The just-ended Independent Film Festival of Boston has announced their 2007 award winners:
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The Grand Jury Prizes went to Julia Loktev's "Day Night Day Night" (Narrative Feature) -- probably the best-regarded film in the entire festival -- Seth Gordon's "The King of Kong" (Documentary Feature), and Moon Molson's "Pop Foul" (Short Film).
Special Jury Prizes (i.e., second place) went to Reg Harkema's "Monkey Warfare" (Narrative Feature), David Redmon and Ashley Sabin's "Kamp Katrina" (Documentary Feature), and John Thompson's "Songbird" (Short Film).
If the jury prizes tend to reward filmmaking rigor, the audience awards generally favor pleasing experiences. This year's Audience Awards went to David Kaplan's "Year of the Fish" (Narrative Feature), Logan Smalley's "Darius Goes West" (Documentary Feature), and Cynthia Wade's "Freeheld" (Short Film).
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Special prizes: The Apple Programmer's Choice Award (presumably selected by the festival programmers) went to Steve Collins' "Gretchen." The Dewars Collective Choice Award (voted on by scotch drinkers everywhere?) went to "Year of the Fish." The Best Marketing award was given to Naomi Greenfield and Sara Taksler's "Twisted: A Balloonamentary".
See you next year, everybody.
