28th Montréal First Peoples Festival – Film Award event

Wiñaypacha

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Teueikan Award – 1st Prize
(artistic merit)
Wiñaypacha – de Oscar Catacora – Pérou 2017 87m – v.o. aymara, STA

Teueikan Award – 2nd Prize
Mud – de Shaandiin Tome – États-Unis 2018 10m – v.o. anglaise

Finalist Ex-Pajé

Rigoberta-Menchu Award – 1st Prize
(social significance)
Ara Pyau – A Guarani Spring – de Carlos Eduardo Magalhães – Brésil 2018 76m

Rigoberta-Menchu Award ex aequo – 2nd Prize
Ukamau y Ké – de Andrés Ramírez – Équateur 2017 87m
When They Awake – de P.J. Marcellino, Hermon Farahi – Canada 2017 90m

APTN Award
(for the work of an Indigenous filmmaker in Canada during the past year)
Our People Will Be Healed – de Alanis Obomsawin – Canada 2017 1h37

Séquences magazine

Séquences Award – best documentary
La Selva Negra – de Saul Kak, Charles Fairbanks – Mexique – États-Unis 2016 71m

Special Mention:
Nada queda sino nuestra ternura – de Sébastien Jallade – Pérou 2017 71m

Main Film Emerging Filmmaker Award
(best short amongst early works by an Indigenous filmmaker,
awarded by Main Film – co-op for independent filmmakers)
Mud – de Shaandiin Tome – États-Unis 2018 10m

Short Film Award
Sinfonía de un mar triste – de Carlos Morales – Mexique 2017 12m

Special Mention:
Retour à Holy Angels – de Jay Cardinal Villeneuve – Canada 2017 14m

Best Cinematography Award
Ex-Pajé (Ex-Shaman) – de Luiz Bolognesi – Brésil 2018 80m

Special Mention:
Jeune Inuk – Tranches de vie – de Laure Bourru – Canada 2017 32m

The festival wishes to thank the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation,
Ms Lesvia Vela, Ms Aury Cuxé and Mr Carlos Alberto Tamup Canil
for their invaluable assistance.