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BIG SKY DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS

The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival includes three separate competition categories – Best Documentary Feature, Best Documetnary Short and the Big Sky Award. To be eligible for screening in a competitive category, films must be Montana Premieres and have not been broadcast on the Internet or Television anywhere in the United States. Big Sky competition films can be any length but must be

2009 Awards
Best Feature Documentary Judges

Last Train Home by Lixin Fan

Artistic Vision Award

Gasland by Josh Fox

Doug Pray (Art & Copy)

Jeanie Finlay (Goth Cruise)

Cliff Froehlich (Executive Director, St Louis International Film Festival)

Best Short Documentary Judges

WInner -

Danza Del Viejo Inmigrante by Charlene Music

Artistic Vision: Never Enough by Kelly Anderson

Gordon Quinn (Prisoner Of Her Past)

Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archive)

Best MiniDoc Judges

Winner -

Found by Paramita Nath

Artistic Vision: A Film From My Parish: 6 Farms by Tony Donoghue

Richard Saiz (ITVS)

Big Sky Award Judges

Winner -

Next Year Country by Joseph Aguirres

Artistic Vision: Sweetgrass by Lucien Castaing Talor and Ilisa Barbash

Shirley Sneve (NAPT)

Thomas Phillipson (Northwest Film Center)

Tim Huffman (Crystal Video)

Programmer’s Choice Awards

Best Editing: Milltown, Montana by Rainer Komers; Editor, Bert Schmidt

Best Cinematography: Salt by Michael Angus and The Sun Ship Game by Robert Drew

Natural Fact Award: There Once Was An Island: Te Henua e Noho by Briar March

 

Award Screening Schedule

Friday, February 19 at 7:30
Danza Del Viejo Inmigrante
Never Enough
Found A Film About My Parish 6 Farms
Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers*
Anonymous Rebellion*
(* Rescreened due to technically difficulties)

Saturday February 20 at 7:30
Next Year Country
Milltown, Montana
Salt

Sunday February 21 at 8:00
Last Train Home
Sweetgrass

 

 

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