After an amazing push by our Festival ballot volunteers, the results have been tabulated and we’re excited to announce the 36th Portland International Film Festival’s Alaska Airlines Audience Awards. Director Wayne Blair’s THE SAPPHIRES is the recipient of both the Best Narrative Award and the Best New Directors Award by our PIFF 36 audience. For the Best Documentary Award, the locally-shot film AMERICAN WINTER took the prize. Festival-goers deemed Khen Shalem’s THE OTHER SIDE the Best Short at the PIFF 36. And the Best Oregon Short Film Award goes to Orland Nutt’s DEAR PETER, WOODCHIPS I.
The full list of rankings rests below the photo.
NARRATIVE FEATURES
1) THE SAPPHIRES / Australia / Wayne Blair *BEST NARRATIVE AWARD
2) MASQUERADE / South Korea / Choo Chang-min
3) KON-TIKI / Norway / Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
4) CHINESE TAKE-OUT / Argentina / Sebastián Borensztein
5) BARFI! / India / Anurag Basu
6) THE HUNT / Denmark / Thomas Vinterberg
7) KEY OF LIFE / Japan / Kenji Uchida
8) A LETTER TO MOMO / Japan / Hiroyuki Okiura
9) IN THE SHADOW / Czech Republic / David Ondříĉek
10) SHUN LI AND THE POET/ Italy / Andrea Segre
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
1) AMERICAN WINTER / United States / Joe Gantz, Harry Gantz *BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD
2) MORE THAN HONEY / Switzerland / Markus Imhoof
3) ALIEN BOY: THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JAMES CHASSE / United States / Brian Lindstrom
4) THE GATEKEEPERS / Israel / Dror Moreh
5) A FIERCE GREEN FIRE / United States / Mark Kitchell
6) HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA / Germany / Dmitry Vasyukov, Werner Herzog
7) THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA / Germany / Marten Persiel
8) THE LAST SHEPHERD / Italy / Marco Bonfanti
9) LOVE, MARILYN / United States / Liz Garbus
10) MEN AT LUNCH / Ireland / Seán Ó Cualáín
BEST NEW DIRECTORS
1) THE SAPPHIRES / Australia / Wayne Blair *BEST NEW DIRECTORS AWARD
2) SHUN LI AND THE POET / Italy / Andrea Segre
3) ENGLISH VINGLISH / India / Gauri Shinde
SHORTS
1) THE OTHER SIDE / Israel / Khen Shalem *BEST SHORT AWARD
2) GRANDMOTHERS / Great Britain / Afarin Eghbal
3) DEATH OF A SHADOW / Belgium-France / Tom Van Avermaet
OREGON SHORTS
1) DEAR PETER, WOODCHIPS I / United States / Orland Nutt *BEST OREGON SHORT FILM AWARD
2) LATER THAN USUAL / United States / David Hovan
3) THE TITANIC OF SOUTHAMPTON / United States / Justin Zimmerman
