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The article reports that Martin Scorsese's 2005 documentary "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan" was the big winner at the 27th Banff Rockie Awards on Monday night. The movie took home the grand prize and the arts documentary prize at the Banff World Television Festival. Scorsese's Dylan chronicle was chosen by an international jury led by chair Loren Mawhinney, a Canadian producer. For the second straight year, British producers grabbed the hulk of trophies, beating out U.S. producers during their traditional Banff Rockie award shootout.

Canadian filmmaker Kalsang Dolma's documentary about her ancestral Tibet, China has generated political intrigue and a media storm ahead of its world premiere in Toronto tonight. Having promised Tibetans appearing in her film that their identity would remain a secret, she is haunted by the prospect that she has exposed them to danger and possible arrest if their anonymity is broken. To ensure that no digital recording equipment is present tonight that might help identify Tibetans in the film, the National Film Board of Canada has hired security guards waving metal detector wands to check bags and purses at the entrance of the Bloor Cinema, and observers will be planted in the audience or will walk up and down the theater aisles with night vision thermal goggles to detect the heat signature of any recording devices.

Hollywood power broker Lew Wasserman will be the subject of a feature-length documentary by veteran Canadian filmmaker Barry Avrich. Toronto-based Avrich will write and direct "The Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman," which is said will be a sympathetic portrait of a king-maker in a bygone age. Toronto, Ontario-based ThinkFilm will distribute the Wasserman biopic in the U.S. market, likely on a limited release in Los Angeles, California and New York, before the documentary migrates to the small screen.

Producers of a feature documentary highly critical of modern corporations were trying to influence Hollywood in Los Angeles, California's biggest corporations at the Toronto International Film Festival in a bid to snag U.S. distribution for their project. Cinetic Media's Micah Green arranged a private screening of the film "The Corporation" in Toronto, Ontario for such major film buyers as Fox Searchlight, Fine Line Inc., Miramax, Paramount and Sony Pictures Classics. Among others at the private screening were two publicists for Fox, who said they were keen to see the contribution in "The Corporation" from former Fox reporters Jane Akre and Steve Wilson. "The Corporation" is based on Joel Bakan's upcoming book "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power," to be published by Simon and Schuster in March for the U.S. market.

The article reports on the motion pictures that will be showcased at the Whistler Film Festival in Toronto. Director Randy Bradshaw's drama "Crazy Canucks," which is about the kamikaze-like Canadian men's downhill ski team of the 1970s, will open the show. Festival organizers said that the festival will feature world premieres for three documentaries: Jill Sharpe's "Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche"; Geoff Browne's "Call It Karma," a portrait of a young Tibetan Monk; and Stan Feingold's "Prisoners of Age," which offers New York photographer Ron Levine's take on geriatric prisoners.