From: Chris Kennedy (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2006 - 09:20:49 PDT
The Images Festival is pleaseed to announce the award winners for the 19th
Annual Images Festival (April 13-22, 2006).
Many thanks to our 2006 On Screen Jury: Shai Heredia (Mumbai, India), Ralph
McKay (Marfa, USA), Andréa Picard (Toronto, Canada) and Stefanie Schulte
Strathaus (Berlin, Germany) and to our Off Screen Jury: Marnie Fleming
(Oakville, Canada) and Aki Onda (Tokyo, Japan).
Images Prize:
Sponsored by NOW Magazine on the occasion of their 25th anniversary, this
is our grand prize, awarded in recognition of the Best Canadian Media
Artwork in the festival. The recipient receives a $500 cash prize and name
recognition in a special NOW Magazine award announcement. Award presented to
Deirdre Logue for Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes. (Honourable mention:
Chris Curreri for Circa 1960).
National Film Board of Canada Award:
This prize is awarded by the NFB to the Best Emerging Canadian Film or
Video Maker in the festival. The winner receives $5,000 in services through
the NFB Filmmaker Assistance Program. Award presented to Robert Riendeau for
Dream in Kodachrome.
Best International Film Award:
Presented by the Images Festival, this award honours the strongest new
international film in the festival. Award presented to Michael Robinson for
You Don't Bring Me Flowers. (Honourable mention: Robert Todd for Evergreen).
Best International Video Award:
Presented by the Images Festival, this award honours the strongest new
international video in the festival. Award presented to Cynthia Madansky for
PSA.11 Fallout.
Best Installation/New Media Award:
Presented by the Images Festival, this award honours the strongest new
Canadian or international installation or new media work in the festival.
Award presented to Deirdre Logue for Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes.
(Special jury citations for Calum Stirling, One Revolution Per Minute and
for the Timeless exhibition, curated by Peter Ride.)
Steam Whistle Homebrew Award:
Presented by Steam Whistle Brewing, this award honours excellence and
promise in a local artist. The recipient receives a $500 cash prize. Award
presented to John Price for gun/play and Making Pictures.
NOW Magazine Overkill Award:
Presented by NOW Magazine, this award is given to an artist whose work
approaches extremes of incorrigibility through form and/or content, and
challenges our notions of edgy, experimental practice. The recipient
receives a $200 cash prize. Award presented to Francesco Gagliardi for Short
Sentences.
Marian McMahon Award:
Presented by the Images Festival to a woman filmmaker each year, this award
honours strong work in autobiography, the complexity of "subject" and the
spirit of Marian McMahon. The recipient is invited to attend the Independent
Imaging filmmaking retreat, held every each June in Mount Forest, Ontario
facilitated by Philip Hoffman. Award presented to Nurjahan Akhlaq for Death
in the Garden of Paradise.
York University Award for Best Student Film:
Presented by York University's Department of Film and Video, the recipient
receives a $300 cash award generously donated by the Department of Film and
Video, a Gulf Islands Film and Television School scholarship covering
tuition for any one-week Media Intensive Program of their choice and $200
worth of Super-8 to video transfer services from Frame Discreet. The
recipient is determined by audience vote. Award presented to Tomonari
Nishikawa for Market Street.
Vtape Award for Best Student Video:
This longstanding award is presented by Vtape, Toronto's video art
distributor and includes a $300 cash prize and $200 worth of Super-8 to
video transfer services from Frame Discreet. The recipient is determined by
audience vote. Award presented to Eduardo Menz for Pinochet's Women.
Super 8 Lifetime Achievement Award:
Peggy Anne Berton, Dagie Brundert
Tom Berner Award:
This award, sponsored by LIFT (The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of
Toronto) commemorates the late Tom Berner, who for many years supported and
nurtured Canadian filmmakers. The award is presented annually to an
individual who has provided extraordinary support to the cause of
independent filmmaking in Toronto. It is with great pleasure that we present
the 2006 Tom Berner Award to Ray Cook.
"Ray Cook is a sound genius and a film optical expert. He has been in this
industry for years and is now at Transit Audio Services. When I heard that
McClear Digital had gone bankrupt just last year, I was saddened to think
that perhaps yet another expert was gone - and gone with him was that
fabulous old school type of film person that I love to work with. Completely
hands on, nothing shakes him, calm, cool and collected". - Keith Cole
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