Toronto Film Channel Awards is an innovative festival and a screening platform dedicated to discovering and promoting independent features and shorts from all over the world. The IMDb qualifying monthly festival has been very popular in the past few years and many films were discovered, screened, distributed and recognized by the film industry. It is important to encourage independent filmmakers and artists to continue creating groundbreaking independent films and Toronto Film Channel has done a fantastic job by creating a very exciting lineup of selections and winners.
The award winners of the festival were announced by the committee as follows:
Best Independent Film
Tango Shalom
Director: Gabriel Bologna
Best Narrative Feature
Lost
Director: Driss Roukhe
Best Narrative Short
The Just
Director: Kandace Cornell
Best Female director
Jen, 28
Director: Iyin Landre
Best Art Film & Best Directing of the month
DESCENDED
Directors: Jean Laurenz, Evan Chapman , Kevin Eikenberg
Honorable Mention Short
Green Banana
Director: Richard Zelniker
Best Student Film
For Myself, Alone
Director: Victor Dubyna
Best Student Documentary
Access Granted
Director: Alex Balant
Best Feature Documentary
Fisher Queen- Women vs. Nature
Director: Jeonghwa Shin
Honorable Mention Feature Documentary
The Yellow Queen - a road movie
Director: Lucio Arisci
Best Sports Documentary
1ST YEAR CHECKING
Director:Michael Messner
Best Short Documentary
The Customer Is Always Right?
Director: Carter Hadlow, Talen Ukiyo
Honorable Mention Short Documentary
Sacrificial Virgins
Director: Andi Reiss
Best Short Horror
The Rage
Director: Steven DeRock
Honorable Mention Short Horror
PLAYDATE
Director: Nichelle S. Montgome
Best Experimental
HOLES
Director: Alberto Martín-Aragón
Honorable Mention Experimental
Relapsing/Remitting
Director: Gillian Butcher
Best Thriller
The dark side of the wall
Director: Tiburce
Honorable Mention Thriller
ENIGMA - The Fallen Angel
Director: Abhay Thakur
Best Music Video
"Carousel Girl"
Directed by: Fran Sisco, Matina Grammas
Best Animation
On / Off
Director: Nicolas P. Villarreal
Honorable Mention Animation
Cast-Outs
Director: Alexandros Romanos Lizardos, Akis Melachris
Best Series & Best Actress
Chronicles of Jessica Wu
Director: Zane Hubbard
Starring: Helena Alexis-Seymour
Best Script
Neo-Noir
Writer: Sarkes Yakhnis
Honorable Mention Script
Sexual Addicts Redemption
Writer: Marco Taloni
Best Cinematography
Until We Meet Again
DOP: Noah David Smith
Director: Nariman Hamed
Best Canadian Short & Best Actor
Spleen
Director: Maxime Duval
Starring: Pierre-François Bouffard
Best Composer
Director: Alexandro Pacheco
Honorable Mention Composer:
The Long Hair
Composer: Brian Katona
Honorable Mention Short
Director: Mikael Drobny