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2023 Award Announcement

Award

List of CDIFF Awards

Jury Selected Awards:

Gold 

Silver 

Bronze  

The Jury may award other awards in categories of post-production, choreography, improvisation, emerging filmmaker, etc. when they see a film that merits it.  


There are also:
Audience Choice Awards (one per mixed program)

There is also an award from the Festival Director's choice:


previous awards

Outstanding Film GOLD 

The Toronto Contact Improvisation Community

Sarah Jones (Canada)


Outstanding Film SILVER 

…more than breath

Carlynn Leah Reed (Canada)


Outstanding Film BRONZE

Walls

Dani Cobarrubias & Carmen Porras (Spain)


Outstanding Narrative Dance Film

Walks with Me

Kati Kallio


Outstanding Postproduction

Swamp Thing

Dane Cree (US)


Outstanding Cinematography

Stone Jungle

Allan Souza (Brazil)


Outstanding Documentary

The Space Between Us

Gabriel Diamoive Dance Filmnd, Sarah Crowell & Keith Hennessey (US)


Outstanding Improvisation in a Dance Film

OLD FASCIAN WAY

Sasha Dodo and Dolores Dewhurst Marks (Thailand)


Outstanding Emerging Filmmaker

A Memory of Touch

Pankaj Khanchandani (India)


Outstanding Portrayal of Current World Issues (Festival Director’s Choice)

Mother Melancholia

Samantha Shay (Iceland)


Honorable mention

Cuerpos en Ruinas 

Sara Calderón (Spain)


Honorable mention

SALTARE VITAM 

Fanfy Francoise Garcia & Rachel Guénon (France)


Honorable mention 

Give, up, Give Up

SONG Nai Long (China)


Honorable mention 

HOME(in)STEAD

Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyen (US)


Audience choice DANCE TO LIFE screening
The Toronto Contact Improvisation Community (Sarah Jones / Canada)


Audience choice FINDING ME screening
Mother Melancholia - Samantha Shay (Iceland)


Audience choice TOUCHING CENTRE POINT screening
A tie between:
Walls - Dani Cobarrubias & Carmen Porras (Spain)
The Things We Say - Geanderson Mello & Mio Sakamoto (Canada)
Contact Dense - Olivia Proudfoot (Canada)


Audience choice HOME screening
HOME(in)STEAD - Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyen (US)


Audience choice TOGETHER AND APART screening
Walks with Me - Kati Kallio (Finland)
 


Outstanding Film GOLD
My Disability Justice The Dancer
Mr. Antoine Hunter/Purple fire Crow, Victor Pineda, and Zachary Kerschberg (US)


Outstanding Film SILVER
au mur de la mer
Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern (Germany/ Belgium)


Outstanding Film BRONZE
Born of the Trees
Magalie Lanriot and Rachel Ni Bhraonain (Portugal)


Outstanding dancers in a dance film
Pliancy
Marisa Hamamoto & Piotr Iwanicki (US)


Outstanding emerging dancers in a dance film
Holding Space
Caroline Boothe and Caroline Bernardon captured by Renay Aumiller (Us)


Outstanding choreography in a dance film
Blue Monday
Agnés Sales Martín, Héctor Plaza Hernando captured by Filmmaker Andrew Margetson (Spain)


Outstanding Post Production
Contact Impromptu
Blas Payri (Spain)


Outstanding Improvisation in a dance film
Contact without Borders
Tali Wertheim (Israel), Hai Cohen (Israel), and captured by Filmmaker Olya Glotka (Canada/Ukraine)


Outstanding Documentary
And You See Me
Emily Shapiro


Artistic Director Choice -Outstanding Contact Improv Pandemic Portrayal
Dear Contact Improvisation
Sara Zolbrod (US)


Honorable mention
Contact without Borders
Olya Glotka (Canada/Ukraine)


Honorable mention
Seedling
Nisrin Aziz (US)


Honorable mention
Twist of Fate
Jos Baker (US)


Audience choice BEING screening
Contact without Borders
Olya Glotka (Canada/Ukraine)


Audience choice SKY screening
Duet on Wall
Magalie Lanriot and Maitane Sarra/de (Portugal)


Audience choice TOUCH screening
Hic et Nunc "Here and now"
Emma Cianchi (Italy)


Audience choice HOLDING SPACE screening
You and Me
Karni and Saul (UK)


Audience choice HERE screening
The Window kind of open by its self
Anya Cloud and Rebecca Salzer (US)


JURY AWARDS
GOLD AWARD
Dancing with your Dreams  

Gustavo Neves (Portugak and Brazil)


SILVER AWARD
Contact Improvisation Lab Goa (GURU & HARI) 

Rahul Varma, Guru Suraj, Hari Choudhary (India)


