AIFVF 2020 and 2021 Award Winners
Thank you to our 2020/2021 Distinguished Jury: Tony Buba, Jan McMannis, Amber Bemak, Nadia Granados, Bill Brown, Sabine Gruffat
Programmers Prize (Awarded by the Programming Team)
Execution
Director: Stavit Allweis, Experimental, USA, 48 min.
From the Booth Prize (Awarded by Dan and Dan of the projection team)
Eat the Rainbow
Director: Brian Benson, Narrative, USA, 20 min.
2020 Jury Awards
Feature Narrative 2020
Holler
Director: Nicole Riegel, Narrative, USA, 88 min.
Feature Documentary 2020
Cinema Pameer
Director: Martin von Krogh, Documentary, Afghanistan, 80 min.
Animation 2020
Hi,Crows
Director: Zehong Zhu, Animation, UK, 5 min.
Narrative Short 2020
Ship: a Visual Poem
Director: Terrance Daye, Narrative, USA, 12 min.
Documentary Short 2020
The Mortician of Manila
Director: Leah Borromeo, Documentary, Philippines, 25 min.
Experimental Short 2020
We Were Hardly More Than Children
Director: Cecelia Condit, Experimental, USA, 9 min.
Music Video 2020
Emotions in Metal
Director: Tommy Becker, Experimental, 21 min.
Research Award 2020 (Sponsored by Ohio University Libraries)
Amazonia
Director: Roger Beebe, Documentary, 25 min.
Black Bear Award 2020 (For the best use of sound)
Duet
Director: John Muse, Experimental, USA, 11 min.
Film House Award 2020 (For Visionary Filmmaking)
Those That Tremble as if They Were Mad
Director: Salma Shamel, Experimental, Egypt, USA, 11 min.
Jury Mentions 2020
Black Sheep Boy
Director: James Molle, Animation, France, 15 min
Umbilical
Director: Danski Tang, Animation, China, USA, 7 min.
They Salivate
Director: Ariane Boukerche, Narrative, France, 20 min.
Coby and Stephen Are In Love
Directors: Carlo Nasisse, Yuanyuan Yang, Documentary, USA, 28 min.
Spontaneous
Director: Lori Felker, Documentary, USA, 14 min.
Strip and War
Director: Andrei Kutsila, Documentary, Belarus, Poland, 69 min.
Jury Awards 2021
Feature Narrative 2021
Toprak
Director: Sevgi Hirschhäuser, Narrative, Turkey, 106 mins.
Feature Documentary 2021
Film About a Father Who
Director: Lynne Sachs, Documentary, USA, 74 mins.
Animation 2021
Average Happiness
Director: Maja Gehrig, Animation, Switzerland, 7 mins.
Narrative Short 2021
Drifting
Director: Hanxiong Bo, Narrative, China, Spain, 16 mins.
Documentary Short 2021
The Long Wait
Director: Shuang Li, Documentary, China, USA, 26 mins.
Experimental Short 2021
The Truth About Hastings
Director: Dan S, Experimental, USA, 10 mins.
Music Video 2021
Pirate Bay
Director: Lisa Truttmann, Music Video, UK, Austria, 6 mins.
Research Award 2021 (Sponsored by Ohio University Libraries)
My Favorite Software is Being Here
Director: Alison Nguyen, Animation, USA, 20 mins.
Film House Award 2021 (For Visionary Filmmaking)
Drills
Director: Sarah Friedland, Experimental, USA, 17 mins.
Black Bear Award 2021 (For the best use of sound)
New Mexico Deathwish Diatribe
Director: Georg Koszulinski, Experimental, USA, 12 mins.
Jury Mentions 2021
Helfer
Director: Szöllősi Anna, Animation, Hungary, 10 mins.
Then Comes the Evening
Director: Maja Novaković, Documentary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 mins.
Another Horizon
Director: Stephanie M. Barber, Experimental, USA, 9 mins.
Off the Road
Director: José Permar, Documentary, Mexico, 78 mins.