AFI Dallas announces 2008 award winners

by John P. Meyer

Organizers of the second annual AFI Dallas International Film Festival have announced the winners in their competitive categories. These include:

JURY AWARDS

Target Ten Narrative Feature: Mermaid, dir. Anna Melikyan (Russia)

Honorable Mention: Bad Habits, dir. Simón Bross (Mexico)

Target Ten Documentary Feature: Iron Ladies of Liberia, dir. Daniel Junge (USA)

Current Engergy Earth Friendly: Fields of Fuel, dir. Josh Tickell

MPS Studios Texas: Cook County, dir. David Pomes

Honorable Mention: Ciao, dir. Yen Tan (USA)

HDNet Feature: Tracing Cowboys (whose dir., Jason Wulfsohn, we interviewed here)

Short: The Second Line, dir. John Magary (USA)

Honorable Mention: A Catalog of Anticipations, dir. David Lowery (USA)

Student Short: The Vulnerable Ones (Les Vulnerables), dir. Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt (Congo/USA)

Honorable Mention: A Day's Work, dir. Rajeev Dassani (USA)

Animated Short: Key Lime Pie, dir. Trevor Jimenez (Canada)

AUDIENCE AWARDS

Narrative: Amal, dir. Richie Mehta (Canada)

Documentary: The Black List, dir. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (USA)

Short: A Day's Work, dir. Rajeev Dassani (USA)

The AFI Dallas narrative feature jury members included Steven Sawalich (whose film, The Music Within, premiered on the opening night of the inaugural AFI Dallas International Film Festival last year); Elvis Mitchell (former NY Times film critic and producer of The Black List); and Trevor Goth (former Senior Programmer at Sundance, then Dir. of Programming at Cinevegas).

Further details are here.