17th Annual Festival: SPIFF 2015
February 5th – 14th, 2015. Spokane, Washington, USA
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.