January 2010


2009 TFCA Awards from Brian Johnson on Vimeo.

Edited by TFCA President Brian D. Johnson, this montage salutes the winners of the 2009 Toronto Film Critics Association awards, and all three finalists for the Rogers Best Canadian Film prize.

“Polytechnique”, Denis Villeneuve’s harrowing examination of the Montreal Massacre, has won the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Rogers Best Canadian Film Award for the year 2009.

Xavier DolanXavier Dolan, the Québec director, writer, and star of “J’ai tué ma mère” (”I Killed My Mother”), an audacious and captivating first film that had its world premiere at the 2009 Cannes film festival, is the first winner of the Toronto Film Critics Association’s new Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist.