2007 Winners Announced!

Special Prizes

Best of Fest Award- "Labou"
By: Dog and Rooster Productions and Greg Aronowitz (USA, 2006)

The Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Prize:

Best Film or Video by an Emerging Director: "The Goat That Ate Time"
Lucinda Schreiber (Australia, 2007)

Best Child-Produced Film or Video: "Secrets of Early U.S. History"
Class 846 at MS 131 and Working Playground (USA, 2006)

The Liv Ullmann Peace Prize: "Make a Wish"
Directed By: Cherien Dabis (Palestine, 2006)

The Rights of the Child Award: "America the Beautiful"
Directed By: Darryl Robberts (USA, 2007)

Adult Jury Prizes

Live-action Feature Film or Video- 1st Prize: "Leaps and Bounds"
Directed By: Petter Naess, (Sweden, 2006)

Live-Action Feature Film or Video- 2nd Prize: "Trigger" Directed By: Gunnar Vikene (Norway, 2006)

Certificate of Excellence: "Winners and Losers"
Directed By: Kjell Sundvall (Sweden, 2005)

Live-action Short Film or Video- 1st Prize: "Little Man"
Directed By: Esben Tonnesen, (Denmark, 2006)

Live-action Short Film or Video- 2nd Prize: "The Little Gorilla"
Directed By: Harry Kellerman, (USA, 2006)

Certificate of Excellence: "Make a Wish"
Directed By: Cherien Dabis (Palestine, 2006)

Documentary Film of Video- 1st Prize: "Anita's Africa"
Directed By: Beverley Reid (Canada, 2007)

Documentary Film of Video- 2nd Prize: "We Will Rock!"
Directed By: Jenni Linko (Finland, 2006)

Live-action Television Program- 1st Prize: Malin Büttner, Gesa Dankwerth, Ute Mattigkeit (Tvision GmbH) in the order of WDR, Nine-and-a-Half Special: "Middle East Conflict" (Germany, 2006)

2nd Prize, Kylie du Fresne, Lockie Leonard: "Ladder of Love" (Australia, 2006)

Certificate of Excellence, Chieh-jen Chu and Ling-Ching Wang, Follow Me: "Run, Bunung School Run" (Taiwan, R.O.C., 2006)

Animated Feature Film or Video- 1st Prize: "Elias and the Royal Yacht"
Directed By: Espen Fyksen, (Norway, 2007)

Animated Feature Film or Video- 2nd Prize: "The Three Robbers"
Directed By: Stephan Schesch Animation X (Germany, 2007)

Animated Short Film or Video- 1st Prize: "Herzog and the Monsters "
Directed By: Lesley Barnes, (UK, 2006)

Animated Short Film or Video- 2nd Prize: "Tyger"
Directed By: Guilherme Marcondes, (Brazil, 2006)

Certificate of Excellence: "Willy and Wild Rabbit"
Directed By: Lennart Gustafsson & Ylva-Li Gustafsson, (Germany, 2006)

Animated Television Program- 1st Prize: "The Wrong Trainers"
Kez Margrie (UK, 2006)

Children's Jury Prizes

Live-action Feature Film or Video- 1st Prize: "Crusade: March Through Time"
Directed By: Ben Sombogaart, (Netherlands, 2006)

Live-action Feature Film or Video- 2nd Prize: "Island of Lost Souls"
Directed By: Nikolaj Arcel, (Denmark, 2007)

Live-action Short Film or Video- 1st Prize: "Snakebite" Directed By: Matt Pinder, (UK, 2006)

Live-action Short Film or Video- 2nd Prize: "Amarelinha"
Directed By: Francois Choquet, (USA, 2007)

Certificate of Excellence: "Filiz in Flight"
Directed By: Sylke Rene Meyer, (Germany, 2006)

Documentary Film or Video- 1st Prize: "The Chicken Garden"
Directed By: Leila Hodell and Bertel Torne, (Denmark, 2006)

Animated Short Film or Video- 1st Prize, "Fall in Line"
Directed By: Andy Musser, (USA, 2006)

Animated Short Film or Video- 2nd Prize: "My Happy End"
Directed By: Milen Vitanov, (Germany, 2007)

Certificate of Excellence: "Paradise"
Directed By: Jesse Rosensweet, (Canada, 2007)

Child-produced Short Film or Video- 1st Prize: "Sea Friends
Directed By: Zoe Allen-Wickler, (USA, 2006)

Child-produced Short Film or Video- 2nd Prize: "The Welsh Dresser"

Directed By: Jane Hubbard from the Neyland Community School, (UK, 2007)

Certificate of Excellence: "The Adventures of Johnny the Mouse"
Directed By: Jamie Vo, (Canada, 2006)

Festival Highlights :

* Teen celeb Maestro Harrell (Ali, The Wire, ER) will host the Opening Night Gala and teach a workshop.
* Five top U.S. feature films will appear on festival screens in the CICFF's new American Showcase®
* Halloween weekend feature films full of magic, mystery and time travel, include: Crusade (Holland), The Island of Lost Souls (Denmark), The Witch of Melchet Street (Israel), Hui Buh the Goofy Ghost (Germany)
* Four animated feature films for young audiences (3-9)! Elias and the Royal Yacht (Norway); The Three Robbers (Germany); Desmond and the Swamp Barbarian Trap (Sweden); Laura's Christmas Star (Germany)
* Back by popular demand, 9:30 a.m. MY FIRST MOVIE weekend screenings for kids ages 2-5 at Facets
* Supermodel Gerren Taylor to co-host Closing Night Award Ceremony and appear at screenings of America the Beautiful.