The 2008 Images Festival Jury: Ariella J. BenDov (San Francisco), Dana Inkster (Lethbridge, Alberta), Werner Ruszicka (Duisberg, Germany)

Images Prize: Presented by the Images Festival and sponsored by NOW Magazine, this is our grand prize, awarded in recognition of the Best Canadian Media Artwork in the festival. The recipient receives a $500 cash prize.
WINNER: Daniel Barrow (Winnipeg) for "Everytime I See Your Picture I Cry"

National Film Board of Canada Award: This prize is awarded by the NFB to the Best Emerging Canadian Film or Video Maker in the festival. The winner receives $5,000 in services through the NFB Filmmaker Assistance Program.
WINNER: Christine Negus (London, Ontario)

Technicolor Cinematic Vision Award: A new award in 2008 presented by Technicolor, this award honors excellence and innovation in the visual realization of a work by a Canadian film or video artist. The recipient receives $2,500 of 35mm lab or post-production services in the Toronto office donated by Technicolor.
WINNER: Marianna Milhorat (Montréal)

Best International On Screen (film) Award: Presented by the Images Festival, this award honours the strongest new international film in the festival. The recipient receives a $250 cash prize.
WINNER: Redmond Entwistle (UK) for "Paterson-Lodz"
HONOURABLE MENTION: Jeanne Liotta (USA) for "Observando el Cielo"

Best International On Screen (video) Award: Presented by the Images Festival, this award honors the strongest new international video in the festival.
The recipient receives a $250 cash prize.
WINNER: Kamal Aljafari (Palestine/Germany) for "The Roof"

Best Off Screen Award: Presented by the Images Festival, this award honors the strongest new Canadian or international installation or new media work in the festival. The recipient receives a $250 cash prize.
WINNER: Isabelle Pauwels (Vancouver) for Triple Bill @ Blackwood Gallery
HONOURABLE MENTION: Nelson Henricks (Montréal) for "the Sirens" @ Gallery 44

Steam Whistle Homebrew Award: Presented by Steam Whistle Brewing, this award honours excellence and promise in a local artist. The recipient receives a $500 cash prize.
WINNER: Christina Battle

Overkill Award: This award was established by the Images Festival in 2000 to honour former Executive Director Deirdre Logue, (1996 through 1999 festivals) This award is presented annually to a film, video or installation artist whose work approaches extremes of incorrigibility through form and/or content and challenges our notions of edgy, experimental practice. Sponsored by an anonymous donor, the recipient receives a $300 cash prize.
WINNER: Greg Pope (Oslo/UK) for "Light Trap" (Live Images 1)

Marian McMahon Award: Presented by the Images Festival with support from Kodak Canada and sponsored by Images, this award is given to a woman filmmaker each year to honor strong work in autobiography, the complexity of "subject" and the spirit of Marian McMahon. The recipient is invited to attend the Independent Imaging filmmaking retreat, held every each June in Mount Forest, Ontario facilitated by Philip Hoffman.
WINNER: Jennifer Reeves (USA) for "Light Work Mood Disorder"

York University Award for Best Student Film: Presented by York University's Department of Film and Video, the recipient receives a $300 cash award generously donated by the Department of Film and Video, a Gulf Islands Film and Television School scholarship covering tuition for any one-week Media Intensive Program of their choice and $250 worth of Super-8 to video transfer services from Frame Discreet. The recipient is determined by audience vote.
WINNER: Josiah Aiken-Drake (USA, Hampshire College) for "Countdown"

Vtape Award for Best Student Video: This longstanding award is presented by Vtape, Toronto's video art distributor and includes a $300 cash prize generously donated by Vtape, and $250 worth of Super-8 to video transfer services from Frame Discreet. The recipient is determined by audience vote.
WINNER: Zak Tatham (OCAD) for "Drawn Close"

Ryerson University Award for Best Emerging Canadian Film/Videomaker from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA): A new award in 2008 sponsored by Ryerson University's G. Raymond Chang School for Continuing Education includes $500 toward a Continuing Education course in Film Studies at Toronto's Ryerson University.
WINNER: Dylin North (OCAD) for "Memory Thief"

Images/Charles Street Video Residency Award: The Images Festival and Charles Street Video are pleased to offer a new residency in 2008-2009. Up to five Emerging and Established artists will be commissioned to create a new project. Artists were invited to submit a proposal for jury consideration in March 2008 to create a short work that will premiere at the 2009 Images Festival. Each artist receives a package valued at approximately $10,000* (emerging) or $18,000* (established), which includes high or standard definition video production and post-production services, an artist fee and a membership at Charles Street Video. The artists selected for this inaugural year-long residency will be announced at this year's Images Festival awards ceremony on Saturday April 12, 2008. *Estimated value at industry rental rates.
RESIDENTS: Guillermina Buzio, Lesley Loksi Chan, Penny McCann, Steev Morgan, Sarah Shamash

Tom Berner Award: This award, sponsored by LIFT, (The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) commemorates the late Tom Berner, who for many years supported and nurtured Canadian filmmakers. The award is presented annually to an individual who has provided extraordinary support to the cause of independent filmmaking in Toronto. In 2008 we present the Tom Berner Award to Sebastjan Henrickson.

"Sebastjan has supported independent filmmakers on an individual basis, but also through frequent and extensive collaboration with artist-run organizations such as LIFT, TAIS and numerous local festivals, as well as by processing work by student filmmakers at film schools across the country. His lab's flexibility, its willingness to undertake unusual processes, also increases the range of options available to artist-filmmakers. – Chris Gehman

Images Prize: David Hoffos (Lethbridge, Alberta) “Scenes From the House Dream “ at the J.M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House, University of Toronto.

National Film Board of Canada Award: “Strange Things” and “Oh, Darlin”
Directed by: Andrea Cooper

Best International On Screen (Film) Award: “Careless Reef #1: Preface”
Directed by: Gerhard Holthuis (the Netherlands)

Best International On Screen (Video) Award: “we will live to see these things: five pictures of what may come to pass.”
Directed by: Julia Meltzer and David Thorne (a/k/a/ Speculative Archive)(USA)

Best Off Screen Award (tie):
Lonnie van Brummelen (the Netherlands) Grossraum at Gallery TPW
And Thomas Köner + Jürgen Reble (Germany) Quasar.

Steam Whistle Homebrew Award: “Three Hours, Fifteen Minutes Before the Hurricane Struck”
Directed by: Christina Battle

Overkill Award: “They Wakened Later,” “Simultaneously,” and “Much Refreshed.”
Directed by: Bruce McClure (USA)

Marian McMahon Award: “Taking My Skin”
Directed by: Sarah Pucill (UK)

York University Award for Best Student Film: “Good Night Sleep Tight”
Directed by: Laurynas Navidauskas (student at Simon Fraser University)

Vtape Award for Best Student Video: “Error”
Directed by: Eric Hill (student at the University of Regina)

RBC "S is for Student" Award for Excellence: “Error”
Directed by: Eric Hill (student at the University of Regina)

Tom Berner Award: Roberto Ariganello (Canada)