NIGEL MOORE AWARD FOR YOUTH PROGRAMMING
DOXA is extremely proud to announce the fourth edition of the Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming. Named in memory of Nigel Moore, a young man whose passion for knowledge, exploration, and advocacy found a home in his love for documentary film. For younger audiences, documentary has particular relevance. The world in which they’re growing up is an increasingly complex place. Documentary not only captures this complexity, but also has the capacity to act as a catalyst for social change, and fundamentally alter people’s behaviour. The award will be adjudicated by a youth jury, who will choose the film that best exemplifies the qualities of compassion, social engagement, and spirit in which Nigel lived. JURORS:
Steven Hawkins • Jacob Saltzberg • Teagan Dobson
THE ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS EDA AWARD FOR BEST FEMALE-DIRECTED FILM
DOXA and the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) is proud to present the EDA Award to recognize and honour excellent work by a woman film director. In addition to presenting year end awards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature and short categories. EDA Awards presented at festivals are often a film’s first award, and boosts industry and public awareness of the winner, often leading to sales, other festival appearances and funding for the filmmaker’s future projects. EDA Awards are also presented in conjunction with special events, most notably with the Museum of Modern Art’s 25th Anniversary Retrospective of the POV Documentary Program on Public Television in the US. The EDA Awards were named in honour of Eda Reiss Merin, an actress, founder of AFTRA, member of AMPAS and the mother of AWFJ founder and president, Jennifer Merin. AWFJ juries are drawn exclusively from AWFJ membership, a collective of leading professional film journalists based in the US, Canada, and the UK. To learn more about the EDA Awards and other AWFJ activities, visit www.awfj.org.
Audience Survey
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• A 2017 DOXA Festival Pass • A Herschel backpack • $50 Modo gift certificate Surveys are available at the venues during the festival. *valid for new Modo members only 17