Atlantic Canada short films seized the spotlight Saturday as the 29th Atlantic Film Festival handed out its top jury awards.

Brian Power of Mike Clattenburg’s Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day — which kicked off the fest on Sept. 17 — grabbed the trophy for best sound design, while B.C. filmmaker Carl Bessai won for best Canadian feature for his small-town romantic drama Cole.

A host of craft awards went to shorts, with Joel MacLeod and Adam Rafuse sharing the trophy for best art direction for Ghost Vase, a deadpan sci-fi satire, while Jacob Owens won for editing on Conscript, another sci-fi short that features an alien race invading Earth.

Best Atlantic short film prize went to Joel MacKenzie for Super Science — yet another sci-fi short about a geek who blends DNA in a microwave to ace his science fair project so he can get to a party.

The Big 1-0 — a story about an ex-con who attempts to deliver a present to his daughter on her 10th birthday — nabbed the top Canadian short award for Lindsey Connell.

Other award winners include Andrew Bush for original screenplay for Backshift, a short about two indecisive thieves robbing an all-night donut stand, while Christopher Ball picked up the Ed Higginson cinematography prize for Four Feet Up, a short about child poverty in rural Nova Scotia. Ball took home the Higginson trophy two years ago for his camera work on Fido.

Meanwhile, the Mary Walsh-starrer Crackie — from Newfoundland director Sherry White — garnered a win for best original score for Duane Andrews.

In all, 235 films and 65 shorts screened over the 10-day event, which closed with a gala screening of Jacob Tierney’s The Trotsky.