AIFF2022: Audience And Critiques Award Winners

 Here's the official lift of winners.  My previous post had my favorites.  

There are two sets of awards:

Audience Awards - after each film audience members rate the film they saw.  So these tend to be crowd pleasers and in Alaska that often includes Alaska themes and adventure films.  

Jury Awards - given my the official jurors of the Festival, these tend to rate the overall quality of the film

I'd note that today I saw a few more of the shorts I hadn't seen and I agree strongly with The Record getting the best animated short.

The rest is from the AIFF Facebook Page.

THE WINNERS OF THE 22ND ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ARE ANNOUNCED!

Congratulations, everyone We have been so impressed by the work you have all done, it has been such a pleasure to watch all the films and see the amazing talent and the mind blowing stories. You all rock!

Thank you to our wonderful jury who have done an awesome job picking the winners, and thank you to our amazing audiences who have picked their favorites and to all the volunteers who have counted thousands of ballots You're all super stars!

AUDIENCE AWARDS GO TO:

NARRATIVE FEATURE

WINNER: The Wind & The Reckoning by David L Cunningham • USA

RUNNER-UP: Dealing With Dad by Tom Huang • USA

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

WINNER: Pleistocene Park by Luke Griswold-Tergis • USA

RUNNER-UP: King of Kings : Chasing Edward Jones by Harriet Marin Jones • France

MADE IN ALASKA

WINNER: Safe Enough by Taliesin Black-Brown • USA

RUNNER-UP: Bad Bones by Scott Eggleston • USA

NARRATIVE SHORT

WINNER: Nakam by Andreas Kessler • Germany

RUNNER-UP: Burros by Jefferson Stein • USA

2nd RUNNER-UP: Anirudh by Raghav Puri • USA

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

WINNER: The Silent World of Barry Priori by Anne Tsoulis • Australia

RUNNER-UP: Queen Moorea by Christine Fugate • USA

ANIMATED SHORT

WINNER: Object of Life by Jack Parry • Australia

RUNNER-UP: The Social Chameleon by Alex Ross • USA

JURY AWARDS GO TO:

NARRATIVE FEATURE

WINNER: Where Life Begins by Stephane Freiss • Italy, France

WINNER: You Resemble Me by Dina Amer • USA

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

WINNER: Anonymous Sister by Jamie Boyle • USA

RUNNER-UP: Big Crow by Kris Kaczor • USA

MADE IN ALASKA

WINNER: Bering, Family Reunion by Lourdes Grobet • Mexico

RUNNER-UP: Safe Enough by Taliesin Black-Brown • USA

RUNNER-UP: Sheri by Page Buono, Tom Attwatter, James 'Q' Martin • USA

NARRATIVE SHORT

WINNER: Burros by Jefferson Stein • USA

RUNNER-UP: Too Rough by Sean Lìonadh • UK

2nd RUNNER-UP: No Ghost in the Morgue by Marilyn Cooke • Canada

2nd RUNNER-UP: An Encounter by Kelly Campbell • Ireland

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

WINNER: Never Again Para Nadie by Justin Reifert, Dan Frank, Anna Feder • USA

RUNNER-UP: Yours to Keep by Una S. Golmen • Norway

ANIMATED SHORT

WINNER: The Record by Jonathan Laskar • Switzerland

RUNNER-UP: Peanut Factory by Seongmin Kim South • Korea

FEATURE SCREENPLAYS:

- WINNER: "Eskimonaes" by Stephen C Settle

- RUNNER-UP: "Too Many Wades" by Stirling J McLaughlin, Wilder Konschak

- 2nd RUNNER UP: "Polar" by Christopher Kearney

SHORT SCREENPLAYS:

- WINNER: "In the Serge and the Broad Arrow" by Bobby Moloney

- RUNNER-UP: "Kim-Ly and the Bottled Up Emotions" by Anh Le

- 2nd RUNNER-UP: "Mousse" by Dean Friske

SPECIAL HONOR:

This year we had three special awards where the local community came together with the festival to pick three films and filmmakers they wish to honor:

Mother of Invention Feature, honoring a filmmaker who creates new genres:

- Quantum Cowboys, by Geoff Marslett

Mother of Invention Short, honoring a filmmaker who is telling important local stories as they happen:

- Purpose of Song, by Brad Hillwig

Mother of Cultural Exchange, honoring afilmmaker for creating communication between cultures around the world who try to preserve traditional ways:

- Last Birds of Passage, by Eren Danışman Boz