The Eye2Eye International Film Festival wrapped up it’s weekend of award-winning film and performances on Sunday with the presentation of the first ever Bob Johnson Memorial Award to Adrienne Eagleson for her short film “A Lifetime of Love”.
She also garnered one of two Film Forward Awards, while international filmmakers Gwendal Le Glatin’s & Cassiel Robas’s ‘Friends of Chivirico’ won the other.
Judges described Eagleson’s “A Lifetime of Love” as a charmingly original and unpretentious film that reveals the filmmaker’s remarkable potential for growth in the Canadian film industry
“What a weekend it’s been! We’ve enjoyed some award-winning films, performances by local singer/songwriter
Shannon Linton during our Mamma Mia singalong screening, presentations by poets Jessica Outram, Katie
Hoogendam, Ted Amsden and Wally Keeler, a special Master Class with award-winning Casting Director
Ron Leach, and we couldn’t have asked for a more fitting film to illustrate our theme of ‘What Unites Us’
and conclude our Festival than, You Are Here: A Come From Away Story. I was thrilled to have presented
the inaugural Bob Johnston Memorial Award, honouring my late brother, to local filmmaker Adrienne
Eagleson,” says Festival Director Mark Johnston.
Other short-listed films included local filmmaker Winnifred Jong’s, “The Offer” and Stanley Papulkas’ “Hiway 13”.
Other films shown at the Eye2Eye Festival included; Mamma Mia: The Singalong, Waiting for Guffman, Short Term
12, Human Flow, India in a Day, and Summertime. As well as, the short films Now is the Time, Hardwood, Inner
Rush, Blue Rodeo: On the Road, Toe Heel Toe Heel, Five Stories, A Short Film About Tegan and Sara, Easter Eggs,
Into Light, Lights for Gita, The Storm, Pysanky, Starhunters, God of Love, Roberto, and The School by the Sea.
