Film Awards QFF '04 | QFF '05

Each film that is entered into the Quittapahilla Film Festival is entered into our juried film award contest. Categories include Best-Over-All Film, Best Documentary, Best Short Film, Best Student Film and the Audience Favorite Award.

Previous Award Winning Films

The 2004 film festival award winners include:

Best Over-all-Film
Containment: Life After Three Mile Island, by Chirs Boebel and Nick Poppy
Containment: Life After Three Mile Island is a one-hour documentary that explores the legacy of the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant from the perspective of the nearby community of Middletown , Pennsylvania . Shot on digital video, "Containment" weaves together interviews, verite' scenes, and archival material to examine the accident's long-term effects on local residents, including the rise of anti-nuclear activism, psychological consequences and the debate over health effects. What is the half-life of memory?

Best Documentary (2)
The Watershed, by Mary Trunk
The Watershed is a moving documentary of survival and forgiveness that shows how tragedy and deprivation can have transforming effects on individual identity. When a father leaves his family for another woman and a lonely mother becomes an extreme alcoholic, seven children experience the shock of what it means to go from riches to rags. Interviews with family members detail how seven siblings learned to pay the bills, feed themselves and keep outsiders in the dark.

Albert Alcalay: Self Portraits, by Allen Moore
This documentary portrait reflects the extraordinary life and engaging personality of artist and teacher Albert Alcalay, through a first-person look at his development as a painter, examining the ways in which Alcalay's artistic language has been shaped by the American landscape, by memory, and by loss.

Best Short
Ganesha and the Mango, by Brian Schmoyer
In the mystical and enchanted land of India , two young gods hold a race over the world's most perfect fruit.

Best Student Film and Audience Favorite Award
A Reasonable Hypothesis, by Jack Ferry
For years Michael has been plagued with psychotic visions of unthinkable medical experiments being performed on him. After a failed attempt at suicide, his mother takes the young boy to a priest for guidance. The strict confines of his faith only add to his unrest, as his psychosis worsens. At eighteen, he drowns himself in his bathtub. He awakes, only to find himself in the hospital of his nightmares. Once he gains enough strength, he struggles to escape. Trying to avoid the doctor and nurse from his dreams, he stumbles upon another patient, brain dead and on a respirator. To his horror, the body appears to be his, down to the scar on his wrist from his first suicide attempt. Michael soon discovers that the body is indeed his, and that he is not who he thinks he is.