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Crested Butte Film Festival
File:Crestedbuttefilmfestivallogo.jpg
LocationCrested Butte, Colorado USA
Founded2011
AwardsACTNow, Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary Feature, Best Comedy Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Narrative Feature, Audience Choice
Artistic directorMichael & Jennifer Brody
No. of films100[1]
Festival dateSeptember (annually)
LanguageInternational
Websitecbfilmfest.org

The Crested Butte Film Festival is a celebration of international films, held annually over four days in the last weekend of September, in Crested Butte, Colorado.[2][3][4][5]

History

Michael and Jennifer Brody established the Crested Butte Film Festival in 2011, looking for creative work together following careers in filmmaking and education.[5] Crested Butte previously had Reel Fest, a shorts film festival that lasted ten years, but which was discontinued in 2010. The first installment of the Crested Butte Film Festival had an audience of 1,500 or about the population of the town; two years later attendance doubled. The festival is held just as the aspens turn into their imperial gold.

Program

Crested Butte Film Festival programs artful, moving, creative and provocative films. Preference is given to creativity, daring, great storytelling, and bravery. The top selections are awarded to ACTNow, to the best narrative and documentary features, best documentary short, children's films, and to those chosen by the audience.

Awards

Action and Change Together (ACTNow)

Awarded to a nonprofit organization linked to a call-to-action documentary.

ACTNow
Year Winning film Director(s) Country
2012 Bidder 70 Beth Cage; George Cage  United States
2013 Blood Brother Steve Hoover  United States
2014 Virunga Orlando von Einsiedel  United Kingdom
2015 Racing Extinction Louie Psihoyos  United States
2016 Newtown Kim Snyder  United States
2017 Bending the Arc Kief Davidson; Pedro Kos  United States
A Plastic Ocean Craig Leeson  United Kingdom
2019 Santuario Pilar Timpane; Christine Delp  United States
2020 Mossville: When
Great Trees Fall		 Alexander Glustrom  United States

Juried Awards

Director Ed Zwick (right) interviews Jesse Zwick (left) for About Alex.
Courtney Marsh, of Chau, Beyond the Lines, is interviewed at a filmmaker's function.
David Zellner discusses his film Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter at an audience talkback.
Best Narrative Feature
Year Winning film Director(s) Country
2013 De rouille et d'os
(Rust and Bone)		 Jacques Audiard  France
2014 The One I Love Charlie McDowell  United States
2015 Kumiko, the
Treasure Hunter		 Nathan Zellner; David Zellner  United States
2016 The Lobster Yorgos Lanthimos  Greece/
 Ireland
2017 A Ghost Story David Lowery  United States
2019 Parasite Bong Joon-ho  Republic of Korea
2020 Bait Mark Jenkin  United Kingdom
Best Documentary Feature
Year Winning film Director(s) Country
2012 Bidder 70 Beth Cage; George Cage  United States
2013 Chasing Ice Jeff Orlowski  United States
2014 The Overnighters Jesse Moss  United States
2015 Almost Holy
(Crocodile Gennadiy)		 Steve Hoover  United States
2016 LoveTrue Alma Har'el  United States/
 Israel
2017 Whose Streets? Sabaah Folayan; Damon Davis  United States
2019 Storm the Gates Daniele Anastasion;
Catherine Yrisarri; Josie Swantek		  United States
2020 Us Kids Kim Snyder  United States
Best Short (2012-2014)
Year Winning film Director(s) Country
2012 A Finger, Two Dots,
Then Me		 David Holechek  United States
2013 Arena Martin Rath  Poland
2014 Into the Silent Sea Andrej Landin  Sweden
Best Comedy Short
Year Winning film Director(s) Country
2017 Immaculate
Misconception		 Michael Geoghegan  United Kingdom
2019 Hot Dog Alma Buddecke; Marleen Valin  Germany
2020 Olla Ariane Labed  United States
Best Documentary Short
Year Winning film Director(s) Country
2015 Our Curse Tomasz Śliwiński  Poland
2016 We All We Got Carlos Javier Ortiz  United States
2017 Woody's Order Ann Talman  United States
2019 All Inclusive Corina Schwingruber-Ilić  Switzerland
2020 Huntsville Station Jamie Meltzer and Chris Filippone  United States
Best Narrative Short
Year Winning film Director(s) Country
2015 La Hija Jazmín Rada  Spain
2016 Situational Scott Simonsen; Alyssa Skoller  United States
Stutterer Benjamin Cleary  Ireland
2017 American Paradise Joe Talbot  United States
2019 Moon and the Night Erin Lau  United States
2020 Monstruo Dios
(Monster God)		 Agustina San Martín  Argentina

