The festival announces its 2016 Award Winners including Menkes Audience Award Winner

Mixed Match

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Toronto – The 20th anniversary edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, presented by National Bank wrapped its 12-day run on Saturday, November 19 in downtown Toronto, North York and Richmond Hill and announced the award winners of its juried feature and short film prizes including this year’s So You Think You Can Pitch? live competition.

Feature films honoured include audience favourite MIXED MATCH (Canada) which won the Menkes Audience Award; winner of the Fasken Martineau Best Feature Film Award, APOCALYPSE CHILD (Philippines); Centennial Best Canadian Film Award winner, WINDOW HORSES (Canada); National Bank Best Feature Film Award winner, THE LOCKPICKER (Canada); Truth to Power Documentary Award winner, BAD RAP and NUTAG (Canada) winner of the Animasian Award.

The annual So You Think You Can Pitch? Live Competition featured 8 teams competing for cash and industry prizes in front of a live audience. The awards were given to Vivian Lin and Jennifer Millington for their film 180 and Rahul Chaturvedi for FORBIDDEN TIKKA MASALA. As Reel Asian becomes the hub for Asian filmmakers to make connections and exchange ideas, the festival will continue to provide essential industry opportunities both at the festival and year-round.

Highlights at year’s festival included a full house for the Opening Night Gala, SOUL MATE with director Derek Tsang in attendance, the Reel Ideas presentation of CBC’s Kim’s Convenience played to a sold out screening and award-winning performer Gingger Shankar brought her film NARI to the stunning Aga Khan Museum.

As Canada’s largest pan-Asian film festival, Reel Asian continues to fuel growing appreciation for Asian cinema in Toronto and presented 77 dynamic titles from over 12 regions this year including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, USA and Canada.

Please Visit Reel Asian Website for more info on the festival & winners.