15th Annual Festival: SPIFF 2013
February 1 – 10, 2013. Spokane, Washington, USA
Audience Awards:
Audience Award for Best Feature (Fiction and Documentary):
Chinese Take-Away (Un Cuento Chino) (Sebastián Borensztein, Argentina / Spain)
Mariachi Gringo (Tom Gustafson, USA)
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, USA)
Audience Award for Best Short:
Lapse (Gilles Guerraz, France)
Audience Award for Best of the NW, Short:
Beginner’s Guide to Human Assimilation (Seth Mead, USA)
Audience Award for Best Animated Short:
The Gruffalo’s Child (Uwe Heidschötter, UK / Germany)
Junkyard (Hisko Hulsing, Belgium / Netherlands)
Juried Awards:
Best Feature:
Gold SpIFFy: Camera Shy (Mark Sawers, Canada)
Silver SpIFFy (tie): Mariachi Gringo (Tom Gustafson, USA)
Silver SpIFFy (tie): Dead Dad (Ken Adachi, USA)
Best Documentary:
Gold SpIFFy: The Iran Job (Till Schauder, USA / Iran)
Silver SpIFFy: The Mountain Runners (Brian Young and Todd Warger, USA)
Best Short Film:
Gold SpIFFy: Lapse (Gilles Guerraz, France)
Silver SpIFFy: Pay First (Dave Fulton, UK)
Best Animated Short:
Gold SpIFFy: Dripped (Leo Verrier, France)
Silver SpIFFy: Here and the Great Elsewhere (Michèle Lemieux, Canada)
Best of the NW Feature:
The Mountain Runners (Brian Young and Todd Warger, USA)
Best of the NW Short:
Gold SpIFFy: The Vehicle (O. Corbin Saleken, Canada)
Silver SpIFFy: Beginner’s Guide to Human Assimilation (Seth Mead, USA)
Most Promising Filmmaker:
O. Corbin Saleken, The Vehicle
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
Thanks to those who served on SpIFF Juries: Kyle Bell, Adam Boyd, Irv Broughton, Sayer Broughton, Tierney Chabot, Brian Kamp, Chase Ogden, Vaughn Overlie, Pete Porter, Aaron Spickelmire, Mary Pat Treuthart, and Dan Webster.
