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Best Feature

Alley Pat: The Music Is Recorded /Tom Roche

Best Short

Bewick’s Mambo / Peter Snowdon (UK/Belgium)

US / International Shorts

Best Narrative

LAND GEWINNEN (Gaining Ground) / Marc Brummund (Germany)

Honorable mention

Dash Cunning / William Saunders
train / Darius Clark Monroe

Best Documentary

When I’m Not Alone / Rhiannon Gutierrez

Honorable mention

Breaking News/Breaking Down / Mike Walters

Best Animation

Sebastian’s Voodoo / Joaquin Baldwin

Best Experimental

LoopLoop / Patrick Bergeron (Canada)

Heartland Shorts

Best Narrative

Happy 95 Birthday Grandpa / Gary Huggins

Best Documentary

Heartland Transport / Cody Stokes

Best Student

Alpha Bravo Charlie / Tyler Doehring and Kitley Jewell

Honorable mention

The Littlest Ones: A Dogumentary / Grant Babbitt, Kasey Babbit, Dan Rohrer

Best of Fest Short

When I’m Not Alone / Rhiannon Gutierrez

US / International Features

Best US / Int’l Documentary

Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture / Mark Richard Smith

Best US / Int’l Narrative

Fanny, Annie & Danny / Chris Brown

Heartland Features

Best Heartland Feature

Neither Here Nor There / Kerri Yost, Beth Pike, Stephen Hudnell, Elizabeth Federici

Follows the lives of two art school graduates, John and Patrick, during a summer internship in Kansas City, Missouri, and two late-20’s urban professionals, Abbey (a frustrated writer studying to be an actuary) and her best friend, Margo.

Seeking a new style, Patrick brow-beats John into helping him create a new work, ‘Spontaneous Generation,’ which is shown during a gallery tour, purchased by a leading dealer, and immediately acclaimed by a major critic.

During the tour, Abbey is mesmerized by a landscape painting by John. Due to a mix-up, she does not realize the lanscape is his or that he was one of the creators of ‘Spontaneous Generation,’ when she meets him and criticizes the work. Trying to save the day, Patrick blows John’s cover.

Feeling badly, Patrick seeks the help a computer geek (Nathan) to find Abbey and get her together with John. In the process, Patrick discovers Abbey once kept an online journal and uses the entries to help John woo Abbey.

Zampogna: The Soul of Southern Italy is a cultural journey through Southern Italy as experienced by an Italian American re-connecting with his family roots. The film takes on a fist person narrative perspective as the filmmaker immerses himself in the peasant culture of Southern Italy. To the viewer it might feel like they have been taken back in time to a different era when culture was local, self sustainable and home made. The story is driven by the filmmaker’s interactions with his distant Italian relatives and a host of local folk musicians on his voyage north from Sicily towards the annual ‘Zampogna Festival.’ He witnesses and interacts with peasants, shepherds, farmers, poets, and musicians that play a colorful array of folk instruments that the average viewer will never have known even existed. Some of the interesting people he meets along the way include his quirky Sicilian relatives whom sweating under the Mediterranean sun fill baskets with colorful fruit in their small vineyard and inform the filmmaker about his family’s connection to the land.

Participating in the seminar: Producing Movies in Today’s Climate.

View Rich’s blog at: http://www.amblerfilms.blogspot.com/.

Participating in the workshop: Hollywood Style Imagery without the Hollywood Style Budget.

Melanie Addington has worked with the Oxford Film Festival for the last five years, first joining as a screening committee member and now serves as a co-director and programmer of Mississippi films and late night features. For the past two years she has coordinated the Oxford Film Festival’s Summer Series and fundraisers. She works full-time as a staff writer for the Oxford Eagle and writes about film in a weekly column for the Oxford Town. She also writes the film blog Oxford Film Freak and serves as a columnist at the new movie site cinefile.com. She lives in Oxford, Miss with her son and a wayward cat, Darwin.

Participating in the panel: Festival Strategies.

2009 Festival Strategies Panel

An informal, salon-meets-town hall setting, from the centrifuge of professionals working in Kansas City, as they interact with visiting filmmakers, students and the community. This will be a frank, open discussion on how we can unify and build our local film and television industry, work together to share insight, create and lobby for more incentives and use the “while the iron is hot” philosophy to bring more production to our region.

2009 Festival Strategies Panel

The internet is one of the most dynamic new opportunities to tell our stories. In this panel, you will meet and learn from some noted Kansas City filmmakers natives who have created, directed, starred in original web series. They will share stories, the process and reflect on the future of this burgeoning platform.