2021 Award Winners

Just a few minutes ago Thom Ernst announced the winners of the 2021 Kingston Canadian Film Festival. Here are the award-winning films and you can still catch them online for a few more hours – they’re available until 11:59 pm TONIGHT.

 

Canadian Shorts Awards

sponsored by William F White International

Winner of the Best Canadian Short, selected by a jury

SCARS – director Alex Anna

 

Winner of the Favourite Canadian Short, voted on by the audience

SINKING SHIP – director Sasha Leigh Henry

 


 

Youth Shorts Awards

presented with support from Empire Life and Ontario Power Generation

Winner of the Best Youth Short, selected by a  jury

CALL OF THE VOID – director Kyla Stone

 

Winner of the Favourite Youth Short, voted on by the audience

ELLIOT SHEPARD’S CONCERTO IN D MINOR – director EJ Graham

 


 

Local Shorts Awards

sponsored by Steam Whistle Brewing

Winner of the Steam Whistle Homebrew Award for Best Local Short, selected by a jury

DAFFODILS – director Adrien Benson

 

Winner of the Steam Whistle Homebrew Award for Favourite Local Short, voted on by the audience

A CHINESE LOVE SONG – director Lara Besa

 


 

People’s Choice Award

sponsored by Limestone Financial

Finalists

THE PAPER MAN / LAFORTUNE EN PAPIER – director Tanya Lapointe
BEANS – director Tracey Deer
MY VERY OWN CIRCUS / MON CIRQUE A MOI – director Miryam Bouchard
YOU WILL REMEMBER ME /TU TE SOUVIENDRAS DE MOI – director Eric Tessier

 

For the first time in our 21 years, we have tie and decided to award them both!

Winners of the 2021 Limestone Financial People’s Choice Award

Favourite feature film voted by the audience

YOU WILL REMEMBER ME /TU TE SOUVIENDRAS DE MOI – director Eric Tessier

and

BEANS  – director Tracey Deer

 


 

Thanks to our jurors and to the audience for selecting the 2021 winners! 

Canadian Shorts
Susie Allan (Thousand Islands Playhouse)
Jan MacDonald (Downtown Kingston BIA)
Sloan Westlake (KCFF)
Gowtie Raveenthiran (KCFF)

Local Shorts
Lindsey Cassel (Steam Whistle)
Kathleen Vollegbregt (Avenue Strategy, KCFF Board of Directors)
Dave Bull (Kingston Community Credit Union)
Kelsey Harrison (Downtown Kingston BIA)

Youth Shorts
Lexy Correa (Tourism Kingston)
Curtis Brunet (YourTV/Cogeco)
Suleimy Rios Aguilar (KCFF)
Sloan Westlake (KCFF)