Santa Fe Film Festival
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The Santa Fe Film Festival is a Non-Profit Organization which presents important world cinema in a non-commercial context that represents aesthetic, critical and entertainment standards highlighting New Mexican film, new American and foreign film including revivals, retrospectives, independent productions and mini-festivals. They partner with educational groups, schools and non profits and also provide a forum for filmmakers, critics, educators and historians. The award is in the form of a mounted original sculpture.
area and was inaugurated in 1999 but began an institutionalized schedule starting in the year 2000 which sold over 9,000 tickets and passes. The awards varied over the years. Initial categories included: Best Short, Best Documentary, Best Feature, Best Native American Film, and Best Latino Film. By 2006 the awards became the Milagro Award (best American independent film), the Independent Spirit Award (Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Independent Spirit Award), and the Audience Award, Honorable Mention (if needed), Creative Spirit Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award (if warranted).
Individuals awarded include:
Festival and Awards
The festival is generally run between Thanksgiving and Christmas time (late November to early December) in the Santa Fe, New MexicoSanta Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...
area and was inaugurated in 1999 but began an institutionalized schedule starting in the year 2000 which sold over 9,000 tickets and passes. The awards varied over the years. Initial categories included: Best Short, Best Documentary, Best Feature, Best Native American Film, and Best Latino Film. By 2006 the awards became the Milagro Award (best American independent film), the Independent Spirit Award (Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Independent Spirit Award), and the Audience Award, Honorable Mention (if needed), Creative Spirit Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award (if warranted).
Individuals awarded include:
2000
- Best Short - This Guy Is Falling (2000) - Michael Horowitz (I); Gareth Smith (I)
- Best Documentary - One Day in the Life of Andrei ArsenevichOne Day in the Life of Andrei ArsenevichOne Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich is a 1999 French documentary film directed by Chris Marker, about and an homage to the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Cinéastes de notre temps , which in over ninety episodes since 1966...
- Chris Marker - Best Feature - Zamani barayé masti asbha (2000) - Bahman Ghobadi
- Best Native American Film - Backroads (2000) - Shirley CheechooShirley CheechooShirley Cheechoo is an award winning Cree actress, writer, producer, director, and visual artist, probably best known for her solo-voice or monodrama play Path With No Moccasins, as well as her work with De-Ba-Jeh-Mu-Jig theatre group...
- Best Latino Film - Estorvo (2000) - Ruy Guerra
2001
- Best Short - Dragonflies, the Baby Cries (2000) - Jane Gillooly and Gina, an Actress, Age 29 (2001) - Paul Harrill
- Best Documentary - PaperboysPaperboysPaperboys is a Norwegian hip hop-duo consisting of rapper Øyvind «Vinni» Sauvik and DJ Ole Aleksander «Pope Dawg» Halstensgård. The duo has released four albums and their debut included Barcelona, a collaboration with Madcon which was a hit in Norway...
(2001) - Mike MillsMike MillsMichael Edward "Mike" Mills is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock group R.E.M.. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and pianist, his musical repertoire includes also keyboards, guitar, and percussion instruments...
(II) - Best Native American-Themed Film - Christmas in the Clouds (2001) - Kate Montgomery (I)
- Best Feature - AtanarjuatAtanarjuatAtanarjuat is a 2001 Canadian film directed by Zacharias Kunuk. It was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut...
(2001) - Zacharias KunukZacharias KunukZacharias Kunuk, is a Canadian Inuk producer and director most notable for his film Atanarjuat, the first Canadian dramatic feature film produced completely in Inuktitut... - Best Latino Film - Y tu mamá tambiénY tu mamá tambiénY tu mamá también is a 2001 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, and co-written by Cuarón and his brother Carlos. The film is a coming-of-age story about two teenage boys taking a road trip with a woman in her late twenties; it stars Mexican actors Diego Luna and Gael García...
(2001) - Alfonso CuarónAlfonso CuarónAlfonso Cuarón Orozco is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Y tu mamá también, and A Little Princess.- Early life :...
