Award Winners Announced for 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival!
Ken Burns Award for Best of Festival - $3,000 O'er the Land - Deborah Stratman
Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film - $1,000 LOUDTHINGS - Telcosystems
Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film -$1,000 Kempinski - Neil Beloufa
Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film [tie] - $1,000 [$500 each] The Collection - Keren Albala Retouches - Georges Schwizgebel
Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film - $1,000 On The Third Planet from the Sun - Pavel Medvedev
Edward Jones Audience Awards - $1,500 [$500 each]
RiP: A remix manifesto - Brett Gaylor
Skhizein - Jeremy Clapin
When It Was Blue - Jennifer Reeves
Kodak/Filmcraft Imaging Award for Best Cinematography - $3,000 [$1,500 of Kodak film; $1,500 of Filmcraft processing] ELEMENTs - Julie Murray
Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker - $1,000 Kanizsa Hill - Evelyn Lee
The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist - $1,000 Cataract - Alexis Eggertsen
Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film [tie] - $1,000 [$500 to each] Operated By Invisible Hands - Nicole Brending Video Terraforma Dance Party - Jeremy Bailey
The Detroit Make it Here Award for Best Michigan Filmmaker - $1,000 A City to Yourself - Nicole Macdonald
Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film [tie] - $500 [$250 to each] Lossless #2 - Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin Refraction Series - Chris Gehman
autFILM Award for Best LGBT Film - $500 Tommy - Tora Martens
Ghostly Award for Best Sound Design - $500 Mas Se Perdio (We Lost More) - Stephen Connolly
The Eileen Maitland Award - $500 Nora - Alla Kovgan & David Hinton
The No Violence Award - $512 Immersion - Richard Levien
Best International Film Award - $300 De Tijd - Bart Vegter
SPECIAL JURY AWARDS - $200 each Re-emerging Filmmaker Award: A Horse Is Not A Metaphor - Barbara Hammer Transfalumination Award: Studies in Transfalumination - Peter Rose Vision Award: Quiero Ver - Adele Horne The Hecklers Can’t Ruin It Award: 1859 - Fred Worden Life Force Award: Kassim the Dream - Kief Davidson The Perfect Kiss Award: Afterville - Fabio Guaglione & Fabio Resinaro
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