The 20th Images Festival closed last weekend. These are the winners of the 2007 competition:

- Images Prize for the Best Canadian Media Artwork in the festival:
David Hoffos (Lethbridge, Alberta) for Scenes From the House Dream:
Bachelor’s Bluff .

- National Film Board of Canada Award:
awarded by the NFB to the Best Emerging Canadian Film or Video Maker in the festival:
Andrea Cooper (Toronto) for Strange Things and Oh, Darlin…

- Best International On Screen (Film) Award:
Gerhard Holthuis (the Netherlands) Careless Reef #1

- Preface
Best International On Screen (Video) Award: Julia Meltzer and David Thorne / The Speculative Archive (USA) for We will
live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass.

- Best Off Screen Award: ex-aequo to Lonnie van Brummelen (the Netherlands) for Grossraum at
Gallery TPW  and to Thomas Köner + Jürgen Reble (Germany) for Quasar

Steam Whistle Homebrew Award: for excellence and promise in a local artist to Christina Battle (Toronto) for Three Hours, Fifteen Minutes Before the Hurricane Struck

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Overkill Award: for artists "whose work approaches extremes of incorrigibility through form
and/or content, and challenges our notions of edgy experimental
practice" to
Bruce McClure (New York) for They Wakened Later, Simultaneously, Much
Refreshed . Honourable mention to Jennet Thomas (London, UK) for Because of
the War

For the very first time since its beginning in 1979, the 28th edition of the La Habana Film Festival will include an independent show experimental cinema show. The festival, that will take place from December 5th to 15th 2006 in La Habana, Cuba, will feature the presence and the works of Philip Hoffman, Dominic Angerame and Manuele Cecconello. The screenings will be followed by talks with the filmmakers with participation of selected specialists and the audience.