BendFilm Festival names award winners
BendFilm Festival announced the winners in 11 categories Saturday evening at an awards gala at the Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend.
The Narrative Feature, Hide Your Smiling Faces, in its Pacific Northwest Premiere, swept the festival, capturing numerous awards, including the Brooks Resources “Best of Show” and the Panavision “Best Narrative Feature.”
The winning films and award amounts as well as a full schedule of Sunday’s lineup are listed below.
Sunday, October 13, is the final day of the festival, when a full line-up of winning films and Best of the Best will be shown at the Tower Theatre and Regal Cinemas.
“Celebrating our 10 th year, we have been so fortunate to have such amazing films and an incredible jury at the BendFilm Festival this year,” said Festival Director Orit Schwartz.
Jurors included Neal Block, head of Theatrical Distribution at Magnolia Pictures; Miriam Cutler, Emmy-nominated composer and BendFilm 2012 Audience Award Winner; Franklin Leonard, founder of the Black List; Darryl Macdonald, director of the Palm Springs International Film Festival; Maggie Mackay, Los Angeles Film Festival; and Lisa Schwarzbaum, critic and essayist formerly of Entertainment Weekly.
“We savor the rush of handing gifted filmmakers awards, and we delight in the local individuals and businesses that make it a reality,” said Schwartz. “We would like to thank the talented filmmakers who have shared their projects with us through all these years as we could not have been successful without them.”
2013 Award Winners
Award Name + $ Amount
Made Possible By
Winning Film
Best of Show$5,000 & BendFilm Award Sculpture
Brooks Resources Corporation, founding sponsor of BendFilm for the past 10 years
Hide Your Smiling Faces
Best Narrative Screenplay$500 & BendFilm Award Sculpture
Independent WOMEN for Independent Film! *
Buoy
Best Directing$500 & BendFilm Award Sculpture
Independent WOMEN for Independent Film! *
Daniel Patrick Carbone, Hide Your Smiling Faces
Best Narrative Feature Camera Rental Package (valued at $60,000) & BendFilm Award Sculpture
Panavision
Hide Your Smiling Faces
Best DocumentaryFeature $500 & BendFilm Award Sculpture
Jan and Jody Ward
Before the Spring, After the Fall
Best Short$500 & BendFilm Award Sculpture
Independent WOMEN for Independent Film! *
The Boy Scout
Special Mention for Documentary Short: Herd in Iceland
Best Student Short$500 & BendFilm Award Sculpture
Dan and Priscilla Wieden on behalf of Caldera Arts
Silk
Best Short Screenplay $500 & BendFilm Award Sculpture
Independent WOMEN for Independent Film! *
Cody Blue Snider, Shane Snider; Fools Day
Best CinematographyBendFilm Award Sculpture
Hide Your Smiling Faces
Best Actor BendFilm Award Sculpture
Andrea Suarez Paz, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
* Independent WOMEN for Independent Film: The brainchild of Pamela Hulse Andrews, bringing together this group of incredible women supporting BendFilm at a time we could use it most! Their contribution is funding cash prizes for filmmakers as well as the awesome BendFilm award statue, branding our festival for years to come. Thank you ladies!
Sunday 10/13/13 ~ Awards Winners & Best of the Fest Schedule
(Narrative feature; Documentary; Short Films)
Tower
Regal 1
Regal 2
McMenamins
Late
Morning
10:30 a.m. ? Documentary
Award Winner
Best Documentary
Before the Spring, After the Fall with The Boy Scout
85 min.
11 a.m. ? Narrative
BUOY with Herd In Iceland
104 min.
Early Afternoon
1 p.m. ? Narrative
Award Winner
Best Narrative
Hide Your Smiling Faces with Silk
97 min.
1 p.m. ? Documentary
Digital Dharma: One Man’s Mission to Save a Culture with A House, A Home
89 min.
1:30 p.m. ? Doc
Terms And Conditions May Apply with Promised Land
99 min.
12 p.m. ?
BENDFILM KIDS
Late Afternoon
3:30 p.m. ? Narrative
Award Winner
Audience Award
Hank & Asha with Bare As You Dare
90 min.
3:30 p.m. ? Documentary
Bending Steel with Bug People
108 min.
4 p.m. ? Narrative
A Picture of You with Obit
94 min
