Nashville Film Festival Winners Announced
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Jett Loe
(Jett is a Juror at this year’s Nashville Film Festival, (April 16th-23rd); he’ll be updating ‘The Film Talk’ throughout the Fest with thoughts on films seen both in and out of competition – as always Spoilers Ahoy)
The winners at this year’s Nashville Film Festival have been announced – as per this post, when I grab a moment I’ll write up plus podcast my thoughts on the winners:
Complete List of 2009 Nashville Film Festival Juried Awards
Award/Director/Film
Regal Cinemas Dreammaker Award The Deagol Brothers Make-out with Violence
Regal Cinemas Dreammaker Award (Honorable Mention) Rafael Monserrate Poundcake
Special Jury Prize for Cinematography Seamus Tierney The Narrows
Special Jury Prize for Acting Ensemble The Cast of Children of Invention
Special Jury Prize for Acting Vincent D’Onofrio The Narrows
Special Jury Prize for Experimental Narrative Antonio Campos Afterschool
Best Feature Documentary Yulene Olaizola Shakespeare and Victor Hugo’s Intimacies
Feature Documentary (Honorable Mention) Mark Becker, Jennifer Grausman Pressure Cooker
Special Jury Prize for Bravery in Storytelling Kimberly Reed Prodigal Sons
Best Short Documentary Adam Petrofsky Witness-From the Balcony of Room 306
Short Documentary (Honorable Mention) David Aronowitsch Slaves
Best Music In A Feature Film The Non-Commissioned Officers Make-out with Violence
Impact of Music Award Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
Best Short Narrative Denis Villeneuve Next Floor
Short Narrative (Honorable Mention) Sam Taylor Wood Love You More
Golden Opportunity Award for Best College Student Short Amy Gebhardt Walnut
Golden Opportunity Award (Honorable Mention) Catriona McInnes I’m In Away From Here
Best Animated Short Don Hertzfeldt I Am So Proud of You
Animated Short (Honorable Mention) PES Western Spaghetti
Best Experimental Short – Not announced at release time
Tennessee Independent Spirit Award – Feature Length Film The Deagol Brothers Make-out with Violence
Tennessee Independent Spirit Award – Short Film Stewart Copeland Jennifer
Best Young Filmmaker Arni Beinteinn Arnason Eye for an Eye
Lonely Seal Releasing Feature Film Award – Not announced at release time.
Rosetta Miller Perry Award for Best Black Filmmaker Giancarlo Esposito Gospel Hill
GLBT Film Award Alison Reid The Baby Formula
2009 President’s Impact Award William Shatner
NPT Human Spirit Award Joe Berlinger Crude
The REEL Current Award Mai Iskander Garbage Dreams
Governor’s Award Dixie Carter
Lifetime Achievement Award Hal Holbrook
Best Feature-Length Film Directed by a Woman Yulene Olaizola Shakespeare and Victor Hugo’s Intimacies
Coleman Sinking Creek Award Les Blank
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All of ‘The Film Talk’s Nashville Film Festival Posts
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(Photo at top – Jane Julian of the Durango Film Festival and Film Music Composer Julian Cassia enjoy perusing this year’s Nashville Film Festival Schedule)
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