2012 Reel Asian Film Festival awards – winners [UPDATED]

The downtown portion of the 16th annual Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival concluded last night with their closing awards ceremony before the screening of Architecture 101.

The Reel Asian Best Canadian Film or Video Award was presented to Romeo Candido's Prison Dancer, about the unique Filipino phenomenon of dance routines by prison inmates. Best Feature went to Kim Kyung-mook's Stateless Things about a North Korean migrant worker and young gay prostitute. Montreal animator Jonathan Ng claimed the Animasian Award for Requiem for Romance.

The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival concludes this weekend in Richmond Hill with screenings of Floating City by Yim Ho, Cha Cha For Twins by Yang Yi-Chien and Jim Wang, The Woodsman and the Rain by Shuichi Okita, and The Fruit Hunters by Yang Chung.

[UPDATE, November 19] The winner of the Audience Award was announced today. It goes to Dal Puri Diaspora by Richard Fung.


Complete list of 2012 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival award winners

ANIMASIAN AWARD
Requiem for Romance, Director Jonathan Ng
- All animated films and videos are eligible for this prize

- $500 cash prize

ANIMASIAN HONORABLE MENTION:
Trace of Joy, Directors Jeff Tran & Louis Yeum

FASKEN MARTINEAU BEST FEATURE FILM AWARD
Stateless Things, Director Kim Kyung-mook
- All feature works are eligible for this prize
- $2,000 cash prize

NATIONAL BANK BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM AWARD
Egg and Stone, Director Huang Ji
- All first feature films are eligible for this prize

- $500 cash prize

MOVIEOLA BEST SHORT FILM OR VIDEO AWARD
Lack of Evidence, Director Hayoun Kwon
- All short films and videos are eligible for this prize
- $500 cash prize
- Opportunity for broadcast on Movieola

REEL ASIAN BEST CANADIAN FILM OR VIDEO AWARD
Prison Dancer, Director Romeo Candido
- All Canadian works are eligible for this prize
- $2,000 cash prize

WIFT-T AWARD
Suman Ladies, Director Althea Balmes
- All films made by female GTA-based artists are eligible for this prize.
- $1,200 programming pass, one-year membership and mentorship from WIFT-T

REEL ASIAN AUDIENCE AWARD
WILL BE ANNOUNCED MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH
- All feature films at the festival are eligible for this prize
- $2,000 cash prize

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN PITCH? WINNERS
EMERGING CATEGORY: Grace Kung, The Trip
ESTABLISHED CATEGORY: Sonejuhi Sinha, Give In To The Night