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Best Picture – Tontine Massacre

Best Drama – Tontine Massacre
Best Documentary – Fast Women
Best Comedy – 10 Years Later

Best Narrative Short – Butterfly Circus
Best Green Film – How To Boil a Frog
Best Extreme Sports Film – Race Across The Sky
Best Faith-Based Film – Jesus Freaks

Best Director – Joshua Weigel (Butterfly Circus)
Best Actor – Fred Stoller (Fred & Vinnie)
Best Actress – Malerie Grady (Sissy)

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to all our filmmakers! More news and pictures from the event will be posted in the coming days…

Happy Holidays!

At 10,000+ feet, against the misty backdrop of a former mining town, Leadville, Colorado, 1228 cyclists line the starting line. For many, it will be the most difficult race of their lives. For some, a bragging right to say they raced alongside the best in the world. Some imagine victory. Most hope only to finish. But everyone will count.

The race that started 25 years ago as a running race to drive tourism in Leadville has now grown to a lottery cap of 1000+ competitors, many of them the world’s most elite cyclists. But the Leadville Trail 100 “Race Across the Sky” Mountain Bike Race is not just a race of man against man:  it’s man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. elements, man vs. time. A clock set for 12 grueling hour’s slugs through 100 miles, over 14,000 vertical feet of climbing, some two miles above sea level, through extreme climate changes ranging from heat to hail, from rain to snow.  To the racers, the risks of injury, fatigue and mechanical failure pale next to the chance that they will fall behind the 12 hour cut off mark and be eliminated.

Rivalries include six-time defending champion Dave Wiens vs. international star / seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.  Inspirational stories of human triumph include a Leadville woman rider who was critically injured by a car while training for last year’s race, another who suffers from multiple sclerosis, and 45+ rider who has raced all 15 years.

Whether they’re international stars of the sport or everyday folks with the will to finish a race whose difficulty is on par with the Ironman, the grit to push to their own physical and emotional limits strikes an elegant symmetry between racer and environment and a struggling former mining town whose very existence now relies on the tourism generated by this race.

Biography of Joe Rivas, a man lives a full life despite the severe disability caused by cerebral palsy.

I am 100 million years old, conceived by the union of tectonic plates, thrust through the Earth’s mantle, battered by storms, and bright with light.

Rev is an action packed ski film with a strong documentary influence.

“Walk In The Clouds” is a story in three chapters.

Chapter One (03:00 min.):
The film begins with a Voice over monologue by the Ranger (Robert Redford). Leo Kottke solo guitar music mixed over a lush background of ambient mountain forest sounds is behind the voice over. Visuals are striking still images of Glacier National Park. The Ranger describes, in his terms, what makes this park special to him. He touches on several themes very briefly, geology, climate change, wildlife and hopes it may trigger something in you, to go out and witness it for yourself, to Walk In The Clouds.

Chapter Two (06:00 min):
A distinct mood change. The Philip Glass Symphony Number Four, first movement “Heroes” begins. Visuals now are full color dramatic moving images of the park. There is no Voice Over. The visuals are showing all the things the Ranger was talking about previously. For six minutes the viewer in immersed in a wilderness dream.

Chapter Three (00:30 Min):
As the music and visuals begin to fade out the ranger comes back with a final statement about the importance of wilderness and the threat of loosing it.

All his life Kenneth Hsu has wanted to give back to China, his native country. And now he has the chance: translating the negotiations to rebuild Sichuan after a massive earthquake.
Problem is, he isn’t ‘Chinese enough’ for the diplomat from the People’s Republic.
How far will Kenneth and his girlfriend Marge go to get him the job of his dreams – and to change the world?

When his incarcerated father is transferred to a distant prison, fourteen year-old Jeremy must face life alone with his game-show addicted mother and his two violent, older half-brothers.

Hindered by his disparaging family in the bleakest trailer park west of Texas, Jeremy’s only hope is to follow his father’s lead in finding God…even though Palmdale, California seems like the last place God would be.

Aided only by his mother’s alcoholic boyfriend, and a local television preacher, Jeremy scours heaven and Earth for the love and the light that he so desperately craves.