2012 YoungCuts Film Festival presents Best Film Award to Galeana No. 8

2012 YoungCuts Film Festival presents Best Film Award to Galeana No. 8

The YoungCuts Film Festival concluded its 11th edition on Saturday, October 13th by awarding Galeana No. 8 the award for Best Film. The Festival presented its Top 100 International short films over 8 screenings in the J. A. De Sève Theatre in Concordia University on Friday, October 12th and Saturday, October 13th.

During the screenings, the Festival presented awards in twelve different categories:

 The YoungCuts Film Festival Studio Technique Animation Prize:
Sweet Tooth by Audrey Meubus (Canada)

 Best Teen Film: Mugged by Francesca Abbondanza-Bergeron (Canada)

 Best Master Class Film: Step Right Up by Benjamin Bee (UK)

 Best Short Short Film: Chronoscope by Dominic Remiro (Canada)

 Best Documentary: The Beautiful Dead by Spencer Ryerson (Canada)

 Best Animated Film: Ollie The Day Owl by Janelle Santner (USA)

 Best Editing/Editor: [Aw'suh'm] by Michael Glasner (USA)

 People's Choice Award: Those Forgotten by Alyssa Marie Buchanan (Canada)

 Best Director: The Shed by Jon Moy (UK)

 Best Québec Film: Le Chevreuil by Rémi St-Michel (Canada)

 Best Canadian Film: Swallowed by Stephen Dunn (Canada)

 Best Film: Galeana No. 8 by Andres Perez-Duarte (USA/Mexico)

The full list of our Winners and Nominees can be found on the YoungCuts web-site. Subscribers to the YoungCuts web-site can also watch the 2012 award winners and nominees online.

The YoungCuts Film Festival offers free access to its Top 100 International short films to journalists, film festival programmers, film producers and distributors.

The YoungCuts Film Festival would not be possible without the generous support of its sponsors, especially our presenting sponsor TextbookVideos.com.

Our other sponsors include MyFilmmaker.com, Sixforces, the City of Montréal and the Bureau du cinéma et de la télévision de Montréal.

With our 11th Festival in the books, the YoungCuts Film Festival will now begin preparing for our 2013 edition. Every year we evaluate the work of more than 5000 young filmmakers and watch more than 1000 films to pick our Top 100.