Here are the final results for Portland own film festival. Great turnout, great films. Click here for The Scorecard Review's coverage of the fest.
And now on to the press release ...
The Northwest Film Center Announces The 32nd Portland International Film Festival’s Audience Awards
The 31,000 audience members at this year’s 32nd Portland International Film Festival have selected their favorite films from among the 78 feature and 36 shorts screened February 6-22.
Tying for first place for Best Feature Award are Toa Frazer’s DEAN SPANLEY (New Zealand) and Dorie Dörrie’s CHERRY BLOSSOMS (Germany). Two films also tied for the Best Documentary Award—Festival guest Jennifer Grausman’s film PRESSURE COOKER (US), co-directed with Mark Becker, and Agnés Varda’s THE BEACHES OF AGNÉS (France), both of which tied for second place in the overall balloting. The winner of the Best New Director Award is Amin Matalga, for CAPTAIN ABU RAED (Jordan).
This year’s Short Film Award goes to Portland filmmaker Heather Harlow for NOUS DEUX ENCORE.
PIFF 32 OREGONIAN AUDIENCE AWARDS
FEATURES BEST FEATURE AWARD WINNERS 1. DEAN SPANLEY / New Zealand / Toa Frazer CHERRY BLOSSOMS / Germany / Doris Dörrie BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD WINNERS 2. PRESSURE COOKER / US / Jennifer Grausman, Mark Becker THE BEACHES OF AGNÉS / France / Agnès Varda 3. THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE / Canada / Benoît Pilon 4. REVANCHE / Austria / Götz Spielmann BEST NEW DIRECTOR AWARD 5. CAPTAIN ABU RAED / Jordan / Amin Matalqa 6. THE ENGLISH SURGEON / Great Britain / Geoffrey Smith 7. SUGAR / US / Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck WORLDS APART / Denmark / Niels Arden Oplev 8. WOLF, THE LAWS OF WILDERNESS / Sweden / Daniel Alfredson 9. SEREPHINE / France / Martin Provost 10. EVERLASTING MOMENTS / Sweden / Jan Troell 11. HOME OF DARK BUTTERFLIES / Finland / Dome Karukoski 12. KATYN / Poland / Andrzej Wajda 13. LEMON TREE / Israel / Eran Riklis 14. HUNGER / Great Britain / Steve McQueen 15. MOSCOW, BELGIUM / Belgium / Christophe Van Rompaey MILKING THE RHINO / US / David E. Simpson 16. THE BAADER-MEINHOF COMPLEX / Germany / Uli Edel 17. O’HORTEN / Norway / Bent Hamer 18. THE GARDEN / US / Scott Hamilton Kennedy 19. THE GREAT BUCK HOWARD / US / Sean McGinley 20. THE BLACK BALLOON / Australia / Elissa Down
SHORTS BEST SHORT AWARD 1. NOUS DEUX ENCORE / US / Heather Harlow 2. TOYLAND / Germany / Jochen Alexander Freydank 3. THE WEDNESDAYS / Ireland / Conor Ferguson 4. PROCRASTINATION / Great Britain / Johnny Kelly 5. THE LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY / US / Byrd McDonald
The Festival is produced by the Northwest Film Center, a regional media arts resource and service organization founded to encourage the study, appreciation, and utilization of the moving image arts, foster their artistic and professional excellence, and to help create a climate in which they flourish. In addition to the Portland International Film Festival, the Center produces the annual Northwest Film & Video Festival, Portland Jewish Film Festival and a variety of year-round of film and video exhibition, educational and information programs serving Oregon and residents of the Northwest.