Montreal Independent Film Festival was founded with the intention to support, promote and screen indie films of all genres from all over the globe. The devotion of the festival to the cinematic language has turned MIFF Canada into one the most popular international competitions with seasonal and annual programs for independent filmmakers and artists working on a variety of arthouse indie projects. The annual screening of the fest will be a 4-day event in September through Cinema du Parc, various art venues and the MIFF online platform.
Cannes award winners and Oscar nominees have also joined emerging independent artists to compete in various sections of the festival. With thousands of entries every year, the programming committee selects film and script projects and nominates artists for various sections of the competition which also includes awards and honorable mentions of the seasonal festival in acting, directing, cinematography, screenwriting, editing, music video, experimental cinema, animation, student film, etc.
The festival is a hybrid event with thousands of entries in various sections and recognizing hundreds of film projects and artists every year. MIFF Canada is devoted to artists and independent cinema. Every year, the short film screenings of MIFF are sold out in the cinema. It is our pleasure to announce the latest seasonal winners of the competition in various categories.
Here is the full list to the winners:
Best Narrative Feature & Best Human Rights
The Strangers' Case
Director: Brandt Andersen
Best Independent Film
DEER GIRL
Director: Francesco Jost
Best Narrative Short
Shadowland
Director: Niels Windfeldt
Honorable Mention Canadian Short
Silenced
Director: Maxime Laurin
Honorable Mention Canadian Short
Unsettled
Director: Tylor Hanley
Best Feature Documentary
Beyond the Beach: The Hell and the Hope
Directors: Graeme Scott, Buddy Squires
Best Short Documentary
Once a Child Soldier
Director: Janet P Gardner
Honorable Mention Short Documentary
S'ÉLEVER
Director: Víctor Pérez Pelayo
Best Comedy
The Italians
Director: Michelle Danner
Best Animation
The Strange Case of The Human Cannonball
Director: Roberto Valencia
Honorable Mention Animation
Ave Maria
Director: Garry Yakovlevich Bardin
Best Science Fiction
Abductee
Director: WILLIAM HOPP
Best Web Series/TV Pilot
Canusa Street
Director: Zack Morrison
Best Experimental
JAUNATIS
Director: Bingqing Mou
Honorable Mention Experimental
Spaceboy (A film in seven songs)
Director: Naomi Silver-Vézina
Honorable Mention Experimental
The Poem We Sang
Director: Annie Sakkab
Best Environmental
Nuraga Bhumi
Director: Danielle Khan Da Silva
Best Female Director of the season
Lines of a Woman
Director: Melissa Gagliardi
Best First-Time Filmmaker
Nowhere
Director: Tim Seyfert
Best Student Film
Brothers: A Civil War Story
Director: Casey Schaffer
Best Short LGBTQ
Emerald City
Director: Josef Steiff
Best Music Video
Heaven
Director: Masha Shalagina
Best Thriller of the season
Black Society
Director: Ramon Térmens
Best Canadian Indie of the season
The Movie Man
Director: Matt Finlin
Best Director of the season
Sweetwater
Director: Martin Guigui
Best Cinematographer of the season
Max Grunauer & Leon Markl
Elteney
Best Actor of the season
Radko Polič
GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES
Best Actress of the season
PAMBINA GEORGIOU
Iman
Best Editor of the season
Elina Antoniou
Iman
Best Composer of the season
Will Taylor
Protocol 7
Best Unproduced Feature Script
About That Night
Elizabeth Page
Best Unproduced Short Script
KREATIVA CHRONICLES
Alejandro Vilpa
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