Colin Low Award

The Colin Low Award is a juried annual film award presented at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival to recognize the director of best Canadian documentary film screened at that year's festival. The award is named in honour of influential Canadian documentary filmmaker Colin Low.

The award is sponsored by the Directors Guild of Canada and comes with a $5,000 cash prize. The award frequently, but not always, presents an honorable mention in addition to the overall winner.

Year	Film	Filmmaker(s)	Ref
2013	East Hastings Pharmacy	Antoine Bourges	^[1]
2014	Gods, Weeds and Revolutions	Meryam Joobeur	^[2]
2014	Crazywater	Dennis Allen	^[2]
2015	On the Trail of the Far Fur Country	Kevin Nikkel	^[3]
2015	A Rock and a Hard Place	Cliff Caines	^[3]
2016	The Prison in Twelve Landscapes	Brett Story	^[4]
2016	Migrant Dreams	Min Sook Lee	^[4]
2017	Limit Is the Sky	Julia Ivanova	^[5]
2017	A Moon of Nickel and Ice	François Jacob	^[5]
2018	Primas	Laura Bari	^[6]
2018	Those Who Come, Will Hear (Ceux qui viendront, l'entendront)	Simon Plouffe	^[6]
2019	Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up	Tasha Hubbard	^[7]
2019	Dark Suns (Soleils noirs)	Julien Élie	^[7]
2020	Wintopia	Mira Burt-Wintonick	^[8]
2021	Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy	Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers	^[9]
2022	Love in the Time of Fentanyl	Colin Askey	^[10]
2022	The Scattering of Man (DƏNE YI’INJETL)	Luke Gleeson	^[10]
2023	Mother Saigon (Má Sài Gòn)	Khoa Lê	^[11]
2023	2012/Through the Heart (2012/Dans le cœur)	Rodrigue Jean, Arnaud Valade	^[11]
2024	The Soldier's Lagoon	Pablo Álvarez Mesa	^[12]
	Wilfred Buck	Lisa Jackson
	Yintah	Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano
2025	Saints and Warriors	Patrick Shannon	^[13]
2025	Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again	Lyana Patrick	^[13]

Colin Low Award

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