Toronto filmmaker wins Canada Council video art honour
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 9, 2007 | 2:30 PM ET
CBC News
Toronto filmmaker and video artist John Greyson is the winner of the Canada Council of the Arts' 2007 Bell Award in Video Art.
Greyson, also an assistant professor of production at York University, will accept the $10,000 honour at a downtown Toronto ceremony on Oct. 17.
A three-member peer assessment committee recognized Greyson as "an incisive social and political critic" and "one of the leaders in the AIDS activist video movement."
Greyson studied visual art in his hometown of London, Ont., before studying at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto.
In the years since, his films and video works have won awards at festivals around the world. His movie Lilies was named best film at Canada's Genie Awards in 1996.
Greyson's work often deals with the themes of censorship, homosexuality and AIDS.
Past winners of the Bell Award include General Idea, Vera Frenkel, Paul Wong, Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn.
Share Tools
Top News Headlines
- Opitz asks Supreme Court to uphold Toronto riding result
- Conservative MP Ted Opitz will appeal an Ontario Superior Court decision overturning the 2011 federal election result in Toronto's Etobicoke Centre. more »
- Canadian Pacific strikers face back-to-work legislation
- Labour Minister Lisa Raitt is poised to introduce legislation today to put an end to the Canadian Pacific Railway strike, after both CP and the union rejected a proposal for voluntary arbitration by the government-appointed negotiator on Sunday. Raitt will provide an update to the media this afternoon. more »
- Bullyproof: Video booth captures raw tales of teen bullying
- More than 150 students share their stories about bullying and being bullied. more »
- Vatican corruption scandal widens
- One of the Vatican's biggest scandals in decades appears to be widening with reports that an Italian cardinal may be part of a power struggle involving leaked documents, corruption and intrigue. more »
- Vatican corruption scandal widens
- Remains found in bag on Cape Breton river ID'd
- Accused in blast that killed Alberta mom handled her funds
- Seniors float above Montreal's Quartier Latin
- Canadian Everest climber's body recovered
- Justin Bieber wanted for questioning in L.A. scuffle
- Neighbour may have helped find missing kids in Mexico
- Runner dies after collapsing in Cape Breton race
- Tropical storm Beryl strikes southeast U.S. coast
