Features In Competition:
Shouting Secrets
Lad: A Yorkshire Story
Between Us
Confine
Aquí y Allí
Grassroots
Things I Don't Understand
Honorable Mention:
Shouting Secrets
Runner Up:
Things I Don't Understand
Winner:
Lad: A Yorkshire Story
[UPDATE Dec. 10, 5:45pm: AUDIENCE AWARDS: Passionflower won the Audience Award and Shouting Secrets was the runner up. I've got video of Passionflower director Shelagh Carter here and I'm hoping to write more about the film.]
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Sunday, December 09, 2012
AIFF 2012: Documentary Awards
Documentary Films in Competition:
Go Ganges
Roadmap to Apartheid
People Of A Feather
Ping Pong
Cutting Loose
World Before Her
Y.E.R.T.
HONORABLE MENTION:
Ping Pong
RUNNER UP:
World Before Her
WINNER:
Roadmap to Apartheid
Go Ganges
Roadmap to Apartheid
People Of A Feather
Ping Pong
Cutting Loose
World Before Her
Y.E.R.T.
HONORABLE MENTION:
Ping Pong
RUNNER UP:
World Before Her
WINNER:
Roadmap to Apartheid
AIFF 2012: Animation Awards
In Competition:
The Backwater Gospel
Frankie Rulez!!
The Game
Lemons
Much Better Now
Paths of Hate
Survival of the Fetish
HONORABLE MENTION:
Lemons
RUNNER UP:
Light Me Up
WINNER:
Paths of Hate
The Backwater Gospel
Frankie Rulez!!
The Game
Lemons
Much Better Now
Paths of Hate
Survival of the Fetish
HONORABLE MENTION:
Lemons
RUNNER UP:
Light Me Up
WINNER:
Paths of Hate
AIFF 2012: Shorts Awards
In Competition:
Calcutta Taxi
Mossadegh
Cockatoo
Hunt
Lapse
Trial of Ben Barry
HONORABLE MENTION:
Cockatoo
RUNNER UP:
Calcutta Taxi
WINNER:
Lapse
Calcutta Taxi
Mossadegh
Cockatoo
Hunt
Lapse
Trial of Ben Barry
HONORABLE MENTION:
Cockatoo
RUNNER UP:
Calcutta Taxi
WINNER:
Lapse
AIFF 2012: Super Shorts Awards
SUPERSHORTS IN COMPETITION:
Bip Bip (Beep Beep)
Blue Dame
Gutty
Her Next Door
Matriarche
O.V.N.I (UFO)
Polarized
HONORABLE MENTION:
Polarized
FIRST RUNNER UP:
Matriarche
WINNER:
Her Next Door
Bip Bip (Beep Beep)
Blue Dame
Gutty
Her Next Door
Matriarche
O.V.N.I (UFO)
Polarized
HONORABLE MENTION:
Polarized
FIRST RUNNER UP:
Matriarche
WINNER:
Her Next Door
AIFF 2012: Snowdance Awards
SNOWDANCE IN COMPETITION:
Catching Alaska’s Light Waves
I Met Her In A Coffee Shop
Mothers Against Pornography
No Horizon Any More
PNBMOWE
Rousseau's Children Runner
HONORABLE MENTION:
Scared: Matt Jardin
FIRST RUNNER UP:
No Horizon Any More - Keith Reimink
WINNER:
Rousseau's Children - Monica Scharer
Catching Alaska’s Light Waves
I Met Her In A Coffee Shop
Mothers Against Pornography
No Horizon Any More
PNBMOWE
Rousseau's Children Runner
HONORABLE MENTION:
Scared: Matt Jardin
Keith Reimink at Awards Ceremony |
FIRST RUNNER UP:
No Horizon Any More - Keith Reimink
WINNER:
Rousseau's Children - Monica Scharer
AIFF 2012: Awards - Last Night's Quick Freeze Awards
AIFF 2012: Live Blogging Awards - UPDATED
7:19 The musicians are gone and they are setting up the stage.
I'm at the Organic Oasis waiting for the awards ceremony (a rather inflated word for what they do here) to begin. It's going on 7pm and should be starting soon. There won't be a live feed, but I'll just keep updating as things happen starting a little after 6pm Alaska time. I suspect the awards won't be given out until about 7pm. Then I'll post as things happen.
