Film about Toronto's Regent Park earns Hot Docs award

A film about black teenagers from Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood has won the best Canadian feature award at the Hot Docs festival.

Invisible Citywas created by Hubert Davis, the Canadian director who earned an Academy Award nomination for his 2004 film Hardwood, a short about his father, Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis.

Invisible Cityfollows two charismatic boys as they make the transition from youth to manhood in the low-income Regent Park neighbourhood. It examines issues of poverty and race in Canada's most populated city.

Davis, who was tapped as top emerging Canadian director at the 2007 Hot Docs festival, wins $15,000.

One Man Village, an Arabic film about the lone man left in a formerly thriving Lebanese village, won the $10,000 best international feature award.

A quirky ode to a pastoral way of life that is disappearing, the film was created by Simon El Habre.

Other awards at the international documentary festival:

• Special jury prize: Cooking History, an examination of military cooks, from Peter Kerekes ofAustria and the Czech Republic.
• Special jury prize: Waterlife, by Canadian Kevin McMahon, a study of the Great Lakes.