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World TV festival lauds documentary
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Steven Okazaki's doc, made for HBO Documentary Films in association with Farallon Films, also won the history and biography category and the NHK best Asian program.
HBO and BBC programs won big, with the Daniel Radcliffe episode of "Extras," a BBC-HBO co-production, picking up comedy kudos, while Neal Street Prods.' "Stuart, a Life Backwards," made for both networks, landed made-for-TV honors.
"What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann," produced by HBO Docs with Stick Figure, BBC and Cactus Three, won arts doc and the special jury award for feature-length doc.
The Judi Dench-starring period drama "Cranford" (BBC Drama / WGBH Boston in association with Chestermead) won for miniseries, while best continuing series went to "Skins," the hit teen drama from E4 (Channel 4).
Channel 4-commissioned programs also nabbed Rockies for investigative and current affairs (October Films' "Dispatches: Meeting the Taliban") and lifestyle (Maverick's "How to Look Good Naked").
"Ghosts of the Yangtze" (EyeSteelFilms with the NFB for NatGeo channels) and "The Real Superhuman and the Quests for the Future Fantastic" (Bird Plan with Proper Television for Discovery) shared best Canadian program.
"Sex and the City's" Kim Cattrall picked up the NBC Universal Canada award of distinction, while comedy producer Jon Plowman won the fest's lifetime achievement award.
Close to 1,000 programs from 44 nations entered this year. For a complete list of the 22 category winners, special jury prizes and other awards visit www.banff2008.com.
Earlier in the day, the fest's Alberta Film Annual Lunch Awards saw Sofia Milos ("CSI: Miami") accept the award of excellence acknowledging achievement in a body of work.
Standup vet Brent Butt, creator and star of popular Canadian sitcom "Corner Gas," received the Comedy Network Peter Ustinov Award.
The lunch awards, hosted by improv comedy vet Colin Mochrie, also rewarded behind-the-scenes talent.
Munich-headquartered ARRI Group, which designs and manufactures film technologies, received the Deluxe outstanding technical achievement award, while Blueprint Entertainment ("Kenny vs. Spenny") won the Lionsgate/Maple Pictures innovative producer award recognizing entrepreneurial achievement.
The Global Television Writers apprentice award went to Michael Foster, a recent grad of the Canadian Film Center, the 20th anniversary of which was also celebrated at the lunch.
And ABC Studios (formerly Touchstone Television) president Mark Pedowitz accepted the outstanding achievement award on behalf of the studio responsible for breakthrough primetime series, including "Lost," "Desperate Housewives" and "Grey's Anatomy."
Nearly 1,000 programs from 44 nations entered this year. For a complete list of the 22 category winners, special jury prizes and other awards visit www.banff2008.com.
The 29th Banff World Television Festival ends Wednesday.
