57th AAFF Awards!
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is proud to announce this year’s award-winning filmmakers selected by this year’s jurors, Bryan Konefsky, Akosua Adoma Owusu, and Stacey Steers. The 2019 awards competition presents $22,500 to filmmakers through cash and in-kind awards such as film stock, film processing, camera equipment, and digital scanning services.
An award from the AAFF confers prestige and financial support; it can also qualify filmmakers for an Oscar® nomination by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the short film category. Qualifying awards include the Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival, the Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film, the Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film, and Best Experimental Film.
Congratulations to the 57th AAFF award winners:
Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival - $3,000
On Destruction and Preservation - Maija Blåfield
Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker - $2,000
Mom’s Clothes - Jordan Wong
Kodak Cinematic Vision Award - $2,000 in film stock
vulture - Philip Hoffman
Best Experimental Film - $1,500
TROPICS - Mathilde Lavenne
Best Documentary Film - $1,000
Gloria’s Call - Cheri Gaulke
Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film - $1,000
Flowers - Vado Vergara
Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film - $1,000
32-Rbit - Victor Orozco Ramirez
Cutters Studios Archival Film Award - $1,000 in film scanning services
Flame - Sami van Ingen
Gil Omenn Art and Science Award - $1,000
The Leafcutters - Catherine Chalmers
Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film - $1,000
Under Covers - Michaela Olsen
The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for an Emerging Experimental Video Artist - $1,000
The Divine Way (La Via Divina) - Ilaria Di Carlo
The Eileen Maitland Award - $750
We Were Hardly More than Children - Cecelia Condit
PROCAM Best Regional Filmmaker Award - $750 in kind
As Above, So Below - Cooper Holoweski
The No Violence Award - $512
60 Elephants. Episodes of a Theory. - Sasha Pirker and Michael Klein
UMCU Audience Award - $500
BIRD MILK - Christopher Strickler
George Manupelli Founder’s Spirit Award - $500
Running in Circles - Ei Toshinari and Duy Nguyen
Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design - $500
Screen - Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller
Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film - $500
Traces With Elikem - Ariana Gerstein
Tíos Award for Best International Film - $500
At the Horizon - Manuel Knapp and Makino Takashi
\aut\ FILM Award for Best LGBTQ Film - $300
La Mesa - Adrian Garcia Gomez
Overture/Wazoo Award for Best Music Video - $300
Sun Zoom Spark - Gina Kamentsky
Jury Awards - $1,888 total
ANATOPIES - Jean-Baptiste Decavèle
Armed Lullaby - Yana Ugrekhelidze
Mudanza Contemporánea - Teo Guillem
New Panther: A Call for Action - Sage Love and Nola Asantewaa
Object Dream - Kyungwon Song
Phantom Ride Phantom - Siegfried A. Fruhauf
Pictured Rocks - Jack Cronin
TÅKE - Inger Lise Hansen
Wolves From Above - Demelza Kooij
Xvideo - Miss Free Collective
Congratulations again to all of the 57th AAFF award winners and to all whose work was screened at this year’s festival. It was truly an honor to present all of the incredible works of film art from this year’s festival. We cannot wait for next year!
