The World Documentary Award went to Kate Novack's documentary about former Vogue editor André Leon Talley, The Gospel According to André, with honorable mention going to Alan Zweig's Inuit documentary There is a House Here.ĭepth Perception, by Chip Taylor and Chris Murphy, received the Best Mountain Culture Film Award. Screenwriter and co-director Grayson Moore won the award for best screenplay for the psychological drama Cardinals. Cinematographer Nicolas Bolduc received honorable mention in the latter category for Hochelaga, Land of Souls. Evan Rachel Wood, who plays an emotionally unstable 30-year-old woman who develops a relationship with a 16-year-old female runaway, won the best performance award while the film's director of photography, Sara Mishara, was named best cinematographer. Meanwhile, A Worthy Companion went on to collect two other awards.
Lagarde went on to win the Best Borsos Director Award for his French-language feature about what happens when an insatiably hungry man who seems to be able to perform miracles arrives at an all-inclusive Caribbean resort. actor Camille Sullivan ( The Birdwatcher), and filmmaker Charles Officer ( ). The films were chosen from a list of 20 eligible features, and the jury for the award was comprised of producer Sylvain Corbeil ( Mommy), B.C. Two films shared the best Canadian feature award at the 17th annual Whistler Film Festival.Īt the WFF awards ceremony on the final day of the festival (December 3), Ian Lagarde's debut feature All You Can Eat Buddha and Jason and Carlos Sanchez's suspense drama A Worthy Companion were both named as winners of the Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature Film, which includes a $15,000 cash prize and $15,000 post-production prize.