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Eugene Film Festival: Award Winners
Here are the winners of the 2006 Inaugural Eugene Film Festival, announced at our gorgeous and elegant awards finale at the Valley River Inn. Congratulations!
And, to all the filmmakers who submitted to the EFF (whether selected or not), you are the only reason film festivals exist, and we won't forget it. Thanks.
Best Narrative Feature
Best Narrative Short
Best Feature by a Pacific Northwest Filmmaker
Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories
Best Short by a Pacific Northwest Filmmaker
Audience Choice Best Feature
Audience Choice Best Short
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short
Best Animation
Honorable Mention: Most Memorable Film
Our Esteemed Jurors
These are the esteemed folks who had to make the tough decisions regarding our Festival Awards.
Ed Capelle
Ed Capelle has 25 years of combined experience in the entertainment and large-format (LF) film industries. He currently is President and CEO of a consulting firm that provides strategic planning, and operational services to the LF theater, film production and distribution industries. He has also served as chief executive of National Wildlife Federation’s (NWF) LF Distribution Division. Capelle was responsible for co-producing and distributing NWF’s LF library. BEARS and INDIA-KINGDOM OF THE TIGER are among the films he produced for NWF. As President of Film and Distribution for Destination Cinema, Capelle was responsible for production and distribution of the company’s LF films. He co-produced MYSTERIES OF EGYPT. Total box office gross has exceeded $100 million. Capelle graduated from California State University, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.
Mike Dilley
Mike has over 25 years of experience in film production including production development/packaging; television, theatrical, home video and project management. He is a past President of Mid-Oregon Production Arts Network (MOPAN) and past Honorary Governor of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He began his career in the music business and is a voting member of The Grammy Awards and is presently active in the production of feature films.
Mary Erickson
Mary Erickson moved to Eugene from Seattle in September 2005. She has been the publicist for several independent films and was Director of Publicity and Promotions at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle from 2002 to 2004. She holds a Master of Arts in Film Studies and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.
Gary Ferrington
Gary Ferrington is a Senior Instructor Emeritus in the University of Oregon's College of Education where he served as the coordinator for the Instructional Systems Technology Program and taught courses in media design and media literacy education. He is currently the Secretary for the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, Coordinator of the Media Literacy Online Project, serves on the editorial committee for the international publication, 'Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology', and is a member of the DIVA Center's Media Arts Committee. Gary received a Masters of Science Degree in Instructional Systems Technology from the University of Southern California, 1993, specializing in instructional film.
Bob Hibschman
A 1980 graduate from UO with a Masters in Planning and Public Policy, Bob retired as the City of Eugene’s Urban Services Manager in 2000. Bob is currently on the Lane Arts Council Board of Directors and the Maya Research Program Board of Directors. He has been a Eugene resident since 1978.
Kenneth R. O'Connell
Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Oregon. O'Connell has made over 16 short experimental and animated films that have been shown in festivals and museums across the USA and in Russia, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada, Germany, and Zagreb. His films have been awarded at the USA Film Festival, Sinking Creek Film Festival, and Ann Arbor Film Festival as well as being shown in New York at the Columbia Environmental Film Festival and the NY Film Expo.
Ken co-founded and co-directed the First Pacific NW Computer Graphic Conference and when on to become Art Show Chair of the international SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles in 1995.
Ken was Head of the Art Department at the University of Oregon for over 13 years. He also teaches workshops on Sketchbooks and will teach on the Oregon Coast and in Italy this summer.
Lloyd Paseman
A Eugene native, Lloyd enrolled at the University of Oregon in the fall of 1959 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1963. He spent a significant amount of time in the Army Reserve Officers and Signal Corps. While at UO, he was editor of The Oregana, the UO's student yearbook. Lloyd was hired as a full-time reporter at the Eugene Register-Guard after leaving military service and was promoted to Assistant City Editor in 1974. He was named City Editor in 1976. For 21 of his 37 years at The Register-Guard, he also reviewed movies for the weekly entertainment section, writing approximately 2,000 reviews over that period. He participated in three national film critics' polls choosing the top 10 movies of the year. He retired in February 2003.
Constance Van Flandern
Constance Van Flandern holds a Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University. She began her film career in London, England in 1988 when she moved there and worked on a string of music videos—an experimental art form that was just hitting it’s stride in the late 80’s. She returned to New York in 1990 and immersed herself in the art of film. She became a Property Master, Art director and then Production Designer. Her design credits include several sketch comedy shows on Comedy Central including “Upright Citizens Brigade” and “Strangers with Candy”, “The Pet Psychic” for Animal Planet, and the currently running Award winning Hallmark morning show “New Morning”. Her regular clients were Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1, Animal Planet, Discovery Kids, and HBO designing everything from promotions, commercials, and specials to independent films. In 1991 Van Flandern Co-Produced a Short subject Documentary about the controversial photographer Sally Mann and the role of Government in the art world called “Blood Ties: The life and work of Sally Mann”. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the Short Subject documentary category for that year. In 1995 Van Flandern was asked to host a PBS short film series called “Short Cuts” produced by Larry Russo. She recognized that short films had limited viewing forums at that time and later that year started one of Manhattan’s first short film festivals “The Armchair Short Film Festival”. The Kodak Film representative responsible for the region hailed the Armchair Film Festival as “the best short film festival on the east coast”. Kodak became the largest sponsor of the festival donating 16mm film to the first place-juried prizewinner. Van Flandern now lives in Eugene with her husband, a University of Oregon Professor of Anthropology, and their two children. She works for the UO as a creative director of Special Events.
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