- Below are the award winners for this year’s 29th Black Maria Film + Video Festival -
- Below are the award winners for this year’s 29th Black Maria Film + Video Festival -
Awards - 2010
THE SOLITARY LIFE OF CRANES, 27 min. - 2008
Eva Weber - London, England
*STELLAR DOCUMENTARY SELECTION

JURY’S STELLAR SELECTIONS - (Best of)
BALANCE, 3 min. - 2009 - Debra Sea - Greensboro, NC
BANANA BREAD, 9 min. - 2009 - Barton Landsman & Clayton Hemmert - New York, New York
BELLOWS MARCH, 5 min. - 2009 - Eric Dyer - Baltimore, MD
BENEDIZIONE DELLE BESTIE (BENEDICTION OF THE BEASTS), 10 min. - 2009 - Paul Zinder - Rome, Italy
THE BOOK OF SALT 1: MARY’S GARDEN, 9 min. - 2009 - Andrew Busti, Boulder, CO
BREAKING BOUNDARIES: THE ART OF ALEX MASKET, 19 min. - 2009 - Dennis Connors - Montclair, NJ
CODA, 3 min. - 2009 - Vincent Grenier - Ithaca, NY
CHINESE GHOST STORY, 29 min. - 2008 - Dan Boord & Luis Valdovino - Boulder, CO
CHRONOS, 18 min. - 2001-2009 - Brett Mole - Haworth, NJ
CORPORATE ART POLICY, 5 min. - 2009 - Neil Needleman - Katonah, NY
DE LUCE 1: VEGTARE, 4 min. - 2009 - Janis Crystal Lipzin - Sebastopol, CA
DESTINATION FINALE, 9 min. - 2008 - Philip Wildmann - Berlin, Germany
DIMENSIONALIZATION, 6 min. - 2009 - Nhieu Do - Brooklyn, NY
END OF CODE, 15 min. - 2009 - James Duesing - Pittsburgh, PA
FOUND: NOTHING MISSING, 3 min. - 2009 - Patricia McInroy - Albuquerque, NM
FUZZY INSIDES, 5 min. - 2009 - Michael A. Olsen - Bedford, NH
GIT ALONG LITTLE DOGIES, 9 min. - 2009/10 -Kate Lain - Bozeman, MT
HOURGLASS (A GLOBAL WARNING), 4 min. - 2009/10 - Fern Seiden - Stockholm, Sweden
THE INDESERIA TABLETS (1-12), 13 min. - 2009 - Peter Rose - Philadelphia, PA
IS WHAT WAS, 23 min. - 2008 - Jerry Tartaglia - Oley, PA
JELLY FISHERS, 5 min. - 2009 - Steven Subotnick - Providence, RI
THE LAST DAY OF I.S. BULKIN, 13 min. - 2008 - Alexsey Andrianov - Moscow, Russia
THE LAST HAPPY DAY, 38 min. - 2009 - Lynne Sachs - Brooklyn, NY
MAKING MERIT BUDDHIST DAILY DUTIES, 8 min. - 2009 - Dennis Darmek - Milwaukee, WI
MORE FROM LIFE, 9 min. - 2009 - Steven Vander Meer - Arcata, CA
MY DEAREST LOVE, 3 min. - 2009 - Marc Wiskemann - Columbus, OH
MY GIRLFRIEND SLEEPS LIKE SUPERMAN, 2 min. - 2009 - Steve Gentile - Boston, MA
NEVER TOO LATE, 7 min. - 2009 - Wendy Weinberg - Philadelphia, PA
PAPAL BROKEN DANCE, 6 min. - 2009 - Marie Losier - Brooklyn, NY
QUIVER, 10 min. - 2008 - Robert Todd - Boston, MA
THE PORTRAIT, 4 min. - 2009 - Irra Verbitsky - New York, NY
PURE THURSDAY, 45 min. - 2008 - Alexander Rastorguev - Moscow, Russia
SCENE 32, 5 min. - 2009 - Shambhavi Kaul - Durham, NC
SEBASTIAN’ VOODOO, 4 min. - 2008 - Joaquin Baldwin - Sherman Oaks, CA
THE SHRIMP, 24 min. - 2009 - Keith Wilson - Savannah, GA
SITTING, 4 min. - 2009 - Leighton Pierce - Iowa City, IA
SPECTROLOGY, 11 min. - 2009 - Kerry Kaital - San Francisco, CA
SUB-TER-AIN FREQUENCIES, 15 min. - 2008 - Alain Alfaro - Brooklyn, NY
TERRORIST ACTIVITY RADIO HOUR, 10 min. - 1981-2006/09 - Henry Baker & Jane Steuerwald - DC / NJ
THE REGULAR, 10 min. - 2009 - Jamie Kirkpatrick - New York, NY
TONY CONRAD: DREMINIMALIST, 25 min. - 2008 - Marie Losier - Brooklyn, NY
TRAIN, 7 min. - 2009 - Darius Clark Monroe - Brooklyn, NY
THE TRAIN HOME, 6 min. - 2009 - Graham Burns - Brooklyn, NY
TWIST OF FATE, 8 min. - 2009 - Karen Aqua - Cambridge, MA
WORLDS OF SOUND: BALLAD OF FOLKWAYS, 52 min. - 2008 - Andrea Kalin & Richard Carlin (Book Author) - DC
YOUNG CONTINENT, 6 min. - 2009 - Sarah J. Christman - Brooklyn, NY