But last night they showed the Quick Freeze movies - had to be done in three days and somehow include 'duct tape,' 'sunrise,' and 'hostess.'
I've got video of the Quick Freeze Awards from last night and I'll add it here as soon as it finishes uploading and downloading.
Matt Jardin and Harvey Hubbell from Disleksia the movie with OA staff |
Carl and Nathan Weber - Alaska Tier 2 Zombie Hunter |
Linda Beja and Jon Benedict - Snowdance Programers |
Keith Reimink - No Horizon Anymore South Pole |
Folks waiting for the Awards to begin |
I'm at the Organic Oasis waiting for the awards ceremony (a rather inflated word for what they do here) to begin. It's going on 7pm and should be starting soon. There won't be a live feed, but I'll just keep updating as things happen starting a little after 6pm Alaska time. I suspect the awards won't be given out until about 7pm. Then I'll post as things happen.
But last night they showed the Quick Freeze movies - had to be done in three days and somehow include 'duct tape,' 'sunrise,' and 'hostess.'
I've got video of the Quick Freeze Awards from last night and I'll add it here as soon as it finishes uploading and downloading.
AIFF 2012: Passionflower, Fairbanks Nigerians, Scottish Cons With Scissors, Elder Ping Pong, Havana, and Lots of Duct Tape
My Saturday at the film festival was one very satisfying movie after another. [Check the AIFF 2012 Tab above for what's on today.]
I'll start with two movies that will show again today (Sunday Dec. 9) that are very well worth watching.
Passionflower plays today (Sunday Dec. 9) at 3pm at Alaska Experience Theater.
For some reason I do not understand at all, this film was not selected to be in-competition. It deserves to be. I chatted with the director Shelagh Carter briefly the other night - the video is here - and that's the only reason I went to see it tonight. This film isn't easy, and it doesn't offer any easy solutions. Nevertheless, even though this film didn't begin until close to 11pm I was wide awake and completely in the film the whole way. It's the story of a young girl whose beautiful mom is behaving badly. Today we have a word for this - mentally ill. Actually, the story is about the mom, for the most part from the girl's perspective. Making the film even more powerful was that I knew from my chat with Shelagh that the little girl was sitting near me in the theater. And Shelagh will be at the showing tomorrow as well. BTW, she's all grown up now, art has gotten her through all this, and she is a professor of film and theater in Winnipeg, Canada.
Alaskaland plays today (Sunday Dec. 9) at 5pm at Out North.
This film takes place entirely in Fairbanks. It's in the Snowdance category, but it could just as easily have been in the features. It focuses on a Nigerian family - Dad's a professor of engineering at UAF - and the struggles of the children living in three cultures - the family's Nigerian culture, the general Fairbanks culture, and the black Fairbanks culture. An outstanding film by a UAF alumnus and with the help of the newish UAF film program. Good stuff that tells an Alaskan story that most of us had no idea existed. I do think this film would be improved if it had a title more indicative of the story.
Now I can talk about the others. I'll just mention them briefly now and I'll write about some of these at more length later. All of the films I saw today were good, so I won't keep repeating that.
It started with a pair of in-competition documentary films - Ping Pong and Cutting Loose. Cutting Loose was exactly right from my perspective. Scottish convicts who know how to cut hair, and act as prison barbers, have a hair cutting contest. But really, the story itself doesn't mean much - it's how they tell the story that matters and they did it well.
Ping Pong highlights eight contestants in the octogenarian world ping pong championship in Inner Mongolia. An inspirational movie for all of us for whom 80 is getting to be in the foreseeable future.
Unfinished Spaces. Wow! I was going to go home and get a nap before the afternoon films I had scheduled but Kelly talked me into staying. For now, I'll just say this is the Buena Vista Social Club for Cuban architects. More later.
Quick Freeze. These were the films made since earlier this week (I forget now when), using the three terms - duct tape, sunrise, and hostess. They were staggeringly good for such a quick turnaround. I did ask one director if he hadn't started working on an idea before the words were given out and he said, "No."
I'll start with two movies that will show again today (Sunday Dec. 9) that are very well worth watching.
Passionflower plays today (Sunday Dec. 9) at 3pm at Alaska Experience Theater.
