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Film festival winners announced

Posted by play_blog

Posted: December 12, 2011 - 12:21 pm


Note: There's a moment of strong language in the trailer above.

The Anchorage International Film Festival has announced its awards for this year’s selections, with “The Dead Inside” by Travis Betz – a musical about a possessed girlfriend and her artist boyfriend – taking the Golden Oosikar for best feature. The winning documentary was "Give Up Tomorrow" by Michael Collins, which explores corruption in the Philippines.

Audience Choice awards went to opening-night film “Inuk” in the features category, while “With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story,” a documentary by Will Hess about the iconic comic creator, took honors in that category.

Among the local films, “Tashalaska,” Tessa Morgan’s documentary about the World Beard and Mustache Competition, won a Snowdance prize, while the same award for short documentaries went to Luc Mehl’s “Bike/Ski/Raft Denali Traverse,” which was shot during a 25-day traverse over Denali with no motorized transportation.

Best of the Fest screenings at the Alaska Experience Theatre begin 7 p.m. tonight with an encore presentation of “Inuk.” Audience Choice runner-up “Love You to Death” screens the same time Tuesday. “The Dead Inside” plays 7 p.m. Wednesday, with the theater’s smaller room also screening the winning short films, including “Bike/Raft/Ski;” “North Atlantic;” “Love, at Last” and “Something Left, Something Taken.”

Below is the full list of festival winners.

Feature
Winner
"The Dead Inside” directed by Travis Betz

Runner-up
"The Flood [Mabul]” directed by Guy Nattiv

Honorable mention
"Kinyarwanda” directed by Alrick Brown

Documentary
Winner
"Give Up Tomorrow" directed by Michael Collins

Runner-up
“Goold’s Gold” directed by Tucker Capps and Ryan Sevy

Honorable mention
“With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story” directed by Will Hess

Snowdance Documentary
Winner
“Tashalaska” directed by Tessa Morgan

Runner-up
“Chad Carpenter: The Man Behind the Comic” directed by Stefan Quinth

Snowdance Short
Winner
“Bike, Ski, Raft Denali Traverse” directed by Luc Mehl

Runner-up
“Could’ve Been More” directed by Matt Jardin

Short Film
Winner
“North Atlantic” directed by Bernardo Nascimento

Runner-up
“Two-Legged Rat Bastards” directed by Scott Weintrob

Honorable mention
“I’m Coming Over” directed by Sam Handel

Super Short
Winner
“Love, At Last” directed by Alexander Jeffery

Runner-up
“A Finger, Two Dots Then Me” directed by David Holechek and Daniel Holechek

Honorable mention
“The Man at the Counter” directed by Brian McAllister

Animation
Winner
“Something Left, Something Taken” directed by Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata

Runner-Up
“This Is Not Real” directed by Gergely Wootsch

Honorable Mention
“Year Zero” directed by Richard Cunningham III

Aurora (Most creative film)
Winner
“Andante” directed by Assaf Tager


Audience Choice Awards
Feature
Winner
“Inuk” directed by Mike Magidson

Runner-up
“Love You To Death” directed by Rafeeq Ellias

Honorable mention
“The Wedding Party” directed by Amanda Jane

Documentary
Winner
“With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story” directed by Will Hess

Runner-up
“Lesson Plan” directed by Philip Neel and David Jeffery

Honorable mention
“Goold’s Gold” directed by Tucker Capps and Ryan Sevy

--Matt Sullivan

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