imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival Awards 2003
Sunday, October 26, 2003
Film Lounge – 393 Dundas Street, West

The Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award
Presented by the National Film Board of Canada
$1,000 Cash Award
2003 Winner: Totem: The Return of the G’psgolox Pole - Dir: Gil Cardinal
Honourable Mention: Anaana (Mother) - Dir: Arnait Video Productions; and,
Our Nationhood - Dir: Alanis Obomsawin

The Cynthia Lickers-Sage Award for Emerging Talent
(The Cosmic Turtle International Emerging Artist Award)
Presented by V tape
$1,000 Cash Award
2003 Winner: Daybi (aka Geoffery Parenteau)
Honourable Mention: Natanis Desjarlais “Take Back the Land-Spirit Lake”

Best Dramatic Feature
Presented by CHUM Television
$1,000 Cash Award
2003 Winner: The Doe Boy - Dir: Randy Redroad
Honourable Mention: The Business of Fancy Dancing - Dir: Sherman Alexie

Best Radio
Presented by Standard Radio Broadcasting
$1,000 Cash Award
2003 Winner: The Aboriginal Music Experience…A Radio Documentary Series
Part 2 ‘Rez Bluez’ & Part 3 'Contemporary Aboriginal Music’ - Producer/Host: Elaine Bomberry
Honourable Mention: Daryl Coon Jr. WOJB Radio Programmes

Best Experimental
Presented By Images Film Festival
Presenter: Petra Cheverlot, the New Executive Director
$500 Cash Award
2003 Winner: Thorn Grass - Dir: D. Robin Hammer

Best Television
Presented by CBC
$500 Cash Award
2003 Winner: Mocassin Flats: The Series - Dir: Stacey Curtis

Best Short Drama
Presented by CBC
$500 Cash Award
2003 Winner: Mocassin Flats - Dir: Randy Redroad

Best New Media
Presented by V tape
$500 Cash Award
2003 Winner: www.daybi.com
Honourable Mention: www.firethistime.com by Henrik A. Broberg/HAP

Best Music Video
Presented by CHUM Television
$500 Cash Award
2003 Winner: Music is the Medicine - Dir: Randy Redroad
Honourable Mention: I'm a lucky one - Dir: Randy Redroad

~ IFC/Alliance Atlantis Documentary Development Prize ~
$2,500 development deal awarded to the winner
See Here Is The Money: Pitch Competition Thursday,
October 23 at 1:30 p.m. for details.
2003 Winner:
Sharlene Azam for “High School Confidential"
Honourable Mention: Darlene Naponse for “Lime, Green & Pink”

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