OFFICIAL WINNERS 2009

FEATURES

Grand Jury
Best Narrative Fiction Feature
"How I Got Lost" directed by Joe Leonard

Grand Jury
Best Narrative Fiction Feature Director
"How I Got Lost" directed by Joe Leonard

Grand Jury
Best Documentary Feature
"Bicycle Dreams" directed by Stephen Auerbach

Grand Jury
Best Documentary Feature Director
"Sweet Crude" directed by Sandy Cioffi

Grand Jury
Best Documentary Feature, Aglet
"Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour" directed by Steve McClure

Audience Award
Best Narrative Fiction Feature
"Adopt a Sailor" directed by Charles Evered

Audience Award
Best Documentary Feature
"Pride of Lions" directed by Louise Woehrle & John Woehrle

Audience Award
Best Documentary Feature, Aglet
"Making Peace with Vietnam" directed by Steve Emmanuel

No Aglets were rewarded to Narrative Fiction Feature

FEATURETTES

Grand Jury
Best Narrative Fiction Featurette
"Magic Kisa" Directed by Saliva Mathieu

Grand Jury
Best Documentary Featurette
"Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family"

Audience Award
Best Narrative Fiction Featurette
"The Last One" directed by Carlo Ledesma

Audience Award
Best Documentary Featurette
"Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family"

No Aglets were rewarded to Featurettes

SHORTS

Grand Jury
Best Documentary Short
"New American Soldier" directed by Anna Belle Peevey and Emma Cott

Grand Jury
Best Narrative Fiction Short
"Interpretation" directed by Lin Oeding

Grand Jury
Best Documentary Short, Aglet
A Film my Parish - 6 Farms directed by Tony Donoghue

Grand Jury
Best Narrative Fiction Short, Aglet
"Woke up Ugly" directed by Ryan Parker

Audience Award
Best Documentary Short
"Ritmo do Morumbi" directed by Rhianon Gutierrez, Gabrielle Bashist, Tyson Hauff, Joshua Kun, Collin Martin, Tyler Zelinsky

Audience Award
Best Narrative Fiction Short
"Open Your Eyes" directed by Susan Cohen

Audience Award
Best Narrative Fiction Short, Aglet
"Bloesem" directed by Tess Löwenhardt

Audience Award
Best Experimental Narrative Short, Aglet
"The Jogger" directed by Michael Stern

ANIMATION

Grand Jury
Best Animated Short
"The Crooked Eye" directed by D.C. Douglas

Grand Jury
Best Animated Short, Aglet
"A Film my Parish - 6 Farms" directed by Tony Donoghue

Audience Award
Best Animated Short
"Fat-tastico" directed by Yung-Jui Lee

Audience Award
Best Animated Short, Aglet
"Lightheaded" directed by Mike Dacko

YOUNG FILMMAKER

Audience Award
Best Young Filmmaker Short
"Squabble" directed by Evan Berger

Official Selections 2009
Over 50 international features and shorts were selected for the 3rd Annual Red Rock Film Festilval. US and International competition categories include Feature Documentary, Feature Narrative Fiction, Short Documentary, Short Narrative Fiction, Young Filmmaker Shorts plus three new categories this year: Featurette Documentary, Featurette Narrative Fiction, and Animation Short. The Featurette category was specially made for the long-format films that are 30-59 minutes in length. More than $10,000 worth of prizes are being reward by Hollywood Sound FX and Topaz Labs.

SS: Special Screening
FC: Feature Competition
FTC: Featurette Competition
SC: Shorts Competition
AF: Aglet Film

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Feature Film Competition

A Jury and Audience competition of international feature narratives and documentaries.

