Ann Arbor Film Festival names award winners

AWARDS:

Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival - $3,000 (co-winners) "Beauty Plus Pity" - Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby "Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis" - Daichi Saito

Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film - $1,000 "Seven Songs About Thunder" - Jennifer Reeder "Some Days Are Better Than Others" - Matthew McCormick

Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film - $1,000 "Please Say Something" - David Bailey

The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist - $1,000 Jesse McLean ("Somewhere Only We Know")

Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film - $1,000 "El ataque de los robotos de Nebulosa-5" - Chema Garcia Ibarra "Passage Briare" - Friedl vom Groller (Kubelka)

Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film - $500 "Travelling Fields" - Inger Lise Hansen

\aut\FILM Award for Best LGBT Film - $500 "City of Borders" - Yun Suh

Award for Best Sound Design - $500 "Wayfare" - Sylvia Schedelbauer

Award for Best Experimental Film WIT’S END - $1,000 "The Presentation Theme" - Jim Trainor

Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film - $1,000 "Bernadette" - Duncan Campbell

Kodak/Filmcraft Imaging Award for Best Cinematography - $3,000 ($1,500 film plus $1,500 processing) "Songs from the Shed" - Melika Bass "I Know Where I’m Going" - Ben Rivers

Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker - $1,000 Laida Lertxundi ("My Tears Are Dry")

Best International Film - $750 "Lost World" - Gyula Nemes

Best Michigan Filmmaker - $500 "Sleeping Bear" - Jack Cronin

Food Gatherers Feeding the Soul Award - $500 "Portrait #3: House of Sound" - Vanessa Renwick

The Eileen Maitland Award - $500 "Twist of Fate" - Karen Aqua

The No Violence Award - $500 "Golden Hour" - Robert Todd

Jury Awards - $1,200 The City is Cinema Award: "Vineland" - Laura Kraning The Doubling of Space Award: "Simultaneous Contrast" - Chris Kennedy The False Fiction Award: "Atlantropa" - Samuel Stevens The Lost and Found Award: "From the Archives of an Inventor" - Stephen Wetzel The Map of Time Award: "Piensa en Mi" - Alexandra Cuesta The Memory and Magic Award: "A Letter to Uncle Boonmee" - Apichatpong Weerasethakul