May 23, 2009

Hulo brings home five Golden Sheaf Awards


The 62nd annual Yorkton Film Festival, the longest running in North America, announced the winners of the 2009 Golden Sheaf Awards tonight. Of the 21 genre categories, three craft categories and six special awards recognizing excellence in Canadian short film, Hulo Films was honoured with five awards.

Writer/director/producer Anand Ramayya (KarmaFilm) and producer/researcher Ryan Lockwood (Hulo Films) accepted the Golden Sheaf Awards for Research and the Best of Saskatchewan Ruth Shaw Award for their work on Mad Cow Sacred Cow.

Lockwood and Ramayya also accepted the Golden Sheaf for Landing, winning for Documentary Series and Multicultural for the Razawa episode. The series also won the National Film Board of Canada's Kathleen Shannon Award, presented to an independently made documentary film that "allows people outside the dominant culture to speak for themselves".

For the complete list of awards, visit www.goldensheafawards.com.

Hulo Films' Ryan Lockwood (left) and KarmaFIlm's Anand Ramayya (right) giving
acceptance speech. SMPIA's Executive Director Vanessa Bonk (middle) was a presenter.