June 23, 2009

Ontario honoured the contribution of artists and arts organizations to the province’s culture and economy with the announcement of the 2009 Premier’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts.

2009 PREMIER’S AWARDS ARTIST AWARD WINNER

Ron Mann, who received the award for Individual Artist, is best known for his internationally acclaimed documentaries exploring fringe pop cultures, including Comic Book Confidential (1988), Twist (1992), Tales of Rat Fink (2006) and Know Your Mushrooms (2008).

Link to Ron Mann’s website

 

 

2009 PREMIER’S AWARDS ARTS ORGANIZATION AWARD WINNER

Toronto Artscape, which received the award for Arts Organization, is a not-for-profit urban developer that creates affordable spaces for artists to live and work. Artscape’s Toronto complexes at Liberty Village, the Distillery District and the Wychwood Barns have benefited artists and arts groups and helped revitalize their neighborhoods.

Link to Artscape website

 

 

2009 PREMIER’S AWARDS EMERGING ARTIST AWARD WINNER

The Premier’s Awards’ Emerging Artist prize winner, selected each year by the winner of the Individual Artist award, went to Charles Officer, a Toronto actor and film-maker whose first feature Nurse.Fighter.Boy premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September.

	Charles Officer Media Arts -Toronto Charles Officer is a Toronto actor, screen writer and director and whose first feature-length film Nurse.Fighter.Boy premiered to strong reviews at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). It has since played theatrically in Toronto and Vancouver and has been picked up for international distribution. As an actor Officer has appeared in many stage, film and television productions and he has written and directed several short films. His second short film, Short Hymn_Silent War, received a Special TIFF Jury Citation for Best Canadian Short in 2002 and was nominated for a Genie Award in 2004.

 

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