.@redvineski's ANNE AT 13,000 FT wins @Rogers Best Canadian Film Award! Catch it now streaming at @TIFF_NET 🇨🇦 https://t.co/ZG0wWBErsx #TFCAawards #cdnfilm
— Toronto Film Critics (@TFCA) March 10, 2021
The Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) selected Anne at 13,000 Ft. as the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award winner. Writer/director Kazik Radwanski wins the $100,000 prize money for his film.
Anne at 13,000 Ft. beat out And the Birds Rained Down from director Louise Archambault and White Lie from co-directors Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas. Those films won $5,000 prizes.
“Our selection of Anne at 13,000 Ft. for the TFCA’s top prize reflects our admiration of Kazik Radwanski's masterful filmmaking and a stellar title performance by Deragh Campbell, as a woman on the verge of vertigo," said TFCA President Peter Howell.
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TFCA ran a rather nice online ceremony from the Paradise Theatre in Toronto. Elaine "Lainey" Lui, co-host of The Social and acting co-anchor of Etalk on CTV and Kathleen Newman-Bremang, senior editor of Refinery29’s Unbothered, were the hosts. Critics were matched up in an homage to Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, socially distanced, to go through the winners for the night.
We have seen all 3 films, each of them excellent in their own direction. Was leaning toward And the Birds Rained Down for the beautiful way that story was told. Then again, Anne at 13,000 Ft. is a film more likely to be loved by critics.
Your humble narrator has now seen the last 4 winners: 2019 The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Kathleen Hepburn and Elle-Maija Tailfeathers); 2018 Anthropocene (Ed Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier); and 2017 Werewolf Ashley McKenzie.
I have seen every winner since 2006 with the exception of 2016 The Stairs (Hugh Gibson). That hasn't been intentional; just a coincidence or good taste.
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We saw the 3 finalists: 2 of them at the 2019 Windsor International Film Festival and the winner in a narrow window online at a U.S. festival in 2020. Can't help but wonder about the 2021 version of the TFCA Rogers Best Canadian Film Award. The 2019 winner ended up on Netflix. There was no 2020 version of the Windsor International Film Festival, where I get to see amazing Canadian films that don't always cross the border.
I've only seen one TIFF 2020 Canadian film: The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel. Unless you saw Inconvenient Indian at TIFF 2020, you likely won't see that film in any country. Will be curious to see if I've seen any of the 2021 finalists.
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