Saturday, May 5, 2012

2012 HOT DOCS Winners

Nisha Pahuja's The World Before Her, a look at the clash between modernity and tradition faced by young women in India, won Best Canadian Documentray.
Charles Wilkinson's Peace Out which explores the high costs of energy development in Canada’s pristine Peace River won Special Jury Prize.
Ariel J. Nasr' The Boxing Girls of Kabul is the story of a courageous group of young Afghan women who risk persecution to become world-class boxers, training in a stadium where the Taliban once executed women. The film won the NEW Inspirit Foundation Pluralism Prize which awarded to a film in the Canadian Spectrum program that presents an accessible perspective (or perspectives) of one or more belief systems in such a way as to contribute to the development of mutual understanding, respect and inclusion among young people in society.
Malika Zouhali Worrall's Call Me Kuchu which looks at the formidable efforts of Ugandan activist David Kato to fight his country’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill and liberate his fellow LGBT citizens won Best International Documentary Feature Award
Ra'anan Alexandrowicz's The Law in These Parts won The Special Jury Prize – International Feature. The documentary turning the issues of history in Israel and the Palestinian Territories into a broader and more direct question: How precisely do civilized democracies process legally and morally complex actions in the name of survival?
The HBO Documentary Films Emerging Artist Award was shared by the directors of two films: Bill Ross and Turner Ross for TCHOUPITOULAS (P: Bill Ross, Turner Ross; USA), and Benjamin Kahlmeyer for MEANWHILE IN MAMELODI (P: Boris Frank; Germany, South Africa). The HBO Documentary Films Emerging Artist Award is sponsored by HBO Documentary Films.

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