RIFF 2018 Award Nominations

2018 Ridgefield Independent Film Festival Announces Festival Award Nominees
 
All films in the festival are eligible for Awards consideration. The competition sections include 18 feature documentaries, 13 narratives and 72 shorts that are making their Connecticut debut over the course of the 4-day festival. The films in competition will compete for cash prizes totaling $7,500. One of the first awards to honor excellence in in the craft of moviemaking, the Romer Award for Excellence in Filmmaking, presented by Catherine and Edward Romer, will award a $2500 prize.
 
On October 18 during the festival’s Opening Night festivities, the prize for the previously announced Joe Consentino Emerging Filmmaker Award was awarded to director Noor Gharzeddine, for her narrative film Are You Glad I’m Here. Sandra Consentino, the widow of Joe Consentino presented the award. In Are You Glad I’m Here a millennial American girl befriends a Lebanese housewife and disrupts her ordered life; one night they become accidental partners-in-crime. The film plays Saturday, October 20 at 6:00pm at the Ridgefield Playhouse. After the film, Ms. Gharzeddine will participate in a Q&A. The “Joe Consentino Emerging Filmmaker Award” was sponsored by the Consentino Family.
 
Below is the list of Juried Film Nominees. All winners will be announced at the RIFF Awards, Saturday, October 20 at 10:15pm taking place at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
 
Best Narrative Feature sponsored by Janice and Mike Hess: Beauty Mark California NoThe Divine OrderMary Goes Roundand Wake.
Best Environmental Film, sponsored by Woodson & Tina Duncan:  The Devil We Know,From Seed to Seed,Rise of the Warrior ApesThe Guardians and Vermont Fancy. 
Most Original Filmsponsored by John Reznikoff and University Archives: 2030Driver is Red Catching Sight of Thelma & LouiseIntimity,Agua Viva and High Resolution.
Best Narrative Short, sponsored by TownVibe Media: The CameramanKnuckles, Like GlassRakeShe Came Knockings and The Things You Think I'm Thinking.
Best Animated Shortsponsored by Passion Pictures (Shannon Lewis,) Two BalloonsCorkySoggy FlakesIntimityAgua VivaGarden PartyLate Afternoon and Labyrinth.
Best Sci-Fi/Horror Short, sponsored by:  The ReplacementReal ArtistsGotasThe Merciless BeautyMilk and Taste the Spider.

 

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