CANADA’S GOLDEN SHEAF AWARD WINNERS
1996

BEST OF FESTIVAL sponsored by
  Morris Industries
BEST DOCUMENTARY OVER 30 MINUTES sponsored by
  Arts & Entertainment
BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC

UTSHIMASSITS: PLACE OF THE BOSS
Director:	John Walker
Producer:	John Walker / Mike Mahoney / Peter D'Entremont
Music Director:	Guy Trépanier & Kashtin
Production Co:	John Walker Productions Ltd. /
		Triad Productions in co-production with NFB
		31655 Cote de Liesse
		St. Laurent, PQ
		H4N 2N4
		Phone: (514) 283-9806     Fax: (514) 496-1895

This award winning documentary depicts one of the last hunter-
gatherers pressured by church and state to give up their
nomadic life and settle in Davis Inlet, Labrador.

James Cameron for BEST ART DIRECTION sponsored by
  International Tele-Film
Mark & Stephanie Morgenstern for BEST DIRECTION sponsored by
  Norman Jewison
Stephanie Morgenstern for BEST SCRIPT
WINNER OF THE SUPERCHANNEL SCRIPT
  DEVELOPMENT OF $  1,000

CURTAINS
Producer:	Mark / Stephanie Morgenstern
Director:	Mark / Stephanie Morgenstern
Production Co:	Ewola Cinema
		333 Kensington Ave.
		Montreal, PQ
		H3Z 2H2
		Phone: (514) 937-5285

She will never forget the very first night.  The racing pulse.
The trembling hands.  The faces flushed with breathless passion.
And that was just the play ... a story of the gradual loss of
the magic in both love and theatrical productions.

BEST DOCUMENTARY UNDER 30 MINUTES
Jason Gatt for BEST EDITING sponsored by
  Studio Post

ANIMAL CRACKERS
Director:	Joshua Chaiton
Producer:	Joshua Chaiton
Production Co:	Reel Images
		211 Hillhorst Blvd.
		Toronto, ON
		M5N 1P3
		Phone: (416) 782-3456

This is a wacky but true documentary of a vet, a bizarre
collection of animal owners and their pets.

BEST EDUCATIONAL / INSTRUCTIONAL sponsored by
  SCN
WINNER OF THE SCN ELIZABETH LOWRY AWARD OF $  500

THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTORS
Director:	Joel Stewart
Producer:	Joel Stewart
Production Co:	Vicom Multimedia Inc.
		#200, 838 - 11th Ave. S.W.
		Calgary, AB
		T2R 0E5
		Phone: (403) 264-3950

A program intended for fund-raising on behalf of Street Teams
of Calgary.  The Butterfly Collectors tells the true stories of
two girls and their indoctrination into a life of prostitution.

BEST OF SASKATCHEWAN sponsored by
  Saskfilm
BEST SOUND - Rob Bryanton / Jim Folk / Warren St. Onge /
  Steve Hasiak / Hal Schrenk

TALKER
Producer:	Lloyd Martell
Director:	Rob King
Production Co:	Lloyd Martell Productions
		1212A Winnipeg St.
		Regina, SK
		S4R 1J6
		Phone: (306) 359-7618

All he wants to do is get a word in edgewise.  But when a
frustrated and beleaguered cab driver answers an advertisement
for "TALKER REQUIRED", he finds himself the victim of a bizarre
psychiatric experiment.

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY A BROADCASTER
WINNER OF THE ANTOINETTE (NETTIE) KRYSKI AWARD OF $  500

THE FIFTH ESTATE: "THROWAWAY CITIZENS"
Director:	Margaret Slaght
Producer:	Margaret Slaght
Production Co:	Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
		205 Wellington St. W.
		Toronto, ON
		M5V 3G7
		Phone: (416) 205-6672

Throwaway citizens revisits a dark chapter in Canadian history
and reveals for the first time that thousands of Japanese
Canadians were coerced by Mackenzie King's government in to
agreeing to be deported to Japan.  Those who went faced
enormous hardship in a war-torn and hostile Japan.

