The Crested Butte Film Festival is a celebration of international films, held annually over four days in the last weekend of September, in Crested Butte, Colorado.[2][3][4][5]
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| Location | Crested Butte, Colorado USA |
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| Founded | 2011 |
| Awards | ACTNow, Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary Feature, Best Comedy Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Narrative Feature, Audience Choice |
| Artistic director | Michael & Jennifer Brody |
| No. of films | 100[1] |
| Festival date | September (annually) |
| Language | International |
| Website | cbfilmfest |
History edit
Michael and Jennifer Brody established the Crested Butte Film Festival in 2011, looking for creative work together following careers in filmmaking and education.[5] Crested Butte previously had Reel Fest, a shorts film festival that lasted ten years, but which was discontinued in 2010. The first installment of the Crested Butte Film Festival had an audience of 1,500 or about the population of the town; two years later attendance doubled. The festival is held just as the aspens turn into their imperial gold.
Program edit
Crested Butte Film Festival programs artful, moving, creative and provocative films. Preference is given to creativity, daring, great storytelling, and bravery. The top selections are awarded to ACTNow, to the best narrative and documentary features, best documentary short, children's films, and to those chosen by the audience.
Awards edit
Action and Change Together (ACTNow) edit
Awarded to a nonprofit organization linked to a call-to-action documentary.
| Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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| 2012 | Bidder 70 | Beth Cage; George Cage |  United States
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| 2013 | Blood Brother | Steve Hoover | United States
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| 2014 | Virunga | Orlando von Einsiedel |  United Kingdom
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| 2015 | Racing Extinction | Louie Psihoyos | United States
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| 2016 | Newtown | Kim Snyder | United States
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| 2017 | Bending the Arc | Kief Davidson; Pedro Kos | United States
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| A Plastic Ocean | Craig Leeson | United Kingdom
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| 2019 | Santuario | Pilar Timpane; Christine Delp | United States
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| 2020 | Mossville: When Great Trees Fall |
Alexander Glustrom | United States
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Juried Awards edit
| Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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| 2013 | De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone) |
Jacques Audiard |  France
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| 2014 | The One I Love | Charlie McDowell | United States
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| 2015 | Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter |
Nathan Zellner; David Zellner | United States
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| 2016 | The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos |  Greece/ Ireland
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| 2017 | A Ghost Story | David Lowery | United States
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| 2019 | Parasite | Bong Joon-ho |  Republic of Korea
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| 2020 | Bait | Mark Jenkin | United Kingdom
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| Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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| 2012 | Bidder 70 | Beth Cage; George Cage | United States
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| 2013 | Chasing Ice | Jeff Orlowski | United States
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| 2014 | The Overnighters | Jesse Moss | United States
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| 2015 | Almost Holy (Crocodile Gennadiy) |
Steve Hoover | United States
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| 2016 | LoveTrue | Alma Har'el | United States/ Israel
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| 2017 | Whose Streets? | Sabaah Folayan; Damon Davis | United States
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| 2019 | Storm the Gates | Daniele Anastasion; Catherine Yrisarri; Josie Swantek |
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| 2020 | Us Kids | Kim Snyder | United States
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| Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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| 2012 | A Finger, Two Dots, Then Me |
David Holechek | United States
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| 2013 | Arena | Martin Rath |  Poland
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| 2014 | Into the Silent Sea | Andrej Landin |  Sweden
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| Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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| 2017 | Immaculate Misconception |
Michael Geoghegan | United Kingdom
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| 2019 | Hot Dog | Alma Buddecke; Marleen Valin |  Germany
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| 2020 | Olla | Ariane Labed | United States
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| Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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| 2015 | Our Curse | Tomasz Śliwiński | Poland
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| 2016 | We All We Got | Carlos Javier Ortiz | United States
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| 2017 | Woody's Order | Ann Talman | United States
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| 2019 | All Inclusive | Corina Schwingruber-Ilić |  Switzerland
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| 2020 | Huntsville Station | Jamie Meltzer and Chris Filippone | United States
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| Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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| 2015 | La Hija | Jazmín Rada |  Spain
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| 2016 | Situational | Scott Simonsen; Alyssa Skoller | United States
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| Stutterer | Benjamin Cleary | Ireland
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| 2017 | American Paradise | Joe Talbot | United States
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| 2019 | Moon and the Night | Erin Lau | United States
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| 2020 | Monstruo Dios (Monster God) |
Agustina San Martín |  Argentina
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Audience Choice edit
| Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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| 2012 | Kumaré | Vikram Gandhi | United States
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| 2013 | Blood Brother | Steve Hoover | United States
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| 2014 | About Alex | Jessie Zwick | United States
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| 2015 | Unbranded | Phillip Baribeau | United States
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| 2016 | Jim: The James Foley Story | Brian Oakes | United States
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| 2017 | Band Aid | Zoe Lister Jones | United States
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| 2019 | Peanut Butter Falcon | Tyler Nilson; Michael Schwartz |
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| 2020 | High Country | Conor Hagen | United States
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Other awards edit
Special Jury Prize edit
- 2012 – Alexander Gaeta, "Outstanding achievement, directorial debut"; Shoot the Moon
- 2014 – Martin Rath, "Outstanding achievement, breakthrough filmmaker"; Written in Ink and Arena
- 2015 – Yana Novikova (Яна Новикова), "Outstanding achievement, debut performance in a feature film"; The Tribe (Плем'я)
- 2016 – Leonor Caraballo, Mattero Norzi, Abou Farman, and Adella Ladjevardi, "Artistic accomplishment"; Icaros: A Vision
- 2016 – Ashley Valenzuela, "Filmmaker to watch"; Warm Waves
- 2017 – David Byars, "Excellence in filmmaking"; No Man's Land
- 2017 – Nancy Liu, "Filmmaker to watch"; Angeltown
- 2017 – Dana Romanoff, "Embodying the spirit of activism in the arts"; Storytelling and the Spirit of Activism in Cinema
- 2019 – Nancy Dionne, "Achievement in social impact and activism"; All I See is the Future
- 2019 – Zack Gottsagen, "Outstanding debut performance"
- 2020 – Mohammad Rasoulof, "Courage in filmmaking"
- 2020 – Ashley Williams, "Outstanding achievement, directorial debut"
Spirit of the Festival edit
- 2013 – Jack Hanley
- 2014 – Scott Aigner and Marcelo Mitnik
- 2015 – Jennifer Brody
- 2016 – Jeramiah Friesen
- 2017 – Stacey Donaldson and Kat Cooke
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Harvey, Kasey (September 2, 2016). "2016 Crested Butte Film Festival". mountainliving.com. Mountain Living. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
The lineup has a total of 100 films, with 20 feature-length narrative and documentaries and 80 short films in the narrative, documentary, outdoor adventure and children's genres.
- ^ Wenzel, John (September 16, 2015). "13 Colorado film festivals to enjoy in fall 2015". Denverpost.com. Denver Post. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
- ^ Singer, Daliah (September 11, 2014). "Crested Butte Film Festival Is A (Sort Of) Homecoming for Filmmaker Jesse Zwick". 5280.com. 5280. Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
- ^ Zable, Stacey (June 29, 2015). "Celebrate cinema at these fall film fests". usatoday.com. USA Today. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
American and international cinema-lovers come to this scenic town in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado every September, the perfect time to marvel at the aspen forests showing off their fall colors. Some 90 films are shown over the four-day fest, with venues and events a mere "townie bike" ride away from each other.
- ^ a b "Crested Butte Film Festival: Our Story". Cbfilmfest.org. Crested Butte Film Festival. Retrieved June 6, 2016.