Joy Post Award

Joy Post

The 2008 Joy Post
$10,000 in post production services and $600 in materials from Power Post.
$5,000 in services from the National Film Board of Canada Documentary East Atlantic.
$2,500 in lab, audio or video services from Technicolor.

Note: Residents of New Brunswick, Newfoundland, PEI, and Nova Scotia may apply for the CBC Television Script Development Award, the Joy Award, Joy Post and the Helen Hill Animated Award.

Joanne Kerrigan is the winner of the 2008 Joy Post Award, for Gigantic Piledriver!
Joanne Kerrigan’s film Gigantic Piledriver! Has some outrageous propositions for you. Kerrigan wants to strain your credulity as the film presents individuals engaged in discussion – all based on the hook lines of spam sex product email messages! The filmmaker wants the audience to reflect on just how much we believe, as much as how unbelieveable some of these messages can be. Makers of ludicrous sex aid products make millions, cashing in on insecurities – how does that gullibility button get pressed?
Kerrigan entertainingly examines “this aspect of human nature which has belief as its default setting.”

Joanne finished her first project, Fear For, at the Centre For Art Tapes (CFAT) in 1999 as part of a media art scholarship. Since then she has made several short films on 16mm, Super-8 and video, and her first 35mm short Mine in 2005 at the FILM5 emerging filmmakers training program. She is a past Joy Awards Coordinator, and worked at Moving Images Group. As a mentor and teacher, she now helps new filmmakers through programs at the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Cooperative, and has worked with many of this region’s filmmakers and artists.

Angela Mombourquette is the 2007 recipient of the Joy Post Award for her film VET BILL, a charming and eye-opening short film about how deeply we commit ourselves to the love and care of our best friends - as revealed through the shocking total cost of her 11 year old Labrador Retriever's veterinarian bills.

The 2008 Joy Post - $18,100
$10,000 in post production services and $600 in materials from Power Post.
$5,000 in services from the National Film Board of Canada Documentary East Atlantic.
$2,500 in lab, audio or video services from Technicolor.

Siloen Daley is the 2002 recipient of the Joy Post Award for her film Olive Prepares, a whimsical and engaging look at the first steps of a new friendship.