- 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