Montreal producers EyeSteelFilm were the big winners at the IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) Awards ceremony this weekend, garnering the VPRO IDFA Best Feature-length Documentary prize for their latest release Last Train Home. The debut film by Lixin Fan, who was associate producer on EyeSteelFilm's previous Chinese doc success Up the Yangtze had its European premiere at IDFA having begun its festival life two weeks earlier as the opening night feature at Quebec's RIDM (Les rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal).

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