Devour! Golden Tines Award Reception & 2024 Theme Announcement

Join us in celebrating the very best of the 2023 festival at our Devour! Golden Tine Awards Reception where we will present our coveted Golden Tine Awards for this year’s films in five categories: Best Animation, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Drama, Best Feature Documentary, and Best Feature Drama. Winners are chosen by our esteemed jury. This reception will also feature wine and light bites prepared by Chef Seadon Shouse to announce our 2024 theme.

Admittance with festival ticket or badge, includes food and beverage.

Seadon Shouse

Chef Seadon Shouse was born and raised on the south shore of beautiful Nova Scotia, which shaped his views on cooking, sustainability, and commitment to sourcing local and wild ingredients. These values are at the base of the menu at his restaurant Halifax, located in Hoboken, New Jersey. Having worked in restaurants that varied in geographical location and style, he has developed his own cooking character that focuses on creative use of underutilized products to celebrate each season. His cookbook, From the Hill by the Sea, showcases his passion to inspire both professional and home cooks to explore what small local providers and natural surroundings have to offer and his philosophy to keep cooking wild and wonderful. @seadonshouse

Sponsored by Halifax

2023 Golden Tines Awards Jury

Lisa Haller

Lisa Haller is the Director of Programming at the Atlantic International Film Festival (AIFF), where she is responsible for overseeing the artistic direction and film curation for the annual festival and its year-round initiatives. Lisa is also a Programmer for Aspen Shortsfest, recognized as one of the premier short film festivals in North America. Previously, Lisa acted as the Senior Short Film Programmer at Whistler Film Festival (WFF), and the Short Cuts Programmer and Festival Manager at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). @theladyberg

Rose Schoonhoven

Rose Schoonhoven is a documentary filmmaker born and raised in the Annapolis Valley, who weaves her passion for environmental issues and the wonders of nature into her creative work. With deep-rooted commitment, Rose actively champions local filmmakers, and she takes immense pride in her yearly involvement with Devour, an event that nurtures regional talent, including herself. In 2016, she premiered one of her short documentaries at the Devour Film and Food Fest as a part of winning the Nourish Nova Scotia Film and Food Challenge.

Since then, Rose has continued to screen her films in both Canada and the United States. She was recently honored as the recipient of this year’s Linda Joy Award for her upcoming short documentary “Between the Tides”. Rose seeks to capture unique perspectives with the aim of fostering empathy and a stronger connection with untamed spaces through the medium of film. Her unwavering vision aims to inspire positive action, casting a beacon of hope and optimism on the environmental challenges we face. @scrsrose 

Bill Niven

Bill Niven began his film career in 1984 at Telefilm Canada with postings in Halifax, Vancouver, Toronto, Paris, London and Los Angeles.

In 1995, he produced the Gotham Awards in New York for the IFP. Later that year he taught at the Escuela de Tres Mundos film school in San Antonio de Los Baños in Cuba.

In 1996 he joined Salter Street films (DHX/Wildbrain) as VP Development. He opened his own production company, Idlewild Films, in 2000.

Originally from Cape Breton, he is Past-Chair of the Nova Scotia Motion Picture Industry Association; a member of the CMPA; Lifetime ex-officio member of the board of the Atlantic Film Festival; Ex-Officio member of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op; and served for three terms as Vice-chair, Eastern Canada of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.