Prism Prize Top 10 Announced

April 04, 2017 by Christine McAvoy in Awards, Music Video, news

The Prism Prize has announced the Top 10 videos nominated for this year's award.
You can watch the trailer for the videos above or watch them all below!

The prize will be announced on Sunday May 14th in Toronto, and in the meantime you can vote for the "Audience Award" for your favourite video from the Top 20 - click here.

A Tribe Called Red feat. Black Bear - Stadium Pow Wow (Director: Kevan Funk)
Andy Shauf - The Magician (Director: Winston Hacking)
BADBADNOTGOOD feat. Kaytranada - Lavender (Director: Fantavious Fritz)
Grimes - Kill V. Maim (Directors: Claire and Mac Boucher)
Harrison feat. Clairmont The Second - It’s Okay, I Promise (Director: Scott Cudmore)
July Talk - Picturing Love (Director: Jared Raab)
Kaytranada - Lite Spots (Director: Martin C. Pariseau)
PUP - DVP (Director: Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux)
PUP - Sleep in the Heat (Director: Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux)
Wintersleep - Amerika (Director: Scott Cudmore)

Prism Prize 2017 - Top 20 Music Videos

February 08, 2017 by Christine McAvoy in Music Video, news

The 2017 Prism Prize Top 20 were announced yesterday!

If you go to PrismPrize.com you can see all 20 of the videos (including a few BC artists), but here is the list version:

A Tribe Called Red feat. Black Bear - Stadium Pow Wow (Director: Kevan Funk)
Aidan Knight - What Light (Never Goes Dim) (Director: FT Langley)
Andy Shauf - The Magician (Director: Winston Hacking)
BADBADNOTGOOD feat. Kaytranada - Lavender (Director: Fantavious Fritz)
Braids - Companion (Director: Kevan Funk)
Dilly Dally - Snakehead (Director: Scott Cudmore)
Grimes - Kill V. Maim (Directors: Claire and Mac Boucher)
Harrison feat. Clairmont The Second - It’s Okay, I Promise (Director: Scott Cudmore)
Holy Fuck - Tom Tom (Director: Michael Leblanc)
Jazz Cartier - Red Alert / 100 Roses (Director: Jon Riera)
July Talk - Picturing Love (Director: Jared Raab)
Kaytranada - Lite Spots (Director: Martin C. Pariseau)
Lisa LeBlanc - Gold Diggin’ Hoedown (Director: Didier Charette)
PUP - DVP (Director: Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux)
PUP - Sleep in the Heat (Director: Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux)
Ronley Teper’s Lipliners - Lucky and Finnegan (Director: Davide Di Saro)
Somewhere Else feat. Majid Jordan - Move Together (Director: Helmi)
Son Real - Can I Get A Witness (Director: Peter Huang)
Tanya Tagaq - Retribution (Director: Brian Johnson)
Wintersleep - Amerika (Director: Scott Cudmore)

Prism Prize Top 10 Announcement

March 22, 2016 by Christine McAvoy in news, music news

The Prism Prize 2016 Top Ten was announced this morning and they are as follows:

A Tribe Called Red - Suplex (Director: Jon Riera)
Braids - Miniskirt (Director: Kevan Funk)
Death From Above 1979 - Virgins (Director: Eva Michon)
Drake - Hotline Bling (Director: Director X)
The Elwins - So Down Low (Director: Alan Poon)
Fast Romantics - Julia (Director: Matthew Angus)
Grimes - Flesh Without Blood (Director: Grimes)
Harrison - How Can It Be (Director: Maxime Lamontagne)
Kalle Mattson - Avalanche (Director: Philip Sportel)
Monogrenade - Le Fantôme (Director: Kristof Brandl)

The jury of 120+ Canadian music, film and media arts professionals narrowed the list down and will select who will receive the $10,000 Grand Prize at the Awards Presentation on Sunday, May 15, 2016 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

There is an audience award which lets the general public pick their favourite from the Top 20, which you can see by CLICKING HERE.

The Top 10 videos can all be viewed after the jump!