Vancouver: It was B.C. producer Trish Dolman’s Leo weekend May 9 and 10 with her productions taking 12 trophies at Vancouver’s 2003 Leo Awards, a fifth-annual event created to recognize the film and television production work of B.C. residents.

Dolman’s family drama Flower & Garnet took nine of the 13 available awards in the feature category, including best feature-length drama, director (Keith Behrman), screenwriter (Behrman), cinematography (Steve Cosens), musical score (Peter Allen), actor (Callum Keith Rennie), actress (Jane McGregor), supporting actor (Dov Tiefenbach) and supporting actress (Kristen Thomson).

Competing feature St. Monica – the B.C./Ontario coproduction made by Peggy Thompson, Sharon McGowan, Julia Sereny and Jennifer Kawaja – won three Leos: best picture editing (Lenka Svab), sound (Paul Sharpe, Iain Pattison, Mark Klausmayer, Jeff Carter) and sound editing (James Genn, Phil Hunter, Real Gauvreau, Cam Wanger, Kelly Frey).

Dolman’s figure-skating documentary Ice Girls, a coproduction between CTV and the BBC, swept the three Leos available in the sports category, including best sports program, director (Dolman) and picture editing (Reg Harkema).

It was another good Leos for Da Vinci’s Inquest, which earned nine of the 18 awards available for television drama, including best television drama (Chris Haddock, Arvi Liimatainen, Lynn Barr, producers), screenplay (Haddock, Alan DiFiore, Rick Crooks), score (George Blondheim), sound (James Kusan, Darren Gilmore, Pat Haskill, Miguel Nunes), sound editing (Haskill, Andre Iwanchuk, Tim Peters, Rick Senechal, John Taylor), production design (Michael Diner, Kate Marshall, Catherine Schroer), actor (Nicholas Campbell), supporting actor (Stephen E. Miller) and supporting actress (Emily Perkins).

Cold Squad picked up two Leos for best actress (Julie Stewart) and guest actor (Brent Strait) and Stargate SG-1 also won two Leos, for best costume (Christina McQuarrie, Lid Hawkins) and makeup (Jan Newman, Rachel Griffin, Dave Dupuis, Todd Masters).

Guinea Pig Club won five Leos to dominate the documentary category. It was named best history/biography/social/political documentary (Dan Carriere, Shel Piercy, Cynthia Chapman, Pat O’Brien, producers) and Piercy was named best director and screenwriter. The doc also won for score (Peter Berring, Ed Henderson) and sound (Ewan Deane).

Raven in the Sun – The Life and Art of Bill Reid (Barry Gray, Blaire Reekie, producers) was named best arts/performing arts documentary and Hiding from the Wind (Bruce Mohun, producer) was named best nature/environment/adventure/science/technology documentary.

Teen soap Edgemont won three Leos in the youth category, including best director (Bill Gereghty) and performer (Vanessa King) and best youth program (Michael Chechik, Ian Weir, producers), which was a tie with The Christmas Orange, which also won three Leos in the animation category: best animated production (Cathy Schoch, Delna Bhesania, Barry Ward, producers), best director (Ian Freedman) and score (Brian Carson, Ari Wise).

Consumer advice series The Shopping Bags swept the lifestyle series category, including best host (Anna Wallner, Kristina Matisic), best director (Michael Robinson) and best series (Wallner, Matisic, Heather Hawthorne-Doyle, John Ritchie, Hugh Beard, producers). Likewise, Vicki Gabereau scored two for two in the talk series categories with best talk show (Jordan Schwartz, Karen Rapp, Cynthia Ott, producers) and host (Vicki Gabereau).

Global National won both Leos in the news category, best news package (Doriana Temolo, Elaine McKay, George Browne, producers) and host (Kevin Newman).

Rocker Bif Naked’s Tango Shoes won both music video awards – best music video (Gabriel Napora, producer) and director (Neill Blomkamp). And Big Shoes to Fill won both Leos in the student production category: best student production (Michelle Porter, Sidney Chiu, Shannon Kohli, producers) and director (Porter).

Healing with Animals won three Leos in the best information series category, including best director (Mary Bissell), screenwriter (Bissell) and information series (Bissell, Christian Bruyere, producers).

Eight-minute dance short Violet won two Leos in the music/comedy/variety program category, including best director (Kevin Cottam) and picture editing (Gordon Rempel). Western Alienation Comedy Hour was named best variety program (Richard Side, producer).

And Go-Go Boy (prelude) won four Leos in the short drama category, including best cinematographer (Steve Jackson), picture editing (Kenneth Sherman), sound (Tony Gronick) and sound editing (Gronick). In collecting three Leos, The Bug won best short (Dylan Akio Smith, Lynn Dix, Brad Dryborough, producers), screenwriter (Dryborough) and actor (Dryborough).

-www.leoawards.com