The Inside Out Film and Video Festival wrapped its 20th year with awards to seven filmmakers, including top prize for writer/director Mike Hoolboom.
Hoolboom’s Mark, a search for the reasons behind the suicide of long-time friend and editor Mark Karbusicky, took the Best Canadian Feature award. The film is told though home movies, childhood photographs and interviews with friends, family, and Karbusicky’s partner of ten years, trans performance artist Mirah-Soleil Ross.
Other awards went to Tess Vo, who took Best Canadian Short for Our Compass; Don Bapst, who won Best Up-and-Coming in Toronto for Chris; and Argentina’s Marco Berger, who won the International Jury’s Best First Feature award for Plan B.
When it came to the Audience Awards, the U.K.’s James Ken won Best Feature for The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister; Leanne Pooley of New Zealand topped Best Documentary for Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls; and Canada’s Jamie Travis took Best Short for The Armoire.