett Short TIME Short Script Winter Bird Screenplay Macbeth Michelle Boulet, Sarah Constible Feature Ancestral Rivers Taylor Smith Documentary, Experimental, Short Ode to Gertie Ryan Karen Robinson Animation Begin Again Gabriel Venneri Short Mermaid In The Garden of Escapism Lynn Yuan Experimental, Short Libras (Pilot) Television Script Surviving Suicide Paul Plett Documentary FishBowl Ryan M. Andrews Short Blue Hour Screenplay An Actor Prepares Nicholas Koy Santillo Short Mothers: Out Of A Pandemic Shonna Foster Documentary, Short Get in my Gut! Nikola Kovacic Short, Television Chavez Ravine Screenplay Broken Courage David Peck, Nathanael Draper Documentary, Feature Sunrise Screenplay The Way the Song Whispers Short Script Walkman Ana Guedes Short, Student Good Good Siddharth Ganesh Short Brainstream Caroline Robert Animation, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media New Year’s Eve Tinghao (Xuedong) Tian Student The King’s Sacrifice Raphaël Houde Belle-Isle Short Alfie Alexandra Nadeau Documentary Puck It Up Screenplay, Television Script Tesla’s Medicine: The Universal Fluid Robert William Connolly Documentary, Web / New Media, Other Gorgeous Girl Eric LaBossiere, Riel Foidart Animation, Music Video TRACE Tracing Rare African Canadian Extraordinaire Sonia Oduwa Aimiumu Documentary SCOOPS! Denzel Noylander Short, Student Blue Danube Screenplay Bread in the Bones Darrell Varga Documentary, Feature Up S#!T CREEK Panagiotis Tsaltas Documentary Syndrome Dominic Robitaille Experimental, Short, Web / New Media Logging Algonquin Conor DeVries Documentary THE 89TH TEMPLE Screenplay All Sacred Things Derek Sands Documentary, Short Love Tap Josh Cromarty-Bradford Short Another Day Théophile Mur Short Bridges To The North Tony McGuire Documentary Scorched Earth Screenplay The Light At The End Short Script The Embalmed Embalmer Léann Ménard Short, Student A Better Place Tammy Boyer Short GRWM – get ready with me Etienne Jacques Short Holodomor:Voices of Survivors (Ukrainian Famine/Genocide) Ariadna Ochrymovych Documentary The Door Peter Collins Short Standing on the Firing Line the Story of Mystique Marco D’Auria Documentary Empty Nest Neil Schell Short An Advertisement Andrii Ahapii, Denis Knopov Short OLD NORTH Steven Edwin Rohrer Short Testament Jessica Landry Short Treat Day Lisa Kockeritz Short Hockey Kid: On thin ice Richard Leonard MacQueen Documentary A Reel Heist Joe Rule Feature The Founder Effect Justin MacGregor Feature A Cursed Story Delia Voicu What Would Lombardi Say Screenplay, Short Script PACO Ana Victoria Pinero Animation, Short “SQUADRE” Screenplay The Passion of Paul-Emile Borduas michael cutler Short Reservation For Bridget Owen Meinert Short Adam Jack’s The Lurker Adam Jack Feature What Once Was Alexandre Belke Short Script New Roots, Old Recipes Natasha Hermann Documentary, Short The Engine Inside Darcy Wittenburg, Darren McCullough, Colin Jones, Anthill Films Documentary, Feature FRAME JP Charlebois, MYRAI Feature SHIFT Short Script [INSERT SHORT FILM TITLE] Kory Orban Short Kipkemboi Charles Uwagbai Feature Friend Marc Chackal Short, Student WRKSMRT C.J. Wilkins Short Cold Turkey Fereidoon Tavassoli Short The Valentine’s Card Screenplay, Short Script I Think We Might Need To Breakup…? Brooke Assels Short, Student Atikamekw Suns Chloé Leriche Feature Across The Lawn Student, Short Script Proper Placement Screenplay The Whale’s Prophecy Julien Robichaud, Gilles Doiron Documentary Subversives | The History Of Lowest of the Low SIMON HEAD Documentary Logic of Love Other Like Family Leah Walker Short The Handsome Dancer Maxime Girard Short We Came to Wreck Everything AK Austin Feature Heart of the Healer MJ Politis Feature A rendez-vous with Grace (Originally: Beyond Belief) Screenplay Ten Little Guppies Short Script What The River Taught Me Martin Leon, Felix St-Jacques Experimental, Short Nonna Carmina Dahlia Orzari Documentary You, Forever Brenda Kovrig Other Dr. Cliff – Worldwide Vet Diego A. Garcia Documentary, Feature, Television Time…less Vijay Merak Experimental, Short Panhandle Screenplay Not That Kind of Horny Sean Carson Documentary, Short I Am Here Gina Lori Riley Short RAINY SEASON Jason Wan Lim, R. Trevor Griffiths Short Mail Order Bride Oliver Jonathan Assiran Short P’tit Bouddha (Little Buddha) Jean-Sébastien Dutil Documentary, Short Color Troopers: The Legacy Continues Tsz Ho Alan Pat Short, Student 12 angry lesbians Patrice Leung Short NEPHALEM Spencer Hawkins Short, Student, Other Olvidado by David Roderick Screenplay DOORS OF MIRACLES Screenplay Bon Apoutine (ENG) Ludovic L’Heureux Devinat, Bertrand Niquel Documentary, Television, Web / New Media, Other The Memory Album Cameron Ryan Soedi Short Cinching Saddles Kevin Sengara, Aman Pannu Documentary, Short, Web / New Media The Liberation Men Terry Jansen & Danny Crossman Feature Disconnect Riley Wadden Short, Student, Other The Time You Were Given Imanol Ruiz Documentary Route 91 Strong Screenplay Your Grandmother is a Witch! Screenplay The Martini Shot Stephen Wallis Feature Entrenched Todd Sullivan Documentary, Short |
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