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Student Film Awards

New this year, the festival incorporated Student Shorts, formerly the Student Film Showcase, to spotlight the top student shorts from colleges and universities across the country. In a ceremony held on January 9 at TIFF Bell Lightbox, prizes were awarded to student films in the live action and animation categories. The winners were selected by the Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival shorts panel of filmmakers and industry professionals, including: actor/show creator/host Nobu Adilman, programmer Dave Barber, development executive Sonya Di Rienzo, producer Élaine Hébert and screenwriter Karen Walton.

Best Film (Live Action)
The winner of the Best Live Action Student Film award is Lifers, directed by Joel Salaysay (Simon Fraser University), an entertaining and honest slice of culinary life that follows a young dishwasher as he observes his eclectic co-workers in a busy kitchen. The award comes with: a rental grant worth $6,000 provided by William F. White International Inc.; a DCP output of the film courtesy of Technicolor; $1,000 from the Directors Guild of Canada; a ticket to the Directors Guild of Canada Awards, and a Sales & Industry Pass to the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

Runner-up for Best Film (Live Action)
Yassmina Karajah’s (University of British Columbia) Light was awarded Runner-up for Best Live Action Student Film. Devastated by the death of his newborn son, a Lebanese man living in an adoptive country is challenged by his mother’s request that he perform Islamic pre-burial rituals in the hospital. This prize awards a rental grant worth $3,500 provided by William F. White International Inc.

Best Film (Animation)
The prize for Best Animated Student Film goes to Breanna Cheek’s (Emily Carr School of Art and Design) Fallow. The slow-moving life in a pastoral village is exquisitely rendered in these animated tableaux by Cheek, who finds beauty in the ordinary, from local homesteads to a diner, to an isolated laundromat. The award comes with: a DCP output of the film courtesy of Technicolor; $1,000 courtesy of the Directors Guild of Canada; a ticket to the Directors Guild of Canada Awards, and a Sales & Industry Pass to the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

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