Charles Officer: Awards and Documentary

charles officer: Charles Officer's Unarmed Verses, a study of the upheaval and creativity in Toronto's Villaways housing community, won the best Canadian feature documentary award, while Pau Ortiz's The Other Side Of The Wall, about a family of Honduran immigrants in Spain, was named best international feature documentary, according to NOW Magazine. Both awards are accompanied by a cash prize of 10,000. Hot Docs runs straight through the weekend, but North America's largest documentary festival held its awards ceremony last night at the Isabel Bader, handing out 12 awards and some 67,000 in cash and prizes. If you missed Radheyan Simonpillai's cover story on Officer and Unarmed Verses last week, here you go; the film has its final Hot Docs screening today Saturday May 6 at 3 15 pm at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. The special jury prize for Canadian feature documentary, which includes 5,000 cash, went to Carlo Guillermo Proto's Resurrecting Hassan, about a family of Montreal buskers grieving the loss of a child. Expand Resurrecting Hassan won a special jury prize for Canadian feature documentary. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.