2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Announces Awards

2007 Festival Tenth Anniversary Dates Set for April 12-15, 2007

Ninth annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival came to a close Sunday April 9th with record-breaking attendance. The final ticket number for the 2006 festival was 20,121, with an estimated 2540 additional viewers coming for the films showing post-barbecue bringing the total number of tickets to 22,661 for 2006. Last year, as of Sunday's Southern Style Barbecue and Awards Ceremony, tickets issued climbed to 18,572 and with Sunday's afternoon screenings added in, the final number was approximately 19,000. The opening day box office tickets, 4205, broke last year's 3797 final tally. Festival passes bought this year were 2360 as compared to last year's 1964. Spread throughout six theater venues, the festival sold out 17 films. Even the number of local volunteers grew this year from 205 to over 340.

"Our festival this year addressed an issue that has been in the headlines and on the minds of Americans all year: class and its impact on our culture." Festival Founder, CEO, and Artistic Director Nancy Buirski reflected. "After four days and over 100 films and discussions that went on late in the night, the energy, intelligence, and optimistic resolve that our filmmakers, industry colleagues, and audiences brought to this festival will hopefully have an influence far beyond this event here in downtown Durham. We are thankful for all the support shown to our festival and the talented filmmakers whose films brought us to places and introduced us to people and stories with such vision and creativity."

New Docs: Films in Competition, which featured 53 features and 20 shorts this year, was sponsored by A&E Indie Films. ClickStar, Inc., a broadband entertainment company founded by Revelations Entertainment in 2005, joined the Full Frame Festival through their sponsorship of the Grand Jury prize. In addition, ClickStar CEO James Ackerman and actor Danny DeVito chose the festival to announce their new initiative, Jersey Docs, an artist-created entertainment channel dedicated exclusively to documentary films that will be available for digital download on ClickStar's broadband entertainment service.

The following awards were given on Sunday at the annual Southern Style Barbecue and Awards Ceremony held this year in the Armory.

New Docs: Films in Competition Awards

FULL FRAME GRAND JURY AWARD
Sponsored by ClickStar, Inc., and Alpha Cine Labs, Seattle, Presented by Danny DeVito
$5,000 cash award from ClickStar, Inc.
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$20,000 in-kind for video-to-film transfer of the winning film or lab services sponsored by Alpha Cine Labs, Seattle.
Iraq in Fragments, Directed by James Longley. Produced by James Longley and John Sinno.
Honorable Mention: A Lion in the House

Finalists included:
The Chances of the World Changing John & Jane Toll-Free
Kabul Transit My Country, My Country
My Grandmother's House Our Daily Bread
Sir! No Sir! Smiling in a War Zone
Sweet Dreams Thin
The Trials of Darryl Hunt Wordplay
Workingman's Death Wrestling with Angels

FULL FRAME AUDIENCE AWARD
$3,000 cash award. Provided by the Doc Arts Board of Directors.
The Audience Award is chosen by calculating audience ballots filled out during the four-day Festival.
The Trials of Darryl Hunt. Directed by Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg. Produced by Katie Brown, William Rexer II, Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg.
An HBO Documentary Film

FULL FRAME JURY AWARD FOR BEST SHORT
$10,000 in film stock. Provided by Eastman Kodak.
The Jury Award for Best Short is awarded to a film 40 minutes or less in length.
No Umbrella: Election Day in the City, Directed and Produced by Laura Paglin.

CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES FILMMAKER AWARD
$7,500. Sponsored by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
The CDS Filmmaker Award recognizes documentary films that combine originality and creativity with firsthand experience in examining central issues of contemporary life and culture.
The Refugee All Stars. Directed and Produced by Zach Niles and Banker White.

THE CHARLES E. GUGGENHEIM EMERGING ARTIST AWARD
$2,000. Provided by the Charles E. Guggenheim Family.
This annual prize is awarded to a first-time documentary feature filmmaker as a way to
foster the work of new directors, young and old. It recognizes the extraordinary care that
Charles Guggenheim took with filmmakers with whom he worked to mentor and counsel
throughout the filmmaking process.
I for India. Directed by Directed by Sandhya Suri. P roduced by Carlo Cresto-Dina.

FULL FRAME/EMERGING PICTURES AUDIENCE AWARD--WINNERS TO BE ANNOUNCED POST-FESTIVAL
JVC GY-HD100U HD camcorder. Sponsored by JVC.
A special audience award will be presented to the filmmaker whose work is selected by the members of the digital extension of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival being set up by Emerging Pictures and Full Frame in various locations around the country.




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*Only films participating in this program are eligible for this award. Films in the 2006 festival include:
Asparagus: A Stalkumentary Beyond Beats and Rhymes
The Boy in the Bubble China Blue
Filthy Gorgeous, The Trannyshack Story El Immigrante
Rain in a Dry Land The Refugee All Stars
Sacco and Vanzetti Songbirds
Sweet Dreams

FULL FRAME INSPIRATION AWARD
$5,000. Sponsored by the Hartley Film Foundation, Inc.
This new award is presented to a film that best exemplifies the value and relevance of world religions and spirituality.
My Country, My Country. Directed by Laura Poitras. Produced by Laura Poitras, Jocelyn Glatzer
A POV/ITVS Film
Honorable Mention, EXIT. Directed by Fernand Melgar. Produced by Florence Adams.

FULL FRAME PRESIDENT’S AWARD
$5,000. Sponsored by Duke University.
Aimed at recognizing up-and-coming filmmakers, this new prize is awarded to the best student film.
The Intimacy of Strangers. Directed by Eva Weber. Produced by Samantha Zarzosa.

FULL FRAME WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP AWARD
$5,000. Sponsored by the White House Project.
This award will be given to the film that best portrays women in leadership.
Smiling in a War Zone. Directed by Simone Aaberg Kærn, Magnus Bejmar. Produced by Helle Ulsteen.

FULL FRAME WORKING FILMS AWARD
$5,000 cash and $5,000 in-kind for the development of the film’s outreach plan. Sponsored by Working Films with Support from the Ettinger Foundation and the Tides Foundation.
Sponsored by Working Films, the media non-profit that is a nationally recognized activist-driven bridge between high quality documentary filmmaking and concrete impact, this prize will be awarded to the film that has the greatest potential for supporting serious grassroots organizing and social change.
Rain in a Dry Land. Directed and Produced by Anne Makepeace.
A POV/ITVS Film

SEEDS OF WAR
$5,000. Sponsored by Walter Mosley.
Sparked by the worldwide wars—and the policies and cultural attitudes that continue to promote them—this award honors two filmmakers who lay bare the seeds and mechanisms that create war. There will be two prizes awarded of $2,500.
Sir! No Sir!,Directed by Daniel Zeiger. Produced by Vangie Griego, Aaron Zarrow.
Workingman's Death, Directed by Michael Glawogger. Produced by Erich Lackner, Miriam Quinte, Pepe Danquart.