Thanks for making this yet another successful festival year!
Here are the top ten films as voted by you, the audience at this weekend's Our Island, Our World Film Festival.
We will be purchasing these for the library, and they should be on the shelves by early Fall. In the meantime, Tim and John at Island Star have some of the films shown at the festival.....ask their staff to point you in the right direction. They also have many other fine documentaries.
- Pete Seeger: Power of Song won the Audience Choice Award hands down. The film became a spontaneous sing-along! wonderful!
- Saving Luna, our Opener, was runner-up
- Strong Coffee: The story of Café Feminino
- The Real Dirt on Farmer John
- Sir! No Sir!
- Salud: Cuba and The Quest for Health
- Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad
- War Dance
- Crude Impact
- China Blue
The Gulf Islands Film and Television School scholarships were won by Emily McPhee (youth) and Ahava Shira (adult).
The raffle winners are:
Jean Gelwicks Fritz cinema tickets package
Nelly Weibel Fritz cinema tickets package
Alia Gunnlaugson Fritz cinema tickets package
Emily McPhee - Barb's Buns Gift Certificate and gift basket
Ruby Egger-Lipsett - Natureworks Gift Certificate
Ruby Egger-Lipsett - Intelli mouse
Waterfall - 'From the Good Earth' Book by Michael Ableman
Audrey Wild - 'Fields of Plenty' Book by Michael Ableman
Tom Wright - Hastings House Dinner for two
Next year's festival will be our 10th Anniversary Festival. Please let us know if you'd like to be involved.
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