Juried and Special Awards

Best Feature: "August Evening"
Director: Chris Eska

Best CinematographyThe Gerald Hirschfeld A.S.C. Award:
Feature: "Chronic Town"
Director: Tom Hines

Best Acting Ensemble in a Feature: "The New Year Parade"
Director: Tom Quinn

Special Jury Mention: Dramatic Feature: "Superheroes"
Director: Alan Brown

Best Short: "I Want to Be a Pilot"
Director: Diego Quemada-Diez

Best Documentary- Short Subject: "A Son's Sacrifice"
Director: Yoni Brook

Best Documentary- Feature Length: "Please Vote for Me"
Director: Weijun Chen

Special Jury Mention- Documentary Feature: "One Minute to Nine"
Director: Tommy Davis

Best Student Film: "Pariah"
Director: Dee Rees

Best Animated Short: "Papiroflexia"
Director: Joaquin Baldwin

Lifetime Achievement Award: Albert Maysles

Rogue Award: Helen Hunt

Audience Awards

John C. Schweiger Audience Award- Dramatic Feature:
"The Cake Eaters"
Director: Mary Stuart Masterson

Audience Award- Best Short Film: "Aquarium"
Director: Rob Meyer

Rogue Creamery Audience Award- Documentary Feature:
"American Outrage"
Director: Beth & George Gage

John C. Schweiger Audience Award for Best Dramatic: “Wristcutters: A Love Story”
Director: Goran Dukic

The Rogue Creamery Audience Award Feature Documentary: “Beyond the Call”
Director: Adrian Belic

The Audience Award for Best Short Film: “Full Disclosure”
Director: Douglas Horn

The Gerald Hirschfeld A.S.C. Award; Expiration Date: “Expiration Date”
Director: Rick Stevenson

Best Feature: “Stranded”
Director: Stuart McDonald

Best Acting Ensemble: “Stranded”
Director: Stuart McDonald

Best Documentary, Feature Length: “Our Daily Bread”
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Best Documentary Short Subject: “Dear Talula”
Director: Lori Benson

Best Narrative Short Film: “The Fan and the Flower”
Director: Bill Plympton

Best Student Film: “Zombie Prom”
Director: Vince Marcello

2007 AIFF Artistic Achievement Award: Les Blank

The festival honored Blank with live and recorded tributes from his colleagues, including video sent by internationally renowned filmmaker Werner Herzog. Blank is best known for poetic films that led John Rockwell of The New York Times to say "Blank is a documentarian of folk cultures who transforms anthropology into art." He has been honored with retrospectives at major museums and festivals across the world and his Burden of Dreams was given a British Academy Award. The festival’s presentation of Blank’s work included a retrospective of his classic films and The Tea Film (working title), was given a rare "work in progress" screening after which Blank shared some insight into his creative process.

The AIFF also honored local resident and international movie icon Bruce Campbell with the first ever "Rogue Award" for his years of "filmmaking on the edge". His latest film, “My Name is Bruce,” was given a Sneak Preview screening to a sold out crowd of over 500 people on Friday night at the Armory. Shot in Ashland and other southern Oregon locations last summer with many local actors and crew, the film was produced by Dark Horse Entertainment, Portland, publishers of the graphic novel 300 a recent movie box office hit.