Guy Maddin's personal documentary My Winnipeg won the C$30,000 Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature and David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises won the C$15,000 Cadillac People's Choice Award as the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival wrapped on Saturday.
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.
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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