Da Vinci, Father sweep Leos

Vancouver: The second and final awards night for the 2000 Leos on May 13 in Vancouver saw production titles like The New Addams Family, Stolen Lives, A Feeling Called Glory, Da Vinci’s Inquest and My Father’s Angel dominate.

Filmmaker Coreen Mayrs, normally a Vancouver casting director, was a big winner with her short films A Feeling Called Glory and The Rememberer, which was produced as part of the Crazy 8’s project in last year’s Vancouver International Film Festival. Rememberer took Leo trophies for best screenwriter and best overall short drama. Glory took Leos for direction and cinematography to add to the four Leos it won at the technical awards function May 3.

Stolen Lives: Children in the Sex Trade won for best documentary, direction (Shona Miko) and cinematography (Steven Miko). The doc won four Leos in all.

The Addams Family swept all eight Leos in the Music, Comedy or Variety category including best production and performance (Ellie Harvie).

Coroner series Da Vinci’s Inquest won five Leos altogether in the drama series category including best production, screenwriter (Larry Campbell, Vancouver’s chief coroner who inspired the series) and cinematography (David Frazee).

In the best picture category, My Father’s Angel won seven Leos all together, including best feature, director (Davor Marjanovic), screenwriter (Frank Borg), cinematography (Bruce Worrall), score (Schaun Tozer) and actress (Asja Pavlovic).