John Kastner's "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" won the award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary at this year's Hot Docs, which wrapped its 21st annual edition yesterday after a week of screening 197 documentaries from all over the world. Last night, at the festival's awards reception, 13 awards and $66,000 in cash and prizes were presented to filmmakers, including Kastner. "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" is the director's follow-up to "Ncr: Not Criminally Responsible," which screened at Hot Docs last year. In both films, Kastner filmed gained rare access to the Brokville Mental Health Centre in Ontario, Canada. In a jury statement, the documentary was praised "for finding deep empathy and humanity in one of the most physically and emotionally harrowing environments imaginable, and for bringing insight to the emotional complexity surrounding the issue of mental illness." Here's the full list of this year's winners (descriptions courtesy of Hot Docs): Best Canadian Feature.
- 5/3/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
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