Film North Huntsville International Film Festival on Sunday announced its award winners, which include Jeremy LaLonde’s Sex After Kids and Patrick Reed’s Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children.

LaLonde’s ensemble comedy took the prize for best Canadian feature film, while Reed’s doc featuring retired Canadian general Romeo Dallaire won the Golden Antler viewer’s choice award.

And Matt Sadowski’s S is for Bird was named best short, while Lorena Salas Reyes’ The Snow Spirit was named best animated film.

B. Pfister and J.Haehnel’s The Captain’s Log was tapped as best doc, while Pretty Thing directors E. Mirabelli and M. DeFilippis received the best emerging Canadian filmmaker award.

On a sad note, veteran Quebec filmmaker Michel Brault, the recipient of the Bull’s Eye lifetime achievement award, passed away in Toronto on Saturday, en route to accept his award at Film North. Brault, active in both documentary and fiction filmmaking for more than 50 years, contributed to more than 200 films during his career.

The Atlantic Film Festival also last week announced festival winners during the closing gala awards ceremony on Sept. 19.

John Walker’s documentary Arctic Defenders received the prize for best Atlantic feature, winning $8,000 in services.

G. Patrick Condon’s Infanticide! received $500 cash and $1,000 in services for best Atlantic short, while John Hillis received the script development award – $10,000 in development financing – for Niagara Falls (And Other Stories). Kristin Langille won the $500 Joan Orenstein Award for best outstanding performance by an actress in There are Monsters, while Mark Critch received the $500 David Renton Award for best performance by an actor for The Grand Seduction.

Elsewhere, filmmaker Matthew Ingraham and musician Shaun LeBlanc received the $10,000 10×10 emerging artist award, and Tim Tracey was tapped for the special recognition for animation award for Kreb.

In the AFF’s industry awards ceremony, Jay Dahl’s documentary-style horror flick There Are Monsters took the prize for best Atlantic director, worth $10,000 in production services, while Turner’s Lure won for best first feature project, a prize of $120,000 in production financing towards a first feature-length film.

Jasmine Oore won the $1,500 best Atlantic screenwriter prize for There’s Been a Terrible Mistake, while Kyle Cameron and Ken LeBlanc were the winners in the best Atlantic cinematographer category, taking home $5,000 in services for There are Monsters and Hive, respectively.

David Chisholm received $5,000 in services for best Atlantic original score or song for Bunker 6, and Gary Swim received the newly created film crew excellence award.

The new award, developed in partnership with local unions and the film advisory committee, recognizes an individual or team for outstanding creative enterprise in Nova Scotia’s screen-based industry. Swim’s recent credits include location manager on Halifax-shot comedy series Seed and Chester-Bay filmed MOW Christmas with Holly, and unit manager on the New Brunswick-filmed feature Copperhead.