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Carlos Delgado, Javier Navarrete Bravo and Toronto Image Works present this year's Honorable Mentions
The winners will be presented with a brand new painting by Carlos Delgado and “Maia” a photograph by Javier Navarrete Bravo, printed courtesy of Toronto Image Works. Carlos Delgado is a Colombian artist and muralist dedicated to creating public art as a form of preservation and creation of cultural identity. Javier Navarrete has been collaborating in the music scene of Mexico City and Toronto for the past decade. He has been involved with art collectives doing album covers, promo shooting and music shows. Javier’s photography is committed to the grass roots of the local scene, the travels and the music. Additionally, aluCine would like to acknowledge Toronto Image Works’ outstanding photographic services as well as their commitment to hosting a wide variety of shows from sculptural photo-based exhibitions, to Giclee fine arts prints, to traditional photographic shows.
For a superbly edited, affirmative and moving tale of a grandfather and grandson who leave their differences behind to re-invent their family dynamic! , an honorable mention goes to Sin Palabras/No Words directed by Bel Armenteros.
For a story by short people that all people can learn from, about two worlds coming together through the power of empathy and imagination, the jury gives an honorable mention to A Mula Teimosa e o Controle Remoto/The Stubborn Mule and the Remote Control by Helio Villela Nunes.
For a nearly perfect melding of image, sound and story that tell a joyful and comedic tale, an honorable mention goes to Marcos Busatori Montesinos for Puntera & Pelotero.
aluCine would like to extend a special thanks to the 2011 jury:
Francisca Duran, Toronto filmmaker, media artist & lectures at McMaster University.
Kerry Potts, Director of Development at imagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival
Ingrid Randoja Deputy Editor, Cineplex Magazine and Ricardo Acosta award winning film editor
We are extremely pleased with your decisions and grateful for the hard work put into the jury process. Muchas gracias!!!
Francisca Duran is a Toronto based filmmaker, media artist and a lecturer in the Multimedia Department at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario).
Her media artwork combines digital and analogue formats, exploring the intersection points of memory, history, politics and technology. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in numerous film festivals, galleries and group screenings. She has received grants in support of her artistic practice from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council.
She holds an MFA in Film Production from York University and a B.A.H. from the Department of Film at Queens University. Born in Santiago Chile in 1967, Francisca came to Canada as a refugee following the 1973 military coup.
In addition to her art practice, Francisca has worked as a volunteer in the cultural sector since 1991 at organizations such as the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society in Vancouver. She is currently the co-chair of the board of directors of Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre.
Francisca's interests in graphic arts production led her to a seven-year of professional practice. She produced promotional print materials for cultural sector and for the non-profit organizations; clients include The Images Festival, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Fireweed, LIFT and YYZ Books.
Ingrid Randoja is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University. Like many young cinephiles, Ingrid worked at a video store after university where she honed her critical writing skills and immersed herself in film.
She began her movie-reviewing career in 1990 working as a freelance writer for Toronto's NOW Magazine. From 1995 to 2001 she served as NOW's film editor. During her tenure at NOW she interviewed cinema's greatest stars and directors, including Johnny Deep, Woody Allen, Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Liv Ullmann and Peter Jackson.
In 2003, she became the deputy editor at Cineplex Magazine where she works today. Her reviews have been published in periodicals such as Sight and Sound, Take One and Montage. She has also appeared on programs such as Canada AM, @The Movies, CBC Radio's Definitely Not The Opera, and is a regular guest contributor to TIFF's weekly Reel Talk film series.
Ingrid lives with her partner, a dog and a cat in Toronto, a city full of film-loving individuals such as herself.
Kerry Potts is the Director of Development and part of the Programming Team at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival – an international festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples on the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio and new media. She has worked in the Aboriginal community of Toronto for nearly 15 years establishing programming and training for Aboriginal women, youth, and the homeless youth. She then moved into teaching, where she received accolades for her work in the Aboriginal Studies Department at the University of Toronto, and has taught Sociology, Social Work, and Women's Studies at Humber and Seneca colleges.
In 2006 Potts completed her Master's at University of Toronto in Sociology and Equity Studies, and wrote her thesis on music and anti-colonialism. She has worked in the Aboriginal arts sector for the past decade, as Associate Producer at Native Women in the Arts, Assistant Manager to three-time Juno-winning singer songwriter Susan Aglukark, and has been with imagineNATIVE for the past five years.
Her short Love on the Street (2009) has traveled to Indigenous festivals in Canada and the USA, and is available in the Hot Docs online library. Potts is on the Executive of the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC) and Native Women in the Arts, and is the Chair of the Images Festival – the largest festival in North America for experimental and independent moving image culture. Potts is honored to be part of the aluCine jury and congratulates all the talented artists who are part of this year's festival!
Ricardo Acosta immigrated to Canada from his native Cuba in 1993. Before coming to Toronto, he studied and worked at the world-renowned Cuban Film Institute in Havana. Since then Ricardo has edited documentary and dramatic films, as well as factual television series, which have been shown around the world.
His outstanding work and keen sense of the human condition has contributed to the making of several award-winning and award-nominated films which includes: Shooting Indians, A Journey With Jeffrey Thomas directed by Ali Kazimi, (Genie Award Nomination for Best Short Documentary 1997); Unbound directed by Claudia Morgado (Winner of The Berlin Film Festival Award for Best Short Film 1996); Spirits of Havana produced by the NFB (Genie Award Nomination for Best Documentary 2001); The Take directed by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis (Official selection Venice Film Festival, 2004, nomination for The Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Prog, a nomination for Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series, 20th Annual Gemini Awards), Runaway Groom directed by Ali Kazimi (Winner of The Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Prog, 2005), and Tiger Spirit directed by Min Sook Lee (Winner of The Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary, Genie 2009).
Ricardo was chosen to be a fellow by the Sundance Institute in 2006 and 2011 for the prestigious Documentary Film Editing and Story Laboratory. He is presently editing the film Herman's House, directed by Angad Bhalla, which is being supported by the Ford Foundation's JustFilms Initiative and the Sundance Institute.