The Coronado Island Film Festival, which wrapped up its eighth season on Veterans Day weekend, has announced its winners.
Here they are:
Winners of the filmmaker awards include Vivian Kerr’s “Scrap” taking the Jury Prize for Best Narrative Film, and Lagueria Davis’ “Black Barbie” winning the Jury Prize for Best
Documentary.
The film festival’s coveted Emerald Award went to Brenden Hall’s “Out There: The National Parks Story.”
Jury Prize winners in the short film categories were led by Aaron Schoonover’s “The Rabbit
Hole” for Best Narrative Short Film.
The Jury Prize for Best Short Documentary went to Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers’ “The Last Repair Shop.”
The Audience Awards include “Taste of Things” for Best Narrative Feature, “Shayda” for Best International Feature, and “Humanity Stoked” for Best Documentary Feature.
Best Narrative Short went to “Subtext” and Best Documentary Short went to “Humantee.”
In the local category, Best Local Narrative Feature went to “The Secret Art of Human Flight” and Best Local Documentary Feature went to “The Big Dump.”
For complete coverage of the Coronado Island Film Festival go to https://thecoronadonews.com/ciff/
See full list of winners below.
2023 CORONADO ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL FILMMAKER AWARD WINNERS
FEATURE FILM JURY AWARDS
BEST NARRATIVE
“Scrap”
Director: Vivian Kerr
BEST DOCUMENTARY
“Black Barbie”
Director: Lagueria Davis
SPECIAL ADVOCACY AWARD
“Deep Rising”
Director: Matthieu Rytz
SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL JURY PRIZE
“A Kind Of Kidnapping”
Director: D.G. Clark
SHORT FILM JURY AWARDS
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
“The Rabbit Hole”
Director: Aaron Schoonover
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
“The Last Repair Shop”
Directors: Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
“Broken Gargoyles”
Director: Freddy Carter
SPECIAL ADVOCACY AWARD – INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
“You’re Not Crazy (No Estas Loca)”
Director: Maria Bestar
JURY CASH AWARDS
DR. GEORGE M. SANGER STUDENT FILM AWARDS
STUDENT GRAND PRIZE AWARD
“The Midwife”
Director: Anne-Sophie Bailly
BEST STUDENT FILM (Advanced)
“City of Lost Souls”
Director: Nikos Mpouyioukas
BEST STUDENT FILM (High School)
“Memories in Blue”
Director: Yezy Suh
DALE ST. DENNIS FEMALE FILMMAKER AWARDS
Fearless Female Filmmaker Award
“Breaking Silence”
Directors: Amy Bench and Annie Silverstein
“Black Girls Play”
Directors: Joe Brewster
Mary Pickford Award
“Confessions”
Director: Stephanie Kaznocha
Francis Marion Award
“Heritage Day”
Directors: Liz Blair And Lara Everly
“The Last Butterflies”
Director: Whitney Wegman-Wood
EMERALD AWARD
“Out There: The National Parks Story”
Director: Brenden Hall
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS
FEATURES (Narrative + Documentaries)
Best Narrative Feature
“Taste of Things”
Best International Feature
“Shayda”
Best Indie Narrative
“Heightened”
Best Documentary Feature
“Humanity Stoked”
Best Advocacy Documentary
“Common Ground”
Best Military Feature
“The Gift”
SHORTS
Best Narrative Short
“Subtext”
Best Documentary Short
“Humantee”
Best Advocacy Documentary Short
“Bumps in the Road”
Best Student Short
“Azizam”
Best International Short
“You’re Not Crazy”
Culinary Spotlight
“When You Left Me on the Boulevard”
Cultural Spotlight
“David Se Va”
ANIMATION
Best Animated Feature
“Robot Dreams”
Best Animated Short
“Boat People”
LOCAL CATEGORY
Best Local Narrative Feature
“The Secret Art of Human Flight”
Best Local Documentary Feature
“The Big Dump”
Best Local Narrative Short
“Amazing Grace”
Best Local Documentary Short
“Little Tommy”
Best Local Student Narrative
“The Baseball Cap”
Best Local Student Documentary
“Unbreakable”
THE 2023 CORONADO ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL JURY
Jury President
Leonard Maltin (Maltin on Movies)
Narrative Film Jury
Lisa Bruce (Welcome to the Blumhouse, American Refugee)
Lori Huck (Senior Editorial Analyst, Metadata & Content Platforms, The Walt Disney Co.)
Rob Ramsey (Life, Intolerable Cruelty)
Documentary Jury
Claudia Puig (LAFCA, NPR’s Film Week)
Ann Walker (Mendocino Film Festival)
Kira Wojak (Mendocino Film Festival)
Shorts
Jim Gallagher (Former President of Marketing, Walt Disney Studios)
Jon Anderson (Chair, Professor of Documentary Studies and Production, School of Journalism and Communications, University of Oregon)
Coco Francini (Emmy-nominated Producer and partner at Dirty Films alongside Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton; Shayda, Fingernails, The New Boy, Ms. America)
Jon Anderson Retired Marketing Executive, SVP Global Marketing for AMblin Partners and worked for Sony, Paramount, Disney, Dreamworks Animation)
International Films
Ricardo Del Rio (Co-Founder, National Film Commission – Mexico, Puerto Vallarta Film
Commission)
Sue-Allen Villalva (Ghosts of the Pacific, Hands of Stone)
Student Films
Mitchell Block (Sara)
Vanessa Block (Pig, The Testimony)
Kim Magnusson (Helium, Election Night)
Jury Cash Awards
Stephanie Allen
Kristie Kershaw (Founder, Head of Creative Marketing, Fanthropology)
Nancy McRae
Peter McRae
Female Filmmaker Awards
Stephanie Allen (Actor, Screenwriter, and Co-EVP Marketing at Searchlight – Slumdog Million, Little Miss Sunshine, and Sideways)
Kristie Kershaw (Founder, Head of Creative Marketing, Fanthropology)
Emerald Award
Nancy McRae
Peter McRae
