1st Place, Winnipeg Nuit Blanche

So as I already mentioned, an edit of "Symbiosis" was screened at the first annual Winnipeg Nuit Blanche as part of the "90 Second Quickie Film Contest" presented by the Winnipeg Film Group. The selected videos, about 40 of them, were all screened on the evening of WNB last Saturday, September 25th at the famous corner of Portage & Main on a 13' by 35' foot high definititon screen. There was a second screening at WFG's Cinematheque on the evening of Sunday, September 26th.








The winners were announced during Nuit Blanche, and to my surprise I won first place! A big, big thanks goes to Monica Lowe for coordinating the screening, and of course to the jurors: Alex MacKenzie, John Paizs, and Sarah Anne Johnson, who are all important players in the contemporary Canadian film scene. It's an incredible honour, and I truly wish I could have been there at Winnipeg Nuit Blanche. Click here for the official announcement by WFG, and here for a full list of winners and participants, including some samples of the other short films screened for the competition. Also, I should have the "real" documentation soon.

Update: I just got a lovely package from the Winnipeg Film Group, including not only my prize, but also their most recent catalogue of essays and a DVD featuring some of the first filmmakers to work with WFG.