2016 Bend Film Festival

13TH ANNUAL BEND FILM FESTIVAL
Short and Feature Film Awards

Best In Show

To Keep the Light

Directed by Erica Fae

Inspired by true stories, a lighthouse keeper’s wife struggles with her work and her sanity as she cares for her sick husband in 19th century Maine.

Best Directing

Night School

Directed by Andrew Cohn

Best Narrative Feature

First Girl I Loved

Directed by Kerem Sanga

Best Documentary Feature

Growing Up Coy

Directed by Eric Juhola

Best Narrative Short

A Beautiful Mess

Directed by Shahir Zag

Best Documentary Short

Pickle

Directed by Amy Nicholson

Best Student Short

Spilt Milk

Directed by James Dunstan

Best Animated Short

Trial and Error

Directed by Antje Heyn

Best Cinematography

If There’s a Hell Below

Directed by Nathan Williams

Best of the Northwest

The Child and the Dead

Directed by Marc Ripper & Karina Ripper

Katie Merritt Audience Award

Finding Oscar

Directed by Ryan Suffern

Special Jury Award Best Actor

Tomas Pais

HUNKY DORY Directed Michael Curtis Johnson

Special Jury Award Best Actor

Jane Ackermann

NEPTUNE Directed Derek Kimball

Special Award for Visual Effects

ICARUS

Directed by Tom Teller

Special Award for Originality of Vision

THE LETTER E

Directed by Mira K. Lippold-Johnson

Special Award for Animation

FULFILAMANET

Directed by Rhiannon Evans

2016 FESTIVAL FILM GUIDE