Award Winners Archive
Award Winners for 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival
The 49th festival awards were selected by jurors Rebecca Meyers, Stephen Connolly and Vanessa Renwick. Filmmakers who were awarded $20,000 in cash or film stock/processing are as follows.
Ken Burns Award Best of the Festival - $3,000
Jan Villa (Natasha Mendonca, 2010)
Stan Brakhage Film at Wit’s End Award - $1,000
Drifter (Timoleon Wilkins, 2010)
Gus Van Sant Award Best Experimental Film - $1,000
In The Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails (Fern Silva, 2010)
Michael Moore Award Best Documentary Film - $1,000
Disorder (Huang Weikai, 2009)
Lawrence Kasdan Award Best Narrative Film - $1,000
Home Movie (Braden King, 2009)
Chris Frayne Award Best Animated Film - $1,000
Hand Soap (Kei Oyama, 2009)
The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award Emerging Experimental Video Artist - $1,000
I Touched Her Legs (Eva Marie Rødbro, 2010)
Prix DeVarti Funniest Film - $1,000
The Mechanism of Spring (Atsushi Wada, 2010)
In A Pig’ s Eye (Atsushi Wada, 2010)
Art & Science Award - $750
Trypps #7 (Badlands) (Ben Russell, 2010)
Peter Wilde Award Most Technically Innovative Film - $500
These Hammers Don’ t Hurt Us (Michael Robinson, 2010)
\aut\FI LM Award Best LGBT Film - $500
Covered (John Greyson, 2009)
Award for Best Sound Design - $500
Get Out Of The Car (Thom Andersen, 2010)
Kodak/Grace & Wild Imaging Award for Best Cinematography - $3,000
[$1,500 of film plus $1,500 processing]
Castaic Lake (Brigid McCaffrey, 2010)
Tom Berman Award Most Promising Filmmaker - $1,000
Aliki (Richard Wiebe, 2010)
George Manupelli Founder’s Spirit Award - $500
A Family Portrait (Joseph Pierce, 2009)
The Eileen Maitland Award - $500
Hepworth (Alexis Bravos, 2011)
The No Violence Award - $512
Atlantiques (Mati Diop, 2010)
Award for Best International Film - $500
Vargtimmen - After a Scene by Ingmar Bergman (Georg Tiller, 2010)
Award for Best Music Video - $500
I Say Fever (Ramona Falls) (Stefan Nadelman, 2009)
Jury Awards (named by jurors)
The Radiant Grace Award - $550 Little Brother (Callum Cooper, 2010)
The Flood of Love Award - $500 The Florestine Collection (Helen Hill, Paul Gailiunas, 2011)
The Looking and Listening Award - $200 (each)
Broad Channel (Sarah J. Christman, 2010)
New Year Sun (Jonathan Schwartz, 2010)
The Innie Outie Award - $200 PINK (Soon-Mi Yoo, 2011)
The On the Fly Award - $200 Ray’s Birds (Deborah Stratman, 2010)
The Double Documentary Award - $200 28.IV.81 (Descending Figures) (Christopher Harris, 2011)
The Actuality Award - $200 Make It New, John (Duncan Campbell, 2009)
Award Winners for 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival - $3,000 [co-winners]
Beauty Plus Pity - Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis - Daichi Saito
The Stan Brakhage Film at Wit's End Award - $1,000
The Presentation Theme - Jim Trainor
Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film - $1,000
Bernadette - Duncan Campbell
Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film - $1,000 [co-winners]
Seven Songs About Thunder - Jennifer Reeder
Some Days Are Better Than Others - Matthew McCormick
Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film - $1,000
Please Say Something - David OReilly
Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker - $1,000
My Tears Are Dry - Laida Lertxundi
The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist - $1,000
The Burning Blue - Jesse McLean
Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film - $1,000 [co-winners]
El ataque de los robots de Nebulosa-5 (Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5) - Chema Garcia Ibarra
Passage Briare - Friedl vom Groller (Kubelka)
Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film - $500
Travelling Fields - Inger Lise Hansen
\aut\FILM Award for Best LGBT Film - $500
City of Borders - Yun Suh
Award for Best Sound Design - $500
way fare - Sylvia Schedelbauer
Kodak/Filmcraft Imaging Award for Best Cinematography - $3,000 [$1,500 film plus $1,500 processing | co-winners]
Songs from the Shed - Melika Bass
I Know Where I’m Going - Ben Rivers
Award for Best International Film - $750
Lost World - Gyula Nemes
Award for Best Michigan Filmmaker - $500
Sleeping Bear - Jack Cronin
Food Gatherers Feeding the Soul Award - $500
Portrait #3: House of Sound - Vanessa Renwick
The Eileen Maitland Award - $500
Twist of Fate - Karen Aqua
The No Violence Award - $512
Golden Hour - Robert Todd
Jury Awards (named by jurors) - $200 each
The Doubling of Space Award: Simultaneous Contrast - Chris Kennedy
The False Fiction Award: Atlantropa - Samuel Stevens
The Lost and Found Award: From the Archives of an Inventor - Stephen Wetzel
The Map of Time Award: Piensa en Mi - Alexandra Cuesta
The Memory and Magic Award: A Letter to Uncle Boonmee - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Award Winners for 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival
The 47th festival awards were selected by jurors Betzy Bromberg, Emily Hubley and Robert Todd. Filmmakers who were awarded nearly $20,000 in cash or film stock/processing are as follows.
Ken Burns Award for Best of Festival - $3,000
O'er the Land - Deborah Stratman
Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film - $1,000
LOUDTHINGS - Telcosystems
Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film - $1,000
Kempinski - Neil Beloufa
Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film [tie] - $1,000 [$500 each]
The Collection - Keren Albala
Retouches - Georges Schwizgebel
Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film - $1,000
On The Third Planet from the Sun - Pavel Medvedev
Edward Jones Audience Awards - $1,500 [$500 each]
RiP: A remix manifesto - Brett Gaylor
Skhizein - Jeremy Clapin
When It Was Blue - Jennifer Reeves
Kodak/Filmcraft Imaging Award for Best Cinematography - $3,000 [$1,500 of Kodak film; $1,500 of Filmcraft processing]
ELEMENTs - Julie Murray
Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker - $1,000
Kanizsa Hill - Evelyn Lee
The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist - $1,000
Cataract - Alexis Eggertsen
Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film [tie] - $1,000 [$500 to each]
Operated By Invisible Hands - Nicole Brending
Video Terraforma Dance Party - Jeremy Bailey
The Detroit Make it Here Award for Best Michigan Filmmaker - $1,000
A City to Yourself - Nicole Macdonald
Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film [tie] - $500 [$250 to each]
Lossless #2 - Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin
Refraction Series - Chris Gehman
autFILM Award for Best LGBT Film - $500
Tommy - Tora Martens
Ghostly Award for Best Sound Design - $500
Mas Se Perdio (We Lost More) - Stephen Connolly
The Eileen Maitland Award - $500
Nora - Alla Kovgan & David Hinton
The No Violence Award - $512
Immersion - Richard Levien
Best International Film Award - $300
De Tijd - Bart Vegter
Jury Awards (named by jurors) - $200 each
Re-emerging Filmmaker Award - A Horse Is Not A Metaphor - Barbara Hammer
Transfalumination Award - Studies in Transfalumination - Peter Rose
Vision Award - Quiero Ver - Adele Horne
The Hecklers Can’t Ruin It Award - 1859 - Fred Worden
Life Force Award - Kassim the Dream - Kief Davidson
The Perfect Kiss Award - Afterville - Fabio Guaglione & Fabio Resinaro
