Additional Awards Programs & Winners Announcement
We are thrilled to announce that we are showing ALL of the films that received awards for the 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Instead of just Awards 1 and Awards 2, there will be two additional awards screenings. Awards 3 will be streaming Sunday, March 29 at 7:45pm-10:30pm EDT. We are also making arrangements to show the three awarded feature films Monday, March 30 beginning at 4pm EDT.
Without further ado, the Ann Arbor Film Festival is proud to announce this year’s award-winning filmmakers selected by jurors, Osbert Parker, Lynne Sachs, and Lisa Steele.
The 2020 awards competition presents $22,500 to filmmakers through mostly cash and some in-kind awards such as film stock, film processing, camera equipment, and digital scanning services.
An award from the AAFF confers prestige and financial support; it can also qualify filmmakers for an Oscar® nomination by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the short film category.
Qualifying awards are the Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival, the Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film, the Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film, and Best Experimental Film. See the full list of award winners below.
58th Ann Arbor Film Festival Awards
Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival
Goodbye Fantasy - Amber Bemak and Nadia Granados
Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker
I Dream of Vietnam - Jiayu Yang
Kodak Cinematic Vision Award
E-Ticket - Simon Liu
Best Experimental Film
Video Blues - Emma Tusell
Best Documentary Film
Kere mattu Kere (The Lake and The Lake) - Sindhu Thirumalaisamy
Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film
The Golden Legend - Chema García Ibarra and Ion de Sosa
Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film
Freeze Frame - Soetkin Verstegen
Cutters Studios Archival Film Award
The Deepest Hole - Matt McCormick
Gil Omenn Art & Science Award
Home in the Woods - Brandon Wilson
Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film
SPENCER'S SLIGHTLY IMPERFECT PEEP SHOW A.K.A. MICRO-BURLESQUE - Gary Schwartz
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I’m Not A Robot - Sean Buckelew
The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for an Emerging Experimental Video Artist
Scar - Leilei Xia
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Someday - Páraic Mc Gloughlin
The Eileen Maitland Award
Umbilical - Danski Tang
PROCAM Best Regional Filmmaker Award
Blue - Laura Magnusson
George Manupelli Founder’s Spirit Award
Queering di Teknolojik - Timothy Smith
The No Violence Award
Green Ash (Ceniza Verde) - Pablo Mazzolo
UMCU Audience Award
Tetlalli: The Place of Stones - Miguel Nájera
Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design
Who’s Afraid of RGB? - Billy Roisz
Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film
Vertigo A.I. - Chris Peters
Tíos Award for Best International Film
The Eyes of Summer - Rajee Samarasinghe
\aut\ FILM Award for Best LGBTQ Film
Why Can't I Be Me? Around You - Harrod Blank
Overture/Wazoo Award for Best Music Video
Diamonds - Tobias Kubli and Tillo Spreng
Juror Awards
KIDS-Michael Frei
Fifth Metacarpal - Scott Fitzpatrick
The Giverny Document - Ja'Tovia Gary
Framing Agnes - Chase Joynt and Kristen Schilt
Flesh - Camila Kater
Colors & Shadows - Andreas Hadjipateras
Candy Shop - Patrick Smith
Aphasia or (It Fell Upon My Mind) - Brynne McGregor
Goodbye Mommy - Jack Wedge
Throat Singing in Kangirsuk - Eva Kaukai and Manon Chamberland
Thorax - Siegfried A. Fruhauf
