Award Winners: 2010 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

Last night’s awards ceremony for the 2010 imagineNATIVE festival honoured the best in a competitive field. Below you will find the list of all 15 winners. For more on the actual event proceedings, check out Samantha Anderson’s article at CBCNews.ca, and keep checking back for interviews MEDIA INDIGENA conducted with a number of the winners moments after they’d won.

	Winner, Canwest Mentorship Program: Ervin Chartrand
	Winner, Documentary Pitch Prize: Candace Maracle, “The Creator’s Game”
	Winner, Drama Pitch Prize: Marcel Balfour & Darryl Nepinak, “The Band Office”
	Winner, The Ellen Monague Award for Best Youth Work: Kurt Filiga,”Kurt-E In My Blood”
	Winner, The Cynthia Lickers-Sage Award for Emerging Talent: Katie Wolfe, “Redemption”
	Winner, Best Indigenous Language Production: Jeff Barnaby, “File Under Miscellaneous”
	Winner, Best Experimental: Alejandro Valbuena, “BURNT”
	Winner, Best New Media, Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), “Otsì:! Rise of the Kanien’kehá:ka Legends”
	Winner, Best Radio: “ReVision Quest: What’s so funny about being native?” producer Kim Ziervogel
	Winner, Best Music Video: Shane Ghostkeeper, “Haunted“
	Winner, Best Short Documentary: Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush, “Ne le Dis Pas (Do Not Tell)”
	Winner, Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award: Carlos Perez Rojas, “y el rio sigue corriendo (And the River Flows On)”
	Winner, Best Short Drama: Katie Wolfe, “Redemption”
	Winner, Best Canadian Short Drama: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, “Lumaajuuq”
	Winner, Best Dramatic Feature: Taika Waititi, “BOY”

[ Images via NanaMesnak (Bellefleur-Kaltush), aux.tv (Ghostkeeper), shedoesthecity.com (Arnaquq-Baril), zimbio.com (Waititi),  Inside Out Galleries (Valbuena) ]