DALLAS International Film Festival announces 2010 competition winners, fetes honorees

The ballroom of the Palomar Hotel hosted the gala dinner and awards ceremony.

courtesy DALLAS Intl Film Fest

Michael Cain, Wally Pfister, Frank Darabont, Arthur E. Benjamin

Organizers of the DALLAS International Film Festival held their gala awards ceremony last night in the ballroom of the Hotel Palomar. (Stay tuned for complete photo coverage of the red carpet held prior to the event.)

Event attendees included DALLAS Star Award recipient John Lee Hancock (dir. The Blind Side) who presented the Target Filmmaker Awards. Dallas Star Awards were also handed out to Frank Darabont (dir. The Shawshank Redemption) and cinematographer Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight). The Tex Avery Animation Award was bestowed upon Pete Docter (Up).

Winners in the various competition categories were:

JURY AWARDS

Target Narrative Feature: The Dry Land, dir. Ryan Piers Williams (USA)

Target Documentary Feature: Waste Land, dir. Lucy Walker (Brazil/UK)

Special Jury Prize: The Last Survivor, dir. Michael Pertnoy, Michael Kleiman (USA)

Special Mention, Editing: Thunder Soul (for Clair Didier), dir. Mark Landsman (USA)

MPS Studios Texas Filmmaker Award: American: The Bill Hicks Story, dir. Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas (UK)

Special Jury Prize: Harmony and Me, dir. Robert Byington (USA)

Environmental Visions Filmmaker Award: Climate Refugees, dir. Micael Nash (USA)

Short: Quadrangle, dir. Amy Grappell (USA)

Special Jury Prize: B.U.S.T., dir. David Call (USA)

Special Jury Prize: Monkeywrench, dir. Chris Teague (USA)

Special Jury Prize: Voice on the Line, dir. Kelly Sears (USA)

Special Mention, Acting: Jade (for Aisling Loftus), dir. Daniel Elliot (UK)

Student Short: Procession, dir. Beth Spitalny (USA)

Special Mention: Young Love, dir. Ariel Kleiman (Australia)

Animated Short: Runaway, dir. Cordell Barker (Canada)

courtesy DALLAS Intl Film Fest

DALLAS International Film Fest 2010 award winners (l. to r.): Aubin Peterson, Mike Peterson, Jason Crawford (BROTHERHOOD), Rachel Hicks (AMERICAN: THE BILL HICKS STORY), Andre Jones (MR. OKRA), Mark Landsman (THUNDER SOUL), Amy Grappell (QUADRANGLE), Ryan O'Nan (THE DRY LAND), Emilia Mello (WASTE LAND), Jason Berman (THE DRY LAND), Michael Nash (CLIMATE REFUGEES)

AUDIENCE AWARDS:

Narrative: Brotherhood, dir. WIll Canon (USA)

Documentary: Thunder Soul, dir. Mark Landsman

Short: Mr. Okra, dir. T.G. Herrington (USA)

TXU FAST FORWARD VIDEO CONTEST WINNERS:

$7500 prize to Lights Off, dir. Alex Nelson, Drew Mowrey, Zach Zador (Garland High School)

$2500 prize to The Effects of One, dir. Michael Nowak (Richardson High School)

$1500 prize to Ener G'z, dir. Ladon Ghannadpour, Brandon Cantrell (Garland High School)

posted by JM