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Produced by Asheville Parks and Recreation
828-259-5800, 828-259-5606 (fax)
mporter@ashevillenc.gov
2006 Asheville Film Festival awards will be presented at the Spotlight Celebration Awards, presented by Amici on Saturday evening, November 11th, 2006.
Winners
in each category – Feature, Short, Student, Documentary, and
Animation – receive a beautiful AFFY sculpture as well
as a check for $500. Runners-up in each category and Audience Award
winners receive plaques.
Be sure to vote
for your favorite film for an audience award!
New awards
this year include:
The Daniel DeLaVergne Spirit Award presented by the Media Arts Project
This annual award was created in 2006 to honor expedition filmmaker, Daniel DeLaVergne. The Daniel DeLaVergne Spirit Award is to recognize and honor filmmakers whose work explores pushing the limits of our minds and hearts by artistically expressing true Spirit. These films unlock the vast potential of the human spirit or nature and enable us to view films that display courage, integrity and hope, taking entertainment to a unique level. The winner will also receive $500. A special thanks to Blue Ridge Outdoors for their support of this award.
Daniel was one of the world's most successful extreme sport filmmakers, who based his business in Asheville. He is most well known for his joint role in Lunch Video Magazine (LVM) and had become an international leader in whitewater cinematography. Daniel brought art and technology to outdoor sports by enthusiastically developing content for pod-casting, video streaming and quarterly DVD magazines, as well as cutting edge outdoor documentary films.
As an athlete, Daniel excelled in whitewater kayaking, mountain biking and snowboarding. National Geographic Adventure magazine named DeLaVergne a "2005 Adventurer of the Year" for paddling the 50-mile run of the Stikine River in British Columbia with three other kayakers.
The Media Arts Project (MAP) is presenting and dedicating this spirit award in his name. Daniel's loss weighs heavily on many members of our outdoor and film community, both of which he was so influential.
ETV Southern Lens Award
The ETV Southern Lens Award is awarded to the best Southern film at the festival. To be eligible for broadcast on the series, the film must be produced and/or directed by a Southern filmmaker, or be about a Southern subject.
Southern Lens is a weekly series dedicated to bringing ETV viewers the voices and culture of the South through the medium of independent films.
ETV is South Carolina's statewide public television network with 11 television stations, eight radio stations and a closed-circuit educational telecommunications system in more than 2000 schools, colleges, businesses, and government agencies.
Previous Asheville Film Festival winners have been:
2005
Lifetime Achievement Award
Ken Russell
Feature Winner: Devaki
Runner-up: The Tenants
Audience Award: At Last
Documentary Winner: Donor
Runner-up: Waging a Living
Audience Award: The Great American Quilt Revival
Short Winner: The Butler of the Van der Waal House
Runner-up: The Sky is Falling
Audience Award: Dutch Bird and Significant Romance in Compressed Time (Tie)
Student Winner: The Tragedy of Glady
Runner-up: Son Up
Audience Award: Madison County Project
Animation Winner: Backseat Bingo
Runner-up: The Meaning of Life
Audience Award: Backseat Bingo
2004
Lifetime Achievement Award
Rance Howard
Achievement in Filmmaking
Robert Radnitz
Feature Winner: Sandstorm
Runner-up: State’s Evidence
Audience Award: Phreaker
Documentary Winner: Searching for Angela Shelton
Runner-up: Monster Road
Audience Award: Searching for Angela Shelton
Short Winner: Trifles
Runner-up: Tacklebox
Audience Award: Tacklebox
Student Winner: Everdark
Runner-up: True Color
Audience Award: The Way of Dale