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Hot Docs is pleased to announce the winners of the Festival’s 2012 awards. The Hot Docs Awards Presentation, hosted by Jian Ghomeshi, took place on Friday, May 4, at the Windsor Arms Hotel in Toronto.
A total of ten awards and $71,000 in cash prizes were presented to Canadian and international filmmakers, including awards for Festival films in competition and those recognizing emerging and established filmmakers.
The Best Canadian Feature, Best International Feature, and the Inspirit Foundation Pluralism Prize winners will have encore screenings on Sunday, May 6.
Don Haig Award, presented annually to a Canadian documentary filmmaker whose work demonstrates a unique voice and talent, was awarded to Montreal-based director Mia Donovan (INSIDE LARA ROXX, Hot Docs 2011 Official Selection).
Awarded by the Don Haig Foundation, the prize includes a $20,000 cash prize.
Here are the other winners: Best Canadian Feature [$10,000]: The World Before Her, by Nisha Pahuja explores deep divisions in Indian culture, has been named best Canadian feature at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto.
The World Before Her contrasts the wide-eyed ambitions of 20 hand-picked contestants determined to win the title of Miss India with the behind-the-scenes reality inside Hindu fundamentalist camps for young girls, run by the women’s wing of a militant movement.
Inspirit Foundation Pluralism Prize ($10,000): The Boxing Girls of Kabul, by Ariel J. Nasr, about young Afghan women training as boxers.
Special jury prize, international feature ($5,000): The Law in These Parts, by Ra’Anan Alexandrowicz, about how the law is applied in the Gaza strip.
HBO Emerging Artist Award: shared by two films; Tchoupitoulas by Bill and Turner Ross of the U.S., Meanwhile in Mamelodi by Boris Frank of Germany and South Africa.
Best mid-length doc ($3,000): My Thai Bride, by David Tucker of Australia.
Honourable mention: Nessa, by Loghman Khaledi of Iran.
Best short doc: Five Fragments of the Extinct Empathy, by Anna Nykyri of Finland. Honourable mention: Family Nightmare, by Dustin Guy Defa, U.S.