The 29th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival concluded its epic 18 day run last night, culminating with their annual awards presentation.
And here are some of the winners:
Best Film Award: Asia, directed by Ruthy Pribar
TV5Monde Award for Best International Film: Beasts Clawing at Straws, directed by Kim Yong-Hoon (read Jim Batts‘ Wamg review Here)
Leon Award for Best Documentary: God Save the Wings, directed by Adam Knapp & Kenneth Linn
Spotlight on Inspiration Award This juried competition awards a $5,000 prize to a feature documentary that focuses on people working to make the world a better place and that inspires audience members and leaves them with a sense of hope for the future. Sponsored by The Albrecht Family: The Road Up, directed by Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel
Nff Emerging Director Award: The Bobbie
The New Filmmakers Forum (Nff) annually presents the Emerging Director Award. Five works by...
And here are some of the winners:
Best Film Award: Asia, directed by Ruthy Pribar
TV5Monde Award for Best International Film: Beasts Clawing at Straws, directed by Kim Yong-Hoon (read Jim Batts‘ Wamg review Here)
Leon Award for Best Documentary: God Save the Wings, directed by Adam Knapp & Kenneth Linn
Spotlight on Inspiration Award This juried competition awards a $5,000 prize to a feature documentary that focuses on people working to make the world a better place and that inspires audience members and leaves them with a sense of hope for the future. Sponsored by The Albrecht Family: The Road Up, directed by Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel
Nff Emerging Director Award: The Bobbie
The New Filmmakers Forum (Nff) annually presents the Emerging Director Award. Five works by...
- 11/23/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 29th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff), an annual presentation of the nonprofit Cinema St. Louis (Csl), continues to provide the opportunity for St. Louis filmgoers to view the finest in world cinema — international films, documentaries, American indies, and shorts that can only be seen at the festival.
To browse the film listings, go Here
Because of the Covid-19 health crisis, Sliff will be presented virtually in 2020. To provide maximum access, the fest is extending its run by a week to 18 days: Nov. 5-22. Csl is partnering with Eventive, which also handles our ticketing, to present the virtual festival.
This year’s festival kicks off with a free opening-night special event featuring the documentary short “8:46” — which records a powerful performance by comedian Dave Chappelle in response to the killing of George Floyd — and a livestreamed conversation with Dave Chappelle and the film’s Oscar-winning directors, Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert.
To browse the film listings, go Here
Because of the Covid-19 health crisis, Sliff will be presented virtually in 2020. To provide maximum access, the fest is extending its run by a week to 18 days: Nov. 5-22. Csl is partnering with Eventive, which also handles our ticketing, to present the virtual festival.
This year’s festival kicks off with a free opening-night special event featuring the documentary short “8:46” — which records a powerful performance by comedian Dave Chappelle in response to the killing of George Floyd — and a livestreamed conversation with Dave Chappelle and the film’s Oscar-winning directors, Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert.
- 10/14/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 28th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival announces award winners and attendance results
The 28th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff), which kicked off on Nov. 7, concluded on Nov. 17. Total attendance was 26,329, including approximately 10,000 St. Louis-area students (some schools participating in our Cinema for Students program have not yet reported numbers).
Sliff screened 389 films in 214 public programs: 81 narrative features, 63 documentary features, 227 shorts, and 18 film programs exclusive to Cinema for Students. The fest also featured 12 special-event programs, including four master classes and our closing-night awards presentation. This year’s festival had 63 countries represented.
The festival honored a trio of significant film figures with our annual awards. St. Louis natives Josh Aronson, an Oscar-nominated documentary director for “Sound and Fury,” and Brad Schiff, the animation supervisor for Laika Studios and Oscar nominee for “Kubo and the Two Strings,” each received our Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Award, and...
The 28th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff), which kicked off on Nov. 7, concluded on Nov. 17. Total attendance was 26,329, including approximately 10,000 St. Louis-area students (some schools participating in our Cinema for Students program have not yet reported numbers).
Sliff screened 389 films in 214 public programs: 81 narrative features, 63 documentary features, 227 shorts, and 18 film programs exclusive to Cinema for Students. The fest also featured 12 special-event programs, including four master classes and our closing-night awards presentation. This year’s festival had 63 countries represented.
The festival honored a trio of significant film figures with our annual awards. St. Louis natives Josh Aronson, an Oscar-nominated documentary director for “Sound and Fury,” and Brad Schiff, the animation supervisor for Laika Studios and Oscar nominee for “Kubo and the Two Strings,” each received our Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Award, and...
- 11/20/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 27th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival Awards were presented Nov. 11 and We Are Movie Geeks was there!
Sliff presented seven major filmmaking awards during the course of the 2018 festival:
Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Awards to Jim Finn, Jane Gilooly, and Karyn Kusama; Women in Film Award to Melanie Mayron; Lifetime Achievement Award to Joe Edwards and John Goodman; and the Contemporary Cinema Award to Jason Reitman.
Shorts Awards
Juries choose the winners of seven awards from among the shorts in competition. The Sliff shorts competition is officially sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, making the winners in the Best of Fest, Best Animated, Best Live Action, and Best Documentary categories eligible to submit for Oscar® consideration. The 2018 winners:
Best Documentary Short: “Koka, The Butcher” directed by Bence Máté
Best Local Short: “The Buck: Midwest Gully” directed by Jun Bae
Best Short Short:...
Sliff presented seven major filmmaking awards during the course of the 2018 festival:
Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Awards to Jim Finn, Jane Gilooly, and Karyn Kusama; Women in Film Award to Melanie Mayron; Lifetime Achievement Award to Joe Edwards and John Goodman; and the Contemporary Cinema Award to Jason Reitman.
Shorts Awards
Juries choose the winners of seven awards from among the shorts in competition. The Sliff shorts competition is officially sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, making the winners in the Best of Fest, Best Animated, Best Live Action, and Best Documentary categories eligible to submit for Oscar® consideration. The 2018 winners:
Best Documentary Short: “Koka, The Butcher” directed by Bence Máté
Best Local Short: “The Buck: Midwest Gully” directed by Jun Bae
Best Short Short:...
- 11/12/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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