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Hot Docs Festival - Awards announced

The 2007 Hot Docs festival in Toronto came to an end last weekend with its annual awards.

The festival jury, which included filmmakers Mark Achbar (Manufacturing Consent; The Corporation), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) and the director of the Leipzig International Festival, Claas Danielsen, awarded the following films:

Best Canadian Feature Documentary:
The Bodybuilder And I
Dir: Bryan Friedman
Prod: Julia Rosenberg, Anita Lee

Special Jury Prize Canadian Feature Documentary:
Driven By Dreams
Dir: Serge Giguere
Prod: Nicole Hubert, Colette Loumede

Best International Feature Documentary:
Losers And Winners
Dir: Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken
Prod: Filmproduktion Loekenfranke

Special Jury Prize International Feature Documentary:
Without The King
Dir: Michael Skolnik
Prod: Paola Mendoza, Michael Skolnik

Best Mid-Length Documentary:
Forgiveness: Stories For Our Time
Dir: Johanna Lunn
Prod: Johanna Lunn, Kent Martin

Best Short Documentary:
Man Up
Dir/Prod: Arturo Cabanas

The Don Haig Award
Recipient: Hubert Davis
Awarded by the Don Haig Committtee: $10,000

The Lindalee Tracey Award
Recipient: Trevor Anderson
Awarded by the Lindalee Tracey Award organizers: $5000

Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award
Recipient: Heddy Honigmann

The Audience Award, determined by audience ballot, was awarded to Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine's War/Dance.

The audience picks for the top ten films at Hot Docs 2007 are:
  1. War/Dance (Dir: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine; USA; 105 min)
  2. We Are Together (Dir: Paul Taylor; UK; 86 min)
  3. Garbage Warrior (Dir: Oliver Hodge; UK; 87 min)
  4. The Suicide Tourist (Dir: John Zaritsky; Canada; 90 min)
  5. Forbidden Lie$ (Dir: Anna Broinowski; Australia; 107 min)
  6. Nanking (Dir: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman; USA; 89 min)
  7. City Idol (Dir: Arturo Perez Torres; Canada; 90 min)
  8. Hear And Now (Dir: Irene Taylor Brodsky; USA; 84 min)
  9. Chichester's Choice (Dir: Simonee Chichester; Canada; 64 min)
  10. Forever (Dir: Heddy Honigmann; Netherlands; 95 min)

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