Crested Butte Film Festival
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 Brody |
No. of films | 100[1] |
Festival date | September (annually) |
Language | International |
Website | cbfilmfest |
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]
History
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
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
Action and Change Together (ACTNow)
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 | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2013 | Blood Brother | Steve Hoover | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2014 | Virunga | Orlando von Einsiedel | File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom |
2015 | Racing Extinction | Louie Psihoyos | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2016 | Newtown | Kim Snyder | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2017 | Bending the Arc | Kief Davidson; Pedro Kos | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
A Plastic Ocean | Craig Leeson | File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom | |
2019 | Santuario | Pilar Timpane; Christine Delp | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2020 | Mossville: When Great Trees Fall |
Alexander Glustrom | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
Juried Awards
Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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2013 | De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone) |
Jacques Audiard | File:Flag of France.svg France |
2014 | The One I Love | Charlie McDowell | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2015 | Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter |
Nathan Zellner; David Zellner | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2016 | The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos | File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece/ File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland |
2017 | A Ghost Story | David Lowery | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2019 | Parasite | Bong Joon-ho | File:Flag of South Korea.svg Republic of Korea |
2020 | Bait | Mark Jenkin | File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom |
Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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2012 | Bidder 70 | Beth Cage; George Cage | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2013 | Chasing Ice | Jeff Orlowski | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2014 | The Overnighters | Jesse Moss | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2015 | Almost Holy (Crocodile Gennadiy) |
Steve Hoover | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2016 | LoveTrue | Alma Har'el | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States/ File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel |
2017 | Whose Streets? | Sabaah Folayan; Damon Davis | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2019 | Storm the Gates | Daniele Anastasion; Catherine Yrisarri; Josie Swantek |
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2020 | Us Kids | Kim Snyder | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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2012 | A Finger, Two Dots, Then Me |
David Holechek | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2013 | Arena | Martin Rath | File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland |
2014 | Into the Silent Sea | Andrej Landin | File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden |
Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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2017 | Immaculate Misconception |
Michael Geoghegan | File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom |
2019 | Hot Dog | Alma Buddecke; Marleen Valin | File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany |
2020 | Olla | Ariane Labed | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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2015 | Our Curse | Tomasz Śliwiński | File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland |
2016 | We All We Got | Carlos Javier Ortiz | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2017 | Woody's Order | Ann Talman | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2019 | All Inclusive | Corina Schwingruber-Ilić | File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland |
2020 | Huntsville Station | Jamie Meltzer and Chris Filippone | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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2015 | La Hija | Jazmín Rada | File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain |
2016 | Situational | Scott Simonsen; Alyssa Skoller | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
Stutterer | Benjamin Cleary | File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland | |
2017 | American Paradise | Joe Talbot | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2019 | Moon and the Night | Erin Lau | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2020 | Monstruo Dios (Monster God) |
Agustina San Martín | File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina |
Audience Choice
Year | Winning film | Director(s) | Country |
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2012 | Kumaré | Vikram Gandhi | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2013 | Blood Brother | Steve Hoover | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2014 | About Alex | Jessie Zwick | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2015 | Unbranded | Phillip Baribeau | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2016 | Jim: The James Foley Story | Brian Oakes | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2017 | Band Aid | Zoe Lister Jones | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
2019 | Peanut Butter Falcon | Tyler Nilson; Michael Schwartz |
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2020 | High Country | Conor Hagen | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
Other awards
Special Jury Prize
- 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
- 2013 – Jack Hanley
- 2014 – Scott Aigner and Marcelo Mitnik
- 2015 – Jennifer Brody
- 2016 – Jeramiah Friesen
- 2017 – Stacey Donaldson and Kat Cooke
See also
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Crested Butte Film Festival: Our Story". Cbfilmfest.org. Crested Butte Film Festival. Retrieved June 6, 2016.