7th Annual Awards Announced! (LINK)
June 24th 2008 20:07
The 2008 AIFF Artistic Achievement Award was presented to Albert Maysles at the Awards Celebration."I have received many honors; none of them have touched me as deeply and soulfully as what I've received here," Maysles said. "
The AIFF presented "Handheld from the Heart," a talk and clip retrospective of Maysles career and featured screenings of Gimme Shelter and Grey Gardens, and his latest work The Gates, co-directed with Antonio Ferrera.
Helen Hunt screened her directorial debut, Then She Found Me, and received the festival's Rogue Award at a post-film Q/A.
Rogue Creamery Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature was awarded to George and Beth Gage's American Outrage, a film that follows the struggle of two Native American sisters as they fight all the way to the U.N. to hold on to their grazing rights in Nevada.
Mary Stuart Masterson's The Cake Eaters, starring Bruce Dern, won the John C. Schweiger Award for Best Narrative Feature. NYU-Tisch graduate Rob Meyer's MFA thesis short film Aquarium was the audience favorite for Best Short Film.
Chris Eska's August Evening was awarded for Best Narrative Feature film by the festival’s jury. Weijun Chen's Please Vote for Me took home the Best Documentary Feature juried award. Tommy Davis' One Minute to Nine was given a special mention by the Documentary Feature jury.
Tom Hines' Chronic Town won the Gerald Hirschfeld A.S.C. Award Award for Best Cinematography. Hirschfeld was the 2007 A.S.C President's Award Honoree and Director Photography for films such as Young Frankenstein and My Favorite Year and presented the award. The Best Acting Ensemble award went to Tom Quinn's The New Year Parade. Alan Brown's Superheroes was received a special Dramatic Feature Jury mention.
The Best Animated Short jury included claymation pioneer Will Vinton and Bill Plympton and they handed the prize to USC student Joaquin Baldwin's Papiroflexia. Best Short Film was awarded to Diego Quemada-Diez for I Want to be a Pilot. Best Documentary Short went to Yoni Brook's A Son's Sacrifice. Recent Tisch graduate Dee Reese won Best Student Film for Pariah.
For a full list of the 2008 Award winning films click here.
SOURCE: P.R. - Ashland Film Festival
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