The Winners of the 2009 Woods Hole Film Festival
BEST OF THE FEST - SHOOTING BEAUTY by George Kachadorian
Juried Awards
Best Narrative Feature Film - TRUCKER by James Mottern
Best Documentary Feature Film - SAINT MISBEHAVIN': THE WAVY GRAVY MOVIE by Michelle Esrick
Best Narrative Short Film - WILLIAM'S CHRISTENING by Josh Hume
Best Documentary Short Film - MAKING THE CROOKED STRAIGHT by Susan Cohn Rockefeller
Best Animated Short Film - THE FINGERTRAP by Julia L. McLean
Audience Awards
Best of the Fest - SHOOTING BEAUTY by George Kachadorian
Best Narrative Feature Film - LI TONG by Nian Liu
Best Documentary Feature Film - SAINT MISBEHAVIN': THE WAVY GRAVY MOVIE by Michelle Esrik
Best Dramatic Short - UNMOORED by Yari Wolinksy
Best Comedy Short - RED FLAG by Sheila Curran Dennin
Best Documentary Short - MAKING THE CROOKED STRAIGHT by Susan Cohn Rockefeller
Best Animated Short - HORN DOG by Bill Plympton
Best Cape Cod Section - MOW CREW by Taylor Toole
Best Children's Short - OLLIE AND THE BAKED HALIBUT by Kelly Williamson
DIRECTOR'S CHOICE AWARDS
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Feature- THE COVE by Louie Psyihoyos, Cinematographer, Brooke Aitken
Short- CONTRITION by John Stimpson, Cinematographers, Gary Henoch, Matt Thurber
EMERGING NEW ENGLAND FILMMAKER
James Waldron, FISHERMAN OF PLUM ISLAND
Screenwriting Competition
COMEDY
Winner - They Might Be Kennedys by Ted Collins, LA, California
Second Place - La Japonaise by Karen Webb, Hopkinton, Massachusetts
Third Place - One Down Clown by Heidi Sullivan, Boston, Massachusetts
DRAMA
Winner - I'm Not Down by Josh Robbins, Staatsburg, New York
Second Place - Snake Head by Wenhwa Ts'ao, Chicago, Illinois
Third Place - Fin Chaser by Maria Cozzi, Santa Monica, California
SCI-FI/HORROR
Winner - The Sleeping Deep by Jeffrey Blake Palmer, Davis, California
Second Place - Orientation by Kelly Romanski, Washington, DC
Third Place - Killing the Brides by Douglas Berube, Falmouth, MA
SHORT
Winner - Jasper Man by Michael Sadler, Los Angeles, California
Second Place (TIE) - The Loadstone by Robert Pascoal, La Mesa, California
Second Place (TIE) - Time and Tide by Ron Podell, Ypsilanti, Michigan
SCIENCE
Winner - Walrus Eating Baloney by Benjamin Bates, Mesa Arizona
Second Place - Voices by Susan Klos, Los Angeles, California
Third Place - Donors by Leslie Becker, Montpelier, Vermont