Following are the nominees for the CFTPA’s inaugural Indie Awards:
Best Children’s and Youth Program or Series
• The Great Canadian Polar Bear Adventure (Media Headquarters) – Producers: Shari Cohen, Robert Cohen, Robin Neinstein
• Mystery Hunters (Apartment 11 Productions) – Producers: Jonathan Finkelstein, Jason Levy, Stacey Tenenbaum
• Generation XXL (2151 Film & Television) – Producer: Lesley Ann Patten
• Life With Derek (Shaftesbury Films) – Producers: Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, Daphne Ballon. Suzanne French
• Storm Hawks (Nerd Corps Entertainment) – Producers: Asaph Fipke, Ken Faier, Chuck Johnson
Best Comedy Program or Series
• Corner Gas (Vérité Films) – Producers: Virginia Thompson, Brent Butt, David Storey
• Rent-A-Goalie (Georgian Entertainment) – Producers: Chris Szarka, Christopher Bolton, Nicholas Gray
• Little Mosque on the Prairie (WestWind Pictures) – Producers: Michael Snook, Susan Flanders-Alexander, Clark Donnelly, Mary Darling, Zarqa Nawaz
• The Jane Show (Shaftesbury Films) – Producers: Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, Teresa Pavlinek, Ralph Chapman
• Moose TV (Rezolution Pictures) – Producers: Catherine Bainbridge, Ernest Webb, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick
Best Convergent New Media
• Etoiles.tv (La Press Télé) – Producers: Marleen Beaulieu, André Provencher, Marie-Elaine Nadeau
• Total Drama Island 8 -Totally Interactive (Xenophile Media) – Producers: Keith Clarkson, Jay Bennett, Thomas Wallner, Patrick Crowe
• Uh-Oh Flamingo! (Breakthrough Entertainment) – Producers: Kevin Gillis, Ira Levy, Peter Williamson, Michael McGuigan, Dorothy Vreeker
• Life With Derek (Shaftesbury Films) – Producers: Shane Kinnear, Suzanne French, Jarrett Sherman
• www.oddjobjack.com (Smiley Guy Studios) – Producers: Adrian Carter, Denny Silverthorne, Jeremy Diamond
Best Documentary Program or Series
• Jonestown: Paradise Lost (Cineflix) – Producers: Greg Lanning, Bernard Vaillot, Katherine Buck, Stephen Hunter, Michel Rager
• Radiant City (Burns Film) – Producers: Shirley Vercruysse, Bonnie Thompson
• Flight from Darkness (11th Hour Films) – Producers: Don Copeman, Lynne Beck Copeman
• The Bodybuilder and I (January Films) – Producers: Julia Rosenberg, Anita Lee, Silva Basmajian, Tyler Levine
• Saving Luna (Mountainside Films) – Producer: Suzanne Chisholm
Best Feature Film
• Eastern Promises (Serendipity Point Films) – Producer: Robert Lantos
• The Tracey Fragments (Tracey Fragments Inc.) – Producers: Sarah Timmins, Paul Barkin, Bruce McDonald
• Congorama (micro_scope) – Producers: Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
• Continental, un film sans fusil (micro_scope) – Producers: Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
• Away from Her (Pulling Focus Pictures/Foundry Films) – Producers: Daniel Iron, Jennifer Weiss, Simone Urdl
Best Lifestyle or Reality Program or Series
• Recreating Eden IV (Merit Motion Pictures) – Producer: Merit Jensen Carr
• Designer Guys (WestWind Pictures) – Producers: Clark Donnelly, Theresa Kowall-Shipp, Mary Darling, Susan Flanders-Alexander
• Chris & John to the Rescue (John Simpson Productions) – Producers: John Simpson, Chris Carter
• Vanity Insanity (Insight Film Studios) – Producers: Barry Gray, Kirk Shaw, Wendy McKernan, Laura Amelse Watson
• Triple Sensation (Triple Sensation Productions) – Producers: Garth Drabinsky, Sandy Pearl, Sandra Cunningham, Sari Friedland
Best Miniseries
• October 1970 (Barna-Alper Productions) – Producers: Laszlo Barna, Wayne Grigsby, David MacLeod
• Redemption SK (Lasa Media Arts) – Producer: Sandhya Padmanabh
• Dragon Boys (Omni Film Productions) – Producers: Michael Chechik, Ian Weir, Howard Dancyger
• St. Urbain’s Horsemen (Galafilm) – Producers: Arnie Gelbart, Peter Moss, Michael A. Levine, Ian Whitehead
• Above and Beyond (Pope Productions) – Producers: Paul Pope, Scott Garvie
Best Prime Time Drama Series
• Blood Ties (Kaleidoscope Entertainment) – Producers: Paul McConvey, Randy Zalken, Marshall Kesten, Kirk Shaw, Peter Mohan
• Durham County (Back Alley Film Productions) – Producers: Janis Lundman, Adrienne Mitchell, Michael Prupas
• Intelligence (Haddock Entertainment) – Producers: Chris Haddock, Laura Lightbown, Arvi Liimatainen
• Race to Mars (Galafilm) – Producers: Arnie Gelbart, Phyllis Platt, Pia Maria Marquard
• ReGenesis III (Shaftesbury Films) – Producers: Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, Laura Harbin, Tom Chehak
Best TV Movie
• Luna: Spirit of the Whale (Screen Siren Pictures) – Producer: Trish Dolman
• Abducted (Incendo Productions) – Producers: Jean Bureau, Stephen Greenberg, Josée Mauffette
• A Life Interrupted (Incendo Productions) – Producers: Jean Bureau, Stephen Greenberg, Josée Mauffette, Serge Denis
• In God’s Country (Shaftesbury Films) – Producers: Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, Kelly Rowan, Graham Ludlow
• The Robber Bride (Shaftesbury Films) – Producers: Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, Laurie McLarty, Julie Lacey