2019-08-12

Montreal First Peoples Festival Awards

Cinematography Honorable Mention

Marrimarrigun - by Kimberley Western - Australia 2017 - 13 min.

Best Animated Film

Wawatay - by Neil Affleck, Ben Kicknosway - Canada 2018 – 4 min.

Best International Short Film 

Quentura (Cagnard) – by Mari Correa – Brazil 2018 – 30 min.

Best Canadian Short Film Award presented by Radio-Canada ($1000 prize)

Even in the Silence - by Jonathan Elliott - Canada 2019 – 4 min.

Main Film Indigenous Emerging Filmmaker Award ($500 prize)

Untɨ, les origines - by Christophe Yanuwana Pierre - Guyana 2018 – 57 min.

Honorable Mention, Séquences Documentary Award

N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear - by Jeffrey Palmer - USA/Canada 2018 – 90 min.

Best Séquences Documentary Award 

Lapü – by César Alejandro Jaimes, Juan Pablo Polanco - Colombia 2019 - 75 min.

APTN Award for an indigenous filmmaker in Canada with a special accomplishment during the previous year

Falls around her – by Darlene Naponse – Canada 2018 – 99 min.

Rigoberta Menchú Award Honorable Mention (Communities) 

NIN E TEPUEIAN – MON CRI - by Santiago Bertolino - Canada 2019 – 80 min.

Second Rigoberta Menchú Award (Communities)

N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear - by Jeffrey Palmer - USA/Canada 2018 – 90 min.

First Rigoberta Menchú Award (Communities)

Quentura (Cagnard) – by Mari Correa – Brazil 2018 – 30 min.

Second Teueikan Award ex-aequo (Creation)

Huahua - by Jose Espinosa – Ecuador 2018 – 68 min.

Thinking like a Mountain - by Alexander Hick – Colombia-Germany 2018 – 91 min.

First Teueikan Award (Creation) 

Lapü – by César Alejandro Jaimes, Juan Pablo Polanco - Colombia 2019 - 75 min.