2021Winners
Join us in celebrating the 11th Annual Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival winners. Categories are:
Best Documentary
Best Music Video
Best Short Film
Inspirational Griot Award
Inspiring Youth Award
Best Animation
Audience Choice Award
Best Documentary
Best Short Film
Best Animation
Gary Beals - "Good Love"
Directed by Tanvi Madkaiker
"An Uninvited Guest"
Directed by Richard B. Pierre
"Sebastiana"
Directed by Claudio Martins
"Black Sun"
Directed by Adrian Wallace
(Being Black in Toronto Collection)
"Not Black Enough"
Directed by Jermaine Manigault
"Dad"
Directed by Mohamamd Keivanmarz
"#Black"
Directed by Yvano Wickham-Edwards
(Being Black in Toronto Collection)
"The Onyx Butterfly"
Directed by Yasmin Evering-Kerr
(Being Black in Toronto Collection)
"The Healing"
Directed by Papa Jean
"No Justice, No Peace"
Directed by KhaRå Martin
"The Hill We Climb"
Destiny Brown
"The Lonely Prince"
Directed by Shivin, Sunny
Best Music Video
Inspirational Griot Award (Storyteller)
Inspirational Youth Award
"Swoosh"
Directed by Daniel Cawthorne
Audience Choice Award
"An Uninvited Guest"
Richard B. Pierre
"The Healing"
Papa Jean
"Not Black Enough"
Jermaine Manigault
"Mr. Jane and Finch"
OYA Media Group
"Hum"
Maureen O'Connell
"My Heart"
Yaser Talebi
"Keep"
Taylor Olson
"The Shell I'm In"
Carna Morton
"Artist In the Black: Dualing Roots"
Directed by Liesl Mulholland, Dawn Shepherd, Ryan Gray
"Reel Teen Youth Video Program"
Halifax Theatre for Young People
Directed by:
Aidan Munroe Jack Ibsen
Brianna Desmond Dorcas Olatunji
Iris Kelley Nalmas Lash
Moira Nash Zilin Qiao
Vera Dunlop-Vaillancourt Nathalie LeBlanc
Zoe Abiogom Vella Smith
Brady Gomez Maia Noble
La’Nyssa Brooks Mathias Sanchez
Alyssa Manuel Kylee McCue
Amogh Kumar Jorja Taylor
Charley Sampson Jess Trask
River Waterman Oscar Xie
Gabriella Anguelova Tyler Schmeisser
"Living in my Skin"
Directed by ALI TV
Asia Francis James Fitzgerald
Sequain Hudson-Ash Tamia Thomas
Asia Sparks Jayda Thomas-Murphy
KeAsia Sparks Marlowe Slawter
De’Onne Williams Asiah Sparks
Lariah Jordan Zion Ash
Dejana Simmons Emma Jackson
Tyrese Atkinson Tanasia Paris
Cardreazs Colley
Ianiesha Simmons
Nasci Lacey
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