53RD AAFF AWARDS ANNOUNCED

Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival ($3000)
The Creation of Meaning (Simone Rapisarda Casanova)
Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker ($2000)
Many Thousands Gone (Ephraim Asili)
The Figure Carved Into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Tree (Joana Pimenta)
Pat O’Neill Perseverance Furthers Award ($1750)
Scrapbook (Mike Hoolboom)
The Stan Brakhage Film at Wit’s End Award ($1000)
Things (Ben Rivers)
Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film ($1000)
Detour de Force (Rebecca Baron)
Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film ($1000)
The Bigger Picture (Daisy Jacobs)
Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film ($1000)
Episode of the Sea (Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan)
Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film ($1000)
Speculation Nation (Bill Brown & Sabine Gruffat)
The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist ($1000)
All That is Solid (Louis Henderson)
Gil Omenn Art & Science Award ($1000)
Depositions (Luke Fowler)
Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film ($1000)
Seven Signs that Mean Silence (Sara Magenheimer)
The Song Remains The Same (Mark Toscano)
Colorlab / Niagara / ORWO Award for Best Cinematography ($1350 processing, $500 film stock)
Blue Loop July (Mike Gibisser)
A Symptom (Beb Balcom)
vindmøller (Margaret Rorison)
Kinetta Handcrafted Film Award ($1000 in film scanning and grading services)
Three Quarters (Kevin Jerome Everson)
PROCAM Best Regional Filmmaker Award ($750 in credit)
VV (Elizabeth Wodzinski)
The No Violence Award ($512)
Babash (Lisa Truttman & Behrouz Rae)
Tios Award for Best International Film ($500)
Old Jewish Cemetery (Sergei Loznitsa)
Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film ($500)
Brouillard - Passage #15 (Alexandre Larose)
Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design ($500)
Accent Grave on Ananas (film by Tamara Henderson, sound by Dan Riley)
George Manupelli Founders Spirit Award ($500)
Special Features (James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
The Eileen Maitland Award ($500)
Sister City (Dani Leventhal)
53rd AAFF Audience Award ($500)
Scrapbook (Mike Hoolboom)
\aut\FILM Award for Best LGBT Film ($300)
The Royal Road (Jenni Olson)
Overture/Wazoo Award for Best Music Video ($300)
Cirrus by Bonobo (Cyriak)
53rd AAFF Jury Awards ($1500)
War Prayer (Richard Wiebe)
Chapri (Kataryza Plazinska)
Peacock (Andrew Kim)
Port Noir (Laura Kraning)
Iron Ministry (J.P. Sniadecki)