17th Annual Festival: SPIFF 2015

February 5th – 14th, 2015. Spokane, Washington, USA

2015 Awards

Audience Awards:

Audience Award for Best Feature:
Belle and Sebastian (Nicolas Vanier, France)
Audience Award for Best Documentary:
Flore (Jean-Albert Lièvre, France)
Audience Award for Best International Short:
Carry On (Yatao Li, China)
Audience Award for Best of the NW, Feature:
Wildlike (Frank Hall Green, USA)
Audience Award for Best of the NW, Short:
From the Sky (Ian Ebright, USA)
Audience Award for Best Animated Short:
The Dam Keeper (Robert Kodo and Dice Tsutsumi, USA)

Thanks to Vaughn Overlie for counting the ballots! 

Juried Awards:

Best of the NW Feature: 
Gold SpIFFy: Where God Likes to Be (Anna Hudak, Nicolas Hudak, Germany/USA)
Silver SpIFFy: Wildlike (Frank Hall Green, USA)
Best of the NW Short:
Gold SpIFFy: The Package (Dave Kotlan, USA)
Silver SpIFFy: Serenade (Kendra Ann Sherrill, USA)
Best Documentary:
Gold SpIFFy: Evaporating Borders (Iva Radivojevic, USA/Cyprus)
Silver SpIFFy: Where God Likes to Be (Anna Hudak, Nicolas Hudak, Germany/USA)
Best Mid-Length:
Gold SpIFFy: From the Sky (Ian Ebright, USA)
Silver SpIFFy: People in the Trees (Jonah Vigil, USA) 
Best Short Film:
Still (Jeff Rutherford, USA)
Best Animated Short:
A Single Life (Job, Joris & Marieke, Netherlands)
Most Promising Filmmaker:
Ian Ebright

Thanks to those who served on the SpIFF 2015 Jury: Adam Boyd, Irv Broughton, Isaac Joslin, Chase Ogden, Pete Porter, Mary Pat Treuthart, and Dan Webster.

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