BEST INDUSTRIAL / PROMOTIONAL
Craig Wrobleski for BEST VIDEOGRAPHY sponsored by
  Fuji

THE MIGHTY BAR U
Producer:	Carolyn McMaster / Bridget Durnford
Director:	Scott McEwan
Production Co:	Post Place Inc.
		#401 - 1228 Kensington Rd., N.W.
		Calgary, AB
		T2N 4P9
		Phone: (403) 777-4760

Visually rich, stunning in its blending of live footage and
historical pictures, "The Might Bar U" weaves together story
and images to portray the rich and vibrant history of Alberta
ranchers whose roots run as deep as the prairie grasses
shimmering in the golden sunset.

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD KATHLEEN
  SHANNON AWARD OF $  500

SCENES FROM A CORNER STORE
Producer:	Sun-Kyung Yi
Director;	Sun-Kyung Yi
Production Co:	Sleeping Giant Productions
		151 John St., Ste. 511
		Toronto, ON
		M5V 2T2
		Phone: (416) 351-9240

An intimate look into the lives of three Korean-Canadian
sisters who search for their own identities and values as they
struggle between the traditions & expectations of their parents
and the modern world of their Canadian peers.

Jacek Strek for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY sponsored by
  Fuji

FALCONRY
Producer:	Paul Cadieux
Director:	Jacek Strek
Production Co:	Ivory Tower Studio
		3746 Oliver Rd.
		Port Coquitlam, BC
		V3P 1B7
		Phone: (604) 945-4543

The film tells a story of a relationship between man and bird.

BEST DRAMA OVER 30 MINUTES

L'AFFAIRE NOGARET
Producer:	Vincent Gabriele / Pierre Nadeau
Director:	Johanne Prégent
Production Co:	Prod. Sovimage / Prod. Sagittaire
		1035 Laurier Ouest-ler étage
		Outremont, PQ
		H2V 2L1
		Phone: (514) 277-8910

In 1931 the body of a 7-year-old girl is found in a cave of the
Roussin Academy.  She had been raped.  Everything seems to
indicate that Father Albert Nogaret is the murderer.  This
crime, rare in its time, deeply horrified the Quebec society.

BEST DRAMA UNDER 30 MINUTES

DERNIER APPEL
Producer:	Marie-Andrée Vinet
Director:	Régent Bourque
Production Co:	Publivision Inc.
		1975 Falardeau, bureau 320
		Montreal, PQ
		H2K 2L9
		Phone: (514) 527-6091

BEST EXPERIMENTAL

STANDING STILL
Producer:	Catherine Quinn
Director:	Catherine Quinn
Production Co:	Catherine Quinn
		2856 Yale Street
		Vancouver, BC
		V5K 1C6
		Phone: (604) 258-9320

Catherine Quinn set out to make a film about four ordinary
elderly women reflecting on their lives.  She soon discovered
that no woman is ordinary, that every personal history is rich
and filled with lessons.

BEST MULTICULTURAL / RACE RELATIONS

THE MIND OF A CHILD
Producer:	Gary Marcuse
Director:	Gary Marcuse
Production Co:	Face to Face Media
		1818 Grant St.
		Vancouver, BC
		V5L 2S8
		Phone: (604) 251-1800

A dramatic and moving documentary about aboriginal, African
American and Jewish children traumatized by racism, poverty and
violence, and the teachers who are working with them.  Filmed
in Vancouver, Jerusalem and Washington, D.C.  Featuring the
successful work of Vancouver First Nation educator Lorna
Williams.

