The seventh annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, which ran on Feb. 12-21 in Missoula, Montana, has given out awards to a dozen films. There are four main awards: Best Feature, the Big Sky Award, Best Short Film and Mini Doc, which were each judged by a different panel of jurors.
In addition, each panel also awarded an Artistic Vision or Artistic Excellence award to another deserving film in each category. Plus, there were four Programmers Choice awards given out for cinematography, editing and in “natural facts.” The full list of winning films is below.
Best Feature:
Last Train Home, dir. Lixin Fan
Artistic Vision:
GasLand, dir. Josh Fox
(Jurors: Doug Pray, Jeanie Finlay and Cliff Froehlich)
Big Sky Award:
Next Year Country, dir. Joseph Aguirres
Artistic Excellence:
Sweetgrass, dir. Lucien Castaing Talors and Ilisa Barbashs
(Jurors: Shirley Sneve, Thomas Phillipson and Tim Huffman)
Best Short Film:
Danza Del Viejo Inmigrante...
In addition, each panel also awarded an Artistic Vision or Artistic Excellence award to another deserving film in each category. Plus, there were four Programmers Choice awards given out for cinematography, editing and in “natural facts.” The full list of winning films is below.
Best Feature:
Last Train Home, dir. Lixin Fan
Artistic Vision:
GasLand, dir. Josh Fox
(Jurors: Doug Pray, Jeanie Finlay and Cliff Froehlich)
Big Sky Award:
Next Year Country, dir. Joseph Aguirres
Artistic Excellence:
Sweetgrass, dir. Lucien Castaing Talors and Ilisa Barbashs
(Jurors: Shirley Sneve, Thomas Phillipson and Tim Huffman)
Best Short Film:
Danza Del Viejo Inmigrante...
- 2/20/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
<div style="text-align: justify;">Paramita Nath makes her directorial debut with Found which has been selected for featuring at this year's 34th Toronto International Film Festival. Found is a short film based on the story of Toronto Poet Souvankham Thammavongsa. Paramita Nath was born in Shilong, the capital city of Meghalaya in India. She moved to Toronto in 2000 after completing her Bachelor's degree in Music from Memorial University of Newfoundland. While completing her M.A in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts at York University, Paramita produced and directed her short documentary entitled 'Journey into the Creative Process' as part of her thesis at York University.Filmicafe caught up with Paramita Nath where the director sums up her journey of filming 'Found' by quoting Souvankham poem 'I knew this, this would be my way in'.Paramita's Found is among 41 short films that were selected from 600 enteries for this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Found is a six...
- 8/29/2009
- Filmicafe
More for Vanguard, Real to Reel, Special Presentations, Galas, Short cuts, and Contemporary World Cinema which includes the World premier of Reginald Harkema's latest, Leslie, My Name is Evil. That link has the 2nd promo trailer (we used to have two) but we were asked by Reggie to remove the first. We also have Sook-Yin Lee's Year of the Carnivore which I've been keeping an eye on for some time. Also playing is The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.
Check out the full list of added films after the break!
Canada First!
Year of the Carnivore Sook-Yin Lee, BC
World Premiere
Year of the Carnivore is a romantic-comedy-drama about a girl with an unrequited crush on a boy who thinks she's bad in bed, so she goes out to get more 'experience.'
All Fall Down Philip Hoffman, On
North American Premiere
Local legend Philip Hoffman's formally adventurous...
Check out the full list of added films after the break!
Canada First!
Year of the Carnivore Sook-Yin Lee, BC
World Premiere
Year of the Carnivore is a romantic-comedy-drama about a girl with an unrequited crush on a boy who thinks she's bad in bed, so she goes out to get more 'experience.'
All Fall Down Philip Hoffman, On
North American Premiere
Local legend Philip Hoffman's formally adventurous...
- 8/4/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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