Montreal World Film Festival 2012 wrap-up

Montreal - Montreal and Toronto first started giving Film Festivals at about the same time,and while there is no doubt that TIFF went Hollywood, Montreal's World Film Festival shifted its focus to the world.

Last week Quebec 's labor day holiday spun into a heart stopping provincial election culminating with a violent attack by a lone gunmen on the province's first woman premier. So to say that the winners of the 2012 edition of Montreal's annual Festival des Filmes du Monde /World Film Festival were lost in the ensuing mainstream media's wildly hysterical "chickenlittling" cacophony may be similar to comparing "eastwooding" to serious political debate, that it is a mumbling and unclear understatement of the facts. So by the miracle of the intranet DJ rushes to the scene to correct this unfair balance in that star crossed universe that is Hollywood. May I have the envelope please,

World Film Festival

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Feature Films Grand Pix Des Americas: Where The Fire Burns ( Turkey) Ismale Gunes Special Grand Prix Jury Prize Invasion(Austria) Dito Tsintsadze

Orange Honey(Spain) Imanol Uribe Best Director The Last Sentence(Sweden) Jan Troell Best Actress Briggette Hobmier

for Closed Season(Germany)

Best Actor

Karl MerKatz for Coming Of Age

Best Screenplay

Marko Naborsnik for Shanghai Gypsy (Slovenia)

Best Artistic Contribution

Expiation

by Alexander Proshkin (Russia)

Innovation Award

Wings by Yazhou & Bo Yang(China)