2010 FESTIVAL WINNERS
Best Feature: Lixin Fan's Last Train Home
Artistic Vision for Best Feature: Josh Fox's Gasland
Big Sky Award: Joseph Aguirre's Next Year Country
Artistic Vision for Big Sky Award: Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash's Sweetgrass
Best Short Film: Charlene Music's Danza Del Viejo Inmigrante
Artistic Vision for Best Short: Kelly Anderson's Never Enough
Mini-Doc (under 15 minutes) Award: Paramita Nath's Found
Artistic Vision for Mini-Doc: Tony Donoghue's A Film About My Parish-6 Farms
There were also four Programmer’s Choice Awards, awarded by the Big Sky
programming staff. Michael Angus’s Salt and Robert Drew’s The Sun Ship Game both
received awards for Excellence in Cinematography. Rainer Komer’s Milltown, Montana
received an award for Excellence in Editing. And Briar March’s There Once Was An
Island was awarded the Natural Facts Award for its artistic rendering of a vital
environmental issue (climate change) and its effect of human life.
The Best Feature and Big Sky Award films will receive a guaranteed broadcast deal from
Free Speech TV. Both shorts categories will receive a broadcast guarantee and generous
licensing fee from The Documentary Channel.
Several of the award winning films will play again at the Wilma Theatre over the closing
weekend of the festival. The schedule is as follows:
Friday, February 19 at 7:30
Danza Del Viejo Inmigrante
Never Enough
Found
A Film About My Parish – 6 Farms
Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers*
Anonymous Rebellion*
(* Rescreened due to technically difficulties)
Saturday February 20 at 7:30
Next Year Country
Milltown, Montana
Salt
Sunday February 21 at 8:00
Last Train Home
Sweetgrass
This year's jury: Jeanie Finlay, Cliff Froehlich, Tim Huffman, Thomas Phillipson, Doug Pray, Rick Prelinger, Gordon Quinn, Shirley K. Sneve, Richard Saiz
1 comment:
Hello I am doing a study for my documentary class on your Film Festival
Each student of 17 students do a study on a Festival, then we traid information to encourage students to enter Festivals suitable to their favoured genres etc.
We are told to contact the film Festival Directly for part of the information. I go to UNCW, Im an exchange student from Australia
Could you help me by responding to the top 5 questions in particular and the BACK TO BASICS COUPLE?
And any help you can give me toward the others will be Greatly appreciated!!
My assignment is due the Monday 29th of March coming.
1. BASED ON THE PAST 3 YRS WHAT TYPE OF FILMS GET PROGRAMMED? (e.g. Shorts, features, political, global, local, gender, sexuality, race, themes?)
2. From this information what are the ODDS OF ACCEPTANCE?
3.HOW MANY ENTRIES DID THEY GET THIS YEAR?
4.HOW MANY ENTRIES DID THEY GET LAST YEAR?
5. HOW MANY ENTRIES ARE/WERE DOCUMENTARY SHORTS?
BACK TO BASICS:
Who made it happen & who runs it now?
What’s the mission?
Also in addition if you can help...
Where is it? When is it? And when is the deadline for entrees?
WHAT DO YOU DO TO ENTER?
WHO’S ELIGIBLE, IS THERE A STUDENT CATEGORY?
WHAT ARE THE GUIDELINES?
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO ENTER? Early, Regular, Late, Student –
ARE THERE PRIZES?
Thanks heaps for your time =)
Peace out
From Channy k-b
P.s. if you can be of no help is there someone you could recommend?
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