Film fest gets rave reviews for inaugural performance
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THE Winnipeg International Film Festival called a wrap on its inaugural four-day film orgy yesterday morning, with respectable attendance and rave reviews from many of the filmmakers from around the world who attended, according to organizer Rod Bruinooge.
“It definitely met our expectations,” Bruinooge said of the film fest, which screened some 87 films — short and feature-length — at the Ramada Entertainment Centre, Cinematheque and the Winnipeg Contemporary Dance Studios since Thursday evening.
“It started nicely on Thursday, it built on Friday, and Saturday we were actually quite busy,” he said. “In all, more than 1,850 went through the gate,” he said, adding that was a respectable showing for a festival in its first year, with relatively limited resources.
“The feedback from the filmmakers has been outstanding,” Bruinooge said, referring to a host of filmmakers from as far away as Australia and Britain who came to town to attend the festival.
Yesterday morning, the festival officially wrapped after handing out 14 awards at the Fairmont Hotel to the best of the fest. And if the world came to Winnipeg for the duration of the festival, the hometown crowd threw its support behind a Winnipeg drama – Adam Smoluk’s first feature, Horsethieves, which came away with the Audience Choice Award, narrowly beating out New Yorker Paul Borghese’s entry Looking for Bobby D, which won an honourable mention in that category. The Audience Choice Award in the short film category went to Jump: A Dreamer’s Day.
The festival’s juried awards included:
Best Narrative Feature: Pearl Diver
Best Narrative Short: The Fix
Best sci-fi feature: Experiment
Best sci-Fi Short: The Light of Eons
Best Comedic: Samuel DeMango
Best Documentary Feature: Video Out
Best Documentary Short: Cheating Death
Best Experimental: No Gray Twilight
Best Animation: The Mantis Parable
Special Jury Award: Saddam 17
Special Jury Award: Phaid