
The DOXA award winners are selected on the basis of three major criteria: success and innovation in the realization of the project’s concept; originality and relevance of subject matter and approach; and overall artistic and technical proficiency.
DOXA is very happy to welcome an outstanding group of filmmakers, film critics and industry professionals to the Award Juries this year. Jury members meet during the course of the festival to choose the winning films, as well as award honourable mentions to selected films. See doxafestival.ca for more information on this year’s juries.
Feature Documentary Award
$1500 Award
Films In Competition
- A Thousand Fires (Dir. Saeed Taji Farouky)
- Children of the Mist (Dir. Hà Lệ Diễm)
- Edna (Dir. Eryk Rocha)
- Metok (Dir. Martín Solá)
- Rewind & Play (Dir. Alain Gomis)
- Smadar (Dir. Mayan Toledano)
- Sirens (Dir. Rita Baghdadi)
- Terra Femme (Dir. Courtney Stephens)
- Ultraviolette and the Blood-Spitters Gang (Dir. Robin Hunzinger)
- We Don’t Dance for Nothing (Dir. Stefanos Tai)
Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Director
$5000 Award presented by the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC)
Films In Competition
- Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence (Dir. Ali Kazimi)
- Dear Audrey (Dir. Jeremiah Hayes)
- DƏNE YI'INJETL - The Scattering of Man (Dir. Luke Gleeson)
- Doug and the Slugs and Me (Dir. Teresa Alfeld)
- The Dream and The Radio (Dir. Ana Tapia Rousiouk and Renaud Després-Larose)
- Far Beyond the Pasturelands (Dir. Maude Plante-Husaruk and Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis)
- Love in The Time of Fentanyl (Dir. Colin Askey)
- My Two Voices (Dir. Lina Rodriguez)
- They Sleep Standing (Dir. Bogdan Stoica)
DOXA Short Documentary Award
$500 Award
Films In Competition
- Bha Iad Làn Sgeulachdan (Dir. Todd Fraser)
- Bill Reid Remembers (Dir. Alanis Obomsawin)
- Dear Mr. Dudley (Dir. Morgan Rhys Tams)
- Forests (Dir. Simon Plouffe)
- Galb’Echaouf (Dir. Abdessamad El Montassir)
- A Hundred Joys (Dir. Amanda Ann-Min Wong)
- Listen to the Beat of Our Images (Dir. Audrey Jean-Baptiste and Maxime Jean-Baptiste)
- Nuisance Bear (Dir. Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden)
- Spirit Emulsion (Dir. Siku Allooloo)
Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming
$1500 Award
DOXA is extremely proud to announce the eighth edition of the Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming. Named in memory of Nigel Moore, a young man whose passion for knowledge, exploration and advocacy found a home in his love for documentary film. On May 25, 2021, Nigel would have been 25 years old. We are very pleased to continue celebrating youth programming in his honour, during our 20th anniversary festival.
For younger audiences, documentary has particular relevance. The world in which they’re growing up is an increasingly complex place. Documentary not only captures this complexity, but also has the capacity to act as a catalyst for social change, and fundamentally alter people’s behaviour.
Films in Competition
- Dear Jackie (Dir. Henri Pardo)
- The First Step (Dir. Brandon Kramer)
- Hello World (Dir. Kenneth Elvebakk)
- Let The Little Light Shine (Dir. Kevin Shaw)
The award will be adjudicated by a youth jury, who will choose the film that best exemplifies the qualities of compassion, social engagement and spirit in which Nigel lived.