21st Reel Pride Canadian Short Films Competition
Short Films 2024
21st Canadian LGBTTQ* Short Film Competition Winners (2024)
Jury Choice Award - Best Short Film
Audience Choice Award - Best Short Film
Adore
Director: Beth Warrian
Bio: Beth Warrian is an emerging writer-director based in Toronto, fascinated by inner worlds, liminal states and the spiritual dimensions of queer experience. They are a recent graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University's renowned Image Arts: Film program, where they received accolades including multiple Norman Jewison Awards.
Awards: Sunbelt Rentals $1000 equipment rental grant (x2); Reel Pride International Film Festival $500 cash award (x2)
Jury Choice Award - Manitoba’s Best Short
Better Late than Never
Director: Ande Brown
Bio: Ande Brown
Emerging filmmaker, Ande Brown, recognizes that contemporary transgender stories about trans men, especially from the late transitioner perspective, are vastly underrepresented in media. Ande began his transition in 2019 at the age of 57. At this time, he is focused on articulating his own story, as well as, opening the narrative for the mature transmasculine community..
Awards: Winnipeg Film Group WFG Package – one year General Membership with production add-ons, film rental credits, and pass ($720 value); Reel Pride International Film Festival $500 cash award
Jury Choice - Best Community Reflection Award
Votre appel est important pour nous / Your call is Important to Us
Director: Romy Boutin St-Pierre and Joe Nadeau
Bio: Romy Boutin St-Pierre and Joe Nadeau are co-director of this film.
As a fiction and documentary filmmaker, Romy Boutin St-Pierre is interested in social depolarization, cultural relativism and the plurality of perspectives. With a bachelor's degree in international relations, a diploma in Arabic language and two years' experience as a video journalist at Radio-Canada, her interest in the diversity of perspectives led her to pursue her production experience and film studies in Quebec, Lebanon and Morocco.
Joe Nadeau is an emerging multidisciplinary artist from Edmundston, New Brunswick. In 2022, they graduated from the University of Moncton, in Moncton New-Brunswick with a Bachelor's degree in Dramatic Arts. Since then, they navigate the cultural scene of Moncton between theater and film, acting and creation. Most recently, their film GendrBendr won the Prix La Vague for best Acadian short film at the 36th Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA).
Awards: Reel Pride International Film Festival $500 cash award
Jury Choice - Top Emerging Filmmaker Award
Love is Calling
Director: Quanah Style
Bio: Quanah style is a trans indigenous artist and multi disciplinary film maker. Known for her distinct voice and background in music.
Awards: Royal Bank of Canada - $500 cash award
2024 Short Film Competition Awards
JURY CHOICE AWARD
Judged by: Jury
Criteria: Best Short Film of the 20th Competition
Sponsored by: Sunbelt Rentals
Value: $1000 in-kind equipment rental grant
Sponsored by: Reel Pride International Film Festival
Value: $500 cash
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Judged by: Audience
Criteria: Best Short Film of the 20th Competition
Sponsored by: Sunbelt Rentals
Value: $1000 in-kind equipment rental grant
Sponsored by: Reel Pride International Film Festival
Value: $500 cash
MANITOBA’S BEST AWARD
Judged by: Jury
Criteria: Short is Filmed in Manitoba
Sponsored by: Winnipeg Film Group
Value: WFG Package – one year General Membership with production add-ons
Sponsored by: Reel International Pride Film Festival
Value: $500 cash
TOP EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD
Judged by: Jury
Criteria: Best Short Film from an emerging filmmaker who has less than three years experience as a filmmaker.
No minimum or maximum age limitation.
Sponsored by: RBC
Value: $500 cash
BEST COMMUNITY REFLECTION AWARD
Judged by: Jury
Criteria: Best Short reflecting the complexity/diversity of the 2SLGBTQ+ community
Sponsored by: Reel Pride International Film Festival
Value: $500 cash
Other Official Selections:
A Miscreant Gnome & Other Charlatans
BEWARE
Cockleidoscope
Collar ID
Divine Affirmation
Eterna Primavera (Endless Spring)
Goddess of Speed
Les corps aqueux
Not to be?
Traces
2024 Short Film Competition Jury:
Christian Delaquis
Ben Waldman
Shawna Dempsey
Canada’s longest running 2SLGBTQ+ Short Films Competition received hundreds of submissions over its’ 20 years from various locations in the Provinces and Territories.
Filmmaker’s Shorts most often reveal stories that mirror the life of the Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ culture and their friendships, personal growth, dynamic relationships, and their personal struggles for societal understanding.
Email any questions or concerns to shortfilms@reelpride.org