YoungCuts Film Festival Awards (Full List)

YoungCuts Film Festival Awards (Full List)

The YoungCuts Film Festival presented awards Friday & Saturday during the screenings for:
Best Film,
Best Canadian Film,
Best Quebec Film,
Best Director,
Best Cinematographer,
Best Editor,
Best Acting,
Best Teen Film,
Best Short Short,
Best Animated Film,
Best Music Video and
Best Documentary.

Here are the nominees and the winners:

MyFilmmaker.com Award for Best Film
Winner: Piano Fingers by Nicholas Carmen 

Nominees: Rhonda's Party by Ashley McKenzie
Valerie Cadieux Auditionne by Marie-Eve Beaumont and Guillaume Lambert
Cetvrtak (Thursday) by Nikola Ljuca
Shade of Grey by Miles Robinson

Tribute Award for Best Canadian Film
Winner: Rhonda's Party by Ashley MacKenzie

Nominees: Shade of Grey by Miles Robinson
Valerie Cadieux Auditionne by Marie-Eve Beaumont and Guillaume Lambert
Chroma by Colin Racicot

En Primeur Award for Best Quebec Film
Winner: Valerie Cadieux Auditionne by Marie-Eve Beaumont and Guillaume Lambert
 
Nominees: The Inkwell Shuffle by Christopher Diaz
Chroma by Colin Racicot
Comment Se Noie Un Legende by Mirek Hamet
La Tonsure by Marie Pier Ottawa
Thunderstrike by Eric Angelillo

YoungCuts Award for Best Director
Winner: Piano Fingers by Nicholas Carmen

Nominees: Rhonda's Party by Ashley McKenzie
Valerie Cadieux Auditionne by Marie-Eve Beaumont and Guillaume Lambert
Cetvrtak (Thursday) by Nikola Ljuca
Royalty Free by Mike Bernstein

24 Heures Award for Best Editing
Winner: 3-Iron by Matt Kazman - Editor Matt Kazman

Nominees: Royalty Free by Mike Bernstein - Editor Michael Bernstein

Valerie Cadieux Auditionne by Marie-Eve Beaumont and Guillaume Lambert - Editor Jerome Cloutier and Alexandre Leblanc

The Real Deal by Taylor Jane Sella - Editor: Ericka Concha
Empire City by David MacDonald - Editor: David MacDonald

Mirror Award for Best Cinematography 
Winner: Cetvrtak (Thursday) by Nikola Ljuca - Cinematography by Maja Radosevic

Nominees: Piano Fingers by Nicholas Carmen - Cinematography by Christophe Lanzenberg
Rhonda's Party by Ashley McKenzie - Cinematography by Becky Parsons
3-Iron by Matt Kazman - Cinematography by Seth Hagenstein
Royalty Free by Mike Bernstein - Cinematography by Allen Liu

YoungCuts Award for Best Acting
Winner: Cetrvak (Thursday) by Nikola Ljuca - Cast: Milan Maric, Milica Gojkovic, Marija Opsenica and Filip Zarkovic

Nominees: Royalty Free by Mike Bernstein - lead actor Raymond Cham Jr.

Mia by Tamara Small - in the role of Mia, Zoe Hooper
Long Live the Duke by Matt Brailey - in the role of Charlie, Austin Mensch

Oasis HD Award for Best Documentary Film
Winner: Shade of Grey by Miles Robinson

Nominees: La Khaima: The Tent of Mile-End by Adam Shamash
Chienne de Vie by Soffie Mallet
Pretty Little Bits by Marie-Saroja Ponnambalam
The Sweet Science, The Boss by Evan Chan

Virgin96 Award for Best Short Short Film
Winner: How to Be More Average by Charlotte Hamlyn    

Nominees: Mbegu by Paul Plett
La Tonsure by Marie Pier Ottawa
For Your Convenience by Chas Fisher
Pigmalion by Juan Reidinger
One Man's Walk by Kenneth & Nicholas Mitchell

MyFilmmaker.com Award for Best Teen Film
Winner: Full Count by Patrick Collier

Nominees: Blood Job by Wayne Robinson
Winter's Wind by Trishia Hazelwood
The Stand by Olivia Chuba
Echomotion by Bret Kerven

Prisme Technologies Award for Best Animated Film
Winner: Eclipse by Liat Koren

Nominees: Orbit by Terrence Dankowych
Vaseline and Pepper by Fraser Munden
Walt by Greg Yagolnitzer
The Inkwell Shuffle by Christopher Diaz
Thunderstrike by Eric Angelillo

Virgin96 Award for Best Music Video
Winner: Thunderstrike by Eric Angelillo   

Nominees: Animal by Skyler Proctor
Ain't That the Way by Matt Paley
Hotspur: Heads/Tails by Josh Eisenberg
From the Second Chair by Darol Michael Carr


Congratulations to all the filmmakers and we look forward to seeing your next film for the 2011 YoungCuts Film Festival!