ASHLEY McKENZIE WINS TOP PRIZE FOR WEREWOLF

Cape Breton filmmaker Ashley McKenzie has won the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association ( TFCA)for Werewolf, a drama about a young couple facing methadone addiction. A year ago, McKenzie won TFCA’s $5,000 Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize for emerging artist. At the time, she joked the money would buy her a car so she could stop mooching off her parents while location scouting. At this year’s awards, she informed the group she is now the proud owner of a 2010 Corolla. This year’s emerging artist prize went to Toronto’s Sofia Bohdanowic. Zacharias Kunuk won the Technicolor Clyde Gilmour Award, and named Isabella Weetaluktuk winner of the pay- it- forward prize of $ 50,000 in post- production services.