(Photo by Pat Kane, courtesy of Dead North Film Festival)

March 2, 2020

The clever use of the Yellowknife Water Treatment Plant as a genetic testing lab was one of the locations that secured Director Jason Guy this year’s NWT Film Commission Locations Award for his film Zombear.

Set in a small northern town, the film follows the story of a series of mysterious disappearances. The only suspect? A bear… a zombear. In addition to the Water Treatment Plant, filming also took place at Tin Can Hill and Great Slave Lake. 

Special mention for the locations award also went to the film Wiidza, submitted by Kaw Tay Whee School in Dettah and The Last Visitor submitted by Jennifer Fresque-Baxter.

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Here’s a full list of the #DeadNorth list of 2020 Zombear Award Winning films:

Best Film - The Drummer

Best Screenplay - Devil in the Details

Best Editing - Unborn

Best Director - Keith Robertson, Unborn

Best Cinematography - Devil in the Details

Best Actress - Amy Lechelt, Unborn

Best Actor - Kevin McDonald, Devil in the Details

Best Sound Design - Improbable Parables Prologue

Best Death - Eat Your Carrots

Best Practical Effects - 65

Best Original Music - Frostbitten

Best Visual Effects - The Ghost in Dobbs' Diner

Best Marketing - Kaw Tay Whee School (Frostbitten and Wiidza)

Best Poster - The Clog

Best Trailer - Mopsters

Best use of Visual Element (mandatory Northern element) - Chrysalis

Best use of Audio Element (mandatory Northern element) - Mother

Best Villain - When a Tree Falls

Best Youth Film - Frostbitten

The Audience Award - Mopsters

Best Production Design - Welcome to Tundradome

Best Indigenous Language - Wiidza

Most Deadly Sponsor Commercial - Barren Ground Coffee

Inner Sanctum Award: Veronica Speers

Congratulations to all award recipients!