55TH AAFF AWARDS

55TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS LIST

Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival Xylophone (Jennifer Levonian) Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker Commodity City (Jessica Kingdon) Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film The Interior (Jonathan Rattner) Lawrence Kasden Award for Best Narrative Film Sadhu In Bombay (Kabir Mehta) Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film Railment (Shunsaku Hayashi) Best Experimental Film My Private Life II (Jill Daniels)

Gil Omenn Art & Science Award Artificial Intelligence for Governance: AI the Kitty (Pinar Yoldas) Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film "The Talk" True Stories About The Birds and The Bees (Alain Delannoy) RingSide Creative Archival Film Award Etude 1a: Release (I) (Russell Sheaffer & Aaron Michael Smith) PROCAM Best Regional Filmmaker Award Sleeping With the Devil (Alisa Yang) The Eileen Maitland Award Absence of Memory (Rita Piffer) The No Violence Award Notes from Buena Vista (Elizabeth Lo) Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design personne (Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller) George Manupelli Founder’s Spirit Award Hotel Dallas (Sherng-Lee Huang & Livia Ungur) Tios Award for Best International Film Emelina (Gabriel Ortega) Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film Edge of Alchemy (Stacey Steers)

\aut\ Film Award for Best LGBTQ Film Walk For Me (Elegance Bratton) Overture/Wazoo Award for Best Music Video Boomerang - The Absynth Quintet (Steven Vander Meer) Jury Awards: ACTS & INTERMISSIONS (Abigail Child) America for Americans (Blair McClendon) Broken - The Women's Prison at Hoheneck (Volker Schlecht) Fertile Myrtle (Julie Orser) Following Seas (Tyler Kelley & Araby Williams) Hot Dog Hands (Matt Reynolds) Persistence of Vision (Rodney Evans) Pokey Pokey (Junjie Zhang) Princessboy (Sosi Chamoun) Victor & Isolina (William Caballero)