The Last Just Man, a Canadian production from Alan Mendelsohn, directed by Steven Silver, was the only film recognized twice at the Hot Docs festival’s closing-night awards ceremony on Sunday, May 5, receiving the Audience Award and the Humanitarian Award. The film is about a Canadian haunted by his experiences commanding UN peacekeeping operations in Rwanda before the 1994 massacre of 800,000 Tutsis.

First runner-up for the Audience Award was War Photographer, directed and produced by Switzerland’s Christian Frei.

Second runner-up was the Canadian doc Bacon the Film, directed by Hugo Latulippe with Annie Jean and Sylvain Bellemare.

The Lifetime Achievement Award was presented with a standing ovation to veteran filmmaker Frederick Wiseman.

Other 2002 award winners included:

Gold Award for Best Canadian Documentary

La finacee de la vie

Director: Carole Laganiere.

Producer: Alain Corneau

Silver Award for Best Canadian Documentary

The Tree that Remembers

Director: Masoud Raouf

Producers: Sally Bochner and Ravida Din

Gold Award for Best International Documentary

All About My Father

Director: Even Benestad

Producers: Ola Hunnes, Gloria Azalde, Carsten Holst

Silver Award for Best International documentary

Two Towns of Jasper

Directors: Whitney Dow, Marco Williams

Producers: Jennifer Latham, Steven Miller