The Ontario Arts Council has announced the finalists for the 2000 M. Joan Chalmers Documentarian Award for Film and Video.

The annual $25,000 award honours an individual who has made an outstanding new doc.

The finalists are: Enfants de choeur!/The Choir Boys, directed by Magnus Isacsson and produced by Paul Lapointe, Erezi (Montreal); Images d'une dictature/Images of a Dictatorship, directed by Patricio Henriquez and produced by Robert Cornellier, Henriquez and Raymonde Provencher, Macumba International (Montreal); The Dragon's Egg: Making Peace on the Wreckage of the Twentieth Century, directed and produced by Allan King, Allan King Associates (Toronto); Legacy of Terror: The Bombing of Air India, directed and produced by Shelley Saywell, Bishari Film Productions (Toronto); and T'Lina: The Rendering of Wealth, directed by Barb Cranmer and produced by Cranmer and Cari Green, Nimpkish Wind Productions (Vancouver).

The winner will be announced on May 15 at a private dinner reception in Toronto. Samantha Yaffe