AWARDS


2009 Atlanta Underground Film Festival Awards


Shorts:

Best Documentary Short
The Marina Experiment
Dir. Marina Lutz

Best Foreign Short
Landskaber
Dir. Kristoffer Kioerboe

Best Short Short
X-mess Detritus
Dir. Aurelio Voltaire

Best Horror Short
Lazarus Taxon
Dir. Denis Rovira

Best Sci-Fi Short
Attackazoids, Deploy!
Dir. Brian Lonano

Best Drama Short
The Sneakers
Dir. Dave Wells

Best Comedy Short
The Sleuth Incident
Dir. Jason Kupfer

Best Experimental Short
The Magnificent Jinn
Dir. Chris Minz

Best Experimental Animation
Milbe
Dir. Karl Tebbe

Best Erotic Short
Headshot
Dir. Jennifer Lyon Bell

Best Local Short
Bridge
Directed by: Frank Fearon

Audience Choice Award
The Ticket
Dir. Robert Eagar

2009 AUFF the Wall Award
Leperfuck
Dir. Drew Tobia



Features:

Best Feature
Modern Love is Automatic
Zach Clark

Best Foreign Feature
Myna Se Va
Dir. Sonia Escolano Pujante and Sadrac González Perellón

Best Drama Feature
Print
Ashley C. Beyer

Best Foreign Drama Feature
Four Roses
Dir. Kris De Meester

Best Director
Between Floors

Dir. Jen White

Best Screenplay
Oral Fixation
Dir. Jake Cashill

Best Comedy Feature
The Snake
Dir. Adam Goldstein

Best Foreign Comedy Feature
Emma Blue
Dir. Robert MacLean

Best Documentary Feature
Rocterrania
Dir. Brett Ingram

Best Foreign Documentary Feature
Hobby
Dir. Ciro Altabas

Best Action Feature
Barbariana: Queen of the Savages
Dir. Darren Herczeg

Best Animated Feature
Sita Sings the Blues
Dir. Nina Paley

Best Horror Feature
How To Be A Serial Killer
Dir. Luke Ricci

Best Local Feature
Vicktory to the Underdog
Dir. Brandon Bond




DocuFest Atlanta 2009 Awards:


Best Documentary Feature
The Nature of Existence
Dir. Roger Nygard

Best Director
Beyond the Call
Dir. Adrian Belic

Audience Choice Award
The Anatomy of Hate
Dir. Mike Ramsdell

Best Cinematography
Beauty of the Fight
Dir. John Urbano

Best Comedy Documentary
Zombie Girl: The Movie
Dir. Justin Johnson, Aaron Marshall, Erik Mauck

Best Social Documentary
Salute
Dir. Matt Norman

Best Environmental Documentary
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Dir. Sam Bozzo

Best Dramatic Documentary
The Human Experience
Dir. Charles Kinnane

Best International Documentary
Down the Road
Dir. Joel Christensen and Chris Gordon

Best Local Documentary
Living is Winning
Dir. Linda Burns

Most Inspirational Documentary
Shooting Beauty
Dir. George Kachadorian

Most Educational Documentary
Official Rejection
Dir. Paul Osborne

Best Documentary Short
Refurbished
Dir. John Spottswood Moore

Best International Documentary Short
Nous Deux Encore
Dir. Heather Harlow



Animation Attack 2009 Awards:

animation attack! best in show
astronomer's dream

best local animated short
anchorite

best foreign animated short
bait

best experimental animated short
milbe (mite)

best documentary animation
abductees


Atlanta Underground Film Festival
2008 Awards


Best Narrative Feature
Sex Galaxy
Dir. Mike Davis

Best Comedy Feature
Wiener Takes All
Dir. Shane MacDougall

Best Horror Feature
Blood on the Highway
Dir. Barak Epstein

Best Documentary Feature
Song Sung Blue
Dir. Greg Kohs

Best Foreign Feature
Cuba - Libre
Dir. Rai Garcia

Best Local Feature
Loaded Guns
Dir(s). Eli Banks, Julian Modugno, Jamie Garr

Best Animated Feature
John's Arm: Armageddon
Dir. Matty Boy Anderson

Best Director
Joshua von Brown
Altamont Now

Best Musical Score
More Shoes
Dir. Lee Kazimir

Audience Choice Award
1000 Journals
Dir. Andrea Kreuzhage

Best Short Film
God of Tears
Dir(s) Max Margulies and Naoko Masuda

Best Foreign Short
El Viaje de Said
Dir. Coke Rioboo


Best Narrative Short
The Adventure
Dir. Mike Brune

Best Experimental Short
An Indefinite Meandering of Words Left Unsaid
Dir. Lexi Lefkowitz