Audience Choice

Audience Choice
Year Winning film Director(s) Country
2012 Kumaré Vikram Gandhi  United States
2013 Blood Brother Steve Hoover  United States
2014 About Alex Jessie Zwick  United States
2015 Unbranded Phillip Baribeau  United States
2016 Jim: The James Foley Story Brian Oakes  United States
2017 Band Aid Zoe Lister Jones  United States
2019 Peanut Butter Falcon Tyler Nilson;
Michael Schwartz		  United States
2020 High Country Conor Hagen  United States

Other awards

Special Jury Prize

  • 2012 – Alexander Gaeta, "Outstanding achievement, directorial debut"; Shoot the Moon
  • 2014 – Martin Rath, "Outstanding achievement, breakthrough filmmaker"; Written in Ink and Arena
  • 2015 – Yana Novikova (Яна Новикова), "Outstanding achievement, debut performance in a feature film"; The Tribe (Плем'я)
  • 2016 – Leonor Caraballo, Mattero Norzi, Abou Farman, and Adella Ladjevardi, "Artistic accomplishment"; Icaros: A Vision
  • 2016 – Ashley Valenzuela, "Filmmaker to watch"; Warm Waves
  • 2017 – David Byars, "Excellence in filmmaking"; No Man's Land
  • 2017 – Nancy Liu, "Filmmaker to watch"; Angeltown
  • 2017 – Dana Romanoff, "Embodying the spirit of activism in the arts"; Storytelling and the Spirit of Activism in Cinema
  • 2019 – Nancy Dionne, "Achievement in social impact and activism"; All I See is the Future
  • 2019 – Zack Gottsagen, "Outstanding debut performance"
  • 2020 – Mohammad Rasoulof, "Courage in filmmaking"
  • 2020 – Ashley Williams, "Outstanding achievement, directorial debut"

Spirit of the Festival

  • 2013 – Jack Hanley
  • 2014 – Scott Aigner and Marcelo Mitnik
  • 2015 – Jennifer Brody
  • 2016 – Jeramiah Friesen
  • 2017 – Stacey Donaldson and Kat Cooke

See also

References

  1. ^ Harvey, Kasey (September 2, 2016). "2016 Crested Butte Film Festival". mountainliving.com. Mountain Living. Retrieved September 5, 2016. The lineup has a total of 100 films, with 20 feature-length narrative and documentaries and 80 short films in the narrative, documentary, outdoor adventure and children's genres.
  2. ^ Wenzel, John (September 16, 2015). "13 Colorado film festivals to enjoy in fall 2015". Denverpost.com. Denver Post. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
  3. ^ Singer, Daliah (September 11, 2014). "Crested Butte Film Festival Is A (Sort Of) Homecoming for Filmmaker Jesse Zwick". 5280.com. 5280. Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
  4. ^ Zable, Stacey (June 29, 2015). "Celebrate cinema at these fall film fests". usatoday.com. USA Today. Retrieved June 12, 2016. American and international cinema-lovers come to this scenic town in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado every September, the perfect time to marvel at the aspen forests showing off their fall colors. Some 90 films are shown over the four-day fest, with venues and events a mere "townie bike" ride away from each other.
  5. ^ a b "Crested Butte Film Festival: Our Story". Cbfilmfest.org. Crested Butte Film Festival. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
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