Canadian screen rewards set marginalized voices apart and challenge global political landscape apprenticea film about young Donald Trump, dominated the National Film and Television Awards Sunday night.
Director Ali Abbasi's Trump Origin Story won the best movie, while Romanian-born American actor Sebastian Stan played the future president of the United States with Jeremy Strong as his partner Consigliere Roy Cohn, who won the highest honor for the best leadership role.
Daniel Bekerman, co-producer of Canada/Ireland/Denmark apprentice Director Ali Abbasi said in Toronto when accepting the award, “Our film shows how young Donald Trump can find a dilapidated building and slap its name as president. How we will see that.”
Bekerman then turned to Trump to mock Canada as the possible 51st state in the United States. "Now he wants to shoot his own name in this country. It's a challenge, but a good challenge because as independent filmmakers and storytellers, we need to do things that we have to do, our responsibility to tell stories, is honest and can build trust and build communities. The rise of Indigenous films in this country, the rise of Indigenous films in this country has given me hope in this country. In the rise of Indigenous films in this country, I hope I will. What we are willing is, our group without a doubt.
Bekerman added apprentice, Bow at the Golden Globes and Academy Awards ceremony and get nominated. “But Ali, I tell you, if you want to find some guts in this industry, you have to come to Canada,” he said in the audience’s call to director Abbasi.
Politics also covered up the CSA when Indigenous activist Wertwitter leader Molly Wickham took to the stage with Yintah’s companions, who took the stage, Molly Wickham, who won the Best Documentary title and fought for a decade to protect Indigenous lands to protect Indigenous land from fossil fuel companies.
"The battle continues and we will never give up. Our sovereignty is linked to our collective freedom. Land returns. Free Palestine.
Also Sunday night, the Best Film Director Award won Andrew Rankin Common Languagea comedy "Dead Pan" improvised in an Iranian cinema, also won the Cannes Film Festival Director's Two Weeks Audience Award. "We all know what political moment we live in. Every day, the walls of New Berlin are shooting around us and bringing us against each other in a very cruel binary way. And if our films represent anything, it represents the fact that kindness can actually be a radical gesture, and we actually believe it now," Rankin accepted his attitude. ”
Elsewhere, the Best Reality Series Award was won Canada's drag racea Canadian global format derivative from CTV's Blue Ant Media. Series host Trevor Boris said he saw the reality show as an “inappropriate toy island”. "There are a lot of people among us who are different because of the people we like or where we come from, so it's really not suitable.
CTV and CW Series The kids ruined everything From the new metric media wins Best Comedy Award, Cate Blanchett rumor. Supinder Wraich won the best lead role in the CBC police drama allegiance to the star transfer in the TV series. and Toronto Law and Order: Criminal Intent The Canadian version of the Best Drama Series wins the Best Drama Series Law and Order The franchise format entered the CSA with 20 nominations in 20 fields.
Kiefer Sutherland mashed*, Common people and Hunger Games. “Somehow, this kid, he was a maritime kid, felt like he had something to say.” He said of Donald Sutherland as a guy who went to England as a young man to start his own performance craft before he started his success in Hollywood. Kiefer Sutherland concluded: "He managed to forge it, at least in my opinion, and it was one of the most diverse, prolific, and important acting careers in film history."
Among other prizes, the main audience award was won by W Network The way homeand the Children's Audience Award won the Aptn warrior! In special rewards Star Wars: Squire and Good Place Stars Manny Jacinto won the Radius Award Sunday night for his global influence as a performer. Jacinto told CSAS audiences in Toronto, "Who knows that random auditions on Craigslist will end."
and Marsha Greene, co-creator and performer of CBC and BET+ drama porter And the producer of the ABC series 10 days in the valley He won the Changemaker Award for convening systemic racism and discrimination on Canadian television. "We are at a time when people question the effectiveness and necessity of this work. Some even say our moment is over. Well, it's not a moment. It's about the movement. I'm honored to live and work in a country that prides itself on its diversity, and that's a real inclusion in the industry where I'm all of us as Canadians," Green said on the Toronto stage. ”