AIFF 2013: Audience Award - Feature Docs

Honorable Mention:  McConkey

Runner Up:  Lion Ark

Winner:  Icebound

Feature Narative Awards

Honorable Mention:  Everything is Fine Here
Runner Up:  The New World (De Neuiwe Wereld)
Winner:  Tu Seras un Homme - You Will Be A Man

AIFF 2013: Feature Length Doc Winners

Honorable Mention:  Harlem Street Singer
Runner Up:  Antarctica:  A Year On The Ice
Winner:  McConkey

AIFF 2013: Short Docs

Honorable Mention:  The Words I Love
Runner UP;  Slomo
Winner:  The Guide

AIFFF 2013: Snowdance Winners

Honorable Mention:  Housing First in the Arctic
Runner UP:  We Can't Eat Gold
Winner:  Migration

AIFF 2013: Shorts and Super Shorts

Super Shorts
 

Honorable Mention - Life
Runner Up - Separation Sonnet
Winner - Anatomy of Injury


Shorts

Honorable Mention - Luarence Relton - Real Life
Runner Up -  Damn Girl
Winner - Jeannie Donohoe - Lambing Season

AIFF 2013: Awards Animation

Second Runner Up - Mr. Super Juice -Mike Wellin

Runner Up - Blue (not here)

Winner - Mr. Hublot

AIFF 2013: Gala Awards Dinner

This is the Iranian table here to cheer on Pourya and Mona who did Everything Is Fine Here.

Pourya and Mona 

Lambing Season's Jeannie Donohoe (r) with biggest fans

Mr. Super Juicer's Mike Wellins, Lisa Freeman, Jasper Thune

AIFF 2013: 7 Cajas Was Great! Awards Ceremony Starts Soon

7 Cajas (7 Boxes)  was a terrific action thriller - but it all takes place in the market area of Asunción, Paraguay.  Most of the characters are presented in a way that their involvement in criminal activities is understandable if not excusable.  All the loose ends get tied together - even ones I didn't realize were loose until they got resolved.  A lot of fun.

I'm at Organic Oasis and folks are eating and the awards should start around 6 or 6:15pm.  I'll post and tweet - @whisper2world and #ancff.

AIFF 2013: Snowy Saturday Films - 'Benz', Benoit Cohen, and Matthieu Prada

We started downtown with Harlem Streetsinger, a documentary about Rev. Gary Davis, whose guitar playing was legendary.  Nice piece of musical history and biography.  Then to the library for Lion Ark and back downtown for Delinquent Dancers - a fun, but not quite successful Bollywood film about a group of boys who escape a detention center to take part in a televised dance contest.

Then to Bear Tooth for You'll Be A Man.   Each time we got back to the car, there was
another three or four inches of fresh snow to brush off.

'Benz' Thamachart Siripatrachai

'Benz' Thanachart Siripatrachai, a Thai film maker studying in New York and the creator of the charming The Words I Love  has been staying with us and realized that I hadn't gotten any video of him yet.  So I did at lunch between films.  I'll edit it and put it up later. 





Saturday's highlight for me was You'll Be A Man  by Benoit Cohen who came from France with his producer Matthieu Prada for the showing.  (And he'll be here for tomorrow's showing too.)  Here's a bit of video of the two before the showing, talking about their arrival in Alaska.



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Here they are after the film answering questions from a clearly enthusiastic audience at the Bear Tooth.

The discussions continued on into the lobby.

I was hoping to get to bed before 2am today, but I've missed that deadline.  I liked You'll Be A Man a lot, but I want to process it a bit before I write about it.  It  does play again Sunday - at 1:30 at AK Exp.  


[UPDATE March 11, 2014 Youtube video replaces Viddler]