2002
- Best Short - Book of Kings (2002) - Chris Terrio
- Best Documentary - Vakvagany (2002) - Benjamin Meade
- Best Native American-Themed Film - Lady Warriors (2002) - John C.P. Goheen
- Best Feature - Hukkle (2002) - György Pálfi (I)
- Best Latino Film - Todas las azafatas van al cielo (2002) - Daniel Burman
- Best New Mexico Film - Little Lourdes (2002) - Elisabeth Unna
- Milagro Award - Slaughter Rule, The (2002) - Alex Smith (II); Andrew J. Smith
- Audience Award - Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House (2002) - Deborah Dickson
2003
- Creative Spirit Award - Jon E. Edwards Is In Love (2003) - Chris Bradley, Kyle LaBrache
- Honorable Mention - Blackwater Elegy (2003) - Joe O'Brien (III); Matthew Porter (I)
- Audience Award - Indigo (2003) - Stephen Simon
- Best of the Southwest - Jesus FreakJesus Freak (movie)Jesus Freak is a 2003 American micro-budget drama directed by Morgan Nichols. It stars Laura Lee Bahr, Regan Forman, Pete Kuzov, and Oded Gross, and tells the story of a teenage girl who, while struggling to find her identity in her small-minded town, brings home a man who is either her savior, a...
(2003) - Morgan NicholsMorgan Nichols (director)Morgan Nichols is a US film director from Kennebunk, Maine. His award-winning features Jesus Freak and the little Death are examples of micro-budget filmmaking...
and Movie Farm
2004
- Best Short - Simones Labyrinth (2003) - Iván Sáinz-Pardo
- Best Short Film - Raven Tales: Raven Steals the Sun (2004) (TV) - Chris Kientz
- Best Documentary - Mojados: Through the Night (2004) - Tommy Davis (V)
- Best of Festival - Dare mo shiranai (2004) - Hirokazu Koreeda
- Creative Spirit Award - Loss of Nameless Things, The (2004) - Bill Rose (I)
- Best of the Fest - Depuis qu'Otar est parti... (2003) - Julie Bertucelli
- Independent Spirit Award - Sonata (2004) (V) - Boris Undorf
2005
- Screenwriting - Fall to Grace (2005) - Mari Marchbanks
- Best of the Southwest - Self Medicated (2005) - Monty Lapica (director); Tommy Bell (II) (producer)
- Best Animation - Souvenir (2004) - Stephen Rose (III)
- Creative Spirit Award in Documentary - Balloonhat (2005) - A.G. Vermouth
2006
- Milagro Award - Cowboy del Amor (2005) - Michèle Ohayon and English as a Second Language (2005)
- Independent Spirit Award - Jam (2006/I) - Craig Serling; Nicole Lonner
- Audience Award - Gymnast, The (2006) - Ned Farr
- Lifetime Achievement award for Hungarian cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs Kovacs has more than 60 feature films to his credit, including the 1969 biker film Easy RiderEasy RiderEasy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South with the aim of achieving freedom...
, Five Easy PiecesFive Easy PiecesFive Easy Pieces is a 1970 American drama film written by Carole Eastman and Bob Rafelson, and directed by Rafelson. The film stars Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Susan Anspach. The cast also includes Billy 'Green' Bush, Fannie Flagg, Ralph Waite, Sally Struthers, Lois Smith, Toni Basil, and...
, Paper MoonPaper Moon (film)Paper Moon is a 1973 American comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was adapted from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, and the film was shot in black-and-white. The film is set during the Great Depression in the U.S. states of Kansas and...
and GhostbustersGhostbustersGhostbusters is a 1984 American science fiction comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, and Rick Moranis and follows three eccentric parapsychologists in New York City, who start a...
. Actress Ali McGraw hosted the ceremony.
2007
- Luminaria Lifetime Achievement award for National Film Board of CanadaNational Film Board of CanadaThe National Film Board of Canada is Canada's twelve-time Academy Award-winning public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions...
First NationsFirst NationsFirst Nations is a term that collectively refers to various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 630 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. The...
filmmaker Alanis ObomsawinAlanis ObomsawinAlanis Obomsawin, OC is a Canadian filmmaker of Abenaki descent. Born in New Hampshire, and raised primarily in Quebec, she has produced and directed many National Film Board of Canada documentaries on First Nations culture and history...
. - Best documentary - The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez
External links
- Santa Fe Film Festival website
- Santa Fe Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database
- Santa Fe Film Festival at the Fargo Filmmaking Wiki Project