Director Kim Albright’s With Love and a Major Organ led the winners of the 23rd Reelworld Film Festival.

The magical realism comedy won the $25,000 Outstanding Feature Film award, and picked up two more honours: the Outstanding Feature Actor award for star Hamza Haq, and Outstanding Feature Cinematographer for Leo Harim, which both come with a $1,000 cash prize.

With Love and a Major Organ is based on a play by Julia Lederer, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is produced by Madeleine Davis, while Lori Lozinski and Dr. Carol Whiteman are executive producers.

Nigerian-Canadian filmmaker Lonzo Nzekwe’s Canada-Nigeria copro Orah picked up two awards, including Outstanding Feature Writer for writer-director Nzekwe and Outstanding Feature Actress for Oyin Oladejo. Both also come with a $1,000 cash prize.

The documentary Union Street won the Outstanding Feature Director award for Jamila Pomeroy along with the $1,000 cash prize, and A Storm Blows Over picked up the Outstanding Feature Producer award for writer, director and co-producer Gavin Baird.

Director Andre Rehal’s psychological drama Strangers in a Room, produced by Matthew Campagna, Melissa D’Agostino, Matthew Schichter and Rehal, won the $2,000 Audience Choice Feature.

Amir Honarmand’s short Silkworm won the $10,000 Outstanding Short Film award. Additional winners in the shorts category, which all came with a $750 cash prize, include Derek Kwan (Outstanding Short Director) for 100 Days; Asa Kazerani (Outstanding Short Producer) for Desync; Andrew Genaille (Outstanding Short Writer( for Dating Indian; Ashley Iris-Gill (Outstanding Short Cinematographer) for The Future Above Us; Briauna James (Outstanding Actress) for Oversight; and Mohammad Rashno (Outstanding Short Actor) for Silkworm.

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