Eternal Spring, Jason Loftus’ animated documentary about comic book illustrator Daxiong, was the big winner at the Rockie Awards International Program Competition handed out across 27 categories at the Banff World Media Festival (BANFF).
Eternal Spring won the Grand Jury Award, in addition to the prize for Social Issues & Current Affairs.
The $25,000 Rogers Prize for Excellence in Canadian Content was awarded to CBC/HBO Max comedy Sort Of, while ICI.TOU.TV’s Geomapping Love (Geolocaliser l’amour) was awarded the Prix Francophone. The Emerging Talent Prize of $10,000 (courtesy of YouTube), awarded to an outstanding short fiction or short non-fiction video submission not funded by a streamer or network, went to National Film Board (NFB) production Magical Caresses, a series of animated erotic confessions by Lori Malépart-Traversy. Magical Caresses also won Best Short-Form Non-Fiction Series.
Other Canadian winners included NFB Oscar-nominated Canadian-UK co-production Affairs of the Art, which claimed Best Short Form Fiction Series. Find the full list of winners here.
This year’s competition featured 141 nominations from 29 countries, including the UK, U.S., Germany, Australia, France, Argentina, Brazil, Denmark, Italy, South Korea, and more.
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