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Sunday, December 11, 2022

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

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