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Canadian works made in the last three years and screening at this year's Festival are eligible for consideration by the jury.
Since 1995, Entertainment Partners Canada has shown its commitment to Inside Out and Canadian film and video makers by providing this $2,000 award for the best new Canadian feature-length narrative or documentary.
This $500 cash award is named in recognition of the invaluable contribution of the late Colin Campbell to Inside Out and the Canadian video community.
Presented to a film or video maker at the early stage of their career, this short film or video award is a generous $500 worth of editing time at Charles Street Video.
Guillermina Buzio is a
Toronto-based artist from
Argentina and currently an
MFA candidate at the Ontario
College of Art and Design.
As an artist she works
in a diverse range of media
that includes video, installation,
performance and painting.
In recent years, Buzio
has been programming for
different festivals and venues,
among them the Museum
of Modern Art in Buenos
Aires; Planet in Focus Environmental
Film and Video
Festival, and Llamalo H
Festival de Diversidad Sexual.
She also worked at alu-
Cine Toronto Latin Media
Festival as Programming
Co-ordinator and Co-Artistic
Director. She is founder
of self-representation video
workshops for youth and
queer Latinos in Toronto.
Ivan E. Coyote was born
and raised in Whitehorse,
Yukon Territory, and is an
award-winning author, performer
and storyteller. Now
a columnist for Xtra West
magazine and frequent contributor
to The Georgia
Straight and CBC Radio,
Ivan is currently at work on
a second novel. His first,
Bow Grip, was awarded the
2007 ReLit Award for best
fiction work, and named by
the American Library Association
as a Stonewall Honor book
Tam-Ca Vo-Van is a curator
and film programmer
based in Ottawa and is currently
the Director of SAW
Gallery, where she has curated
many exhibitions, including
International Geographic,
The Winter Life and
Culture Crash. She is a
founder of Electric Fields:
Electronic Music and Media
Forum and has worked for
many years as a programmer
at the Festival international
du cinéma francophone en
Acadie, and organized the
On the Bend Gay and Lesbian
Film Festival. She is the
Chair of the Board of Directors
of the Association
des groupes en arts visuels francophones.RBC Royal Bank presents this $1,000 award to the audience's favourite feature-length film or video.
This $500 prize was established in 1999 by the Inside Out Advisory Board in recognition of the contribution of our Executive Director from 1996 to 1999.
This generous $1,500 award is provided by Inside Out supporters Michael Leshner
Founded by Bill Ostrander
Inside Out is pleased to present the first annual Bill Sherwood Award, named in honour of the gay American film director, who stepped boldly onto the international film stage in 1986 with his first feature, Parting Glances. The movie has become a classic of LGBT cinema and was the only film Sherwood directed before his death in 1990.
The Bill Sherwood Award is an international prize presented to a director with a first feature screening at Inside Out. Bill Ostrander has generously donated the $1,750 cash prize.
ELIGIBLE FIRST FEATURES
Sebastian Beyer is coprogrammer,
publicist and
much more in the organizational
team of the Hamburg
International Lesbian & Gay
Film Festival, Germany's
largest and longest-running
LGBT film festival. Besides
this he has a diploma in social
pedagogy, and has
worked in such areas as
harm reduction, sex education,
HIV counselling and
youth care in Germany,
Thailand, and Brazil. He
made his festival jury debut
at MixBrasil in São Paulo.
Sadaat Munir joined the
programming team at the
Copenhagen Gay and Lesbian
Film Festival in 2006,
passionate for visual storytelling
and films that inspire
one to make a change in the
world. Sadaat has also been
involved in Denmark's first
LGBT organization for ethnic
minorities-Sabaah-
as an organizer of cultural
events. His Pakistani/European
background gives him
a unique perspective on culture
and cinema.
Heather Keung is an artist
and curator from Toronto
who graduated from
Ontario College of Art &
Design from the Integrated
Media program. Her
artistic and curatorial practices
both examine issues of
identity, intimacy
and physical experience
through the use of media -
video, installation and
performance art.
An active contributor
to the media arts community
in Toronto, she has worked
with Images Festival of Independent
Film and Video,
Planet in Focus Film
Festival, Trinity Square
Video and Vtape. Keung is
Artistic Director of the
Toronto Reel Asian
International Film and
Video Festival.
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