AIFF 2017: The Awards Ceremony - UPDATE: All Winners Announced (Unless They Surprise Me)

This post will be updated as winners are announced.  There may also be some other intermittent posts of people at the ceremony before the awards are announced.  As you can see, I've tried to be prepared this year and will fill these in as they are announced.  I'm not sure what order they will be in, but I suspect I have them backwards.

Animation and Made in Alaska were after Screenwriting.  Scroll down to find them.
Then

6:45pm  They are starting with the screenwriting contest.  I've already posted about the winner Jason Mott.

Winner and three finalists  - First three are finalists.
Chad Hutson
Holly Holstein
Jason Wright
Winner:  Jason Mott

Scroll down for the animation and Made in Alaska Awards that have been announced.

GCI is announcing awards for Native content.  Next is Super Shorts.

Audience Choice Awards:  
Documentary:  Saving Brinton
Feature: What If It Works

FEATURES

• American Folk * USA  
• Drawer Boy * Canada / Mexico 
• Painless USA * 
• Pale Blue Dot India* 
• What If It Works

Winner:  The Drawer Boy

2nd Place:  What If It Works

3rd Place:  American Folk

DOCUMENTARY

Documentary Shorts

• Family Rewritten
• Ghosts of The Arctic
• He Who Dances on Wood
• Old Harbor, New Hope
• Perception: From Prison to Purpose
• Ten Meter Tower
• The Collection
• Wildland

Winner:  Ten Meter Tower - 

2nd Place:  He Who Dances On Wood - Jessica Besher  AND  Unwelcome - Ida Theresa Myklebost

3rd Place:  $30 to Antarctica - Joey Chu

Feature-Length Documentaries 

• AlphaGo USA
• Among Wolves USA
• The Last Animals USA
• Over the River Italy
• Saving Brinton  USA

Winner:  The Last Animals

2nd Place:  AlphaGo 

3rd Place:  Tie:  Among Wolves/ Saving Brinton

Shorts

• Game (USA) (15m)
• Whoever Was Using This Bed (USA) 20m
• Iron (USA) (17m)
• Must Kill Karl (Canada) (12m)
• The Robbery
• Temporary (USA) (12m)

Winner:  Game - Jeannie Donahoe

2nd Place:  Whoever Was Using This Bed

3rd Place:  Temporary - Milena Govich

Super Shorts

• 8 AM
• Brain Storm
• Couples Night
• Cold Storage

Winner:  The Robbery - Jim Cummings

2nd Place:  Brain Storm - Christophe Clin

3rd Place:  Cold Storage - Thomas Freundlich

ANIMATION

• Afterwork
• Bakiro
• BAUMU
• Cagare
• Genesis
• Happy End
• Light Sight
• Navajo Tales
• RIPrivacy
• South Forest
• The Realm of Deepest Knowing
• Twice Upon a Time
• Undiscovered

Winner:  Bakiro

Runner Up: Happy End

Honorable Mention:  Navajo Tales

MADE IN ALASKA

• Conspiracy Pie
• Dead Run
• Keep Talking
• Proper Binge
• Shaawatke’e’s Birth

Winner:   Keep Talking

2nd Place:  Conspiracy Pie

3rd Place:  Dead Run - Shane Taylor