AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCED
Posted Mon, May 11, 2009 in Festival Headlines
After the final screening yesterday, votes were tallied for the Hot Docs Audience Award. The winner is THE COVE (D: Louie Psihoyos; USA), a passionate, powerful and gripping intervention to end the dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan. The top ten audience favourites as determined by audience vote are:
- THE COVE (D: Louie Psihoyos; USA)
- 65_REDROSES (D: Philip Lyall, Nimisha Mukerji; Canada)
- INSIDE HANA’S SUITCASE (D: Larry Weinstein; Canada, Czech Republic)
- BEST WORST MOVIE (D: Michael Paul Stephenson; USA)
- A HARD NAME (D: Alan Zweig; Canada)
- OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY (now known by new title THE HORSE BOY) (D: Michel Orion Scott; USA)
- WINNEBAGO MAN (D: Ben Steinbauer; USA)
- BURMA VJ (D: Anders Høgsbro Østergaard; Denmark)
- ROUGH AUNTIES (D: Kim Longinotto; UK)
- PROM NIGHT IN MISSISSIPPI (D: Paul Saltzman; Canada)
