Award Winners
2011 Festival Award Winners:
Best of Festival: Waste Land, Lucy Walker
Spirit of Activism Award: Alexandra’s Echo, Helen Slinger
People’s Choice Award: Eastern Rises, Travis Rummel, Ben Knight
Most Inspiring Adventure Film: Redwoods: Anatomy of a Giant, John Rubin, James Donald
Jury Award: Bag It, Suzan Beraza
Jury Award: First Ascent: Point of No Return, Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen
Jury Award: A Murder of Crows, Susan Fleming
Best Children’s Film: Lost & Found, Phillip Hunt, Sue Goffee
Best Student Film: A Mongolian Couch, George Clipp, Eva Arnold
John de Graaf Environmental Filmmaking Award: Ben Knight & Travis Rummel of Felt Soul Media
Honorable Mentions:
Bearwalker of the Northwoods: David Wright, Mimi McGee
Carbon Nation: Peter Byck
There Once was an Island: Briar March
Truck Farm: Ian Cheney, Curtis Ellis
Children’s Honorable Mentions:
Nico’s Challenge: Steve Audette
Water Loving Doggies 2: Will Keir
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2010 Festival Award Winners:
Best of Festival: The Legend of Pale Male, Frederic Lilien
Frederic will also receive a full year subscription to the online stock footage site, www.slamstock.com
Spirit of Activism Award: A Simple Question: The Story of STRAW, Kevin White, David Donnefield
People’s Choice Award: Homegrown, Robert McFalls
Most Inspiring Adventure Film: First Ascent: Alone on the Wall, James Aikman
Jury Award: Green, Patrick Rouxel
Jury Award: No Impact Man, Justin Schein, Laura Gabbert
“Food Theme” Jury Award: Fresh, Ana Sofia Joanes
Best Children’s Film: Why Don’t We All Ride Zebras?, Hannah Smith Walker
Children’s Honorable Mentions: V for Volunteer, Nori Whisenand; Diary of a Spider, Weston Woods
Best Student Film: The Edge of the Sea, Maria Jose Caledron
John de Graaf Environmental Filmmaking Award: Franny Armstrong
Honorable Mentions:
The Cove: Louie Psihoyos
Finding Farley: Leanne Allison, Tracey Friesen
Lords of Nature: In a Land of Great Predators: Karen Anspacher-Meyer, Ralf Meyer
Taking Root:The Vision of Wangari Maathai, Lisa Merton, Alan Dater
2009 Festival Award Winners:
Best of Festival: So Right So Smart: Leanne Robinson-Maine, Justin Maine, Guy Noerr, Michael Swantek
Spirit of Activism: Garbage Warrior: Oliver Hodge, Rachel Wexler
Most Inspiring Adventure Film: 3 Peaks, 3 Weeks: Michael Brown, David D’Angelo, Greg S. Moyer, Mark DeAngelis, Rob Faris, Andrew Kaplan, Matthew Kennedy
People’s Choice Award: The Last Descent: Kathryn Scott, Charlie Center, Scott Ligare
John de Graaf Environmental Filmmaker Award: Free Range Studios
Best Children’s Film: Riddle in a Bottle: Laura and Robert Sams
Student Filmmaker Awards: Lynx: Wynn Padua, Ben Harris, Eric Binns; and Journey of the Yuba: Annabella Funk
Jury Awards:
The Price of Sugar: Bill Haney, Erin Grunebaum; Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars: Mat Hames, Cara Carney; Saving Luna: Suzanne Chisholm, Michael Parfit
Honorable Mentions:
I Met the Walrus: Josh Raskin, Jerry Levitan; Wild Ocean: Luke Cresswell, Steve McNicholas; American Outrage: Beth & George Gage; Under Our Skin: Andy Abrahams Wilson; Chickens of the Sea: Steve Furman; Water Loving Doggies 2: Philip Hassan, Guillaume Habekoss
2008 Festival Awards Winners:
Best of Fest: Recycled Life by Leslie Iwerks
People’s Choice Award: Oil & Water Project by Seth Warren
Spirit of Activism Award: A Land Out of Time by Mark Harvey
John De Graaf Environmental Filmmaking Award: Judith Helfand and Daniel Gold
I Love the Yuba Award: Little Bird of the Yuba by Larry Huntington
I Love the Yuba Honorable Mention: Purdon to Prosser by Brian Sizer
Student Filmmaker Competition: Antarctica … the End? by Sam Lowe-Anker (high school category) & Rita by Alison Teal Blehert-Koehn (college category)
Most Inspiring Adventure: The Endless Knot by Michael Brown
Best Children’s Film: Little Blue by Bob Svihovec
Jury Awards:
King Corn by Ian Cheney & Aaron Wolf; Mountain Top Removal by Michael O’Connell; Edge of Eden: Living with Grizzlies by Jeff & Sue Turner
Honorable Mentions:
Fridays at the Farm by Richard Power Hoffman; The Greening of Southie by Ian Cheney; Kintaro Walks Japan by Tyler MaNiven
2007 Festival Award Winners:
Best of Festival: Queen of Trees, Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone
Peoples Choice: Arid Lands, Josh Wallaert and Grant Aaker
Spirit of Activism: McLibel, Franny Armstrong
Spirit of Adventure: Source to Sea, Andy Norris, Christopher Swain
Special Jury Award: The Power of Community, Faith Morgan
Special Jury Award: Mujaan, Chris McKee
Best Childrens Film: Kids Who Rip, Rod Parmenter
John de Graaf Environmental Filmmaker Award: Mark Deeble & Victoria Stone
Honorable Mentions:
America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie; Birdsong and Coffee; Bilby Brothers: The Men Who Killed the Easter Bunny; Drowned Out; Clear Cut; A Life Among Whales; Wombat
2006 Festival Award Winners:
People’s Choice Award: What Remains of Us, Francois Prevost, Hugo Latulippe
Best of the Festival: The Real Dirt on Farmer John, Taggart Siegel, Teri Lang
Spirit of Activism Award: Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action, Roberta Grossman
Best Children’s Film: Wall Rats, Steve Edwards, Hans Florine
Best Short: Discover Hetch Hetchy, David Vassar
Most Inspiring Adventure Film: Flying Over Everest, Fabio Toncelli
John de Graaf Environmental Filmmaker Award: John de Graaf
Honorable Mentions:
Buyer Be Fair, John de Graaf; Ansel Adams, Ric Burns; Trudell, Heather Rae; The Snowbowl Effect, Klee Benally; Coastal Clash, Elizabeth Pepin Silva; Tales of the San Joaquin, Christopher Beaver; Sludge, Robert Salyer.
2005 Festival Award Winners:
Best of the Festival Award: Being Caribou, Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison
People’s Choice Award: Return to Balance, Sterling Johnson and Ron Kauk
Best Children’s Film Award: Stories of the 7th Fire, Storyteller Productions
Most Inspiring Adventure Film Award: Three Women, Three Hundred Miles, Kelley Kalafatich and Carr Clifton
Spirit of Activism Award: Inheritance, Peter Hegedus
Best of Entries Award: Dude, Where’s My River?, Tom and Debra Weistar, Synergia
2004 Festival Award Winners:
Best of the Festival: Pale Male, Frederic Lilien
Best of the Entries: Hetch Hetchy: Yosemite’s Lost Valley, Deborah Landowne
People’s Choice Award: Counting Sheep, Frank Green
2003 Festival Award Winners:
Best of the Festival: Rivers and Tides, Thomas Riedelsheimer
Best of the Entries: Riversense, Kate Geis
