With nonetheless one other full day of screenings forward, DOXA Documentary Film Festival is happy to announce the winners of its 2023 DOXA Award Winners.
Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s King Coal is that this yr’s winner of the Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming. Jurors Olivia Moore, Maya Biderman, Teagan Dobson and Anna Hetherington share that King Coal “offers a nuanced and compassionate insight into a community at the intersection of history and progress.” They applaud its hopeful and imaginative method, and state that it’s “a spectacularly beautiful, deeply moving film that reshapes what we think of as documentary.”
As effectively, the jurors give particular point out and acknowledgement to We Will Not Fade Away: “The very existence of this film, captured at the brink of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the work of filmmaker Alisa Kovalenko, is courageous and defiant. Showcasing the spirit and determination of youth, it encapsulates the honesty of feeling confined by circumstance and age. It is a film that connects to Nigel’s strong sense of justice and social awareness.”
Jurors Eva Anandi Brownstein, Kinga Binkowska and Rylan Friday are delighted to unanimously current
this yr’s Short Documentary Award to Ritchie Hemphill and Ryan Haché’s Tiny. Jurors have been moved by the storytelling, well-executed animation and apparent care that the filmmakers took in crafting this story. Elder Coleen Hemphill’s reminiscences are fantastically dropped at life via sound design and animation on this compelling and compassionate movie.
A particular jury point out was given to Nicolas Lachapelle’s Zug Island for its hanging cinematography, sound design and humanist lens. This quick was “brilliantly executed” in its suave portrayal of each human hubris and resilience in a dystopian panorama.
Presented by the Directors Guild of Canada, the recipient of the Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Director is Khoa Lê’s (Má Sài Gòn (Mother Saigon)). Jurors Elad Tzadok, Lindsay McIntyre and Nisha Platzer acknowledge Lê’s “impeccable balance between his powerful and unwavering visual aesthetic, the delicate relationships he built with the community and the empathy he managed to create on screen.”
The 2023 DOXA Award Winners included a particular jury point out to Rodrigue Jean and Arnaud Valade for 2012/Through the Heart (2012/Dans le coeur) for bringing to mild an unpleasant and underreported a part of Canada’s latest historical past with an unwavering eye.
Jurors Dina Al-Kassim, Kent Donguines and Nadia Shihab are delighted to pick out Khaled Jarrar’s Notes on Displacement because the winner of this yr’s DOXA Feature Documentary Award. “Jarrar’s bravery and compassion create a deeply human look at the individuals who find themselves forced to migrate in search of safety.”
The jurors of the 2023 DOXA Award Winners would additionally like to provide a particular point out to Nishtha Jain’s The Golden Thread “for its meditative observation of jute mills and its dignified portrait of the low-wage workers who have laboured in the factories for decades.” Theo Montoya’s Anhell69 additionally receives a particular point out for its “hypnotic hybrid approach to storytelling and the power it gives to the Queer communities it portrays.”
Finally, jurors Jaewoo Kang, Shasha McArthur and Soloman Chiniquay are proud to current the inaugural Elevate Award, introduced by Elevate Inclusion Strategies, to Ritchie Hemphill and Ryan Haché for Tiny. The jurors applaud the movie’s progressive use of cease movement animation and the filmmaker’s caring celebration of elder Colleen Hemphill and the lands and waters of Alert Bay. The jury is worked up to amplify the varied tales and storytellers that introduced this movie to life.
A particular jury point out is given to Khaled Jarrar’s Notes on Displacement, for “its timely and delicate exploration of the lives of migrant families [that] reminds us of the human beings at the heart of news stories.”
Jury statements will be learn in full HERE.
Committed to cultivating curiosity and significant thought, DOXA 2023 delivers a number of the best in up to date documentary cinema over 11 days. DOXA Documentary Film Festival runs May 4-14, 2023, providing an distinctive collection of movies, filmmaker Q+A’s and Industry occasions. Select movies shall be obtainable to stream on-line after pageant dates, between May 15 through 24, until in any other case specified. Online movies are geo-blocked to Canada and digital tickets shall be restricted. Select screenings will embody dwell and pre-recorded filmmaker Q+As and prolonged discussions. Festival tickets and passes shall be obtainable beginning Wednesday, April fifth; for particulars, verify www.doxafestival.ca. For additional data, name the DOXA workplace at 604.646.3200.
DOXA is introduced by The Documentary Media society, a Vancouver-based non-profit, charitable society. DOXA is introduced on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territory.
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