Runners up for the audience prize, first and second respectively, were Jason Reitman's Juno and Body Of War by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro.
The $10,000 Diesel Discovery Award. selected by the festival press corps, went to Israel Cardenas and Laura Amelia Guzman of Mexico for their film Cochochi.
The C$10,000 Artistic Innovation Award, presented to a film screening in the Visions programme, went to Argentine title Encarnacion, the second film of Anahi Berneri.
The FIPRESCI prize, presented to an emerging filmmaker making a world premiere at the festival, went to Rodrigo Pia's Spain-Mexico coproduction La Zona.
Stephane Lafleur's Continental: Un Film Sans Fusil (Continental: A Film Without Guns) won the Citytv Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film. It marked the third win in the category at Toronto for producer Luc Dery of Montreal-based micro_scope. He produced Louise Archambault's 2005 winner Familia and Philippe Falardeau's 2000 winner La Moitie Gauche Du Frigo.
The award for Best Canadian Short film went to Chris Chong Chan Fui's Pool.









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