The Film North - Huntsville International Film Festival (HIFF) is a Film Festival

Film festival

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...

 takes place annually in Huntsville

Huntsville, Ontario

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. Held in September, the festival's mandate is to create a user - friendly environment for emerging Canadian and International Filmmakers.

History

The Film North, Huntsville International Film Festival was founded by Lucy Molnar-Wing in 2009, and annually held in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada.

The festival's inaugural dates where Thursday, Sept. 23 to Saturday, Sept. 25 2010. Film North presented 39 short and feature films from around the world, including Canada, the United States, Peru and Belgium. Notably, the film In the Wake of the Flood, Ron Mann's documentary on Margaret Atwood's interactive book tour for her novel The Year of the Flood. was screened at the 2010 Festival event.

Film Submission Criteria

Each year the Film North Festival will select a number of Feature Films and Short Films to play in our program. Films that are selected to be in one of our four competition programs are eligible for Jury Prizes in their respective categories. We accept movies of all genres, which will be equally judged on the criteria of excellence.

Film North Environment Theme Film

Any narrative work of fiction or non fiction of running time of at least 70 minutes focused on the Environment theme.

Film North Feature Length Film

Any narrative work of fiction or non fiction with a running time of at least 70 minutes.

Film North Short Length Film

Any narrative film with a running time of 70 minutes or less, or, any documentary film with a running time of 50 minutes or less.

Film North Viewer's Choice Film

Any short or feature length film.

2010 Winners

Award	Film	Director
Film North Best Feature Award	Son of the Sunshine	Ryan Ward
Best Short Film Award	The Lake	Mike Humble
RBC Best Environmental Film Award	El Perro Del Hortelano	Renzo Zanelli
Golden Antler Viewers Choice Award	At Home By Myself With You	Kris Booth

Trading Bay Grouse and Trout Club Bull’s Eye Award for Lifetime Achievement

Graeme Ferguson

Graeme Ferguson

Ivan Graeme Ferguson, CM is a Canadian filmmaker and inventor who co-invented IMAX. Ferguson was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 1993...

2011 Winners

Award	Film	Director
Film North Best Feature Award	Who Loves the Sun Who Loves the Sun Who Loves the Sun is a 2006 Canadian comedy/drama/romance film directed and written by Matt Bissonnette.- Plot :Will Morrison and Daniel Bloom were the best of friends. They grew up together, went to the same schools, liked the same records, loved the same girls. Daniel was Will’s best man at his...	Matt Bissonnette
Best Short Film Award	Dance	Pardis Parker Pardis Parker Pardis Parker is an award-winning director, writer, actor, and comedian.-Early life:Pardis Parker was born to an Iranian father and Sri Lankan mother in Kandy, Sri Lanka, and grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia...
RBC Best Environmental Film Award	Saving America's Horses: A Nation Betrayed	Katia Louise
Golden Antler Viewers Choice Award	Moon Point	Sean Cisterna
Best Documentary	TO in 24	Dale Hildebrand
Best Documentary	Into the Fire	Producers: Bryan Law, Steven Davies

Trading Bay Grouse and Trout Club Bull’s Eye Award for Lifetime Achievement

Michael Snow

Michael Snow

Michael Snow, CC is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music.-Life:...

 presented by Graeme Ferguson

Graeme Ferguson

Ivan Graeme Ferguson, CM is a Canadian filmmaker and inventor who co-invented IMAX. Ferguson was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 1993...

Awards and Accolades

• Film North branding by concrete.ca part of the 2010 exhibition at the AIGA
  Aiga
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  National Design Center.

External links

• filmnorth.net - Official Film North Webpage
• concrete.ca - Branding by Concrete Design Communications