Alvin Sanders and Catherine Lough Haggquist win UBCP/ACTRA Awards for lifetime achievement
John Cassini, Jenn MacLean-Angus, and Carmen Moore among other recipients of the provincial screen awards
Alvin Sanders (left) and Catherine Lough Haggquist.
Long-time Vancouver stage and screen actor Alvin Sanders was among the BC-bred UBCP/ACTRA Award winners on the weekend.
Sanders took the John Juliani Award of Excellence at the ceremony Saturday night. In the ceremony’s other lifetime-achievement award, actor, producer, and entrepreneur Catherine Lough Haggquist was honoured with the Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction Award.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opened the online ceremonies hosted by the Union of BC Performers on Saturday night, and BC premiere John Horgan also made an appearance.
Meanwhile fellow Vancouver theatre and film star John Cassini nabbed an award for best lead performance by a male in the locally produced movie Daughter.
Burnaby-born Carmen Moore, a member of the Hagwilget Village First Nation in Hazelton, BC, took top spot for female lead actor.
Elsewhere, Brendan Fletcher won the nod for best supporting male performance for Night Hunter, while Jenn MacLean-Hunter received the prize for best supporting female, also for Daughter.
Giles Panton won for her voice-acting performance in Absolute Carnage and Corry Glass and Adrian Hein got the nod for their stunt work in The Detour--The Sister.
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