The 61st AAFF Award Winners
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is proud to announce this year’s award-winning films selected by jurors Amir George, Christine Panushka, and Koyo Yamashita. Read more about the 61st AAFF Jurors here.
The 61st AAFF Online Festival continues until March 29th, 2023 at 11:59pm ET. An award from the AAFF confers prestige and financial support; it can also qualify filmmakers for an Oscar® nomination by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the short film category. Qualifying awards are the Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival, the Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film, and the Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film. Read more about our Awards here.
Watch the programs online:
Awards 1 | Stream Online until March 29th at 11:59pm ET
Awards 2 | Stream Online until March 29th at 11:59pm ET
The Award Winners for the 61st AAFF:
Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival
Neighbour Abdi, Douwe Dijkstra
Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film
Half Wet, Carlos Irijalba
Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker
Fleshwork, Lydia Cornett
Kodak Cinematic Vision Award
Max and the Freaks, Nathan Clement
Susan Dise Best Experimental Film
Eclipsis, Tania Hernández Velasco
Best Documentary Film
Adieu Sauvage, Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento
The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for an Emerging Experimental Video Artist
Against Reality, Olivia Peace
Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film
Arrest in Flight, Adrian Flury
Gil Omenn Art & Science Award
2cent / 10coil, Monteith McCollum
Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film
Diomysus, Emily Elizabeth Morus-Jones
The Terri Schwartz Film Award for Parody and Satire
Gold and Mud, Conor Dooley
The Eileen Maitland Award
The Sea is Also Yours, Michelle Coelho
George Manupelli Founder’s Spirit Award
Beautiful figures, Soetkin Verstegen
CameraMall Best Michigan Filmmaker Award
Three Short Shorts, Peter Sparling
Lawther/Graff No Violence Award
Language Unknown, Janelle VanderKelen
Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award
Pigment-Dispersion Syndrome, Jennifer Reeves
Best Experimental Animation Award
Of Wood, Owen Klatte
Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design
Darkness, Darkness, Burning Bright, Gaëlle Rouard
Martin Contreras and Keith Orr \aut\ FILM Award for Best LGBTQ Film
Spirits (Ysbrydion), Amy Daniel
The No. 1 African Film Award
Mangrove School, Filipa César & Sónia Vaz Borges
Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film
Parasite Family, Prapat Jiwarangsan
The Terri Schwartz Asian Film Award
Conversation with a Koel Bird, Yuan Li Elizabeth Xu
UMCU Audience Award
Daron, Daron Colbert, Kevin Edward Steen
Award for Best Music Video
Ganbatene, Yi-Yu Tsai
Juror Award 1 / Best Analog Film
recortes, Kimberly Forero-ArnÃas
Juror Award 2
Deep 1, Philip Hoffman
Juror Award 3
Syzygy, Joanna McNamara
Juror Award 4
giroscopio, John Muse & Brendamaris Rodriguez
Juror Award 5
Singing in Oblivion, Eve Heller
Juror Award 6
In Passing, Anna Johnson