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

GOOD MOTHER
Producer:	Braun Farnon
Director:	Jeth Weinrich
Production Co:	Red Motel Pictures
		801 - 17th Ave. SW
		Calgary, AB
		T2T 0A1
		Phone: (403) 541-0151

BEST PUBLIC AFFAIRS

LE FILET VIDE
Producer:	Richard Elson
Director:	Alain Belhumeur
Production Co:	Imageries Ltée
		377 Sherbrooke Quest #502
		Montreal, PQ
		H3A 1B5
		Phone: (514) 849-7888

Fishermen without nets, victims of the crisis in the Atlantic
ground fishery ... The ocean which sustained them for centuries
is now a desert.  The Empty Net underscores several of the main
factors implicated in the complex collapse of the northern cod
stocks and shows the human tragedy of the residents of the
hundreds of coastal villages faced with the consequences of
this disaster.

BEST SCIENCE / NATURE

SECRETS OF THE CHOCO
Producer:	Ian McLaren
Director:	Ian McLaren
Production Co:	Productions Gran Nord Inc.
		1600 Ave. De. Lormier, Suite 391
		Montreal, PQ
		H2K 3W5
		Phone: (514) 521-7433

The Biogeographical Choco, the wet tropical Pacific coast of
Columbia, is one of the least known and least spoiled natural
rainforests left on the planet.  But large-scale development
plans and the impending completion of the Pan-American Highway
threaten the future of this tropical paradise.

Randy Houston for BEST PERFORMANCE

THE FEELER
Producer:	Elizabeth Yake
Director:	Colleen Murphy
Production Co:	Canadian Film Center
		2489 Bayview Ave.
		Toronto, ON
		M2L 1A8
		Phone: (416) 445-1446

A story about fear and longing.  Danny is blind and isolated.
His relationship with an inflatable sex doll is interrupted
when a woman comes to read to him.

BEST ANIMATION

THE SANDBOX
Producer:	Marilyn A. Belec
Director:	Jodee Samuelson
Production Co:	National Film Board of Canada
		3155 Cote de Liesse
		St. Laurent, PQ
		H4N 2N4
		Phone: (514) 283-9806

The Sandbox is a delightful 12-minute environmental tale for
young children using richly colorful traditional cell animation.
A boy and a girl build a world in their sandbox which, like art,
imitates life.

BEST ARTS / ENTERTAINMENT sponsored by
  Saskpower

JOE
Producer:	Jean-Pierre Perreault
Director:	Bernard Picard
Production Co:	Société Radio-Canada
		1400 Est, Boul. 17e étage
		Montreal, PQ
		H3L 2M2
		Phone: (514) 597-4381

Joe transforms a work of art without music into a gigantic
percussion instrument.  The dancers, wearing knitted jackets,
old hats and heavy black boots, create sounds by the subtle
game of the rubbing and the hammering of their footsteps on the
ground.

BEST CHILDREN'S PRODUCTION sponsored by
  Shaw Children's Programming Initiative

THE RELUCTANT DECKHAND
Producer:	George Johnson
Director:	Jan Padgett
Production Co:	National Film Board of Canada
		Pacific Centre
		#300 - 1045 Howe St.
		Vancouver, BC
		V6Z 2B1
		Phone: (604) 666-3838

Wonderful adventures, unexpected pleasures and challenges await
10-year-old Tess as she joins her mother on the (Henry Bay) for
a summer's fishing off BC's west coast.  Tess learns to be a
resourceful fisher, a responsible partner and a good companion.

BEST COMEDY

ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FARCE
Producer:	Roger Abbott / Don Ferguson
Director:	Perry Rosemond
Production Co:	Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
		P.O. Box 500, Stn. A
		Toronto, ON
		M5W 1E6
		Phone: (416) 205-5633

Crooning to the cutbacks with Ontario Premier Mike Harris; Jock
McBile explains the air bus kickback scandal; Quen Elizabeth
and her mom rebut the Princess "Dia" tribe; and coureurs de
bois paddle boat and peddle beer.

