The 2009 edition of the venerable Full Frame Film Festival is underway in Durham, NC, with 15 films - including IDFA champ BURMA VJ and Sundance winners WE LIVE IN PUBLIC and ROUGH AUNTIES - competing for the Grand Jury Prize at this year's fest.
The festival also appears to have added a second award for new filmmakers. While the Charles Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award (won last year by Jeremiah Zagar's IN A DREAM) will continue to recognize first-time documentary filmmakers, this year marks the debut of the HBO Emerging Filmmaker Award, a $5K prize honoring a director and producer at work on their first or second film. All but 3 of the films up for the new HBO prize are also in the running for the Guggenheim award.
The list of films in the Grand Jury competition - a mix festival favorites and a few stateside debuts - has traditionally been a closely guarded secret (at least until the festival gets underway) for reasons that we've never been able to fully comprehend here. The festival tends to make the argument that it keeps the list on the downlow for fears that local audiences may not see films that are not in competition.
Grand Jury prize winners at Full Frame often have the inside track for year end awards consideration. Three of the past four years (MURDERBALL, IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS and TROUBLE THE WATER) the jury winner was nominated for an Oscar. (THE MONASTERY - MR. VIG & THE NUN, which won in 2007, was DQ'd from the Oscars but was nominated for the Spirit Awards and won the inaugural Cinema Eye for International Filmmaking.)
Competition line-ups for Grand Jury, Emerging Artist and the new Emerging Filmmaker Awards are after the jump.
2009 Full Frame Grand Jury Competition Films
BURMA VJ
CARMEN MEETS BORAT
FORGETTING DAD
HAIR INDIA
OBLIVION
PINUCCIO LOVERO. A MIDSUMMER DEATH'S DREAM
THE QUEEN AND I
REPORTER
ROUGH AUNTIES
SHOUTING FIRE
SWEET CRUDE
UNIT 25
UNMISTAKEN CHILD
THE WAY WE GET BY
WE LIVE IN PUBLIC
2009 Full Frame Charles Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award Competition Films
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BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO
CALIFORNIA COMPANY TOWN
I BRING WHAT I LOVE: YOUSSOU NDOUR
LUBER ALOFT
OWNING THE WEATHER
PINUCCIO LOVERO. A MIDSUMMER DEATH'S DREAM
SAINT MISBEHAVIN': THE WAVY GRAVY MOVIE
SAY MY NAME
SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS: THE UP WITH PEOPLE STORY
SUPERMEN OF MALEGAON
SWEET CRUDE
UNMISTAKEN CHILD
THE VISITORS
VOICES FROM EL-SAYED
THE WAY WE GET BY
WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE
2009 Full Frame HBO Emerging Filmmaker Award Competition Films
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BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO
HAIR INDIA
I BRING WHAT I LOVE: YOUSSOU NDOUR
LOVE ON DELIVERY
LUBER ALOFT
OWNING THE WEATHER
PINUCCIO LOVERO. A MIDSUMMER DEATH'S DREAM
SAINT MISBEHAVIN': THE WAVY GRAVY MOVIE
SAY MY NAME
SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS: THE UP WITH PEOPLE STORY
SUPERMEN OF MALEGAON
SWEET CRUDE
THE VISITORS
VOICES FROM EL-SAYED
WAR AGAINST THE WEAK
Awards in these and several other caegories will be announced at the fest's awards BBQ on Sunday.
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