AFI DALLAS Daily News

Sunday, April 1, 2007

AFI DALLAS Announces Film Award Winners

The AFI DALLAS International Film Festival presented by Target, founding sponsor Victory Park, announces its 2007 award winners.

Target Filmmaker Award ($25,000) in Narrative Feature Competition: SHUT UP AND SHOOT ME (encore April 1, 6:00pm, Magnolia)
Target Filmmaker Award ($25,000) in International Documentary Competition: NEW YEAR BABY (encore April 1, 7:00pm, Angelika)
Best HD Feature presented by HDNet: SHARKWATER

Audience Awards:

Audience Award for Narrative Feature: MUSIC WITHIN (encore April 1, 4:00pm, Magnolia)
Audience Award for Documentary: DARIUS GOES WEST: THE ROLL OF HIS LIFE (encore April 1, 6:30pm, The Magnolia)
Audience Award for Shorts: THE LITTLE GORILLA (encore April 1, 6:15pm, Magnolia)

Jury Awards:

Grand Jury Prize, Texas Competition: A LAWYER WALKS INTO A BAR
Special Jury Prize, Texas Competition: EVE OF UNDERSTANDING
Grand Jury Prize, Animation Competition: ONE RAT SHORT (encore April 1, 6:15pm, Magnolia)
Grand Jury Prize, Student Competition: REDEMPTION MADDIE (encore April 1, 6:15pm, Magnolia)
Grand Jury Prize, Short Competition: LITTLE FARM (encore April 1, 6:15pm, Magnolia)
Honorable Jury Mention, Shorts: BITCH
Special Jury Mention, Documentary: WHERE THE SUN RISES

Download complete AFI DALLAS award press announcement and festival wrap-up [MS Word doc]

Red Carpet Photos from Pegasus News

John P. Meyer of Pegasus News posts 22 photos from an AFI DALLAS red carpet at The Magnolia, and this note:

"Man, I was sure glad they moved the red carpet inside last night (Friday) - otherwise we might have ended up with a slew of sopping wet celebrities, along with photographers shooting from inside of plastic trash bags to keep their expensive photo gear dry."

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Coverage Roundup: From Fort Worth

The view from the Forth Worth Star-Telegram:

"AFI DALLAS proved to be a triumph of public relations: For the past month, I couldn't drive to work without encountering a large billboard for the festival at University Drive and I-30. In Dallas, billboards and posters have been ubiquitous since January. Festival organizers also did a great job of enticing the local media, which treated the opening-night event as if it were the Cannes Film Festival and the Oscars combined."

Looking Back: Eve of Understanding

The filmmmakers behind Eve of Understanding, which screened as part of the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival, post 10 photos of their red carpet experience here. "Thanks to John Wildman pictured above with Jen & Alyson for all his fantastic PR efforts - the entire festival staff has been an amazing press machine."

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Video: Ricki Lake at AFI DALLAS

Dallas Voice: Ricki Lake at AFI DALLAS on Vimeo

Dallas Voice talks with Ricki Lake, star of PARK, and Dana Jackson, producer of PARK, at the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival. Watch the video here. Visit Dallas Voice here.

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AFI DALLAS Schedule: Sunday April 1

Click here for April 1 schedule and tickets to the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival presented by Target, founding sponsor Victory Park.

The Magnolia - 3699 McKinney Ave. [Map]
1:00p El Mechanico Loco
2:00p Kurt Cobain: About a Son
3:00p The Bracelet of Bordeaux
3:30p Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
4:00p Audience Award Winner - Narrative Feature - Music Within
6:00p Target Award Winnner - Narrative Feature - Shut Up and Shoot Me
6:15p Short Film Winners (Little Farm, The Little Gorilla, Redemption Maddie, One Rat Short)
6:30p Audience Award Winner - Documentary - Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life

Angelika Film Center - 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln. [Map]
12:00n Family Shorts
1:30p Red Road
2:00p Little Heroes
4:00p Gilles
4:15p Drama/MEX
7:00p Blind Dating
7:00p Target Award Winner - Documentary - New Year Baby
9:00p Beings (preceded by Coming to Town)
9:00p Third Ward, TX (preceded by When They Could Fly)

Victory Plaza - AFI 100... Series - 3090 Olive St. [Map]
12:15p It's a Wonderful Life
3:15p On the Waterfront
6:00p Casablanca
8:30p Citizen Kane

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Coverage Roundup: April 1

Round of latest AFI DALLAS International Film Festival coverage from the Dallas Morning News:

Duo has success's number
Dallas Morning News - Part of that alchemy is the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival, which concludes tonight. Victory helped sponsor the festival, which used the plaza, ...

AFI NOTEBOOK
Dallas Morning News - Modern media mogul Todd Wagner was the main attraction of AFI DALLAS' Saturday talk show slate at the Nasher Sculpture Center. ...

N9NE Group serving up fun in Victory Park
Dallas Morning News - Part of that alchemy is the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival, which concludes tonight. Victory helped sponsor the festival, which used the plaza, ...

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Looking Back: A Filmmaker's Last Day

Final impressions of the 2007 AFI DALLAS International Film Festival from filmmaker Phil Abetacola (THE CHASE) in words and pictures on his personal blog:

"Overall, the films have been very good, or at least very well done, and the people have been wonderful. When I say this, I don’t just mean the filmmakers, but also the staff.

Now thinking of this does bring into my mind something James said a day ago. He said, 'they really have it down, this illusion that this festival is all about us.'

Now when James says 'us' he doesn’t mean it editorially as in filmmakers in general, but 'us' as in James and myself.

When we walk in to any sponsored event, get into any shuttle, which are all Lexus by the way, and when we need to eat or drink, it's all provided and it’s always for us, specifically for us."

Looking Back: 'Fest's a Winner'

Looking back at the 2007 AFI DALLAS International Film Festival with Robert Wilonsky, Dallas Observer, on the Unfair Park blog:

"Sounds like the fest's a winner, at least with theater managers who say their 'plexes have been full-up for most screenings. Shawn Mahan, general manager at the Magnolia Theater, says he expected attendance to be 'up and down, and, for the most part, it's been up'; lines have wrapped around the building for some screenings, a pattern oft repeated over at the Angelika (least, that's what my folks have said, and they’ve been damned near every day)."

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