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2011 Official Selections
Grand Prize Award
Seducing Charlie Barker - Amy Glazer
Dark satire of the Manhattan entertainment industry in which a gifted actor (Charlie Barker) begins his fall from grace as he encounters a chameleon-like social climber.
Best Feature
Behind Your Eyes - Clint Lien
Young couple, Erika and Steven, embark on a weekend retreat to meet Steven's parents. When the couple is kidnapped and held hostage, it's a fight for their lives against their mysterious abductor. As he tortures and teases them, secrets from the past emerge and change everything. When Erika escapes, the film plunges the viewer further into uncharted territory and unyielding mayhem.
Special Jury Award
The Secret Friend - Flavio Alves
A phone call can be a lifeline. A reclusive, elderly widow lives in quiet desperation following her husband’s death until she begins receiving daily phone calls from a silent stranger. At first Anna finds the calls intrusive, but as the calls continue unabated Anna finds herself waiting for her phone to ring with growing anticipation prompting her to reach out to her silent prankster.
Special Jury Award
Flint Creek - Christopher Hall
1813, Western New York. A young settler on the war-torn Niagara Frontier witnesses a war crime deep in the wilderness and must decide whether he will put his life at risk and help an unlikely friend.
Special Jury Award
Kanowna - Chris Richards-Scully
Kanowna, Western Australian Goldfields, 1902, a lawman does the unforgivable and fathers a child to a Japanese prostitute.
Special Jury Award
Blindfold - Teace Snyder
A ten-year-old-girl is subpoenaed for giving a controversial presentation about 9/11 to her class, and her widower father must confront both his, and her feelings, about the loss of their mother and wife in the attack.
Best Documentary Film
Come Together...A Beatles Tribute - Steve Ison & John Scofield
If music is the universal language, then the songs of the Beatles are its Rosetta Stone. The Fab Four no loner exist, but their musical legacy lives on through an estimated 8,000 'look-alike-sound-alike' tribute bands worldwide, who interpret and perform their music.
Jury Prize - Documentary Film
The Story - Steve Bellamy
Disguised as a ski documentary, The Story is actually a riveting examination of what compels us to excel when facing the most extreme circumstances. Along the way, we meet amazing and eccentric characters: heroes, misfits, heroes who are misfits, and in the process we learn more than we could have imagined about ourselves.
Best Actress
Land without Shadows - Raimonda Skeryte
After the death of her ex-boyfriend, Eponine decides to go back to the place of memories, Coney Island. On a bench, she reads a letter full of love, written by her ex-boyfriend's mother, Sally. Paul, a young photographer looking for new images didn't miss that moment and decides to go see her.
Best Animation
Paperman - Richard Kelly
A lone man's quest to find his true love in a busy paper metropolis. Will he find the Papergirl he hopes for?
Best Canadian Feature
Fallen Before Falling - James Dubbeldam
Anastasia, a successful actor, moves to her 'safe place' at an abandoned farm, to face her fears and deal with her problems. All while her mental state is questionable.
Best Canadian Short
Timothy and the World of Tomorrow - Daniel Labossiere
Timothy is a curious boy with his sights set on becoming the next Neil Armstrong and blasting off to the moon. His dreams are sharply contrasted with his strict upbringing and overbearing mother, who will stop at nothing to prevent Timothy from reaching his dreams, and fostering a friendship with Sunjit, a Sikh boy living next door.
Best Children TV Series
Punky Pets: International Icon - Charles Unger
The Punky Pets are eight, animated, ethnically diverse, animal characters from around the world that have dreams of becoming big rock stars. They come from vastly different countries to qualify for the grand prize at the International Icon music competition.
Best Comedy
Unfortunate Fate - Marc-Andre Miron
Struggling to regain control of his life, Zack finds that having someone looking over you at all times isn't necessarily a good thing.
Best Director
Clemency - Joseph Albanese
The newly elected governor, based on the testimony of a forensic psychologist at Poe’s murder trial and the testimony convinced the governor that Poe deserved psychiatric care rather than death. Many are outraged by the governor’s act of leniency. A reporter confronts a sadistic killer who takes her on a terrifying thrill ride she will never forget.
Best Drama
Collectables - Jacob Proctor
A man who cleans rubbish from the side of a railway line discovers something out of the ordinary amongst the usual garbage. A young woman left for dead. His quiet and ordered life is shattered when the woman regains consciousness in the man's works hut.
Best Educational Film
Mashed - Adam Fisher
Doomed to sit at the dinner table until his plate is clean, little Trevor reaches to the depths of his imagination to overcome the dreaded potato monster and his evil minions.
Best Family Film
Alex and the Ghosts - Eric Warin
Alex and the Ghosts is a story of childhood magic and wonderment around a legendary hockey team, uniting past and present, reaching out to the youthful hearts of sport fans of all ages.
Best Fantasy
Trio - Danny Aiello III
Jess and her two best friends go out for a night on the town, where Jess finds herself haunted by a mysterious Bag Lady. This just serves to remind her of the one thing she can never seem to let go of... Him. How do you live when love won't die?
Best Foreign
The Pizza Miracle - Tony Grisoni
A paesano digs for eels on the mud flats. The Madonna appears and forbids him to kill any more forcing him to decide between Heaven's commands or the needs of his family.
Best Independent Film
Quiet at Dawn - Rob Blackie
A WW1 soldier has to watch over another soldier whom he falsely accused of desertion and whom will executed at dawn for cowardice.
Best Music Video
Corrupted Scene Behind the Stage - Ivan Mena Tinoco
Everyone of us has a part that we don't share with anyone. The stage and the backstage as a metaphor of our personalities are reflected in this mysterious approach to the video.
Best Screenplay
Artillerie Lourde (Heavy Weaponry) - Guillaume Falardeau
One day in the life of two careless and emotionally detached city cops.
Best Short Film
The Shoes Maketh The Man - Tarek Sursock
An ambitious but misguided accountant hurries to sign-on his next important client. His materialistic values are going to be put to the test as he makes his way through the concrete jungle of Beverly Hills.
Best Thriller
Shuffle - Garrett Bennett
A killer with a change of heart must play one last hand of poker with the mob boss that raised him within a criminal house of cards.
Best Student Film
Interception - Keith Hodder
Two spies meet to exchange information of vital importance but one spy has different motives.
Best First Time Director
David and Goliath - George Zaverdas
Based on a true story, David a Jewish resistance fighter flees for his life as he is being hunted by Nazi soldiers and is saved by a ferocious German Shepherd, who ultimately becomes his savior.
Best Actor
Abeo - Scott Butler (Actor) and Graham Nolte (Director)
In a world where the quality of television sitcoms are sinking lower than Miley Cyrus's cleavage line, Ronan Abeo, a sitcom writer himself, is growing more disillusioned from the erroneous and soulless work. His distaste for the material only deepens with time, but unfortunately for him, it is already too late.
Best Narrative Film
The Girl Who Cried Pearls - Pascal Trottier
After saving a mysterious girl who cries valuable pearls, a man estranged from his family resorts to drastic means to reunite with his terminally ill child.
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