Festival Awards & Jury
Festival Awards
The 2011 Reel Asian® Festival Awards will be presented at the Closing Night Gala Screening of BUDDHA MOUNTAIN at
The Royal on Nov 13.
| REEL ASIAN AUDIENCE AWARD | |
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All feature films at the festival are eligible for this prize $2,000 cash prize |
| FASKEN MARTINEAU BEST FEATURE FILM OR VIDEO AWARD | |
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All feature works are eligible for this prize $2,000 cash prize |
| NATIONAL BANK BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM AWARD |
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All first feature films are eligible for this prize |
| ANIMASIAN AWARD | |
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All animated films and videos are eligible for this prize |
| MOVIEOLA BEST SHORT FILM OR VIDEO AWARD | |
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All short films and videos are eligible for this prize $500 cash prize Opportunity for broadcast on Movieola |
| NFB BEST CANADIAN FILM OR VIDEO AWARD | |
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All Canadian works are eligible for this prize $1,500 cash prize |
| WIFT-T AWARD | |
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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 $1,000 in equipment rental from Videoscope, and 15% off rentals for one full year |
Features Jury
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KING-WEI CHU is co-director of Asian and martial arts programming and photographer at the Fantasia Film Festival. He also directed Flesh for Kung Fu featuring Gordon Liu as part of the award-winning anthology Frankenstein Unlimited. He also programs for the Montreal Film Society and serves as a consultant for their archives. King grew up with Shaw Brothers cinema in Montreal and owns one of the largest Shaw collections in North America. |
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MASASHI NIWANO is the Festival & Exhibitions Director for the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), the largest non-profit organization dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian-American experiences. Masashi holds a Bachelor's degree in film production from San Francisco State University. Prior to re-joining CAAM, Masashi was the Executive Director for the Austin Asian American Film Festival. He is also an active filmmaker, who has worked on numerous films and music videos that are official selections at Cannes, Outfest, and SXSW. |
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RENATA MOHAMED is a Toronto-based film- maker and a graduate of the Integrated Media program at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD). Her first short film Coolie Gyal has screened at more than 50 festivals worldwide. Renata has worked with numerous arts organizations in Toronto and has served on juries for the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival. She has worked as the Membership and Volunteer Coordinator for the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) since 2003. |
Canadian and Shorts Jury
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JANE KIM was the recipient of the 2010 Reel Asian WIFT-T Award for her film Seeing Through the Spider's Web. She has made independent short works and also worked as a freelance festival programmer and curator with numerous Toronto-based festivals and arts organizations. Kim is currently a PhD candidate at York. |
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JONATHAN NG is a Montreal-based animator. He directed his first film, Asthma Tech, at the National Film Board of Canada in 2006. He then worked in the live-action film industry as a pre-viz animator on features such as The Spiderwick Chronicles and The Mummy 3. He went on to co-produce and animate several breakdance films in a mini-series with Kid Koala, including Floor Kids and Just Another Floor Kids Battle. He won the Reel Asian So You Think You Can Pitch? competition in 2009 to produce his upcoming independent short film Requiem for Romance. |
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TAM-CA VO-VAN is a curator and film programmer based in Ottawa and is currently the director of SAW Gallery, where she has curated many exhibitions, including International Geographic, Drawing Restraint and Moncton Rock. She is also a founder of the Electric Fields Electronic Music and Media Forum. She worked for many years as a programmer at the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie and organized the On the Bend Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Moncton. She currently serves as the chair of the Association des groupes en arts visuels francophones. |
