Pictures from the Cinema Eye Honors & Afterparty

There's lots of photos over at the Cinema Eye website - as well as the first piece of video from the event of Jason Kohn's tour-de-force acceptance speech for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking.

Here are a few more:

Here's me, looking more dressed up than nearly anyone has seen me, feeling completely astonished as I begin my welcome remarks.

Thom Powers (center) leads a distinguished panel of directors including Alex Gibney (TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE), Esther Robinson (A WALK INTO THE SEA), Jason Kohn (MANDA BALA (SEND A BULLET)) and Pernille Rose Gronkjær (THE MONASTERY - MR. VIG AND THE NUN).

Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky announce the nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Direction as yours truly stands by as your humble trophy boy.

Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking winners Joey Frank, Jason Kohn and Jared Goldman for MANDA BALA (SEND A BULLET).

KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON producer Shirley Moyers with They Might Be Giants' John Flansburgh and Robin "Goldie" Goldwasser at the Cinema Eye Afterparty.

A trio of presenters - Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg (directors of THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK) flank A&E IndieFilms' head honcho Molly Thompson.

Cinema Eye nominee Jessie Vogelson (producer of NO END IN SIGHT) and TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE editor Sloane Klevin.

Cinema Eye nominee Petra Epperlein (co-director on THE PRISONER OR: HOW I PLANNED TO KILL TONY BLAIR as well as the SXSW competition doc BULLETPROOF SALESMAN) with Docurama's Liz Ogilvie.

Indiepix's David Persky with Cinema Eye Nominating Committee member David Kwok, Director of Programming for the Tribeca Film Festival.

All the way from Denmark, Pernille Rose Gronkjær, who received the Cinema Eye for Outstanding International Feature for THE MONASTERY - MR. VIG AND THE NUN, and Asger Leth, whose GHOSTS OF CITE SOLEIL picked up the Cinema Eye for Outstanding Achievement in Production.

They were there!  The Rabbi Report's Mark Rabinowitz, SpoutBlog's Karina Longworth and True/False Film Festival co-director (and Cinema Eye Nominating Committee member) David Wilson reunite four months after the Denver Film Festival where the initial seeds of the Cinema Eye Honors were born.