Alberta-shot westerns and an already heralded doc about the horrors of Rwanda were among the Canadian-made winners at the recent Emmy awards.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, an HBO MOW starring Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach and Anna Paquin, took home best MOW, while AMC’s Broken Trail won best mini as well as acting prizes for Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church at the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 16.

The trophy for Bury My Heart, which shot in and around Calgary, added to the five awards it took home at the Creative Arts Emmys on Sept. 8, where it scored best makeup for Gail Kennedy, Rochelle Pomerleau and Joanne Preece, and best sound mixing for the team of George Tarrant, Rick Ash and Edward Carr. Bury My Heart also won for cinematography, picture editing and sound editing.

Broken Trail – coproduced by Nomadic Pictures in Calgary, U.S.-based Once Upon a Time Films and Butcher’s Run Films – won best casting for a mini for Wendy Weidman, Coreen Mayrs, Heike Brandstatter and Jackie Lind.

At the news and documentary Emmys on Sept. 24, filmmaker Peter Raymont of Toronto’s White Pine Pictures shared his best documentary win for Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire with another Rwanda-themed film, the U.S. doc God Sleeps in Rwanda.

Raymont says he knew ’embarrassingly little’ about the genocide that would become central to his documentary about the now-famous lieutenant-general.

‘When it was occurring, like most people, I was watching the O.J. Simpson trial. It’s horrific to think that during those 100 days when 800,000 humans were being murdered, the world’s attention was focused [on Simpson],’ says Raymont.

He coproduced the film with his wife and filmmaking partner Lindalee Tracey, who lost her battle with breast cancer last year.

‘She would be proud,’ he says.

Dallaire, which aired on CBC, has been broadcast in 32 countries and has won numerous other awards, including the audience prize at Sundance.

Meanwhile, Toronto prodco Associated Partners scored an Emmy in the investigative journalism category for its doc Sex Slaves, about the multibillion-dollar industry of sex trafficking of women from the former Soviet Union. Producers Ric Esther Bienstock – who also wrote and directed the film – Felix Golubev and Simcha Jacobovici were on hand to receive the award.

‘I’m absolutely thrilled that we’ve been able to bring the tragedy of human trafficking to a prime-time audience…and now to be recognized by my peers in the industry is truly an honor,’ said Bienstock in a release.

Sex Slaves premiered on U.S. network PBS’ current affairs series Frontline, and has since aired in over 30 countries including Channel 4 in the U.K.

Other Canadian winners included Xenophile Media, which, together with ABC Family and Double Twenty, took home the prize for best interactive TV for the Fallen Alternate Reality Game, and Vancouver post shop Atmosphere Visual Effects, which won for its FX work on the Battlestar Galactica series.

Meanwhile, the series The Tudors, produced by Peace Arch Entertainment and TM Productions in association with the CBC and Showtime Networks, won awards for outstanding costumes and movie title theme music. The series goes to air on the Ceeb Oct. 1.

The Emmy gala took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and aired here on CTV.