2008 Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients
Janusz Kaminsky Cinematography | John Rubinstein Acting | John Savage Acting | Dick Kun Community Appreciation |
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| Filmed such classics as "Saving Private Ryan", "Schindler's List", and "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly". | Has acted in numerous Broadway productions including "Pippin", "Children of a Lessor God", and "M. Butterfly". | Appeared in several Oscar - nominated films such as "The Deer Hunter", "Salvador", "Do the Right Thing". | Has many contributions to Big Bear. Has many indirect connections with the entertainment industry. |
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| Film Competition Winners | Screenplay Winners |
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JURY AWARDS Best Feature Film "Blind Ambition"directed by Bala Rajesekharuni Jury Award Best Documentary "Alaska Far Away: The New Deal Pioneersof the Matanuska Colony" directed by Paul Hill & Joan Juster Best Student Film director: Robert Matthews Chapman University Best Student Film - Cinematography "A Day's Work" directed by Rajeev Dassani USC Best Short Film "Struck"directed by Taron Lexton Best Animation "Plain and Simple"directed by Merrin Marra Columbia College, Chicago Best Family Film "$1.11" Utah Valley State College AUDIENCE AWARDS Best Feature Film "Chain Link" directed by Dylan Reynolds Best Documentary "88 Years in the Closet"directed by Peter Shafron Best Animation "Little Blue"directed by Bob Svihovce Best Short Film "Still Me"directed by Beth McElhenny Best Student Film "Smoke"directed by Andrew Baldwin AFI Best High School Film "819" directed by George Mikhail Culver City High School Big Bear Lake Film Award "Big Bear Medicine Wheel: Healing Mother Earth's Sacred Sites" directed by David Faithful and Debbie Nagata SIDEBAR SHOWCASE AWARD "Armed for the Challenge" directed by Patricia Thio and Kent Allison and "The Sublimation Experiment" directed by Chris Kitchen and Sam Pope | 1st Place Gabriel's Calling written by Megan Breen 2nd Place Love Marriage written by Soman Chainani 3rd Place The Commando written by Timothy Buck Honorable Mentions Buccaneer's Cove written by Julian Stone and Loss of Innocence written by Eric Gaunaurd |