Canada was well represented at the MIPCOM Cannes Diversify TV Awards, with CBC and HBO Max dramedy Sort Of, Radio-Canada’s Pour toi Flora (Dear Flora) and CBC’s Proud To Be Me all taking honours.

Sort Of — created by Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo, who also serve as co-showrunners and executive producers — won in the category of Representation of LGBTQIA+ – Scripted during the awards ceremony on Wednesday (Oct. 19). The dramedy, which stars Baig as a non-binary nanny, has been widely lauded in recent months with other honours including a Peabody Award and three Canadian Screen Awards.

Sort Of co-star Amanda Cordner accepted the honour on behalf of the series, which debuts its second season Nov. 15 on CBC. Cordner thanked Baig and Filippo for creating the show as well as production company Sphere Media “for taking a chance on it,” noting: “It takes you, producers, to front a show, to take a risk and see beyond what’s marketable now.”

Pour toi Flora, produced by Nish Media for ICI Radio-Canada and APTN, was victorious in the Representation of Race and Ethnicity – Scripted category. Writer-director Sonia Bonspille Boileau accepted the trophy, noting they’re proud a project like Pour toi Flora helps revitalize Indigenous languages with its story of an Anishinabe brother and sister sent to a residential school in the 1960s.

“It’s not lost on me that we’re here celebrating a story that’s rooted in so much trauma and hardship, so I just want to send my love to all the elders that shared their story with us and that allowed us to travel telling their stories so we don’t forget what happened,” she said.

The CBC anti-racism special Proud To Be Me won the MIPCOM trophy for Representation of Diversity in Kids Programming – Pre-school, a category that also included Vancouver-based Big Bad Boo Studios’ animated series Lili & Lola.

RX France (formerly Reed MIDEM) announced a total of 10 winners during the 28th annual MIPCOM, which wraps up Thursday (oct. 20) on the French Riviera. A record 190 submissions were received from 27 countries, according to a news release.