International Cherokee Film Festival

Cherokee International Film Festival

2008 ICFF Awards PDF

 

 

BEST NATIVE FEATURE FILM
Older Than America
Tribal Alliance Productions
Director/Writer: Georgina Lightning                                                           
Producer: Christine Kunewa Walker

BEST NATIVE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School
Steven Heape and Chip Richie, Rich-Heape Films

BEST NATIVE COMEDY
Fun in the Sun
James Junes and Ernest David Tsosie III

BEST NATIVE SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Frybread Babes
Director: Steffany Suttle

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A NATIVE FEATURE FILM
Crystle Lightning
Older Than America

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A NATIVE FEATURE FILM
Wes Studi
Older Than America

ICFF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Tantoo Cardinal  
Older Than America

BEST NATIVE MUSIC VIDEO (INDIVIDUAL)
Alejandra  - Jeffrey Palmer

BEST NATIVE MUSIC VIDEO (GROUP)
Cry — Coalition Band
Selection From  Mile Post 398

BEST NATIVE SHORT
Fish
Producer: Tracy Rector,
Directors: Sami Kubo, Antonia Marie Ramos
Writer: Sterlin Harjo

BEST NATIVE SHORT
Fish
Producer: Tracy Rector,
Directors: Sami Kubo, Antonia Marie Ramos
Writer: Sterlin Harjo

BEST MULTICULTURAL DOCUMENTARY
Lost Nation: The Ioway
Producers: Kelly Rundle and Tammy Rundle

BEST NATIVE DOCUMENTARY
March Point
by: Tracy Rector, Director: Annie Silverstein,Cody Cayou, Nick Clark, Travis Tom
A Native Lens Film / Longhouse Media

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
Case 442
Director/Writer: Mitch Torres
Producer: Citt Williams

SPIRIT AWARD
Mile Post 398
Producers: Shonie and Andee De LaRosa

 

BEST MULTI CULTURAL DIRECTOR - DOCUMENTARY
Chip Richie 
Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER - FEATURE FILM
Shane Kelly 
Older Than America

BEST CULTURAL ADVISOR
Dennis Banks
Older Than America

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO
Solid Rock — Shane Howard
CAAMA Productions

Music clips for National Indigenous TV (NITV) - Australia

BEST NATIVE MUSIC CD (INDIVIDUAL)
Songs for Grandmother Mary Kay Henderson

BEST NATIVE MUSIC CD (GROUP)
Precious Memories — Cherokee National Youth Choir

BEST NATIVE MUSIC CD (INSTRUMENTAL)
Red Fire People — Tommy Wildcat, Flutist

BEST STUDENT FILM (DRAMA)
Corn’s Jenkins
Cherokee Eye Student Program
Editor//Camera, James Cornshucker, Mvhayv Locust,
Cast: Micah Glass, Tyler Vann, Abigail LaBounty, Qualla Parman

SPIRIT AWARD
Turquoise Rose
Navajoland Producer: Julius C. Tulley
Co-Producer: Jake Johnson,  Director/Camera: Holt Hamilton,
Editor: Derek Natzke

SPIRIT AWARD
Ian Skorodin
For dedication to and support for Native American filmmaking 

BEST DIRECTOR OF A NATIVE FEATURE FILM
Georgina Lightning
Older Than America

BEST STUDENT FILM (DOCUMENTARY)
Wolf Clan
Youth Leadership Institute, Cherokee Nation
Director/Camera: J.C. Lowe, Storyteller: James “Corn” Cornshucker,
Participants: Caleb Grimmet, Caitlin Dingle, Bentz Helm,
Hannah Blair, Derrick Budds, Elizabeth Blackbear,
Language Teacher: Peggy Girty Flute

SPIRIT AWARD
Youth Leadership Institute
Andrew Sikora and Kimberlie Gilliland
Cherokee Media

SPIRIT AWARD
Sequoyah Schools
Mr. Don Franklin, Video Production Instructor

SPIRIT AWARD
Independent Student Films
Bretly Crawford, The Taekwondo

BEST STUDENT FILM (DRAMA)
Corn’s Jenkins
Cherokee Eye Student Program
Editor//Camera, James Cornshucker, Mvhayv Locust,
Cast: Micah Glass, Tyler Vann, Abigail LaBounty, Qualla Parman

BEST STUDENT FILM (DOCUMENTARY)
Wolf Clan
Youth Leadership Institute, Cherokee Nation
Director/Camera: J.C. Lowe, Storyteller: James “Corn” Cornshucker,
Participants: Caleb Grimmet, Caitlin Dingle, Bentz Helm,
Hannah Blair, Derrick Budds, Elizabeth Blackbear,
Language Teacher: Peggy Girty Flute

SPIRIT AWARD
Cherokee Eye Student Programs
Cherokee Arts Institute

SPIRIT AWARD
Cherokee Eye Student Programs
Cherokee Arts Institute
Tom Allard and Bill Anderson
Tom Allard and Bill Anderson

SPIRIT AWARD
Youth Leadership Institute
Andrew Sikora and Kimberlie Gilliland
Cherokee Media

SPIRIT AWARD
Sequoyah Schools
Mr. Don Franklin, Video Production Instructor

SPIRIT AWARD
Independent Student Films
Bretly Crawford, The Taekwondo Kid