By Ray Pride Pride@moviecitynews.com
2012 Traverse City Film Festival Announces Awards
Traverse City, MI — The Traverse City Film Festival this evening announced the Jury and special awards of the 2012 festival at the Filmmaker Party, hosted by Michael Moore.
“Each year the Traverse City Film Festival brings some of the world’s greatest films and filmmakers to join our audiences in a six-day celebration of cinema, and this year was bigger and better than ever,” said TCFF Founder and President Michael Moore. “Our awards decisions this year were incredibly difficult given the level of talent across the board from filmmakers who have shared their works with us — I commend our juries for selecting some of the bravest films we showed this year.”
The 2012 Traverse City Film Festival Awards presented this evening were:
Founders Prize
Best Picture
“5 Broken Cameras” | Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
Founders Prize
The Kubrick Prize
“The Story of Film: An Odyssey” | Mark Cousins
Special Founders Prize
“Margaret” | Kenneth Lonergan
Best Foreign Film
“The World Before Her” | Nisha Pahuja
Special Jury Prize – Foreign Film
“The Flat” | Arnon Goldfinger
Best American Film
“Bidder 70” | Beth and George Gage
Special Jury Prize – American Film
“Detropia” | Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Best Film by a First Time Director
“Sexy Baby” | Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus
Special Jury Prize – First Time Director
“Missed Connections” | Eric Kissack
Best Short Film
“43,000 Feet” | Campbell Hooper
Special Jury Prize – Short Film
“Asad” | Bryan Buckley
The Audience Awards of the 2012 Traverse City Film Festival will be announced at the Closing Night Film on Sunday, August 5.