2023 Audience Choice Local Documentary Awards

Shelter and Full – A Recipe for Happiness are the 2023 DocFest’s Audience Choice Local Documentary Award Winners!

Congratulations to both films on winning the Belleville Downtown DocFest 2023, Audience Choice Award for Best Local Feature Documentary Award Winner, and the Audience Choice Award for Best Local Short Documentary Award Winner.

Shelter – Best Local Feature Documentary Award Winner

Returning to DocFest for 2023, Tess Girard, the 2018 Best Local Feature Documentary Award Winner, Tess Girard’s feature documentary Shelter is an exploration of the spaces that we create for imagined future doomsday scenarios and the nature of entropy in these spaces as the people and ideas behind them change and grow older too.

The structure that is supposed to save us from our annihilation is itself impermanent, like everything that exists in the world above it, Tess Girard

Tess returns to her home region and as she reckons with her own relationship to shelter, and her place in the world she inhabits.

Awards

Belleville Downtown DocFest 2023, Audience Choice Award for Best Local Feature Documentary Award Winner

Director

Tess Girard

Languages

English

Film Details

2022, 79 min
Canada

Still image from the short film, Full – A Recipe for Happiness

Full – A Recipe for Happiness – Best Local Short Documentary Award Winner

What does it mean to have a full life? This is the question posed by local filmmaker Victor Cooper’s short documentary Full – A Recipe for Happiness. Follow the journey of Chef Matt DeMille, from the love of cooking that took him to chef school, to his philosophy and outlook on life. Matt shares about how he climbed from his lowest point to a life full of family, friends, and happiness.

Awards

Belleville Downtown DocFest 2023, Audience Choice Award for Best Local Short Documentary Award Winner

Director

Victor Cooper

Languages

English

Film Details

2022, 14 min
Canada

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