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2020 sifa nominees
Best Short Film Nominees
aen loo pawatamihk by Dianne Ouellette
The Antler by Jeffrey Altwasser & Jeremy Davis
Eden Paige - Save Me by Dylan Hryciuk
Eidolon by Mike Rollo
The Millionaire's Burger by Rob White
My Masterpiece by Gavin Baird
On Edge by Marzia Kamyabi
Best Student Film Nominees:
Sensory by Calic Tolentino
T R I B A L by DJ Carnegie
Best Feature Film Nominees:
The Caring Only Cry at Night by Gavin Baird
Nolan: Here Nor There by Wilfred Dieter & dustan j. hlady
Best Web Series Nominees:
Adventures in Painting by Greg Hargarten
Porous by Amber Goodwyn (Natural Sympathies)
Best Performance Nominees:
Charlee Bigknife - Nolan: Here Nor There
Ada Perez Hidalgo - The Caring Only Cry at Night
Chengis Javeri - The Caring Only Cry at Night
Braden Jon King - Nolan: Here Nor There
Bongani Musa - The Caring Only Cry at Night
Technical Achievement Nominees:
aen loo pawatamihk - Cinematography
aen loo pawatamihk - Sound Design
The Caring Only Cry at Night - Cinematography
Eidolon - Editing
My Masterpiece - Production Design
Porous - Production Design
2019 sifa nominees
Best Short Film Nominees
ahkâmêyimo nitânis (Keep Going My Daughter) - Candy Fox
The Diggers - George Hupka
Magdaleena - Elian Mikkola
Unfold - John Graham
Best Student Film Nominees:
A Man Replaced - Joel Tabak
Follow Leader - Scott Johnson
My World Is No Longer The World I Knew - Weiye Su
Prairie Dreams - DJ Carnegie
To Call My Own - Morgan Jones
Best Feature Film Nominees:
Audacity - Jeremy Cole Bastian
Begonia - Gavin Baird
Run Wolf, Run - Carli Robertson
Best Web Series Nominees:
Pieces: Camp - Sophie Kokott
Rock Bottom - Rick Anthony
Best Acting Nominees:
Sage Dent - Begonia
Kylie Jade - Slight
Aksa Korttila - Magdaleena
Trillian Reynoldson - Begonia
Andrew Valdez - Pagliacci
Technical Achievement Nominees:
Gavin Baird, Cinematography - Begonia
Dylan Crosby & Kyler Wilton, Editing - Good Morning
Morgan Jones, Creative Use of Imaging - To Call My Own
Elian Mikkola, Sound Design - Magdaleena
Ava Wild, Score - The Acreage & The Ambush
2018 sifa nominees
Best Short Film Nominees
A Focused Portrait of Hartley Smith - Kolby Kostyniuk
Greg Allen’s Supernatural Sasquatch - Jeremy Ratzlaff
Being - John Graham
The Lost Art of Inertia - Gerald Saul
Four in a Blanket - Gavin Baird
Farewell Transmission - Mike Rollo
Bad Poetry: Megan Nash - Aaron Sinclair
Best Student Film Nominees:
Beta Test - Joel Makar and Kenton Evenson
Sir Bailey - Matt Ripplinger
Moonshine Acres - Joel Kereluke
Der Jude - Spencer Zimmerman
Best Feature Film Nominees:
The Big Gust! - Gavin BairdSuperGrid - Hugh Patterson and Lowell DeanBook of Trespasses - Jared Berry, Gareth Nicol and Larry ParsonsThe Matter of Ronnie Goldblatt - Ian GoldbergThe Tipping Point - Jacob Stebner
Best Acting Nominees:
Matthew Burgess - Book of Trespasses
Trillian Reynoldson - The Big Gust!
Josh Strait - Beta Test
Mooky Cornish - 5 O'Clock
Andrew Valdez - Merry What?
Leo Fafard - SuperGrid
Technical Achievement Nominees:
Michael Jari Davidson, Cinematography - SuperGrid
Matt Ripplinger, Film Manipulation - Sir Bailey
Chencheng Pu, Visual Effects - Beta Test
Andrea-Jane Cornell, Sound Design - Farewell Transmission
Gavin Baird, Production Design - Four in a Blanket
Gerald Saul, Editing - The Lost Art of Inertia
Tiess McKenzie, Musical Score - A Focused Portrait of Hartley Smith
2017 sifa nominees
Best Short Film Nominees:
Gas Can - Mattias Graham
The Flats - Ian Campbell
From Up North - Trudy Stewart
Eyes of Sorrow Moon - Gerald Saul
Under the Same Sky - Sylvia Ziemann
Best Student Film Nominees:
A Moment Gone By - Timothy Merasty
Doktor Ripp - Matthew Ripplinger
Separate Beds - Layton Burton
Home Sewn - Morgan Jones
Evelyn & I - Weiye Su
Best Feature Film Nominees:
Talent - Lucas Frison
Josi Victoria: A Complicated Masquerade - Ken Dalgarno
Rigger - Dianne Ouellette
Best Acting Nominees:
Natalie Lazarou - Talent
Mark Claxton - Doktor Ripp
Anna Mazurik - The Tinwife
Logan Vanghel - Heistery
Shawn Koch - Heistery
Technical Achievement Nominees:
Layton Burton, Cinematography - Talent
Joel Tabak, Cinematography - Doktor Ripp
Devin McAdam, Cinematography - The Tinwife
Travis Neufeld, Production Design - The Tinwife
Kevin Drysdale, Editing - Separate Beds
Layton Burton, Production Design - Separate Beds
Ian Campbell, Production Design - The Flats
2016 sifa nominees
Best Short Film Nominees:
Please Rate Your Experience - Jeremy Ratzlaff
Trio - John Graham
Der Glockner - Chrystene Ells and Berny Hi
Ilsa the Far Seer - Ian Campbell
Lookout - Kyath Battie
Best Student Film Nominees:
It’s Good for You! - An An
Dreamers - Kolby Kostyniuk
SAARI - Ella Mikkola
Time Frame - Joel Kereluke
Best Feature Film Nominees:
The Sabbatical - Brian Stockton
VOUS ETES ICI - Mark Wihak
The Land of Rock and Gold - Daniel Redenbach and Janine Windolph
Patient 62 - Rick Anthony
Voice from the Wilderness - Jason Britski
Basic Human Needs - Matt Yim
Best Acting Nominees:
Laura Abramsen - Basic Human Needs
Charity Bradfield - The Land of Rock and Gold
James Whittingham - The Sabbatical
Ron Anderson - Dreamers
Abby Thiessen - Stigma
Best Technical Achievement:
Jason Cullimore, Score - Der Glockner
Ella Mikkola, Picture and Sound Editing - SAARI
Pulsewidth, Score - The Land of Rock and Gold
Berny Hi, Director of Photography - Please Rate Your Experience