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Canadian wins Commonwealth Vision Awards

Greg Hemmings, a young Canadian film-maker, won First Prize in this year’s Commonwealth Vision Awards.

This year’s prize was presented by Lord Puttnam, the Award winning filmmaker.

Hemmings’ entry ‘Papikatuk’, looks at the effects of climate change and cultural transformation in a small community in the Canadian Arctic region of Nunavik. It is narrated by a young Inuit boy named Papikatuk.

Pooja Pottenkulam of India/UK and Ambjorn Elder of UK/Sweden received the Highly Commended prize, for their joint entry in the competition, ‘The Boy Who Spoke Moomoo’, an animated and allegorical story, illustrating how by 2100 half of the 7,000 languages spoken on Earth may disappear.

Four other short-listed entries came from Uganda, India, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

The Commonwealth Vision Awards, launched in 2001, are jointly organised by the Royal Commonwealth Society (www.thercs.org) and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.

The Awards are supported by Warburg Pincus, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the British Council, the Commonwealth Foundation, and the BBC World Service.

The winning entry can be viewed at http://vimeo.com/4914156.

Entry forms for the next competition will be available from November 2009.


 


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