Director Greg Spottiswoode and his film Noise (above) won $5,000 and the prize for best Canadian short on June 18 at the close of the Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto. Among the other winnners, The Legend of the Scarecrow by Spain’s Marco Besas took the fest’s audience award, while directors Maxime Giroux (Le Rouge au Sol) and Chris Nash (Day of John) shared the win for best emerging Canadian filmmaker.