Best Drama: In/Significant Others

Best Comedy: Ready Or Not

Best Documentary: My Run

Best Foreign Film: Bitter/Sweet

Best Narrative Short: Whose Dog Is It Anyway?

Best Documentary Short: On The Grind

Best Green Film: Dive!

Best Extreme Sports Film: Second Nature

Best Picture: Ready Or Not

That’s it! Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you to all of this year’s participating films and filmmakers. Stay tuned for more wrap up, stories, photos, etc…

Best Drama: In/Significant Others
Best Comedy: Ready Or Not
Best Documentary: My Run
Best Foreign: Bitter/Sweet

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to all the great films that participated. Winning category films are screening today to determine the overall Best Picture winner — please check the schedule page or come to registration for showtimes.

The remaining winners, including Shorts, Green, and Extreme Sports, will be announced at the Awards Party tonight at Whitebark at the Westin.

In the drama category, In/Significant Others and Easier With Practice move on. In Comedy it’s Ready Or Not and 16 To Life. Documentaries going on are My Run and 9000 Needles. And in foreign, Bitter/Sweet and Speed Dating.

So round two is:
• In/Significant Others vs Easier With Practice
• Ready Or Not vs 16 To Life
• My Run vs 9000 Needles
• Bitter/Sweet vs Speed Dating

Screening times are on the schedule page.

Round two voting continues until midnight tonight (details available at registration or at the venues). Please remeber that you must see both films in a bracket in order to cast an eligible vote.

Congratulations to everyone, and good luck!

What does it take to become and international marathon runner? In 1985, 102 British male runners ran under 2 hours 20 minutes for the marathon — only 5 managed this same feat 20 years later. British distance running had all but disappeared but why?

16 stone, smoker, obese, heavy drinking filmmaker Alex Vero takes a introspective look at the decline of British marathon running and to find out first hand what it takes to become an international marathon runner.

The documentary delves into changes in UK society and the cultural and social differences between the British and East African athletes, who now dominate the sport. Vero’s journey from fat slob to elite athlete takes him on a journey across the world where his story becomes intertwined with Britain’s brightest hope for 2012, Oxford graduate Ben Moreau and exceptionally talented Ethiopian bellboy Mengsitu Abebe.

A film noir – comedy about a down and out detective, Rock Slyde (Patrick Warburton), sometimes brilliant often times clueless, who gets his first case in a while from a femme fatale (Rena Sofer). While he’s away his nemesis Bart (Andy Dick), the leader of a cult religion called Bartology, who has plans to take over his building and the world, brainwashes Rock’s trusty secretary, Judy Bee (Elaine Hendrix). Rock must infiltrate the House of Bartology to get her back.

The ‘Ballet Studio’ in Southern California, has trained some of the best ballet dancers in the country. Follow the journey of two attractive, young dancers who overcome various obstacles as they prepare to dance the romantic leads opposite each other in the annual production of ‘The Nutcracker.’ As the opening night draws near, Mr. Mark, the ballet School director and choreographer, leads our cameras through the rigorous process of casting, rehearsing and preparing the stage for his unique version of the most popular Ballet of all time. This film will take you behind the scenes, in the rehearsal hall, and ultimately onstage under the spotlights, in order to experience the honestly exposed triumphs, follies and heartbreaks of the dance world. This holiday season in sunny California, one learns quickly that The Nutcracker is not all that it’s “cracked” up to be.

Filmed on location, The Making of The Nutcracker features the remarkable students, parents, and teachers of “The Ballet Studio” as they rigorously prepare the stage for the ballet. Whether or not you’ve ever danced a step in your life, this passion-packed film is sure to inspire your soul and touch your heart.

A story about four very different characters, three of them men, one a mountain.
A dramatic and awe-inspiring feature documentary following three of the world s greatest ski mountaineers to the Mount St Elias in their attempt to realize the longest ski descent of the world.

Set against the backdrop of Alaska s dangerous beauty, Mount St Elias is about a visionary borderline experience where unparalleled physical and mental pressure pushes them to the absolute limit. They find themselves in puristic situations, in which heroism cannot easily be distinguished from folly. Situations which can only be mastered if rationality is abandoned and in which courage as well as trust in their own abilities and last but not least luck are used as guidelines.

Two Austrian ski alpinists Axel Naglich and Peter Ressmann as well as the American freeski pro Jon Jonhston are facing this breathtaking challenge. A team with individual abilities, but also a team of leaders, knowing they literally cannot survive without teamwork and cooperation. Especially Axel Naglich, he unconsciously takes the role of the protagonist due to his authentic personality and, within the permanent struggle not against nature but against himself, polarizes as a strong character. A movie that finally shows why it is the mountains which unite lethal danger and delirious happiness.

The Elk Mountains Grand Traverse backcountry ski race cuts through forty miles of the most tumultuous and challenging terrain separating in the Western Hemisphere. This event gives 240 competitors, in teams of two, the opportunity to prove themselves against countless obstacles from the midnight start in Crested Butte, Colorado to the finish line, across the Elk Mountains, in Aspen, Colorado. Friends of Friends Productions has been working hard to bring the events that unfold in those forty miles, to the eyes and ears of the broader American public. The film provides a unique perspective that follows competitors, race organizers, and even a few spectators as they move through the 8-16+ grueling hours it takes to reach the finish line. The film has been shot under the auspices of the direct cinema style of documentary film. It establishes the athletes, not as talking heads to the viewers, but rather captures and presents the race in it’s most raw form. In this way, the film portrays the true essence of the race and the surrounding environment. This documentary provides viewers with an in-depth look at one of the most astounding endurance races in the Americas.

Filmed during the 2008-2009 winter season at Mammoth Mountain, Sheer Bliss captures the style, music, and cinematography of classic Warren Miller films. From dark stormy days to epic blue bird mornings, this film focuses on the different moods that riding provides.