Oscar-nommed “War Witch” wins big at Canadian Screen Awards March 4, 2013 - 11:03 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Quebec director Kim Nguyen's Congo child-soldier drama War Witch swept the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards, The Hollywood Reporter said. The Oscar contender, which came into the Canadian film and TV awards with a field-leading 12 nominations, took top prizes for best film, director, best actress for Rachel Mwanza and best supporting actor for Serge Kayinda. Meanwhile, it wasn’t a good night in Toronto for Canadian film actors in the major performance categories as both Mwanza, who won best actress trophies at Berlin and Tribeca, and Kayinda are from the Democratic Republic of Congo. And American actor James Cromwell won for best actor for his star turn in the Canadian drama Still Mine, while Bollywood’s Seema Biswas won for best actress for her performance in Midnight’s Children. War Witch also won in a slew of craft categories, including cinematography, editing and art direction. The French-language film earlier snagged an Oscar nomination in the best foreign-language film category.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty  Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza.Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations.Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |
