LIFT and Images Present the 2013 Tom Berner Award to Deirdre Logue
Sponsored by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and presented at the Images Festival, the Tom Berner Award commemorates the late Tom Berner, who for many years supported and nurtured Canadian filmmakers.
Sponsored by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and presented at the Images Festival, the Tom Berner Award commemorates the late Tom Berner, who for many years supported and nurtured Canadian filmmakers.
The Tom Berner Award was created in 2002 to honour Tom Berner, who was an extraordinary supporter of independent filmmaking in Toronto and throughout Canada. Tom retired from DELUXE Laboratories in 2001 after being actively involved with organizations like the National Screen Institute’s Drama Prize Program, the OMDC’s Calling Card Program, and the CFC’s Worldwide Short Film Festival. Tom tirelessly assisted hundreds of independent filmmakers who approached him for advice and help. Tom Berner passed away in December 2004. Initiated in 2002 by filmmakers Sarah Abbott and Mark Wihak, the Tom Berner Award recognizes individuals who provide ‘extraordinary support for independent filmmaking’ in Toronto.
The 2013 Tom Berner Award goes to Deirdre Logue.
“Logue’s expertise of the broader systems of art production in Canada affords her the opportunity to mentor and advise emerging artists from a place of grounded experience and expertise. Never afraid to offer up her own artistic triumphs and failures to the conversation, Logue shatters the hierarchy of many artist/emerging artist relationship in service of broader collaboration and project potential.”
—Chase Joynt, nominator