Toronto Film Fest awards handed out
Date: Monday, September 19 @ 03:23:06 UTC
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Tsotsi, a film by Gavin Hood and based on the novel by Athol Fugard, has won the People's Choice Award at the 30th annual Toronto International Film Festival.

The UK-South African collaboration that traces six days in the life of a ruthless gang leader was selected by audiences as their favourite of 335 films from 52 countries screened over 10 days. Other TIFF awards The Toronto-City Award for best Canadian feature went to Jean-Marc Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y., a cinematic homage to the pop culture-saturated middle class of the 1970s. The Citytv Award for best Canadian First Feature was a tie between Louise Archambault's Familia and Michael Mabbott's The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico. The filmmakers had to share a single trophy, at least for the moment. The Discovery Award, voted on by international media, went to Australian Sarah Watt's Look Both Ways. The FIPRESCI Prize, chosen by an international jury of film critics, went to South Korean Kang Yi-kwan's Sa-Kwa. The Bravo/FACT Short Cuts Canada Award was awarded to the 14-minute Big Girl by Renuka Jeyapalan, with an honourable mention going to Andrea Dorfman's There's a Flower In My Pedal. At the closing event, Piers Handling, festival director and CEO said: "I hope 30 years later that we have kept the spirit of the founders, kept to the tone of what they set out to accomplish. They really wanted to show the best films in the world in front of an audience, to connect the filmmakers to the public. And that was the key."

Last Updated Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:57:48 EDT CBC Arts



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