Ten days of screenings, special public events, master classes, question and answer sessions, meet-and-greets, red carpets, parties, press conferences, junkets, the almighty barbeque and people watching have come to a close. One thing remains for #TIFF16 – the presentation of the awards! TIFF’s Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey announced the best of the best today at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto.
Dropbox Discovery Programme Filmmakers Award – Jeffrey – Claudia Sainte-Luce
Short Cuts Award – Best Canadian Short Film – Mutants – Alexandre Dostie
Short Cuts Best Film – Imago – Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
Toronto Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film – Old Stone – Johnny Ma
Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film – 30k Those Who Make Revolution Only Halfway Dig Their Own Graves – Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie
FIPRESCI Award –Discovery Programme – Kati Kati – Mbithi Masya
FIPRESCI Special Presentations Programme – I’m Not Madame Bovary – Feng Xiaogang
Netpac Asian Pacific World or International Asian Pacific Film Première – In Between Mayaloun Hamoud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPiVZj8Mm7o
Toronto Platform Prize – Jackie – Pablo Larrain
The Grolsch People’s Choice Awards as selected by audiences:
People’s Choice Midnight Madness Runners-up – Raw, The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Winner Midnight Madness –Free Fire – Ben Wheatley
People’s Choice Documentary – 2nd Before the Flood, 1st Abacus
Winner – I Am Not Your Negro – Raoul Peck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=actb8R446io
People’s Choice – Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe, 1st Lion Garth Davis
Winner – La La Land – Damien Chazelle