“In 2008, we’ll be focusing on building our key relationships with critical industry players – studios and distributors,” he said. The festival anticipates scheduling its 2008 festival at the same time next April, Schwenk said. “Moondance Alexander” was honored in the family-film category, and “Waitress” took home an audience award for best feature. Winning documentaries included “The King of Kong,” “Forgotten on the Bayou: Rockey’s Mission to the White House,” Chasing the Dream,” “Chasing the Lotus,” The ArtFusion Experiment” and “Alice Neel.” Hayden Panettiere won an acting award for her role in “Shanghai Kiss,” as did Nathan Fillion for his part in “Waitress.”Īdditional short-film winners were “Rose,” “Miraculum,” “Chiyo” and “The Problem with Percival.”Ī “maverick filmmaker” award went to “The Sophisticated Misfit” “Boxboarders!” was honored with an “OC feature film” prize and two awards were given for best foreign-language film: “Pretendiento (Ugly Me)” from Chile and “Vanaja” from India and the U.S. “Son of Rambow” also got one of these awards. Shark” for comedy, “Paprika” for animation, “Moola” for directing and “Sinner” for screenwriting. Outstanding achievement in filmmaking awards went to “Black Irish” for drama, “Eagle vs. “Buddha’s Lost Children” won the jury award for best documentary “The Shovel” won the jury’s best short prize “Phoenix Dance” won the jury’s best short documentary “In Your Arms” took home the jury’s best animated short film award and Brandon Trost won best cinematography for his work on “He Was a Quiet Man.” Special jury prizes went to “Jazz Sketchbook” and “Art in the Face of War.” The Korean film “Tazza (The High Rollers)” was the big winner, taking home jury awards for best feature, actor (Seung-woo Cho), actress (Hye-su Kim) and director (Dong-hun Choi). On Friday, the festival announced award winners and bestowed them at a ceremony at the Regency Lido Theater. On Thursday, the film fest presented “Son of Rambow,” a British comedy/drama, as its closing night film, followed by a catered gala at Via Lido Plaza.