PICKLES FOR NICKELS, 8 min. - 2009
Danielle Ash - Brooklyn, NY
*STELLAR ANIMATION SELECTION

DEATH IN THREE ACTS, 9 min. - 2009
Nathan Pancione - S. Hadley, MA
*STELLAR EXPERIMENTAL SELECTION

GORDITA, 10 min. - 2009
Debby Wolfe w/ Kaz Kipp, Maureen Morrison &
Rebecca Hamm - Los Angeles, CA
*STELLAR NARRATIVE SELECTION

JURY’S CHOICE SELECTIONS - (1st)

BUOY, 6 min. - 2008
Seoungho Cho - Elmhurst, NY

CLANDESTINE, 30 min. - 2009
D. Gideon C. Kennedy & Marucs Rosentrater - Mobile, AL

LOOPLOOP, 5 min. - 2008
Patrick Bergeron - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

MISSED ACHES, 4 min. - 2008
Joanna Priestley - Portland, OR

OFF-LINE, 9 min. - 2009
Tom Gasek - Great Barrington. MA

THE PASSENGER, 7 min. - 2009
Julie Zammarchi - Marshfields Hills, MA

SECOND HAND DOLLS, 5 min. - 2008
Anthony Weeks - San Francisco, CA

THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL, 25 min. - 2009/10
Ruth Peyser - New York, NY

VACATIONS IN NOVEMBER, 20 min. - 2006
Pavel Medvedev - St. Petersburg, Russia

YANQUI WALKER & THE OPTICAL REVOLUTION, 33 min. - 2009
Kathryn Ramey - Roslindale, MA

JURY’S CITATION SELECTIONS - (2nd)

CALLING MY CHILDREN, 35 min. - 2009
David Binder - Boston, MA

CHRONICLES OF A PROFESSIONAL EULOGIST, 26 min. - 2008
Sarah Jane Lapp - Cambridge, MA

HIGH NOON REFLECTIONS, 12 min. - 2009
Greg Biermann - Hackensack, NJ

LONG STORY SHORT, 53 min. - 2008
Christine Choy & Jodi Long - New York, NY

M, 8 min. - 2009
Felix Dufour-Lapperriere - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

MEMORY LEAK, 22 min. - 2009
William Noland - Durham, NC

SLEEPING BEAR, 10 min. - 2009
Jack Cronin - Ann Arbor, MI

TRAVELOGUES, 49 min. - 2009
Dustin Thompson - Los Angeles, CA

WHEN HERONS DREAM, 10 min. - 2009
Serge Gregory - Seattle, WA

DIRECTOR’S CHOICE SELECTIONS - (3rd)

YOUNG FILMMAKER / AUDIENCE CHOICE SELECTION
THOMAS EDISON’S LAST FILM, 16 min. - 2009 - Eli Shapiro - West Orange, NJ