Cairo Time, CBC big winners at directors' awards
Don Cherry movie, Being Erica take home Directors Guild trophies
Last Updated: Sunday, September 26, 2010 | 10:01 AM ET
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Hockey Night in Canada's Don Cherry speaks during a press conference as actor Jared Keeso is displayed on a screen portraying Cherry in the film Keep Your Head Up Kid: The Don Cherry Story. The biopic won two DGC prizes. (Darren Calabrese/Canadian Press) The film Cairo Time by Ruba Nadda and the CBC took home major prizes at the annual Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) awards.
Cairo Time — starring Patricia Clarkson as a married woman who feels romantically drawn to her husband's Egyptian friend as they explore Cairo together — nabbed the best feature category.
Reginald Harkema went home with the movie directing trophy for his film, Leslie, My Name is Evil.
CBC was a multiple winner, garnering best TV movie for Keep Your Head Up Kid: The Don Cherry Story, which also got best TV movie sound editing, as well as the drama series prize for Being Erica.
The CBC collection was further fattened as Little Mosque on the Prairie got the comedy series accolade and Heartland captured the family division honours at a gala in Toronto on Saturday night.
In the television realm, directing prizes were handed to Norma Bailey for the TV movie Too Late to Say Goodbye and Adrienne Mitchell for the series Durham County.
Atom Egoyan's thriller Chloe, starring Liam Neeson and Julianna Moore, grabbed best picture editing and sound editing;
Other prizes handed out include:
- Documentary: The Experimental Eskimos by Barry Greenwald.
- Short Film: Quiet at Dawn by Rob Blackie.
- Picture Editing, TV series: Jeff Warren for The Bridge.
- Sound Editing, TV series: Mark Beck, Jonas Kuhnemann, Richard Calistan, Joseph Doane for Murdoch Mysteries.
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