FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 20, 2002
Contact: Jenny Grimm @ (520) 358-2317
Or (520) 628-1737
2002 REEL FRONTIER FILM AND VIDEO
COMPETITION WINNERS
ARIZONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The winners of the 2002 Arizona International Film Festival’s
REEL FRONTIER FILM AND VIDEO COMPETITION were
announced April 19, 2002 at a special evening awards reception.
Works were chosen from several different categories as winners.
Best Documentary Feature went to Children-Kosovo 2000
(Ferenc Moldoványi) which illuminated the stories of young children
as the defenseless victims of a terrible war, while Chip Hourihan’s
Glissando, a heart-breaking film about life in Gila Bend in the 70’s,
was honored with the award for Best Narrative Feature.
Other winners include:
Dave West’s Puddlejumper, the story of Montezuma’s
true revenge: what happens when human nature meets
mother nature, which left with the award for Best Comedy;
Morning Breath (Brin Hill), an ode to the power of love and the
energy of an urban city, took home Best Short Take; Passage
(Chel White) which juxtaposes underwater portraits of people
with archival films of war and atrocities won Best Experimental;
and Life Shelter (Toshiharu Takatsuka), a profile of the valiant
effort of animal shelter workers, received the award for Best
Short Documentary.
The winner for Best of Arizona was John Laben’s The Bird Feeder,
the destruction of a young illegal immigrant’s dream for a better life
in the United States.
Special Jury Awards were given to the films Bang the Machine
(Tamara Katepoo), about a street Fighter video game tournament,
Border (Annette Solakoglu) the story of a border crossing, an old
man, and a goose; Yvette Fernandez’s, Native Wisdom, a dramatic
tale of a tracker from the Tohono O’odham nation; and Tale of the
Floating World (Alain Escalle) a man’s memories of Hiroshima.
For further information, call (520) 628-1737, write to
P.O. Box 431, Tucson, AZ 85702-0431,
or log on to www.azfilmfest.com.
The Arizona International Film Festival is a project of the
Arizona Media Arts Center and is sponsored by Pima County,
the Tucson Pima Arts Council, Cox Communications, the
Grand cinemas, the Tucson Film Office, the University of
Arizona College of Fine Arts, and the Department of Media Arts.
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