BRONZE AWARD
DOS  

Luca Carco Pacell with dancers Maximiliano Sonderegger and Luca Carco Pacella (Argentina)

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
DOS 

Luca Carco Pacell with dancers Maximiliano Sonderegger and Luca Carco Pacella (Argentina)


SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Haiku – By Canadian filmmaker Olya Glotka (Canada/Ukraine)


SUNDAY NIGHT
Mass by French Filmmakers Fu LE (French)

MONDAY GALA
Salt Water by American filmmaker Abe Abraham (US)

AWARD FROM THE AD
EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD
Wild 

Leah Trottier, Graeme Leung,  Alina Kouchinova (Canada)

Contact Improvisation Goa India 2019
Rohit Perm (India)


JURY AWARDS
GOLD AWARD
Contact Dance Every Body by Olya Glotka, Luke Anderson, and Laura Storey (Canada/Ukraine)


SILVER AWARD
Parcon NYC #1: Subway Stops by the Parcon NYC

Andrew Suseno (US)


BRONZE AWARD
Wake Me Up by Celine Poon and Sonya Janejit Kaur

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
contested Landscapes 

Sarah Jones (Canada)


FRIDAY NIGHT
William and Eloise Duo on a Chinese Pole « Next generation » by TSF 

Héloïse Bourgeois and William Underwood (Canada)


SATURDAY NIGHT
Sigur Rós 

Valtari  (Iceland)

AWARD FROM THE AD
EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD
Olya Glotka (Canada/Ukrainene)


 

JURY AWARDS
JURY AWARDS GOLD JURY AWARD
Caída Libre/Free Fall 

Sharon Fridman (Spain/Ireal), Andrea Vázquez and Damián Varela (Miramemira)


SILVER JURY AWARD
Motel Labyrinthos by Sideris Nanoudis, Georgia Petrali, Daniel Bear Davis


BRONZE JURY AWARD
City Music 

Michael Demski (Canada)


EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Cure For Fear by Mika Lior (Canada)


AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS
FIRST-PLACE AUDIENCE CHOICE
Cures For Fear by Mika Lior (Canada)


SECOND-PLACE AUDIENCE CHOICE
City Music by Michael Demski (Canada)


THIRD-PLACE AUDIENCE CHOICE
Contact Improv from the Inside Out by Vivek Patel (Canada)


JURY AWARDS
GOLD JURY AWARD
Sketchbook 

Jeremy Finch (USA)


SILVER JURY AWARD
In Touch 

Johan Planefeldt (Germany/Sweden)


BRONZE JURY AWARD
Moments of Practice 

Irene Sposetti (Italy) and Johan Nilsson (Sweden)


CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
In Touch 

Johan Planefeldt (Germany /Sweden)


AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS
FIRST-PLACE AUDIENCE CHOICE
HASTA DONDE 

Sharon Fridman and Arthur Bernard (Spain/Israel)


SECOND-PLACE AUDIENCE CHOICE
In Touch 

Johan Planefeldt (Germany/Sweden)


THIRD-PLACE AUDIENCE CHOICE
Tie between
Sketchbook 

Jeremy Finch (USA)
and
Epreuve Synthese 

Samuel Charlton and Reuben Hosler (Canada)


Outstanding Film GOLD
The Toronto Contact Improvisation Community
Sarah Jones  (Canada)


Outstanding Film SILVER
…more than breath
Carlynn Leah Reed  (Canada)


Outstanding Film BRONZE
Walls 

Dani Cobarrubias & Carmen Porras (Spain)

Outstanding Post Production
Swamp Thing 

Dane Cree (US)


Outstanding Improvisation in a dance film
OLD FASCIAN WAY
Tali Wertheim (Israel), Hai Cohen (Israel), and captured by Filmmaker Olya Glotka (Canada/Ukraine)


Outstanding Documentary
And You See Me
Emily Shapiro


Artistic Director Choice -Outstanding Contact Improv Pandemic Portrayal
Dear Contact Improvisation
Sara Zolbrod (US)


Honorable mention
Contact without Borders
Olya Glotka (Canada/Ukraine)


Honorable mention
Seedling
Nisrin Aziz (US)


Honorable mention
Twist of Fate
Jos Baker (US)


Audience choice BEING screening
Contact without Borders
Olya Glotka (Canada/Ukraine)


Audience choice SKY screening
Duet on Wall
Magalie Lanriot and Maitane Sarra/de (Portugal)


Audience choice TOUCH screening
Hic et Nunc "Here and now"
Emma Cianchi (Italy)


Audience choice HOLDING SPACE screening
You and Me
Karni and Saul (UK)


Audience choice HERE screening
The Window kind of open by its self
Anya Cloud and Rebecca Salzer (US) swer to this item.


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