The other candidates for the Best Canadian Film Award were Splice by Vincenzo Natali and Trigger directed by Bruce McDonald. All three films were named to Canada's Top Ten by the Toronto International Film Festival and a panel of industry professionals.
The TFCA’s Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist was given to Toronto filmmaker Daniel Cockburn for his film You Are Here. The inaugural 2010 Deluxe Student Film Award was presented to Humber College student David Cadiz for his short film Adventures of Owen.
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Denis Villeneuve Wins ROGERS BEST CANADIAN FILM
AWARD
Wins Top Canadian Award Second Year in a Row
Wins Top Canadian Award Second Year in a Row
TORONTO - Incendies, Denis
Villeneuve’s epic adaptation of Wajdi Mouawad’s complex stage play
about Quebec
siblings who uncover their immigrant mother’s tortured history, has won
the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Rogers
Best Canadian Film Award.
The award was presented to Villeneuve by Jay Baruchel, star of How to Train Your Dragon, winner of the TFCA’s
Best Animated Feature Award, at a gala dinner held January 12 at Toronto’s Nota Bene
restaurant. Also nominated for the award were Splice, directed by Vincenzo Natali, and Trigger, directed by Bruce McDonald.
The cash value of the Rogers Best
Canadian Film Award is $15,000, up from $10,000 in previous years. This marks the first time the award has been bestowed upon the same
person two years in a row. (Villeneuve won the 2009 Rogers Canadian Best Film
Award for Polytechnique.)
Incendies is the official Canadian entry for the 2010 Academy Awards.
“Winning our top Canadian prize two years in a row is a testament
to Denis Villeneuve’s brilliance as a filmmaker and the astounding scale
of his creative ambition,” says TFCA President Brian D. Johnson,
film critic for Maclean’s
magazine. “With Incendies,
he has bridged Montreal and the Middle East to create a deeply resonant tragedy about
family and the uncontainable nature of war.”
“Rogers
is pleased to support the Best Canadian Film Award again this year,” said Phil Lind,
Vice Chairman, Rogers Communications. “While
tackling difficult subject matter,
Denis Villeneuve has crafted another remarkable film.”
Don McKellar presented the TFCA’s Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist to Toronto filmmaker Daniel Cockburn (You Are Here) and Patricia Rozema
presented the inaugural 2010 Deluxe Student
Film Award to Humber
College student David
Cadiz for his short film Adventures of Owen.
The Jay Scott Prize is accompanied by a $5,000
cash award; the Deluxe Student Film Award carries a value of $3,000 in post-production services from Deluxe
Toronto.
CBC broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi presented a TFCA Special Citation to director Bruce McDonald for a year of
exceptional creativity. McDonald directed an astonishing four films in 2010: This Movie Is Broken,
Trigger,
Hard Core Logo 2 and the
documentary Music from the Big House.
As McDonald was shooting in Saskatchewan, the award was accepted by his wife, filmmaker Dany Chiasson,
executive producer of the three features.
Established in 1997, the
Toronto Film Critics Association is comprised of Toronto based journalists and broadcasters
who specialize in film criticism and commentary. All major dailies, weeklies and a variety of other print and
electronic outlets are represented.
The TFCA is especially grateful to founding sponsor
Rogers Communications Inc., and welcomes new sponsors RBC, Porter Airlines and
Deluxe Toronto. The TFCA also thanks the ongoing generosity of its additional
sponsors: Maclean’s
magazine, Nota Bene, Moet & Chandon, Four Seasons Hotel, Ontario Film
Development Corporation, Cineplex Entertainment, the Globe and Mail, and Citytv.
The
TFCA is affiliated with the International
Federation of International Film Critics (FIPRESCI). Members have sat on
juries
at festivals in Cannes, Toronto, Berlin, Venice, Miami, Palm Springs,
Vienna, Chicago, Pusan, Moscow, San Francisco, Warsaw, Amsterdam and
London, among others.
Website: http://www.torontofilmcritics.
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