Best Sci-Fi Short
Attackazoids
Dir. Brian Lonano

Best Horror Short
A Break in the Monotony
Dir. Damien Slevin

Best Documentary Short
Returned: Child Soldiers of Nepal's Maoist Army
Dir. Robert Koenig

Best Comedy Short
Reeling
Dir. Jeremy Stevermer

Best Short Short
Transrexia
Dir. Voltaire

Best Local Short
Panels for the Walls of Hell
Dir. Blake Myers

2008 AUFF the Wall Award
Karaoke Show
Dir. Karl Tebbe

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DocuFest ATL
2008 Awards


Best Documentary
More Shoes
Dir. Lee Kazimir

Best Foreign Documentary
Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad
(A Little Bit of So Much Truth)

Dir. Jill Freidburg

Best Comedy Documentary
Wiener Takes All
Dir. Shane MacDougall

Best Drama Documentary
Calavera Highway
Dir. Renee Tajima-Pena & Evangeline Griego

Best Musical Documentary

Song Sung Blue
Dir. Greg Kohs

Best Director
Georg Kosulinski
Immokalee, USA

Most Inspirational Documentary
Love Limits
Dir. Thymaya Payne

Audience Choice Award
What Are We Doing Here?
Dir.(s) Brandon, Nicholas, Daniel & Tim Klein

Best Documentary Short
Heroes, No Hacen Falta Alas Para Volar
(Hero, Wings Are Not Necessary to Fly)

Dir. Angel Loza 

Best Experimental Documentary
Short
Teslamania
Dir. Joel Schlemowitz


Animation Attack 2008 !



Best Animated Short
Golden Age
Aaron Augenblick

Best Foreign Animated Short
Orgesticulanismus
Mathieu Labaye

 Best Student Animated Short
God of Tears
Max Margulies, Naoko Masuda

Best Local Animated Short
Maniacal
Em Kempf

Best Local Student Animation Short
Curtains
Amanda Goodbread

Best Dramatic Animated Short
Germans in the Woods
Tim Rauch

Most Impressive Animation Technique
Muto
BLU

Animation Attack! Audience Favorite
Marvelous, Keen, Loony Bin
Lizzi Akana

Best of the Second Annual Montezuma International Film Festival 2008:



Best Feature Film:
Sita Sings the Blues
Nina Paley

Best Narrative Feature:
Outsourced
John Jeffcoat

Best Documentary:
Love Limits
Thymaya Payne

Best Comedy Feature
Cuba-Libre
Rai García

Best Comedy Documentary
Wiener Takes All
Shane MacDougall

Best Director
Opposite Land
J. Michael Seyfert

Best Short Film
The Adventure
Mike Brune

Best Narrative Short
Victim
Roger D. Florez & Cesar Mazariegos

Best Animated Short
Muto
Blu

Best Local Short
400 Metros Planos
Federico Lang

Best Short Short
My Neighbor's Wife

Jonathan Yonkers

Best Drama Short
Pactum
Dir. J.F. Padron

Best Documentary Short

Hero, Wings Are Not Necessary to Fly

Dir. Angel Loza


Best Comedy Short
Made In Japan
Ciro Altabás


 

Best of Atlanta Horror Film Fest 2008




Best Feature Film
Blood on the Highway
Dirs. Barak Epstein, Blair Rowan 
www.bloodonthehighway.com

Best International Feature
Maldito Bastardo! (Damn Bastard!)
Dir. Javi Camino
www.malditobastardo.net

Best Director (Feature)
The Caretaker
Dir. Bryce Fridrik Olson
http://turkeyranchproductions.com/films.html

Best Screenplay
I Can See You

Dir. Graham Reznick
www.icanseeyoumovie.com

Best Short Film
See the Dead
Dir. Robert  W. Filion

Best Director (Short)
Peekers
Dir. Mark Steensland

Best International Short
Because There Are Things You Never Forget
Dir. Lucas Figueroa

Best Sci-Fi
Attackazoids!
Dir. Brian Lonano


Best Screenplay (Short)
Kirksdale
Dir. Ryan Spindell

Best Special FX
Eel Girl
Dir.  Paul Campion

Best Animated Horror
A Break in the Monotony
Dir. Damien Slevin


Festival League: Atlanta Underground Film Festival, DocuFest, Animation Attack!, Atlanta Horror Film Festival, Atlanta Shortsfest, Costa Rica International Film Festival, Montezuma Film Festival