The winners are:
Best Animation: Smile, directed by Chris Mais (USA)
Best Experimental: Flight, directed by Mike Pecci (USA)
Best International Short: Lesson Number 5, directed by Philippe Skaff (Lebanon)
Best American Short: The Bread Squeezer, directed by Kasia Kowalczyk (USA)
Best International Documentary: Yanush Korchak, directed by Semion Vinokur (Israel)
Best American Documentary: The Seeker, directed by Evans Somers and Jess Thomas (USA)
Best Director: Nikola Vukcevic, View from the Eiffel Tower (Serbia-Montenegro)
Best Narrative Feature: The Garage, directed by Carl Thibault (USA)
Audience Award for Best Short: The Stranger Malone Video (a work in progress), directed by George King (USA)
Audience Award for Best Feature: Shut Up and Sing!, directed by Bruce Leddy (USA)
Festival Achievement Award: Iris Franklin, President, Rome International Film Festibal Board of Directors
Special Jury Award: Our Very Own, directed by Cameron Watson (USA)
Lifetime Achievement Award: Rick Schmidt (director of 1988-The Remake, Morgan's Cake, Emerald Cities, Mirage, Rick's Canoe and many other films; author of Feature Filmmaking at Used Car Prices; columnist, Moviemaker Magazine)
13.09.2006 | Editor's blog
Cat. : Audience Award Bruce Leddy Bruce Leddy Cameron Watson CARL THIBAULT Chris Mais Directors Special Jury Award Evans Somers George King Human Interest Human Interest Iris Franklin Jess Thomas Kasia Kowalczyk Mike Pecci Mirage Montenegro Nikola Vukčević Nikola Vukčević Philippe Skaff Place of birth missing Rick Schmidt Rome Rome International Film Semion Vinokur The 2006 Rome (Georgia) International Film Festival Awards Year of birth missing