<html><head><base href="x-msg://3/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><b>Wada Atsushi</b> (<a href="http://codocodo.com/wada/">http://codocodo.com/wada/</a>) won an award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival yesterday. It was for two animated films he made. They really where pure delight! You can get a sample here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4KSaRQ6wr0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4KSaRQ6wr0</a></div><div><br></div><div>AAFF also showed the work of <b>Kurosaka Keita</b>; Jonathan Hall was here to interview him, but Kurosaka decided to stay in Japan after the earthquake struck. </div><div><br></div><div>One other Asian film took an award: <b>Huang Weikai's <i>Disorder</i>, </b>which took the Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary. </div><div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'American Typewriter'"><br></font></span></div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" marginheight="0" offset="0" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><table width="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" class="backgroundTable" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center"><table id="contentTable" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 10px; "><tbody><tr><td><table width="600" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="headerTop" align="right" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div class="adminText" style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; font-family: Verdana; text-decoration: none; "><br></div></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="middle" class="headerBar" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; "><div class="headerBarText" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 30px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: left; "><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/dccbf3c57b254adfe8eaff4b2/images/AAFF_Ltrhd_Green_w_txt.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" width="580" height="76" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="600" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" class="bodyTable"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="defaultText" align="left" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana; width: 400px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; "><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong>AAFF Announcement<br>March 27, 2011</strong></span><br><hr><span style="font-size: 11px; ">The Ann Arbor Film Festival is proud to announce the 49th Award Winners. We would like to thank our award jurors Stephen Connolly, Rebecca Meyers and Vanessa Renwick.</span><span style="font-size: 11px; ">Congratulations to all awarded filmmakers!</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong>Ken Burns Award Best of the Festival - $3,000</strong><br><em>Jan Villa</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Natasha Mendonca, 2010)<br><br><strong>Stan Brakhage Film at Wit's End Award - $1,000</strong><br><em>Drifter</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Timoleon Wilkins, 2010)<br><br><strong>Gus Van Sant Award Best Experimental Film - $1,000</strong><br><em>In The Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>(Fern Silva, 2010)<br><br><strong>Michael Moore Award Best Documentary Film - $1,000</strong><br><em>Disorder</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Huang Weikai, 2009)<br><br><strong>Lawrence Kasdan Award Best Narrative Film - $1,000</strong><br><em>Home Movie</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Braden King, 2009)<br><br><strong>Chris Frayne Award Best Animated Film - $1,000</strong><br><em>Hand Soap</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Kei Oyama, 2009)<br><br><strong>The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award Emerging Experimental Video Artist - $1,000</strong><br><em>I Touched Her Legs</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Eva Marie Rødbro, 2010)<br><br><strong>Prix DeVarti Funniest Film - $1,000</strong><br><em>The Mechanism of Spring<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>(Atsushi Wada, 2010)<br><em>In A Pig’ s Eye</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Atsushi Wada, 2010)<br><br><strong>Art & Science Award - $750</strong><br><em>Trypps #7 (Badlands)</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Ben Russell, 2010)<br><br><strong>Peter Wilde Award Most Technically Innovative Film - $500</strong><br><em>These Hammers Don’ t Hurt Us</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Michael Robinson, 2010)<br><br><strong>\aut\FI LM Award Best LGBT Film - $500</strong><br><em>Covered</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(John Greyson, 2009)<br><br><strong>Award for Best Sound Design - $500</strong><br><em>Get Out Of The Car</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Thom Andersen, 2010)<br><br><strong>Kodak/Grace & Wild Imaging Award for Best Cinematography - $3,000<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><br>[$1,500 of film plus $1,500 processing]<br><em>Castaic Lake</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Brigid McCaffrey, 2010)<br><br><strong>Tom Berman Award Most Promising Filmmaker - $1,000</strong><br><em>Aliki</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Richard Wiebe, 2010)<br><br><strong>George Manupelli Founder's Spirit Award - $500</strong><br><em>A Family Portrait</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Joseph Pierce, 2009)<br><br><strong>The Eileen Maitland Award - $500</strong><br><em>Hepworth</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Alexis Bravos, 2011)<br><br><strong>The No Violence Award - $512</strong><br><em>Atlantiques</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Mati Diop, 2010)<br><br><strong>Award for Best International Film - $500</strong><br><em>Vargtimmen - After a Scene by Ingmar Bergman</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Georg Tiller, 2010)<br><br><strong>Award for Best Music Video</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>- $500</strong><br><em>I Say Fever (Ramona Falls)</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Stefan Nadelman, 2009)</span><br><br><hr><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong>Jury Awards (named by jurors)</strong><br><br><strong>The Radiant Grace Award - $550</strong><br><em>Little Brother</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Callum Cooper, 2010)<br><br><strong>The Flood of Love Award</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>$500</strong><br><em>The Florestine Collection</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Helen Hill, Paul Gailiunas, 2011)<br><br><strong>The Looking and Listening Award -</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>$200</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>each<br><em>Broad Channel</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Sarah J. 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