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)