Orlando Film Fest Award Winners
(released
10/20/2013)
By Douglas Lorah
The Orlando Film Festival, held in the heart of downtown Orlando, continues through today. The four day festival held its public awards ceremony last night on stage in the courtyard of The Plaza building. The Plaza also holds the Cobb Cinema Plaza Cafe up on the second floor, home to all of the film screenings.
The awards ceremony ran a little behind schedule, but the crowd was entertained by a two piece band led by David Schweizer. He composed the score for Bad Chicken, which screened at the festival.
Dan Springen, a local filmmaker and the executive director of the festival, was the host and award presenter along with Holly Morgan, member of the festival advisory board. Most of the categories were introduced by Springen with excerpts of the films on two screens that framed the stage.
The winners of the 2013 Orlando Film Festival are as follows:
Best Student Short - Pauline in a Beautiful World directed by William Thompson
Best Foreign Language Short - Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? directed by Janez Lapajne
Best Doc Short - Rhythm Club Fire directed by Bryan Burch
Best Animated Short - Light Me Up directed by Ryan Walton
Most Outrageous - Just Pull It directed by Aaron Carman
Best Short - Moses on the Mesa directed by Paul Ratner
Best Feature Doc - Antarctica: A Year on Ice directed by Anthony Powell
Best Foreign Language Feature - Salt (Sal) directed by Diego Rougier
Most Inspirational - Ride with Larry directed by Andrew Rubin & Ricardo Villareal
Best Screenplay - Aaron J. Wiederspahn for Only Daughter
Best Cinematography - Aayna Ka Bayna directed by Samit Kakkad
Fireball Run Social Awareness - William T. Still for Jekyll Island
I Am Eco Warrior Award - Within Reach directed by Ryan Mlynarczyk
Best Ensemble Cast - Eat Spirit Eat
Best Performance - Emily Seymour in Only Daughter
Best Director - Norry Nevin for Chasing Shakespeare
Best Picture - Chasing Shakespeare directed by Norry Nevin
Indie Spirit Award - Chastity Bites directed by John V. Knowles
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