Colin Low Award Explained

The Colin Low Award is an annual Canadian film award, presented to honour the best Canadian documentary film screened at that year's DOXA Documentary Film Festival. The award frequently, but not always, presents an honorable mention in addition to the overall winner.

The award is named in honour of influential Canadian documentary filmmaker Colin Low.

Winners

Year	Film	Filmmaker(s)	Ref
2013	East Hastings Pharmacy	Antoine Bourges	^[1]
2014	Gods, Weeds and Revolutions	Meryam Joobeur	^[2]
	Crazywater	Dennis Allen
2015	On the Trail of the Far Fur Country	Kevin Nikkel	^[3]
	A Rock and a Hard Place	Cliff Caines
2016	The Prison in Twelve Landscapes	Brett Story	^[4]
	Migrant Dreams	Min Sook Lee
2017	Limit Is the Sky	Julia Ivanova	^[5]
	A Moon of Nickel and Ice	François Jacob
2018	Primas	Laura Bari	^[6]
	Those Who Come, Will Hear (Ceux qui viendront, l'entendront)	Simon Plouffe
2019		Tasha Hubbard	^[7]
	Dark Suns (Soleils noirs)	Julien Élie
2020	Wintopia	Mira Burt-Wintonick	^[8]
2021		Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers	^[9]
2022	Love in the Time of Fentanyl	Colin Askey	^[10]
	The Scattering of Man (DƏNE YI’INJETL)	Luke Gleeson
2023	Mother Saigon (Má Sài Gòn)	Khoa Lê	^[11]
	2012/Through the Heart (2012/Dans le cœur)	Rodrigue Jean, Arnaud Valade
2024	The Soldier's Lagoon	Pablo Álvarez Mesa	^[12]
	Wilfred Buck	Lisa Jackson
	Yintah	Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano

External links

• DOXA Documentary Film Festival

Notes and References

1. Kevin Ritchie, "Fire in the Blood wins top prize at DOXA". Playback, May 17, 2013.
2. Craig Takeuchi, "Congo documentary Virunga tops DOXA 2014 awards". The Georgia Straight, May 12, 2014.
3. Manori Ravindran, "'Je suis le peuple,' 'Far Fur Country' win DOXA prizes". RealScreen, May 11, 2015.
4. Daniele Alcinii, "'Cameraperson,' 'Twelve Landscapes' take DOXA prizes". RealScreen, May 16, 2016.
5. Charlie Smith, "DOXA fest announces its 2017 award-winning films". The Georgia Straight, May 14, 2017.
6. Dannielle Piper, "DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2018 announces awards". The Georgia Straight, May 14, 2018.
7. Lauren Malyk, "In Brief: Hubbard wins DOXA’s Canadian doc prize". Playback, May 16, 2019.
8. Craig Takeuchi, "DOXA 2020 awards go to films about Filipina domestic workers, father and daughter documentarians, and more". The Georgia Straight, June 30, 2020.
9. Charlie Smith, "Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers wins best Canadian director and Father wins best feature documentary at DOXA festival". The Georgia Straight, May 14, 2021.
10. Charlie Smith, "DOXA Fest: Awards go to films about child brides, queer youth, amnesia in the Sahara, and the overdose crisis". The Georgia Straight, May 16, 2022.
11. Pat Mullen, "Notes on Displacement, Mother Saigon Top DOXA Winners". Point of View, May 14, 2023.
12. Janet Smith, "Red Fever, Bye Bye Tiberias, and La Laguna del Soldado amid award winners at DOXA Documentary Film Festival". Stir, May 11, 2024.