BEST COMMUNITY CABLE UNDER 60 MINUTES sponsored by
  Life Network

SLIPPERY
Producer:	Christopher Doty
Director:	Christopher Doty
Production Co:	Rogers Community 13 London
		800 York St.
		London, ON
		N6A 5B1
		Phone: (519) 675-1313

In June of 1958 Slippery the sea lion created an international
incident when he escaped from a Canadian theme park and swam
over 400 miles through the Great Lakes in an attempt to return
to the Pacific Ocean.

BEST COMMERCIAL (UNDER 2 MINUTES)

ALTERED STATES (FAST CUTS)
Producer:	Michelle Dunn
Production Co:	TMN: The Movie Network
		181 Bay St. Suite 100
		Toronto, ON
		M5J 2T3
		Phone: (416) 956-2010

By playing our on-air personality into scenes from actual
movies and by having him interact with various celebrities,
Fast Cuts/Altered States readily brings home TMN's identity as
the place to go for movies.

SPECIAL JURY AWARDS sponsored by
  The Yorkton Rotary Club

IN MY OWN TIME - "A DIARY OF A CANCER PATIENT"
Producer:	Jerry Krepekevich / Graydon McCrea / Joe Viszmeg
Director:	Joe Viszmeg
Production Co:	National Film Board of Canada
		3155 Cote de Liesse
		St. Laurent, PQ
		H4N 2N4
		Phone: (514) 496-1895

In the summer of 1991, Edmonton filmmaker Joseph Viszmeg was
diagnosed with a rare variety of cancer that was quickly
spreading to other organs.  Doctors did not expect him to live
a year at best.  Four years later, this film is Viszmeg's
testimony to the power of  love and hope.

THE ROAD TO RAE
Producer:	Anne Lynagh
Director:	Sherry Antonishen
Production Co:	Line Out Production
		Box 1602
		Yellowknife, NT
		X1A 2P2
		Phone: (403) 873-1808

The Road to Rae has got to be the shortest road movie to pack
it all in!  Great music, beautiful scenery and at least one
driving stunt!

GREENTIDE
Producer:	Steven Wendland
Director:	Steven Wendland
Production Co:	Steven Wendland &
		Simon Fraser University
		#746 - 1979 Marine Dr.
		North Vancouver, BC
		V7P 3G1
		Phone: (604) 980-0840

A young boy is anxious for his birthday, which awaits him the
following day.  However, instead of waiting, he sneaks a look
at his gift and perhaps, a few other things.

DOUGLAS COUPLAND CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND
Producer:	Jennifer Cowan
Director:	Jennifer Cowan
Production Co:	Planet-X Publishing Inc.
		489 King St. W., Suite 102
		Toronto, ON
		M5V 1L3
		Phone: (416) 971-7856

Douglas Coupland Close Personal Friend is a 30 minute filmed
discussion with author Douglas Coupland about life, time and
memory.  It is a survey of the late 20th century using personal
and corporate imagery and original graphics.

WORKS, "BRICKS"
Producer:	Jenipher Ritchie
Production Co:	Salter Street Films Ltd.
		2507 Brunswick St.
		Halifax, NS
		B3K 2Z5
		Phone: (902) 420-1577

The world of Works is the real world of dirt, sloshing water,
grinding wheels, clanking machinery, wet concrete and smelly
farm animals.  It is the world of harsh, simple, intriguing
physical reality; the workings of the material and the concrete.

BOYS WILL BE BOYS
Producer:	Maureen Palmer
Director:	Maureen Palmer
Production Co:	CBC - Alberta
		8861 - 75th St.
		Edmonton, AB
		T6C 4G8
		Phone: (403) 468-7500

If you called the woman who worked next to you a bitch, slut or
whore, you'd be fired.  But if you're a boy in junior high you
can get away with calling your female classmates this and worse.
How did such behavior become part of everyday life at school,
why do girls tolerate it & what's being done about it.

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