2019 Winners
Limestone Financial People’s Choice Award
Best feature, voted by audience

The Grizzlies (dir. Miranda de Pencier)

Steam Whistle
Homebrew Award
best local short, voted on by a jury

Unstoppable

(dir. Celine Klein)

Steam Whistle
Homebrew Award
favourite local short, voted by audience

Space Charter

(dirs. Joey Cifala and Timm Andrews)

Youth Short Film Award
Best short film, voted by jury

Avalanche

(dirs. Hazuki Ono & Casper Leonard)

Youth Short Film Award
Favourite youth short, voted by audience

Buzzer Beater

(dir. Roger Murphy)

Canadian Short
Favourite short, voted by audience

Suede

(dir. Danny Belair)

2018 Winners
Limestone Financial People’s Choice Award
Best feature, voted by audience

Don’t Talk to Irene (dir. Pat Mills)

Steam Whistle
Homebrew Award
best locally produced short film

Three Sisters

(dir. Josh Lyon)

Steam Whistle
Homebrew Award
best locally produced short film – minutes

No Distance

(dirs. Erika Weir and Julia Carrie)

Youth Short Film Award
Best short film, produced by youth 17 and under

Tallulah

(dir. Freddy VanCamp)

Best Canadian Short
Best short, voted by audience

Newborn

(dir. Ray Savaya)

2017 Winners
Limestone Financial
People’s Choice Award
Best feature, voted by audience

Operation Avalanche

(dir. Matt Johnson)

Steam Whistle
Homebrew Award
best locally produced short film

Ty Conn: My Brother the Outlaw

(dirs. Adam Gray & Andrew Gray)

Youth Short Film Award
Best short film, produced by youth 17 and under

The Nerd’s Guide to Getting the Girl

(dir. Annika Broadhead)

2016 Winners

A man looks out the window
A man buries a rival he has just killed in the ground in this comedic short film
A young girl sits in the snow in a desolate field in the country
People’s Choice Award
Best feature, voted by audience

Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr (dirs. Michelle Shephard, Patrick Reed)

Steam Whistle
Homebrew Award
best locally produced short film

Ballad of Jack the Tenor (dir. John Abrams)

Youth Short Film Award
Best short film, produced by youth 17 and under

Kurayami No Wa (dir. Morgana McKenzie)

2015 Winners

A mother stands on the back of a dog sled with two happy children in the sled
Two young man stand in amazement and confusion at a potential zombie
A teenager stands in the woods
People’s Choice Award
Best feature, voted by audience

All the Time in the World (dir. Suzanne Crocker)

Steam Whistle
Homebrew Award
best locally produced short film

Sir John A. and the Thirst of the Anti-Quenched (dir. Adam Kirkey)

Youth Short Film Award
Best short film, produced by youth 17 and under

Countdown (dir. Noah Lalonde)

Previous Winners

A man and boy are sitting on a on a pier with water and the city in the background
An aging man and woman stand on a beach and stare contemplatively out at the horizon
A new teacher talks to a student from across the desk
2014

Siddharth (dir. Richie Mehta)

2013

Still Mine (dir. Michael McGowan)

2012

Monsieur Lazhar (dir. Philippe Falardeau)

A woman in shock stands with blood on her face with huge flames and smoke in the background
A teenage boy stands alone outside of his high school looking uncertain while other kids mingle outside
A man recently diagnosed with terminal cancer contemplates life and death on an oversized muskoka chair
 2011

Incendies (dir. Denis Villeneuve)

2010

The Trotsky (dir. Jacob Tierney)

2009

One Week (dir. Michael McGowan)

A still from the film Amal by Richie Mehta
A still image of Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman playing Scrabble
A man playing a guitar with a Canadian flag on it from the film Guy Terrifico
 2008

Amal (dir. Richie Mehta)

2007

Snow Cake (dir. Marc Evans)

2006

The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico

(dir. Michael Mabott)