AIFF 2011: The Awards List

Here's the whole list from the Official AIFF 2011 website.  I've added some pictures,  and links to posts if I had one about the film. (Super short director Dan Holechek's video hasn't been up before this post.)

Golden Oosikar Awards
Feature
Winner The Dead Inside directed by Travis Betz

Runner-Up ”The Flood [Mabul]” directed by Guy Nattiv
Honorable Mention ”Kinyarwanda” directed by Alrick Brown


Documentary
Winner “Give Up Tomorrow” directed by Michael Collins
Runner-Up “Goold’s Gold” directed by Tucker Capps and Ryan Sevy
Honorable Mention “With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story” directed by Will Hess

Snowdance Documentary
Winner “Tashalaska” directed by Tessa Morgan
Runner-Up “Chad Carpenter: The Man Behind the Comic” directed by Stefan Quinth

Snowdance Short
Winner “Bike, Ski, Raft Denali Traverse” directed by Luc Mehl
Runner-Up “Could’ve Been More” directed by Matt Jardin

Short Film
Winner “North Atlantic” directed by Bernardo Nascimento
Runner-Up “Two-Legged Rat Bastards” directed by Scott Weintrob
Honorable Mention “I’m Coming Over” directed by Sam Handel

Super Short
Winner “Love, At Last” directed by Alexander Jeffery
Runner-Up “A Finger, Two Dots Then Me” directed by David Holechek and Daniel Holechek
Honorable Mention “The Man at the Counter” directed by Brian McAllister

Animation
Winner “Something Left, Something Taken” directed by Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata





Runner-Up “This Is Not Real” directed by Gergely Wootsch


Honorable Mention “Year Zero” directed by Richard Cunningham III





Aurora Winner
“Andante” directed by Assaf Tager


Quick Freeze
Winner
Runner-Up
Honorable Mention



Audience Choice Awards
Feature
Winner “Inuk” directed by Mike Magidson
Runner-Up “Love You To Death” directed by Rafeeq Ellias
Honorable Mention “The Wedding Party” directed by Amanda Jane









Documentary
Winner “With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story” directed by Will Hess
Runner-Up “Lesson Plan” directed by Philip Neel and David Jeffery
Honorable Mention “Goold’s Gold” directed by Tucker Capps and Ryan Sevy

AIFF 2011 - Inuk Wins Audience Award for Feature - Plays Tonight at 7pm

(l-r) Jean Michel, Ole, Mike thanking everyone for the award

I paced myself to make it through the festival which ended yesterday.  But Best of the Fest is a three day addition where some of the winners are shown again.

Tonight, Audience Award favorite for features Inuk will play at the Alaska Experience Theater at 7pm.

Three of the film makers - the American producer-director Mike Magidson, the French writer Jean-Michel Huctin , and actor Ole-Jørgen Hammeken have been in Alaska this week. They were here for the opening night, then went off to Barrow, and were back for the awards last night.  I'm guessing they'll be at the screening.

This is a powerful film, very relevant to Alaska.  A Greenland Inuit young man is having troubles and gets sent to a shelter for kids with problems in the north.  There he connects with his traditional culture on a seal hunt when he and the seal hunter (Ole-Jørgen Hammeken) connect.

Ole is pretty amazing - he's circumnavigated the arctic in a small boat (over six years I think he said).  I'll try to post a video of him talking about the part from Point Hope back to Greenland.

Or you can go tonight and ask him yourself.    Get there a bit early.  The other two times it played it sold out. 

We Had A Little Snow

Looking out our bedroom window this morning:

The Super Shorts programer took some film makers to Whittier yesterday and said her SUV was blown nearly off the highway a couple of times. It was raining in the morning when we headed for our first films yesterday. 
We had breakfast at about 2:30pm downtown at Hot Stixx - a place I really wasn't even aware of. It's replaced the downtown deli and the vegetable medley with eggs was better than most vegie omelets I get in restaurants. The vegies weren't mostly raw and it was served in the cast iron frying pan it was cooked in. It was raining when we walked over from the Alaska Experience Theater after watching Allensteig, but there was already this much snow before we got our meal.

They actually closed the Anchorage Schools today - but the University is open and the airport is supposed to be on regular schedule.

AIFF 2011: Awards - Features - Live Blogging

Top Three:

Mabul
Kinyarwanda
The Dead Inside



Winners:
Honorable Mention:  Kinyarwanda

Runner Up: Mabul


Winner: The Dead Inside

AIFF 2011: Live Blogging - The Awards - Documentaries

Top Three:

Give Up Tomorrow
Goold's Gold
With Great Power:  Stan Lee Story

Winners:
Honorable Mention: With Great Power:  Stan Lee Story

Runner Up: Goold's Gold


Winner: Give Up Tomorrow

AIFFF 2011: Audience Awards Feature and Documentary

Features:
 Honorable Mention:  The Wedding Party

Runner Up:   Love You To Death

Winner:  Inuk


Documentaries:

Honorable Mention:  Goold's Gold

Runner Up:  Lesson Plan

Winner:  With Great Power:  Stan Lee Story

AIFF 2011:Snowdance Awards

Snow Dance Documentaries

Top Three: Two

Chad Carpenter:  Man Behind the Comic

Tashalaska
 

Winners:
Honorable Mention

Runner Up:  Chad Carpenter:  Man Behind the Comic


Winner:  Tashalaska


Super Shorts:

Winners:

Runner Up:  Could Have Been More


Winner:  Bike, Ski, Raft, Denali Traverse

AIFF 2011: Awards - Super Shorts

Top Three:

Finger Two Dots and Me

Love at Last

The Man at the Counter

Winners:

Honorable Mention:   Man at the Counter
   

Runner Up:   Finger Two Dots and Me


Winner:  Love at Last

AIFF 2011: Awards Shorts

 Top three:

North Atlantic

I'm Coming Over

Two legged rat bastards


Winnners:

Honorable Mention - I'm Coming Over
Runner Up:  Two Legged Rat Bastards
Winner:  North Atlantic

AIFF 2011: Awards Ceremony Started - Animation Awards

Teresa Scott is thanking everyone and talking about all the people who helped make this work.

Starting with Animation.  Rachel and John.

Still here - Patrick Neary, Landscape with Duck, and Richard Cunningham

Top Three:

Not in order

This is Not Real

Year Zero

Something Left, Something Taken


And the winner is:

Honorable Mention:   Year Zero

Runner Up:  This is Not Real

Winner:  Something Left, Something Taken