Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary Annual Canadian film award
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television 's Award for Best Short Documentary is an annual Canadian film award, presented to a film judged to be the year's best short documentary film .[ 1] Prior to 2012 the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards program; since 2012 it has been presented as part of the expanded Canadian Screen Awards .
The award has not always been presented at every past Genie or CSA ceremony. In years when the award was not presented, short documentary films were instead eligible for the Best Theatrical Short Film and/or Best (Theatrical/Feature-Length) Documentary categories. In the Canadian Film Awards era, it was often presented solely under the name Best Documentary , but was still presented to shorter documentaries and remained separate from the category for Best Theatrical Documentary.
Under current Academy regulations, the awards for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Short Documentary can be collapsed into a single award for Best Documentary if either category receives three or fewer eligible submissions, but remain separate if both categories surpass three submissions.[ 2]
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Year
Film
Nominees
Ref
1990 11th Genie Awards
Stunt People
Lois Siegel
[ 1]
Reading Between the Lines
Martha Davis
[ 8]
Who Gets In?
Barry Greenwald
1991 12th Genie Awards
The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein
Richard Elson , Sally Bochner
[ 1]
The Actor
John Paskievich
[ 9]
Hunters and Bombers
Rex Tasker , Alan Hayling
In Search of the Edge
Scott Barrie
Songololo: Voices of Change
Marianne Kaplan , Cari Green
1992 13th Genie Awards
A Song for Tibet
Anne Henderson , Abby Jack Neidek , Kent Martin
[ 1]
A Kind of Family
Andrew Koster
[ 10]
Xénofolies
Michel Moreau
1993 14th Genie Awards
The Measure of Your Passage (Le singe bleu)
Esther Valiquette
[ 1]
Breaking a Leg: Robert Lepage and the Echo Project
Donald Winkler
[ 11]
1994 15th Genie Awards
No award presented
[ 1]
1995 16th Genie Awards
Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule
Aerlyn Weissman , Lynne Fernie , Rina Fraticelli
[ 1]
Abby, I Hardly Knew Ya
Peter Raymont , Lindalee Tracey
[ 12]
Enigmatico
David Mortin , Patricia Fogliato
The Shaper
Martin Schliessler , Bill Sheppard
Time Is on My Side
Jacques Holender
1996 17th Genie Awards
Mum's the Word (Maman et Ève)
Daniele Caloz , Paul Carrière
[ 1]
A Balkan Journey: Fragments from the Other Side of War
Brenda Longfellow
[ 13]
1997 18th Genie Awards
Unveiled: The Mother/Daughter Relationship
Maureen Judge , Janis Lundman
[ 1]
Forgotten Warriors
Loretta Todd , Carol Geddes , Michael Doxtater , Jerry Krepakevich
[ 14]
Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas
Ali Kazimi
1998 19th Genie Awards
Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet
Anita Herczeg , Brenda Longfellow
[ 1]
bp: pushing the boundaries
Brian Nash , Elizabeth Yake
[ 15]
Remembering Memory
Elizabeth Yake , Lara Fitzgerald
1999 20th Genie Awards
Hemingway: A Portrait
Bernard Lajoie , Érik Canuel , Tatsuo Shimamura
[ 1]
In Time's Shadow, the Hegis
Rudy Buttignol , David Way
[ 16]
2000s
2010s
Year
Film
Filmmakers
Ref
2010 31st Genie Awards
No award presented
[ 28]
2011 32nd Genie Awards
Sirmilik
Zacharias Kunuk , Joel McConvey, Kristina McLaughlin, Kevin McMahon, Michael McMahon, Geoff Morrison, Ryan J. Noth
[ 29]
75 Watts
John Cullen
[ 30]
Derailments
Chelsea McMullan
2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards
The Boxing Girls of Kabul
Annette Clarke , Ariel Nasr
[ 31]
The Fuse: Or How I Burned Simon Bolivar
Igor Drljaca
[ 32]
Keep a Modest Head (Ne crâne pas sois modeste)
Deco Dawson , Catherine Chagnon
Let the Daylight Into the Swamp
Anita Lee, Jeffrey St. Jules
