Drive Back Home took home the Audience Award for Canadian Narrative Feature, while The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal earned the overall top score.
The Vancouver International Film Festival will name the Audience Award winners after it wraps on Oct. 6.
The lineup includes the world premieres of the features Words Left Unspoken and Lovely.
Planet in Focus will open with Made in Ethiopia and close with Resident Orca.
The CBC Gem series won the grand prize at the two-day short-form festival in Toronto.
The Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema was temporarily shuttered in June due to financial difficulties.
Buxton also took home the directing prize over the weekend at the Atlantic International Film Festival.
Canada will be represented by three films at this year’s competition.
Plus: Mlle Bottine sets its world premiere in Germany and CaribbeanTales names its Big Pitch winners.
The Toronto International Film Festival said they are committed to showing the film when it is safe to do so.
Cohan succeeds Lionsgate Television Group’s Kevin Beggs as head of the Banff World Media Festival’s board of directors.
The protestors called for TIFF to cut ties with sponsor RBC, breaking out into chants in a screening for opening film Nutcrackers.