Vancouver, BC, Mar 10 (ZIZ): The 19th edition of the Gender Equity in Media Festival (GEMFest), formerly Vancouver International Women in Film Festival (VIWFF), has announced its full list of winners for 2024 festival.
The winners were announced on the closing night of GEMFest’s in-person celebration at VIFF Centre in Vancouver on March 9, 2024.
GEMFest 2024 full winners list
FEATURE FILM AWARDS:
- Best Feature Film – I Have Electric Dreams, dir: Valentina Maurel (Belgium,
France, Costa Rica) Presented by Telefilm - Best Documentary Feature – BLUE ID, dir: Burcu Melekoglu & Vuslat Karan
(Turkey) Presented by DOC BC - Best Direction in a Feature – Tautuktavuk (What We See), dir: Lucy
Tulugarjuk & Carol Kunnuk (Nunavut, Canada) Presented by DGC BC - Best Performance in a Feature – Daniela Marín Navarro, I Have Electric
Dreams (Belgium, France, Costa Rica) Presented by UBCP/ACTRA - Best Cinematography in a Feature – Derek Howard, Judy Phu & Meena
Singh, The Tuba Thieves (USA) Presented by Keslow Camera - Best Feature Screenplay – Valentina Maurel, I Have Electric Dreams
(Belgium, France, Costa Rica) Presented by CFL (Chandler Fogden Lyman
Law) - Best Editing in a Feature – Burcu Melekoglu, BLUE ID (Turkey) Presented
by Canadian Cinema Editors - Best Musical Score in a Feature – Beatrice Deer, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Mark
Wheaton, Tautuktavuk (What We See) Presented by Creative BC
Feature Film Impact Award – Blue ID, Dir: Burcu Melekoglu & Vuslat Karan
(Turkey) Presented by CMPA
SHORT FILM AWARDS:
- Best Short Film – Heat Spell, Dir: Marie-Pier Dupuis (Canada) Presented by
MBS - Best Direction in a Short – Jasmine J. Johnson — Inner Demons (USA)
Presented by InFocus Film School - Best Performance in a Short – Babetida Sadjo, Hematoma (Belgium &
Guinea-Bissau) Presented by Lucas Talent - Best Cinematography in a Short – Leo Behrens, Skin (USA) Presented by
ICG 669 - Best Editing in a Short – Alejandra Armijo, Skin (USA) – Presented by
CINELEASE Vancouver
Short Film Impact Award – Redlights, Dir: Eva Thomas (Canada)
SCREENPLAY AWARDS:
- Screenplay Competition Pilot Winner – Addendum — Meghan Hemingway
(Canada) - Screenplay Competition Feature Winner – Half Of Everything — Della
Haddock (Canada)
BEST OF BC AWARDS:
Presented by William F. White International
- Hair or No Hair, Dir. Janessa St. Pierre
- Our Grandmother the Inlet, Dir. Jaime Gianopoulos & Kayah George
- Yaye, Dir. Mariam Barry
The winners were selected by a jury including Jenny-Lee Gilmore, Alexandra Staseson, Shasha McArthur, Priyanka Desai, Vanessa Meyer and Amira Anderson.
The 19th edition of the Gender Equity in Media Festival (GEMFest) took place March 5th-9th, 2024 at the VIFF Centre in Vancouver, BC.