Feature Documentary

Bicycle Dreams (107m, U S A)
dir. by Stephen Auerbach

Every Second Counts (87m, U S A)
dir. by Sevan Matossian, Carey Peterson

Heart of Stone (84m, U S A)
dir. by Beth Toni Kruvant

Making Peace with Viet Nam (87m, U S A, Viet Nam)
dir. by Steven Emmanuel

Pride of Lions (84m, U S A)
dir. by Louise Woehrle and John Woehrle

Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour (98m, U S A)
dir. by Steve McClure

Signs of the Time (60m, U S A)
dir. by Don Casper

Sweet Crude (94m, U S A) SS
dir. by Sandy Cioffi

Feature Narrative Fiction

Adopt a Sailor (86m, U S A)
dir. by Charles Evered

The Attic Door (78m, U S A)
dir. by Danny Daneau

Charlie Valentine (96m, U S A)
Directed by Jesse V. Johnson

Chaturanga (125m, India)
dir. by Suman Mukhopadhyay

The Full Picture (80m, U S A)
dir. by Jon Bowden

How I Got Lost (87m, U S A)
dir. by Joe Leonard

El Regalo de la Pachamama (104m, Bolivia, Japan)
dir. by Toshifumi Matsushita

Speed Dating (85m, Ireland) SS
dir. by Tony Herbert

Director's Awards Breakfast & Ceremony
SUN, NOV 15, 10:00 am • SOL FOODS
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The envelope, please! Come to this casual event to celebrate the Independent Films at the Red Rock Film Festival at the Filmmaker's Awards Breakfast. The breakfast is followed by a special closing Awards Ceremony for the winning RRFF films on the big screen. Awards will be given to the "Best Feature — Grand Jury Award," "Best Feature — Audience Choice," "Best Short — Grand Jury Award," "Best Short — Audience Choice," "Audience Choice Best Young Filmmaker Short," and others.

Short & Featurette Competition

A Jury and Audience competition of international short narratives, documentaries, and animated films.

Featurette Documentary

Eating Alaska (57m, U S A)
dir. by Ellen Frankenstein

The Flowers of Madison (56m, U S A)
dir. by Amelah Resnik

Return to Little Hollywood (38m, U S A)
dir. by Stephen B. Armstrong

Unconquered; Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family (33m, U S A)
dir. by Bryan Beasley

Featurette Narrative Fiction

Free Lunch (35m, U S A)
dir. by Rick Curnutt

Guitar Lessons (34m, U S A)
dir. by Deborah Geffner

The Last One (32m, Australia)
dir. by Carlo Ledesma

Magic Kisa (30m, France)
dir. by Saliva Mathieu

Short Documentary

Ascending the Giants (12m, U S A)
dir. by John Waller

A Film from My Parish - 6 Farms (7m, Ireland)
dir. by Tony Donoghue

Imaginary Friends (13m, United Kingdom)
dir. by Sasha Collington

New American Soldier (23m, U S A)
dir. by Anna Belle Peevey and Emma Cott

Ritmo do Morumbi (21m, Brazil, U S A)
dir. by Rhianon Gutierrez, Gabrielle Bashist, Tyson Hauff, Joshua Kun, Collin Martin, Tyler Zelinsky

Short Narrative Fiction

The Bake Shop Ghost (17m, U S A)
dir. by Lorette Bayle

Bloesem (26m, Netherlands)
dir. by Tess Löwenhardt

Blue Boy (16m, U S A)
dir. by Alex Jablonski

The Crooked Eye (20m, U S A)
dir. by D.C. Douglas

Far Sighted (21m, Brazil, United Kingdom)
dir. by Elyse Couvillion

La Guerrera (16m, U S A)
dir. by Erika Cohn

Interpretation (8m, U S A)
dir. by Lin Oeding

The Jogger (10m, U S A)
dir. by Michael Stern

La mort d'Olivier Bécaille (22m, France)
dir. by Thibault Dentel

Open Your Eyes (14m, U S A)
dir. by Susan Cohen

Le Rescapé de l'Hippocampe (12m, France)
dir. by Julien Lecat

What Is She To You? (11m, U S A)
dir. by Alden Burgess

Woke Up Ugly (21m, U S A)
dir. by Ryan Parker