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

Program 2024:

Saturday 25th

Block 1 – Student Shorts – 12-12:45 PM

Color Troopers: The Legacy Continues
Rainy Season
Missing String
Out of my Skin
The Line (La ligne)
Disconnect
Q & A

Block 2 – Animation & Experimental – 12:45-1:45 PM

8 Rooms
PACO
Mermaid In The Garden of Escapism
What The River Taught Me
Syndrome
Q & A

Block 3 – Short fiction – 1:45-3:15 PM

A Cursed Story
The Handsome Dancer
The Passion of Paul-Emile Borduas
Mail Order Bride
Begin Again
Q & A

Block 4 – Short Fiction – 3:15-5:00 PM

An Actor Prepares
The King’s Sacrifice
Another Day
Impasse
Empty Nest
Gutter
Q & A

Block 5 – Feature Doc – 5-6 PM

TRACE Tracing Rare African Canadian Extraordinaire

Block 6 – Feature Fiction – 6-7 PM

FRAME

Sunday 26th – Theater A

Block 1 – Short Doc & Short Fiction – 12-1:10 PM

In The Absence of Light
Hell and Highwater
New Roots, Old Recipes
212
Who We Are
All Sacred Things
Q&A

Block 2 – Short Doc – 1:10-2:20 PM

Mothers: Out Of A Pandemic
Alfie
P’tit Bouddha (Little Buddha)
Not That Kind of Horny
Q&A

Block 3 – Short Doc & Fiction – 2:20-3:20 PM

CATHERINE IN LOVE
Nonna Carmina
Holodomor:Voices of Survivors (Ukrainian Famine/Genocide)
Las Olas (The Waves)
You, Forever
Thorn

Block 4 – Feature Fiction – 3:20-4:50 PM

The Liberation Men

Block 5 – Feature Doc – 4:50-6:05 PM

Broken Courage

Block 6 – Feature Fiction – 6:05-7:05 PM

FRAME

Sunday 26th – Theater B

Block 1 – Feature Fiction – 11:00-12:26 PM

12 – Tnaash

Block 2 – Feature Fiction – 12:26-1:40 PM

Thoughts and Prayers

Block 3 – Feature Fiction – 1:40-3:20 PM

We Came to Wreck Everything

Block 4 – Feature Fiction – 3:20-5:25 PM

Tesla’s Medicine: The Universal Fluid

Block 5 – Feature Fiction – 5:25-6:45 PM

tOuch

Block 6 – Short Fiction – 6:45-7:30 PM

Think Of Me
Stormy Weather Cafe
We Sold Our Souls For The Cause

Block 7 – Award Show – 7:30-8 PM

Award Show

Scripts in Competition:

Project Title	Name
Giselle	Mirabelle Lee
America the Land of the Free?	Kandis Heckler
A Game of Gold	JeySea
Reflection	Lisa Ovies
SADIE AND THE GROVE	Donia Youssef
Don’t Bother Looking	Drew Henderson
Storm Tide	Drew Henderson
Freesia	Emerson Tenney
Last Tattoo	Stephanie Barton-Farcas
SACRED SUN	Michael Gould
Yuka	Teresa Deen
Longwood	Cornell Calhoun III
GORDON’S MERCY	G. Lloyd Helm
Alta California	Lynn Elliott
A Secret Life	Barry
TIME	Victor
Winter Bird	Stephen Delos
Libras (Pilot)	Levi Wise Kenneth
Blue Hour (Screenplay)	Esther
Chavez Ravine	Glen Lynch
Sunrise	JP
The Way the Song Whispers	Hannah
Puck It Up	Karinthal
Blue Danube	Tom
THE 89TH TEMPLE	Charlie
Scorched Earth	Gordon
The Light At The End	Lynda
What Would Lombardi Say	Patrick
“SQUADRE”	Charles
What Once Was – Short	Kevin
SHIFT	Darren
The Valentine’s Card	Elizabeth
Across The Lawn	Mirabelle
Proper Placement	MICHAEL
Logic of Love	Barnet
A rendez-vous with Grace (Originally:  Beyond Belief)	Sylvain
Ten Little Guppies	Scott
Panhandle	A.M.
Olvidado	d.b.
DOORS OF MIRACLES	Patricia
Route 91 Strong	Laura
Your Grandmother is a Witch!	Mark