Best Atlantic Short: "Bedroom"
Director: Jordan Canning

Best Atlantic Feature: "Down to the Dirt"
Director: Justin Simms

Michael Weir Award for Best Original Screenplay: "Down to the Dirt"
Director: Justin Simms, Sherry White

Rex Tasker Documentary Award: "Norm"
Director: Kent Nason, Teresa MacInnes

Ed Higginson Cinematography Award: "Passage"
Director: Kent Nason

Best Director: "Passage"
Director: John Walker

CBC Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry
Bill Niven, Producer, Idlewild Films

PowerPost Craft Awards:

Best Art Direction: "Growing Op"
Director: Taavo Soodor, Alan MacLeod

Best Editing: "Treevenge"
Director: Jason Eisener

Best Sound Design: "For Wendy"
Director: Jacquelyn Mills, Andreas Mendritzki

Best Original Score: "Outside Afghanistan"
Director: David Christensen

Canadian Awards:

Best Canadian Short: "Next Floor"
Director: Denis Villeneuve

Honourable Mention: "Passages"
Director: Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre

Best Canadian Feature: "C'est pas moi, je le jure!"
Director: Philippe Falardeau

Best Canadian Documentary: "That’s My Time"
Director: Adamm Liley

Best Actor: "C'est pas moi, je le jure!"
Director: Antoine L’Écuyer

Best Actress: "Nurse.Fighter.Boy"
Director: Karen LeBlanc

Inspired Script: "Dot’s Will"
Director: Scott Simpson

International Award:

People's Choice Award for Best Picture: "Summerhood"
Director: Jacob Medjuck

The Atlantic Film Festival Association is very pleased to announce screenwriter, author, and story consultant, Noel Baker as the special guest instructor for the 2008 Inspired Script Program, presented by sponsors, Telefilm Canada and Astral Media The Harold Greenburg Fund.

Inspired Script offers a unique opportunity for four Atlantic Canadian writers to develop their feature film outlines to treatments and pitch them to a panel of industry professionals at the 28th Atlantic Film Festival (September 11-20, 2008). The winner of the pitch will receive $20,000 in development financing and will also receive a live, staged full read-through with local actors at Script Out Loud during the 29th Atlantic Film Festival.

The four outlines, selected by an Inspired Script Jury, will be developed into treatments through three intensive weekend workshops with script editor, Noel Baker and world-renowned pitching expert, Jan Miller.

The deadline to submit outlines has been extended by a week to accommodate writers interested in working with Noel Baker.

* NEW * DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: Monday, May 12, 2008
Applications are available online.

ABOUT NOEL BAKER
Noel Baker is a screenwriter, author, and story consultant based in Toronto. He is so far best known for writing the award-winning script for the punk road movie Hard Core Logo, and for his memoir, Hard Core Roadshow: A Screenwriter's Diary. He also co-created the Showcase/Oxygen Network series Show Me Yours and has written for several other dramatic television series. In addition to his current slate of feature film projects, Baker serves as Screenwriter-in-Residence at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto, where he has mentored emerging screenwriters since 1999.

Inspired Script is part of the Inspired Industry Sessions at the Atlantic Film Festival along with Inspired Music and Inspired Doc. All are presented by the Atlantic Film Festival Association (AFFA).

The awards for the 27th Atlantic Film Festival were presented Friday, September 21, 2007 in the Bluenose Room at the Delta Halifax.

Winners are as follows:

Atlantic Awards

Best Atlantic Short: "La Voisine" (English title: The Neighbour)
Directed by: Pamela Gallant

Best Atlantic Feature: "Poor Boy’s Game"
Directed by: Clement Virgo

Michael Weir Award for Best Original Screenplay
Chaz Thorne and Clément Virgo for "Poor Boy’s Game"

Rex Tasker Documentary Award: "Scouts are Cancelled"
Directed by: John D. Scott

Ed Higginson Cinematography Award: Christopher Ball for "Fid"

Best Director: Chaz Thorne for "Just Buried"

CBC Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry: Sam Grana

PowerPost Craft Awards:

Best Art Direction: Bill Fleming for "Poor Boy’s Game"

Best Editing: Justin Simms for "Diamonds in a Bucket"

Best Sound Design: Drew Campbell for "Bad Day, Good Day, Bad Day"

Best Original Score: Mike O’Neill for "Eastern Shore"

Canadian Awards

Best Canadian Short: "Madame Tutli-Putli"
Directed by: Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski

Best Canadian Feature: "The Tracey Fragments"
Directed by: Bruce McDonald

Best Canadian Documentary: "The Bodybuilder and I"
Directed by: Bryan Friedman

Best Actor: Roy Dupuis for "Shake Hands with the Devil"

Best Actress: Ellen Page for "The Tracy Fragments"

Join us this Friday night, September 7th, as we kick off the 27th Atlantic Film Festival with our annual al Fresco-style Film On The Hill event.

The screening begins at 8:00 PM or dusk at the Garrison Grounds at Citadel Hill. Entry fee: $5.00 suggested donation

This year we screen the Academy Award-winning "Spirited Away."

"Spirited Away"
In the middle of her family's move to the suburbs, a 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters - and where humans are changed into animals.

Film on the Hill is sponsored by the Spring Garden Area Business Association.

The Atlantic Film Festival starts September 13th. To find out more, visit www.atlanticfilm.com.