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ACTRA awards in Montreal

Wednesday May 16th 2007

Montreal, Don Jordan, President of ACTRA Montreal, is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2007 ACTRA Awards in Montreal to be presented at Le Medley on June 9, 2007.

"Last year’s awards show was a tremendous success and we expect to capture the same spirited energy and enormous sense of pride with the event in June," said Jordan.

ACTRA Montreal’s 2007 Award of Excellence will be presented to Walter Massey. This year’s Community Builder Award will be presented to Arden Ryshpan.

Four juried ACTRA Awards will be presented: the ACTRA Award for Outstanding Female Performance, the ACTRA Award for Outstanding Male Performance, the ACTRA Award for Outstanding Voice Performance, and for the first time, the ACTRA Award for Outstanding Stunt Performance.

The nominees are:

Outstanding Female Performance

Isabelle Blais in Human Trafficking

Sarah Carlsen in The Festival

Laurence Leboeuf  in Human Trafficking

Ellen David  in The Business

Miranda Handford  in Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery

Outstanding Male Performance

Stephane Demers  in Trudeau 2: Maverick in the Making

Nicolas Wright  in The Festival 

Gianpaolo Venuta  in Pure 

Nobuya Shimamoto in The Business 

Alain Goulem  in The Tournament 

Outstanding Voice Performance

Daniel Brochu  in Postcards From Buster

Holly Gauthier-Frankel  in Monster Allergy

Bruce Dinsmore  in What’s With Andy?

Jane Wheeler  in Prudence Gumshoe

Michel Perron  in Monster Allergy

Outstanding Stunt Performance

Patrick Kerton  in Bon Cop Bad Cop

Marcello Bezina  in Deaden

France Raymond  in 10.5 Apocalypse

Stephane Lefebvre  in Last Exit

Thomas Liccioni  in The Covenant

In addition, there will be an afternoon screening of the 4th Annual ACTRA Short Film Festival and the Audience Choice for Best ACTRA Short will be presented at the evening’s Awards.