Vox Popular Media Arts Festival’s Annual “People’s Choice Awards” are given to the top ten favourite films as voted by Festival audiences.
All official selections are candidates for the People’s Choice Awards. People’s Choice Awards are determined by ballot entry filled by festival attendees and awarded to the top ten films as selected by and voted for by viewing audiences. The award carries no cash value, however a certificate will be presented to the director(s) of winning films at the close of the festival with the potential to tour Northwestern Ontario in the upcoming years.
2022
Matthew and Jeff Beals
Joel Christopher Penner
2021
Havar
Cradle Moon
Le Cri
The Gift
A Hundred Year Journey
Cup Confidential
Inheritance
Ghost Theory
Namid
Shots of Light
by Musa Hajinezhad
by Eleanor Albanese
by Various Directors
by Rachel Garrick
by Antti Seppänen
by Ryan La Via
by Eudald Corominas
by Ethan Gillis
by Victoria Anderson Gardner & Sagi Kahane-Rapport
by Chris Scharfenberg
2020
Five Bucks at the Door
Disintegrate
Throat Singing in Kangirsuk
Brave Little Army
The Manhattan Project
Squeegee
Bible Camp Memories
Toxic Time Bomb
Living in the Story
All it Gives
by Kirsten Kosloski
by Trivelle Simpson
by Evan Kaulai, Manon Chamberland
by Michelle D’Alessandro Hatt
by Matthew Campanile
by Khalid Ali
by Damien Ferland
by Ron Harpelle
by Lynn Estomin
by Talia Woodland
2019
Nipigon Brook Trout
El Toro
Bakosó: AfroBeats of Cuba
Beyond Climate
Copenhagen Road
The Grizzlies
Portrait of a Zamboni Driver
Finding Bobbi: A Search for Self
Operation Happy Day
Mercy
by Daniela Carlino
by Danielle Sturk
by Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi
by Ian Mauro
by Lee Chambers
by Miranda de Pencier
by Nadine Arpin
by Scot Moriso
by Steve Payne
by Tony McGuire
2018
At The Edge
Third Generation
Dad Is Pretty
Turning Tables
Laka
Darkslide
War Paint
Towns End
Mishkeegogamang
Scattered
Dying in Vein
by Nathan Hatton
by Mohammad Ali Rakshani
by Park Soo-Min & Kim Seung-Hyeob
by Chrisann Hessing
by S. Shakthidharan
by Brendan Peterson
by Jack Belhumeur
by Megan Murphy
by Jon Wesselink
by Ellie Harvie
by Jack Belhumeur & Ben Murray
2017
The Peel Project
All Our Father’s Relations
That Never Happened: Canada’s First National Internment Operations
Murphy’s Law
Daddy Loves You
Albert Karvonen: Philosophies on Life
Data Mining the Deceased
The Canoe
Trails of a Paper Bird
Autumn Springs
Thunder Bay Landmarks
by Calder Cheverie
by Alejandro Yoshizawa
by Ryan Boyko
by Megan Murphy
by Ninni Rokosa
by Ava Karvonen
by Julia Creet
by Goh Iromoto
by Tiina Meling
by Jessica Graham
by Keegan Richard
2016
Now and Forever
The Grandfather Drum
Fire Song
The Maltese Guinea Pig
The Pass System
A.K.A
SISU:Family, Love & Perseverance from Finland to America
Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart
Gracie
Where Do We Go From Here?
by Tony Maguire
by Michelle Derosiers
by Adam Garnet Jones
by Luke Grandmont
by Alex Willams
by Ron Harpelle
by Marko Albrecht
by Mika Ronkainen
by Matthew Morgan
by John McPhail
2015
Autistic Artistic
Til The Cows Come Home
Open Spaces
A Mile in These Hooves
The Healing Drum
Survivor’s Rowe
After the Last River
Sally’s Way
Finding Your Happy Place
Beyond Bollywood
by Keegan Richard
by Clarke Mackey
by Moe Cordeiro
by James Brylowski
by Justine Clark
by Daniel Roher
by Victoria Lean
by Joanne Gail Johnson
by Natasha Belisle
by Ruchika Muchhala & Adam Dow
2014
Under The Pearl Moon
Empire of Dirt
August Fools
Miedo
The Scratch
Joikefeber
I Stop Time (Jag Stannar Tiden)
Derby Crazy Love
50 Kisses
Les Indiens Comme Nous
Looking For Angelina
Throat Song
Gas Through the Glass
by Eleanor Albanese
by Peter Stebbings
by Taru Makela
by Carlos de Antonio de la Peña
by Dianne Brothers
by Ellen Astri-Lundby
by Gunilla Bresky
by Maya Gallus & Justine Pimlott
by Chris Jones
by Sylvie Jacquemin
by Sergio Navarretta
by Miranda de Pencier
by Caleb Magiskan
2013
Sexual Relations 101
Alias
Iceberg Shadows
Dream’s Deferred
Rites Of Passage
Hit n’ Strum
Love Sex and Disability
Love at First Bite
Red Girl’s Reasoning
Suddenly Sami
by Jamie Warenzek
by Michelle Latimer
by Antti Seppanen
by Joe Davidow
by Phillip Crawford
by Kirk Caouette
by Carlo Basilone
by Levan Sonego
by Maija Tailfeathers
by Ellen Astri-Lundby
2012
Hard Time
Return to Manomin
Ping Pong
Silent Invaders
Mary Maud and the Titanic
The Missing Looks
Save the Drama
The Acute Man
My Angel My Hero
Mouthy
by Ron Harpelle
by Michelle Derosier
by Hugh Hartford
by Dianne Brothers
by Geraldine Carr
by Damian Dionisio
by Kirsten Kosloski
by Knut Eric Jensen
by Faizan Sheikh
by Nancy Shaw
2011
Gas Through the Glass
Under The Red Star
House of Branching love
Guantanamo Trap
Sticky Money
A Finn’s Sauna
The Experimental Eskimos
Inuit High Kick
Tunnit: Retracing The Lines of Inuit Tattoos
Choke
by Caleb Magiskan
by Kelly Saxberg
by Mika Kaurismaki
by Thomas Wallmer
by Ryan La Via
by Arthur Fiedler
by Barry Greenwald
by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
by Michelle Latimer
2010
Sisu
Third World Canada
In Security
40 Years of One Night Stands
Fatality and the Fish
Life is But a Dream
Dog Eat Dog
A Windigo Tale
The Bishop who Ate His Boots
Ray and Silent Rob
by Chrystene Ells
by Andrée Cazabon
by Ron Harpelle
by Jeff MacKay
by Leon Haggarty
by Kelly Saxberg
by Curtis Jensen
by Armand Garnet Ruffo
by Richard Stringer
by Adrien Harpelle