Welcome to the Santa Cruz Film Festival
The Ninth Santa Cruz Film Festival wrapped up on Saturday, May 15 at the historic Del Mar Theatre with the Awards Ceremony and screening of the locally produced film, Etienne!. Thank you to everyone who showed up to celebrate the finale of our ninth edition.
2010 was the most successful in the Festival's history. A Festival record 4,400 film lovers joined us at the 51 screenings of 133 independent films from 13 countries, 40 of which were locally-produced, at the 5 educational panels that we hosted, and the parties we held every night all over Santa Cruz.
See John Warner's photographs of the Festival here. More will come soon so check back often.
The Westsiders and SCFF Teams. Photo courtesy of John Warner.
If you would like to contact any of the filmmakers from the 2010 Festival, please visit our PRINT SOURCES page where their contact information can be found.
Thank you to the Santa Cruz community which continues to support independent film and moving image art, and has demonstrated again the value and contribution the Festival brings to the cultural vitality of the greater Monterey Bay Area.
Our deepest gratitude goes out to our sponsors and partners, as well, whose material support of the Festival make it possible for us to bring exceptional independent film to Santa Cruz and allows us to further our mission of developing and producing creative educational programs.
Congratulations, finally, to the filmmakers. Your creative achievements are astounding and the Festival is proud to have presented your work to our dedicated and enthusiastic audiences. The diversity and originality of your work is an inspiration, and all who attended were enlightened, entertained and occasionally shocked by the images and messages you communicated.
The Festival looks forward to bigger and better things in the future. A solid foundation was laid this year upon which to develop new partnerships within the community, and to increase and improve our Festival and year-round educational and programmatic activities. Thank you and see you around town.
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Santa Cruz Film Festival Award Winners
Congratulations to the 16 films that were winners in the Grand Jury and Audience Award competitions. The works made by this creative, diverse group is truly remarkable. We are proud to be contributing to their success, and to supporting and celebrating the work of all 133 films the Festival presented in 2010. They’re all winners.
GRAND JURY PRIZE WINNERS
Best Narrative Feature
Do Elephants Pray? (Paul Hills, UK/France)
Emerging Filmmaker Prize
Machotaildrop (Corey Adams & Alex Craig, USA/Canada)
Best Documentary Feature
House of Numbers (Brent W. Leung, USA/UK/Canada/China/South Africa/Germany/France/Switzerland)
Best EarthVision Environmental Film
Burning in the Sun (Cambria Matlow & Morgan Robinson, USA/Mali)
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS
Morton Marcus Memorial Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature
Liquor Store Cactus (Eugene Kim, USA)
Best Documentary Feature
La Vie en Verte: The WAMM Movie (Charlie Hall & Bevin Bell-Hall, USA)
Best EarthVision Environmental Film
Paddle to Seattle: Journey through the Inside Passage (J.J. Kelley & Josh Thomas, USA)
Best Narrative Short
Cried Suicide (Lauren Palmigiano, USA)
Best Documentary Short
Ride a Wave (Rocky Romano, USA)
Best Animated Film
Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No (James Blagden, USA)
Best Experimental Work
Plastic and Glass (Tessa Joosse, France)
Best International Film
Garbage Dreams (Mai Iskander, USA/Egypt)
Best Locally Produced Work
Until We Meet Again… Building a School in Tanzania (Peggy Seltz, USA/Tanzania)
Best Student Produced Work
Annie in the Aisle of Irma (Tess Sweet, USA)
Evan Kuhn Memorial Audience Award for Best Youth-Produced Work
Youth Voices ’08 (Sydney Matterson, USA)
SPECIAL MENTION
Given by the Festival to a film that had a unique and special impact and response.
The Westsiders (Joshua Pomer, USA)
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Check out this video by Rocky Romano and The Go Big Project, creators of the Best Documentary Short Audience Award Winner, Ride a Wave. Find out more about The Go Big Project at www.keeptahoereal.com.
