The National Screen Institute has announced the winners in its latest round of prize-giving for its online short film festival, with Terry Miles, Ben Cotton, Sarah Deakins and Jason R. Goode.
Miles won the $1,250 A&E Short Filmmakers Award for best film for his short film, They Wore Pink. Cotton and Deakin picked up the Brian Linehan Actors Award for Late, which includes a cash prize of $1,000. Goode’s Pop Switch won the $750 Bite Comedy Award for best comedy.
The judges who reviewed the films in this round were National Film Board producer Alicia Smith, producer and programming Magali Gillon-Krizaj and Trevor Anderson, a filmmaker who was the most recent winner of the A&E Short Filmmakers Award.
The online film festival runs year-round, and gives out awards four times a year.
In other shorts news, the seventh edition of the Toronto 48 Hour Film Project kicks off this weekend. Over 70 teams have signed up to participate in this year’s competition, where filmmakers will write, shoot and deliver a 4-to-7 minute film in 48 hours. The top films will compete for a share of a $12,000 prize purse and the chance to screen their film in the Cannes short film corner program.