Up against more than 750 entries from around the world, the cbc will receive 27 bronze and 65 honorable mentions at this year’s Columbus International Film & Video Festival in Columbus, Ohio, slated for Oct. 24.

In addition to the Chris Award for best original feature, the Bernard Zukerman-produced Net Worth will also receive the Robert W. Wagner Screenwriting Award. Writers on the project were Don Truckey, Phil Savath, David Cruise and Alison Griffiths.

The National/CBC News will pick up three Chris Bronze Plaques. Other Chris Awards for the cbc will go to The Nature of Things, fifth estate, Marketplace, Montreal’s CBC Newswatch, and CBC Vancouver’s Spilled Milk for ‘About Face.’

The nfb films In My Own Time, from Joseph Viszmeg, Who’s Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies & Global Economics from Terre Nash and Alex Busby’s Folk Art Found Me are also receiving Chris Awards, as are Rhombus Media’s Dido and Aeneas and Productions Testa’s Gugging.

Bronze plaques will go to a long list of Canadian productions including Barna-Alper Productions’ The Tenure of Dr. Fabrikant, the Trilogy Entertainment Group/ Atlantis Films series The Outer Limits, Nelvana/Great North Productions’ Jake and the Kid, Cinenova’s Shipwreck: The Mystery of the Edmund Fizgerald, Rhombus’ Falling Down Stairs and Struggle for Hope, Epitome Pictures’ Liberty Street and Keg Productions’ The Wonder of Baby Animals.