Chess, Muslims, murder, win doc awards

BANFF – By Susan Tolusso – Documentary filmmakers from a hot shop in Montreal locked up first and second prizes Wednesday in the richest pitching event at the Banff World Television Festival, the CTV Canadian Documart competition. EyeSteelFilm, a Montreal-based production company that has done very well at Documart in recent years, captured the $30,000 first prize with its pitch for Boy Genius & Bobby Fisher (John Christou, writer/director and Daniel Steel, producer) and the $20,000 second prize for Taqwacore (Omar Majeed, director). Third prize of $10,000 went to Murder For Love: The Jadah Walker Story (Larry Day and Erin...