2006 FESTIVAL WINNERS

Audience Choice: Best of Festival
“Sweet Land”
www.sweetlandmovie.com

Audience Choice: Best Feature
“The Sisters”
www.arclightfilms.com/films/the_sisters

Runner Up - Audience Choice: Best Feature
“A Relative Thing”
www.arelativething.com

Bonus Material:  Director's Reel

Runner Up - Audience Choice: Best Feature
“Expiration Date”
www.expirationdatethemovie.com

Audience Choice: Best Documentary
“The Trials of Darryl Hunt”
www.thetrialsofdarrylhunt.com

Runner Up - Audience Choice: Best Documentary
“39 Pounds of Love”
www.39poundsoflove.com

Bonus Material: Interview and Movie Trailer

Special Mention: Best Documentary
“Favela Rising”
www.favelarising.com

Audience Choice: Best Short Film
“Spin”
www.doubleedgefilms.com/spin

Audience Choice: Best Short Film
“Full Disclosure”
www.fulldisclosurethemovie.com

Audience Choice: Best Short Film
“Artistic License”
www.identificationfilms.com

Bonus Material:  Interview and Movie Trailer

Special Mention: Outstanding Short Film
“Quadrilateral”
www.mastercluster.es

Special Mention: Outstanding Short Film
“Hope”
www.lunamedia.org

Audience Choice: Best Animated Film
“The Legend of Black Tom”
www.cinequestonline.org

Audience Choice: Best Animated Film
“Emelia”
www.sharktacos.com/Emelia

Directors’ Choice: Best Feature
“Fetching Cody”
www.cheapanddirty.ca/

Directors’ Choice: Best Documentary
“The Trials of Darryl Hunt”
www.thetrialsofdarrylhunt.com

Directors’ Choice: Best International Film
“The Beauty Remains”
www.emergingpictures.com/br_synopsis.htm

Directors’ Choice: Best Short Film
“Spin”
www.doubleedgefilms.com/spin/player.html

Directors’ Choice: Best Short Film
“Cries From Ramah”
www.criesfromramahmovie.com

Bonus Material:  Interview

Directors’ Choice: Best Student Short Film
“Once Broken”

Directors’ Choice: Best Student Short Film
“Thermopylae”

Directors’ Choice: Outstanding Achievement in Animation
“The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation”
by John Canemaker
homepages.nyu.edu/~jc7

Directors’ Choice: Best Animation
“Paper Willy”

Directors’ Choice: Outstanding Directing and Acting in a Short
Kimberly Williams-Paisley, “Shade”
www.kimberlywilliams-paisley.com

Bonus Material:  Interview

Additional Awards were given for the following:

Best Ensemble Cast: “Whiskey School”
www.whiskeyschool.com

Bonus Material:  Interviews and Movie Trailer

Lifetime Achievement Award: Lainie Kazan, “Whiskey School”
www.whiskeyschool.com

Bonus Material:  Interviews and Movie Trailer

Lifetime Achievement Award: Ned Beatty, “Sweet Land”
www.sweetlandmovie.com

Birkner Humanitarian Award: Alan Cumming, “Sweet Land”
www.sweetlandmovie.com

Outstanding Director: Ali Selim, “Sweet Land”
www.sweetlandmovie.com

Outstanding Producer: Carolyn Chambers, “The Sisters”
www.arclightfilms.com

Best Supporting Actress: Elizabeth Banks, “The Sisters”
www.arclightfilms.com

Best Supporting Actor: Steven Culp, “The Sisters”
www.arclightfilms.com

Cinema Series Recognition:

Outstanding Producer: Brad Listermann, “My Bollywood Bride”
www.mybollywoodbride.com

Outstanding Actress: Kashmera Shah, “My Bollywood Bride”
www.mybollywoodbride.com