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TIFF Wraps with Awards
By Staff

(September 17, 2012 - Toronto, Ontario) TIFF Wraps with Awards - The 37th Toronto International Film Festival announced its award recipients yesterday at a lunch reception held at the Intercontinental Hotel Toronto. The City of Toronto/Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film went to Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways from Quebec and includes a cash prize of $30,000.

Other Canadian films and awards include the SKYY Vodka Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film, which turned out to be tie between Toronto’s Brandon Cronenberg’s Antiviral and British-born Jason Buxton’s Blackbird. The award carries a cash prize of $15,000, and both Brandon and Jason received $15,000 each. The winner of the award for Best Canadian Short Film went to Winnipeg filmmaker Deco Dawson for Keep a Modest Head. The award includes a $10,000 cash prize. Honourable mention went to Mike Clattenburg’s Crackin’ down Hard.
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The BlackBerry People's Choice Award, which came as somewhat of a surprise to fest watchers, went to David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook (U.S.), starring Robert DeNiro, Bradley Cooper and Julia Stiles. The award offers a $15,000 cash prize. First runner up was Ben Affleck’s Argo (U.S.) and the second runner up was Eran Riklis’s Zaytoun (U.K./Israel). The BlackBerry People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award went to Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths (U.K.). First runner up was Barry Levinson’s The Bay (U.S.) and second runner up was Don Coscarelli’s John Dies at the End (U.S.). The BlackBerry People’s Choice Documentary Award went to Bartholomew Cubbins for Artifact (U.S.). First runner up was Christopher Nelius and Justin McMillan’s Storm Surfers 3D (Australia) and the second runner up was Rob Stewart’s Revolution (Canada).

The International Critics Prize for the Special Presentations Program went Francois Ozon’s Dans la maison (France). The International Critics Prize for the Discovery Program went to Mikael Marcimain’s Call Girl (a Sweden-Finland-Norway-Ireland co-production).

New this year is an award for the Best World or International Asian Feature Film Premiere. It went to Sion Sono’s The Land of Hope (Japan). Earlier in the festival, the inaugural winner of the Grolsch Film Works Discovery Award was announced. The award went to Rola Nashef whose film, Detroit Unleaded (U.S.), was presented as part of the Discovery Program. The award included a $10,000 cash prize to put toward her next project