Animation ★ Winner ’24 Animation and Energy
An animated short film on how the Canadian energy sector powers the medium of animation itself.
Animation ★ Winner ’24 
Installation ★ Winner ’24 The Framework of Our Energy Future
Hand-built replicas of Canada’s energy systems, staged on interchangeable landscapes to show employment, choice, and reliability.
Film ★ Winner ’24 A Day in The Life With The Energy Sector
A short film tracing the energy sector through one ordinary day for an 18 year old in Canada.
Painting ★ Winner ’24 Solving the Canadian Oil Education Problem
An interactive oil painting installation about the threads tying energy to jobs, healthcare, and a brighter Canadian future.
Animation ★ Winner ’24 NRG Efficiency
A short animated film about two duelists, an isolated training club, and the energy that makes the everyday possible.
Short Story Crossroads of Change: Balancing Progress and Preservation
A short story following a student who feels the gap between what she's taught about climate change and her small town's resistance to it.
Film The View From Here
A short film shot on location across Alberta, the creator speaking straight to camera against the province's own landscape and industry.
Illustration A Day at Sunrise Farm
A warm, “edutainment” comic about a small family-run sunflower farm and how the Canadian energy sector keeps it running.
Music Wishing for Less
An original song performed and recorded at home, captioned lyrics carrying its message about wanting less and getting more.
Installation The LEGO Build That Tells You Everything About Canadian Energy
A LEGO build that walks through how Canadian energy raises the standard of living at home and around the world.
Video Energy in Everyday Life
A day-in-the-life documentary following energy use from the kitchen stove to the wind turbines and power lines running past a rural property.
Painting The Choice
A watercolour on balancing renewables, fossil fuels, jobs, and ecosystems: “the choice,” not “a choice.”
Fashion Design Threads of Power
A feminist energy narrative told through a fashion line, each garment a chapter on women's place in the energy story.
Poetry Carbon Copies
A poem that places a billion-dollar industry inside a single human life, and gives thanks to little lights.
Film Polarized
A short film about two characters on opposite sides of the energy debate, and the middle ground between them.
Illustration A Dance With The Spirits
A formline-style illustration piece on Canada's energy story, drawing on Northwest Coast Indigenous design traditions.
Music Locke’d
A cinematic musical piece on the oilfield’s human cost, Canada’s wild beauty, and a stewardship ethic drawn from John Locke.
Installation Canadian Energy Landscape
An electronic sculpture that uses energy self-referentially to illustrate the tension in Canada’s energy conversation.
Video Canada Needs to DO MORE...
A video essay arguing Canada's energy sector needs to push further, faster, framed against the Toronto skyline.
Painting Harmony
An acrylic sunset landscape spanning Canada’s energy mix: pumpjacks, wind turbines, solar panels, and a hydro dam side by side.
Essay Turning Local
An essay on decentralizing the Canadian energy sector to better serve local communities, national interest, and the environment.
Dance Powering the Flag
A dance concept video where seven dancers, each carrying a different energy source, weave together into the shape of the Canadian flag.
Charcoal Drawing Charcoal Study
A large-scale charcoal drawing performed and recorded outdoors, built up in sweeping strokes across stretched fabric.
Music Oil of the North
A rock song paying tribute to the workers and the innovation behind Canada’s oil and fossil fuel industry.
Installation Sustainable Seconds
A kinetic Stirling-engine sculpture whose unmarked clock spins faster with every degree of heat: how much time do we have left?
Video Water Runs on Energy
A video connecting the energy sector to something as basic as clean water, framed through a researcher examining a sample under lab conditions.
Painting Home, Powered
A nighttime painting of a family gathered in a lit farmhouse window, with an energy facility glowing on the hillside beyond.
Writing Buried Framework
A short story about a young man named Hawthorne and the quiet, life-saving framework the Canadian energy sector provides.
Film The Shape of Energy
A danced short film with an original narrated poem, shot across Canadian locations shaped by energy.
Digital Art Polar Futures
A monochrome drawing of a polar bear with an ECG line running through it, tracing the pulse of Canada’s energy and its ecosystems.
Music Energy of the True North
A song tracing one Metro Vancouver upbringing from taking clean hydro power for granted to appreciating Canada’s full energy mix.
Poetry Power
A poem likening a slowing heartbeat to fossil fuel's fading light, tracing Canada's energy story from oil sands to Ottawa's first hydro lantern.
Film Why Not?
A short film told entirely through a text-message thread, working up to a question about why someone can't visit.
Illustration The Great Energy Showdown
A rhyming children’s book introducing Canada’s energy mix through hydropower, solar, wind, nuclear, and fossil fuels.
Writing Empowering Lives and Economies
An essay on how Canadian energy drives the economy, upholds strict environmental standards, and underpins prosperity at home and abroad.
Film Bottles Saved
A vertical, TikTok-style short tallying the small daily habits, like a water-bottle refill counter, that add up to conservation.
Essay Canadian Energy: Sustainability, Today and in the Future
An essay arguing Canada's path forward lies not in choosing between fossil fuels and renewables, but in combining the strengths of both.
Poetry Heartbeat of the North
A poem on the quiet, steady pulse of energy running through the North: through the land, its people, and the generations who built a life there.
Essay The Lifeblood of My Community
A personal essay on three generations of a Calgary family shaped by the oil and gas industry, from an engineer father to a grandfather's farm turned prosperous by an oil discovery.
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