Closing Night Awards Ceremony

Photography by Jacquie Burke


imagineNATIVE Shuttle Bus to Awards Ceremony


Awards Ceremony audience


Thomas King and Tara Beagan


Presenter, IFC Mentorship Award: Rachel Fulford (Showcase)


IF Mentorship Award: winner, Shane Belcourt (Director, Tkaronto) and Rachel Fulford (Showcase)


Best Canadian Short Drama and Drama Pitch Prize: Doreen Manual (IIDF Program, Capilano College), winner Jeff Barnaby (Director, The Colony) and Chris Allicock (APTN)


Documentary Pitch Prize: Andrew Johnson (The Lens, CBC Newsworld) and winner Gail Maurice (Director, Thirst)


Presenters, Best Music Video: Lena Demarco and Melisa Djebbari (Bell Canada)


Best Experimental: winner Kevin Lee Burton (Director, Nikamowin (Song)), Scott Berry (images Festival) and D'arcy O'connor (Sound Editor, Nikamowin (Song))


Presenter, Best Canadian Short Drama: Doreen Manual (IIDF, Capilano College)


Best Short Drama: Shane Smith (Channel Zero) and winner Kent Monkman (Director, Shooting Geronimo)


Honourable Mention, Best Short Documentary: Patrick Boivin (Director, Territoire des Ondes (Land and Airwaves))


Best New Media: Jason Ryle (Chair, imagineNATIVE Board), Wanda van der Stoop (Vtape) and Honourable Mention Jenny Fraser (unsettled)


Winner, Best New Media: Archer Pechawis (An Indian Act: Shooting the Indian Act)


Presenter, Best Radio: Pat Holiday (CFRB Radio)


Kathy Montour (CKRZ Radio) accepts Best Radio in Documentary & Current Affairs on behalf of Wilma Green (Road to Reclamation)


Presenter, Cynthia Lickers Sage Award for Emerging Talent: Cynthia Lickers-Sage (ANDPVA)


Best Indigenous Language Production: Valerie Creighton (Canadian Television Fund) and winner Kevin Lee Burton (Director, Nikamowin (Song) and Writing the Land)


Kathleen Meek (imagineNATIVE Board member) and Charlotte Engel (imagineNATIVE Board member), Presenters, Best Dramatic Feature


Best Dramatic Feature: Kathleen Meek (CTV and imagineNATIVE Board Member), winner Sterlin Harjo (Director, Four Sheets to the Wind) and Charlotte Engel (Bravo and imagineNATIVE Board Member)


Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award: winner Gwendolen Cates (Director, Water Flowing Together) and Alanis Obomsawin (Director, Gene Boy Came Home)


Closing Night Awards audience


Bird Runningwater (Sundance Film Festival) and Tamara Podemski (Actor, Four Sheets to the Wind)


Jenifer Rudski, Darcy OConnor (Director, Ngamaka (Mother)) and Festival Guest


Darcy OConnor (Director, Ngamaka (Mother)), Sylvia Clarke and Milka Pavlicevic (ZDF Germany)


Closing Night Awards Ceremony audience


Alanis Obomsawin (Director, Gene Boy Came Home)


Tasha Hubbard and Jeff Barnaby (Director, The Colony)


Tara Beagan (Host, Dead Dog in the City) and her mother


Marc Nadjiwan (Musician)


Adam Garnet Jones (Secretary, imagineNATIVE Board), Jacquie Burke (Photographer, imagineNATIVE), Kerry Swanson (Interim Executive Director, imagineNATIVE), and Chris Jones


Jason Ryle (Chair, imagineNATIVE Board), Shane Smith (Channel Zero), and Milka Pavlicevic (ZDF Germany)