2023 Award Winners

The awards ceremony will take place in Toronto at the SVA Business Meeting
Friday, November 17, 8:00 - 10:00 pm
Room 601, Metro Toronto Convention Centre
The Film & Media Festival Awards start at 9:00 p.m.

Best Feature - Winner
Sama in the Forest
Screening Block: “FOLKTALES FOR THE FUTURE”
Saturday, Nov. 18, 12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

 

Best Feature - Honorable Mention
Destiny
Screening Block: “ABILITY & DISABILITY”
Thursday, Nov. 16, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Best Short - Winner
Co-Husband
Screening Block: “KINSHIP IN MARRIAGE IN TRANSITION”
Saturday, Nov. 18, 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

 

Best Short - Honorable Mention
Addresses (Direcciones)
Screening Block: “PLACES IN TRANSITION”
Wednesday, Nov. 15, 6:45 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Best Student Film - Winner
The Memory of Glitch
Screening Block: “FORESTS IN TRANSITION”
Friday, Nov. 17, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

 

Best Student Film - Honorable Mention
Toang
Screening Block: “ECOLOGIES IN TRANSITION”
Saturday, Nov. 18, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Jean Rouch Award – Winner
La Tumba Mambi
Screening Block: “ETHNOFICTIONS”
Friday, Nov. 17, 1:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

 

Jean Rouch Award – Honorable Mention
Smile4Kime
Screening Block: “CO-CREATED”
Thursday, Nov. 16, 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

 

SVA Film & Media Festival Awards

Jean Rouch Award / Recognizes films that make exemplary use of ethnofiction techniques or that are produced in a collaborative manner embodying the spirit of Rouch's "anthropologie partagée" (shared anthropology).

Best Feature / Recognizes the film longer than forty-five minutes that best embodies the ethnographic inquiry and cinematic craft celebrated through the festival.

Best Short / Recognizes the film shorter than forty-five minutes that best embodies the ethnographic inquiry and cinematic craft celebrated through the festival.

Best Student Film / Recognizes the most outstanding film made by a student enrolled in an accredited educational institution.

Best Interactive Media / Recognizes media work—including VR installations, iDocs, websites, games, podcasts—that best embodies the creative and collaborative spirit of multimodal anthropologies.