For some reason I do not understand at all, this film was not selected to be in-competition. It deserves to be. I chatted with the director Shelagh Carter briefly the other night - the video is here - and that's the only reason I went to see it tonight. This film isn't easy, and it doesn't offer any easy solutions. Nevertheless, even though this film didn't begin until close to 11pm I was wide awake and completely in the film the whole way. It's the story of a young girl whose beautiful mom is behaving badly. Today we have a word for this - mentally ill. Actually, the story is about the mom, for the most part from the girl's perspective. Making the film even more powerful was that I knew from my chat with Shelagh that the little girl was sitting near me in the theater. And Shelagh will be at the showing tomorrow as well. BTW, she's all grown up now, art has gotten her through all this, and she is a professor of film and theater in Winnipeg, Canada.
Alaskaland plays today (Sunday Dec. 9) at 5pm at Out North.
This film takes place entirely in Fairbanks. It's in the Snowdance category, but it could just as easily have been in the features. It focuses on a Nigerian family - Dad's a professor of engineering at UAF - and the struggles of the children living in three cultures - the family's Nigerian culture, the general Fairbanks culture, and the black Fairbanks culture. An outstanding film by a UAF alumnus and with the help of the newish UAF film program. Good stuff that tells an Alaskan story that most of us had no idea existed. I do think this film would be improved if it had a title more indicative of the story.
Now I can talk about the others. I'll just mention them briefly now and I'll write about some of these at more length later. All of the films I saw today were good, so I won't keep repeating that.
It started with a pair of in-competition documentary films - Ping Pong and Cutting Loose. Cutting Loose was exactly right from my perspective. Scottish convicts who know how to cut hair, and act as prison barbers, have a hair cutting contest. But really, the story itself doesn't mean much - it's how they tell the story that matters and they did it well.
Ping Pong highlights eight contestants in the octogenarian world ping pong championship in Inner Mongolia. An inspirational movie for all of us for whom 80 is getting to be in the foreseeable future.
Most common use of Duct Tape in Quick Freeze films |
Quick Freeze. These were the films made since earlier this week (I forget now when), using the three terms - duct tape, sunrise, and hostess. They were staggeringly good for such a quick turnaround. I did ask one director if he hadn't started working on an idea before the words were given out and he said, "No."
AIFF 2012: Lapse Director Gilles Guerraz Talks From Paris
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Sunday morning (Dec. 9) at 11:15 am Native Tongue short film program plays at the Alaska Experience Theater.
This is a strong set of four short films.
I've posted an email exchange with Mossadegh director Roozbeh Dadvand and I've posted a video with Calcutta Taxi director Vikram Dasgupta.
I've even posted a link to the whole third film - Suddenly Zinat . . .
I chatted with Lapse director Gilles Guerraz and one of the writers, Grayson Wolfe, via skype. Lapse was missing from this program last week - they had trouble with disc/project compatibility. I'm putting some of the skype chat up now.
In the video portion below we talked about how he budgeted the film (Ulule helped), the crew, learning by doing, and the camera. Gilles speaks slowly, but it's worth the effort to listen.
Grayson Wolfe, one of the writers of Lapse, wrote on his blog about watching the final version of Lapse at the Cannes Film Festival.
This is a strong set of four short films.
I've posted an email exchange with Mossadegh director Roozbeh Dadvand and I've posted a video with Calcutta Taxi director Vikram Dasgupta.
I've even posted a link to the whole third film - Suddenly Zinat . . .
I chatted with Lapse director Gilles Guerraz and one of the writers, Grayson Wolfe, via skype. Lapse was missing from this program last week - they had trouble with disc/project compatibility. I'm putting some of the skype chat up now.
In the video portion below we talked about how he budgeted the film (Ulule helped), the crew, learning by doing, and the camera. Gilles speaks slowly, but it's worth the effort to listen.
Grayson Wolfe, one of the writers of Lapse, wrote on his blog about watching the final version of Lapse at the Cannes Film Festival.
I watch Lapse again. No English subtitles this time, and I enjoy it even more. On a second viewing, I can’t find anything about it I don’t like. This time I pick up on more subtleties, things I missed when I was reading subtitles. The film works without dialog, a definition of pure cinema. I am very impressed with Vincent Londez’ performance, the lead actor. I wish I had promoted it more. Not that I had the time, of course.
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