EMERGING FILMMAKERS
FINALIST SHOWCASE - SUNDAY JUNE 9, 2024
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FILM NEWCOMER COMPETITION: Short Films 10 minutes or less by local High-School Students
2025 Award information to be updated soon!
Submit by May 1, 2025!!
FILM FORWARD COMPETITION: Short Films 20 minutes or less for filmmakers & post-secondary students currently living, studying or working in Ontario.
Awards provided by Keslow Camera and the Family of Bob Johnston.
Keslow Camera is providing $5,000 in-kind Equipment Rentals.
The BOB JOHNSTON MEMORIAL AWARD provides a $1,000 cash bursary of a Filmmaker enrolled in the 2025/2026 academic year at an Ontario post secondary program in the departments of Film, Animation or Digital Media.
Submit by April 11, 2025!
2024 WINNERS
FILM FORWARD
Best Overall Short Film: Surviving Silence
Runner Up:
Best Overall Short Film:
Colin Carvey’s Long Halloween
Honourable Mention:
Best Documentary:
Tina, When Will You Marry?
Honourable Mention:
Best Animation:
Amor Fati
Bob Johnston Memorial:
Never & Always
FILM NEWCOMER
Best Overall Short Film:
The Dogfather Part II
Runner Up Short Film:
Contrast
Honourable Mention:
Soul of Shanghai