Bolivian film Utama won the Grand Prize, and Navajo director Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso's film Powerlands, about displacement of indigenous people, won the Community Award. was awarded.
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The Bolivian film Utama won the grand prize at theMontreal First People's Festival Tuesday night. Alejandro Loaiza Grici's existential drama, about an elderly Quechua couple experiencing drought in the highlands of Bolivia, won the Teeikan Prize.
Another Bolivian film, Quiro Russo's El Gran Movimiento, was runner-up and also won Best Cinematography.
Navajo filmmaker Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso's documentary Powerlands won the Rigoberta Mechú (Community) Award. From Standing Rock to the Philippines, the Canadian-American co-production explores the environmental destruction caused by the displacement of indigenous peoples and chemical companies.
His APTN Award for Outstanding Indigenous Filmmaker of the Past Year went to Bretten Hannam, director of the coming-of-age film Wildhood. Hannam is a two-minded non-binary Mi'kmak born and raised in Nova Scotia.
Main His Film International Award for Up-and-coming Talent went to his Siku Allooloo, an Inuk, Haitian and Taino filmmaker from the Northwest Territories. Her Super Her 8 film, "Spirit Emulsion," depicts a woman's connection with her mother. spiritual world.
Paraguayan director Alami Uron's Apenas el Sol (None But the Sun) won Best Documentary. The film follows a man traversing the Chacos of Paraguay and chronicles the stories, songs and testimonies of the Ayoreo people.
Best Canadian Short Film Award went to his NFB production Chanson de l'Arctique for Jermaine Arna Taujuk, Neil Christopher and Louise Flaherty.
Mariana X. Rivera of Mexico, in her best international short film, Flores de la Ilanura (Prairie Flowers), which deals with the topic of carnage among her Amuzgo tribe in Guerrero State, Mexico. was awarded.
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