Nishta Jain’s Farming the Revolution, a movie about Indian farmers rising up towards new legal guidelines, picked up the most effective worldwide characteristic documentary prize on the Scorching Docs Canadian Worldwide Documentary Pageant on Friday evening.
The highest jury prize win on the competition means Jain’s movie, which world premiered at Scorching Docs, will qualify for consideration in the most effective documentary characteristic class on the Academy Awards.
Different winners included the particular jury prize for the worldwide characteristic documentary went to Demise of a Saint. The doc follows director Patricia Bbaale Bandak as she returns to her birthplace in Uganda after giving start to her personal daughter on the identical day her mom was killed by two gunmen in that African nation 24 years earlier.
The very best rising worldwide filmmaker trophy went to Ismael Vasquez Bernabe, director of The Weavers’ Songs, a Mexican doc about weavers in San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca. The very best Canadian characteristic documentary award went to Pablo Alvarez-Mesa for The Soldier’s Lagoon, which retraces Simón Bolívar’s marketing campaign to liberate Colombia two centuries in the past.
In different prize-giving, the particular jury prize for a Canadian characteristic documentary was given to administrators Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee for Any Different Manner: The Jackie Shane Story, a couple of pioneering Black trans performer from Nashville who left the highlight on the peak of her fame.
The very best social affect documentary trophy went to Erin Lau and Amber Espinosa-Jones for Standing Above the Clouds, which chronicles the journey of three Native Hawaiian households to defend their sacred mountain the place a telescope is about to be constructed on Mauna Kea.
Additionally Friday evening, Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck obtained an excellent achievement award in Toronto. The prize-giving capped off a chaotic 2024 version for Scorching Docs that included inventive director, Hussain Currimbhoy, and 10 programmers abruptly leaving the competition organizing workforce forward of its kick-off on April 25.
In all, 15 trophies had been handed out on Friday evening on the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto throughout a ceremony with no media invited on account of restricted capability, Scorching Docs organizers mentioned.
The departure of Currimbhoy and his programming workforce led Scorching Docs president Marie Nelson — the previous ABC Information and Disney exec who took the helm on the Canadian competition in June 2023 — to put in Heather Haynes as competition director and to steer the ultimate movie picks forward of this 12 months’s Scorching Docs getting underway.