Three Walls
Zaheed Mawani , Andrea Bussman
2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards
Chi
Anne Wheeler , Yves J. Ma , Tracey Friesen
[ 33]
Just As I Remember
Andrew Moir
[ 34]
Mary & Myself
Sam Decoste , Annette Clarke
2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards
Jutra
Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre , Marc Bertrand , René Chénier
[ 35]
The Chaperone 3D
Fraser Munden
[ 36]
Seth's Dominion
Luc Chamberland , Gerry Flahive , Michael Fukushima , Marcy Page
2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards
Bacon and God's Wrath
Sol Friedman
[ 37]
The Little Deputy
Trevor Anderson , Blake McWilliam
[ 38]
Quiet Zone
David Bryant , Julie Roy , Karl Lemieux
Rebel (Bihttoš)
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers , Laura Good
World Famous Gopher Hole Museum
Chelsea McMullan , Douglas Nayler
2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards
This River
Katherena Vermette , Erika MacPherson , Alicia Smith , David Christensen
[ 39]
Frame 394
Rich Williamson , Shasha Nakhai , Ed Barreveld
[ 40]
The Road to Webequie
Ryan Noth , Tess Girard
Stone Makers (Carrière)
Jean-Marc E. Roy , Colette Loumède , Denis McCready , Claudia Chabot
Tshiuetin
Caroline Monnet , Éric Cinq-Mars
2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards
Take a Walk on the Wildside
Lisa Rideout , Lauren Grant , Sasha Fisher
[ 41]
Babe, I Hate to Go
Andrew Moir
[ 42]
Three Thousand
Asinnajaq , Kat Baulu
2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards
My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes
Charlie Tyrell
[ 43]
Bonfires
Martin Bureau
[ 44]
On My Way Out: The Secret Life of Nani and Popi
Barry Avrich , Howie Mandel , Brandon Gross , Skyler Gross
Prince's Tale
Jamie Miller
Voices of Kidnapping
Ryan McKenna
2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards
Take Me to Prom
Andrew Moir
[ 45]
Acadiana
Guillaume Fournier , Samuel Matteau , Yannick Nolin , Jean-Pierre Vezina
[ 46]
Gun Killers
Jason Young, Rohan Fernando , Annette Clarke
No Crying at the Dinner Table
Carol Nguyen , Aziz Zoromba
Now Is the Time
Christopher Auchter , Selwyn Jacob , Shirley Vercruysse
2020s
Year
Film
Filmmakers
Ref
2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards
Sing Me a Lullaby
Tiffany Hsiung
[ 47]
CHSLD
François Delisle
[ 48]
êmîcêtôcêt: Many Bloodlines
Alexandra Bailey , Theola Ross
Jesse Jams
Trevor Anderson , Alyson Richards , Alexandra Lazarowich , Penny Frazier , Kim Hsu Guise , Lizzy Karp , Christina Willings
Mutts (Clebs)
Halima Ouardiri
2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards
Nalujuk Night
Jennie Williams , Latonia Hartery , Kat Baulu , Rohan Fernando , Annette Clarke
[ 49]
Babushka
Kristina Wagenbauer
[ 50]
The Brother (Le Frère)
Jérémie Battaglia
Nuisance Bear
Jack Weisman , Gabriela Osio Vanden
Still Processing
Sophy Romvari
2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards
Patty vs. Patty
Chris Strikes , Kate Fraser, Maya Annik Bedward
[ 51]
The Benevolents (Les Bienvaillants)
Sarah Baril Gaudet
[ 52]
Bill Reid Remembers
Alanis Obomsawin , Annette Clarke
The Goats of Monesiglio
Emily Graves, Anna Cooley, Raj Dhillon
Perfecting the Art of Longing
Kitra Cahana , Kat Baulu, Ariel Nasr , Annette Clarke
2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards
Madeleine
Raquel Sancinetti
[ 53]
Cherry
Laurence Gagné-Frégeau
[ 54]
Oasis
Justine Martin , Louis-Emmanuel Gagné-Brochu
Violet Gave Willingly
Claire Sanford
Zug Island
Nicolas Lachapelle
2024 13th Canadian Screen Awards
Hello Stranger
Amélie Hardy , Sarah Mannering , Fanny Drew
[ 55]
Afterwards (Après-coups)
Romane Garant Chartrand , Nathalie Cloutier
[ 56]
The Bird in My Backyard
Ryan Wilkes
perfectly a strangeness
Alison McAlpine
Who Loves the Sun
Arshia Shakiba , Zaynê Akyol
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