Queer North Film Festival
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The Queer North Film Festival is an annual film festival in Sudbury, Ontario, which presents an annual program of LGBT film.[1] Presented by the Sudbury Indie Cinema Co-op, the festival was staged for the first time in 2016.[2] The same organization also stages the city's Junction North International Documentary Film Festival.[3]
On two past occasions, the festival has presented retrospective screenings of 1990s documentary films about the LGBT community in Sudbury, Mum's the Word (Maman et Ève) in 2017[4] and The Pinco Triangle in 2018.[5]
The festival's executive director is Beth Mairs.[6]
The event is a qualifying festival for the Canadian Screen Awards.[7]
2016
- Audience Choice, Best of Show: Fire Song — Adam Garnet Jones[8]
- Audience Choice, Best Women's Film: Suicide Kale — Carly Usdin[8]
- Audience Choice, Best Men's Film: Those People — Joey Kuhn[8]
- Audience Choice, Best Trans Film: The Pearl of Africa — Jonny von Wallström[8]
- Audience Choice, Best Two-Spirit Film: Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things — Mark Kenneth Woods, Michael Yerxa[8]
- Jury Award, Best Canadian Film: Fire Song — Adam Garnet Jones[8]
- Jury Award, Best Narrative Short: Dawn — Rose McGowan[8]
- Jury Award, Best Documentary Short: Handsome & Majestic — Jeff Petry, Nathan Drillot[8]
- Jury Award, Best Northern Ontario Film: Shades of Reality[8]
- Jury Award, Best Foreign Film: Dawn — Rose McGowan[8]
2018
- Audience Choice, Best of Show: The Pinco Triangle — Patrick Crowe, Tristan R. Whiston[9]
- Audience Choice, Best Women's Film: Chavela — Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi[9]
- Audience Choice, Best Trans Film: Transformer — Michael Del Monte[9]
- Audience Choice, Best Men's Film: Call Me By Your Name — Luca Guadagnino[9]
- Jury Award, Best Canadian Film: The Pinco Triangle — Patrick Crowe, Tristan R. Whiston[9]
- Jury Award, Best Northern Ontario Film: The Pinco Triangle — Patrick Crowe, Tristan R. Whiston[9]
- Jury Award, Best Narrative Short: Something About Alex — Reinout Hellenthal[9]
- Jury Award, Best Documentary Short: Grey Violet – Odd One Out — Reetta Aalto[9]
