Kester Dyer wins national writing award

The Film Studies Association of Canada Student Writing Award recognizes graduate students who show outstanding ability in film and media scholarship. The recipient this year is Kester Dyer (Concordia University) for his essay "‘Against National Orthodoxy’: 24 heures ou plus and Fourth Cinema." The jurists report having been impressed by an astonishing number of exceptionally strong submissions. Kester's essay was distinguished by the force and power of its argument, the clarity and elegance of its prose, and the boldness with which it took up questions of national and transnational cinema and politics from the 1970s to the present. It is an essay, the jury felt, that provided an original and provocative reading of the work and career of Gilles Groulx as well as teasing out the complex interrelationships between a Third Cinema and a Fourth.