2009 WIFF

2nd annual Washougal International Film Festival 

Scroll down for Trailers & Official Selections, The Program & The Winners!

 

Title (Origin) Director Production Company (Running Time Group)*

  • 88 (Ireland) Andrew S. Loveland Midland Movies Dynamic Productions Limited (3)
  • 4000 Euros (Spain) Richard Jordan Intermedia Producciones (1)
  • Abomination, The: Episode 2 (NY, USA) Kirk Howle & Wally Chung (4)
  • Abstraction of the Chronology of Will, An (GA, USA) Kevin S. Phillips & Ben Collins/Dandy Dwarves (3)
  • Addis Life (Ethiopia) Gem TV/Gem Art Artists Ethiopian Gemini Trust (4)
  • Affinity (WA, USA) Cathleen Robertson Trinity Productions (4)
  • Aimless (United Kingdom) Tobias Tobbell Two Bells Production (1)
  • Alice World (MA, USA) Will Donovan (4)
  • Alternative, The (WA, USA) Nathan Coltrane Studio Forty7 (4)
  • American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi (NY, USA) Sebastian Doggart American Princess LLC (1)
  • Among Thieves (Canada) Paul Boge FireGate Films (1)
  • And The Winner Is… (OH, USA) Christina Grozik Make Me Popular, LLC (1)
  • And What Remains (KS, USA) Marc Havener Resonate Pictures (4)
  • Angel of Death (OR, USA) Cameron Nigh Cnighl Films (1)
  • Another Day Another Life (NJ, USA/India) Rohit Gupta (4)
  • Another Man’s Treasure (CA, USA) Derek Prusak (5)
  • Apollo Bunder, Mumbai –400001 (India) Naren Multani (2)
  • Art from the Streets (TX, USA) Layton Blaylock Inferno Films (1)
  • Art of Making Love, The (NC, USA) Roderick Shepard Bestram Productions (3)
  • Audition (United Kingdom)David Woods Filthy Lucre Productions (4)
  • Autism: Made in the USA (NY, USA) Gary Null Gary Null and Associates (1)
  • Autumn (WI, USA) Kate Balsley (5)
  • Aviva (Australia) Stephen Rangott (4)
  • Baby Love or: How To Win Friends and Influence People (Australia) Karl Madderom (4)
  • Back To Me (CA, USA) Tim Kashani Apples and Oranges (2)
  • Bathtub to Happiness “Badewanne zum Gluck” (Germany) Nadine & Norbert Keil Gogofilm (2)
  • Becoming Roman (CA, USA) Nathan Morse Deadsparrow (4)
  • Bike Love Story (OR, USA) Matthew Semchee & Savannah Teller Brown/Rubber Mallet, Teller Films (4)
  • Blanco (ID, USA) Timothy David Orme (3)
  • Blessings of Metapsychiatry, The (NY, USA) Nancy Rosanoff & Jessie Krysko (1)
  • Bottleneck (GA, USA) Andrew Shipsides Film Who Productions (3)
  • Breathe In, Breathe Out (NC, USA) Cara Hagan 87 Dance Productions (4)
  • Broken Windows (CA, USA) Tony Hickman Sightline Entertainment (1)
  • Bronx Paradise (NY, USA) William Lappe (1)
  • Cab Ride, The (IL, USA) Giuseppe Scarpitta (2)
  • Calvin (OR, USA) Charles Taylor Gould Gould White Films (4)
  • Chaturanga (India) Suman Mukhopadhyay Campfire Films (1)
  • Clones Gone Wild (CA, USA) Harry Frishberg & Chad Mathews/Deadeye Films LLC (3)
  • Clown’s Lament (Australia) Gabriel Dowrick (4)
  • Collector (CA, USA) Dempsey Tillman (3)
  • Colors of Darkness “I colori del buio” (Italy) Giulietta Revel Sinuosa (4)
  • Communication Deficit Disorder (WA, USA) Chris Alpine (5)
  • Counterculture 101 (CA, USA) Danielle Stallings (4)
  • Courting Condi (NY, USA) Sebastian Doggart American Princess LLC (1)
  • Creator of God (MI, USA) Vivekanand Palavali Blue Sun Productions (1)
  • Crimson Mask, The (NY, USA) Elias Plagianos ESP Films (1)
  • Daddy’s Girl (OR, USA) Kayla Rae Dettman (4)
  • Dancing On Water (IL, USA) Ton Sison Theo+Cinema (3)
  • Dark of Night: Welcome To Dreadville (IL, USA) Jason Patfield Bublenutz Production (2)
  • Diamond (CA, USA/Germany) Gerald Gutschmidt 1g2p Productions (3)
  • Donut, the Balloon and the Lifesaver, The (FL, USA) Banks Helfrich (1)
  • Double or Nutin – episode #2 (PA, USA) Stewart Brodian Nickel Productions (3)
  • Dryer, The (MN, USA) Samuel Watts Kirby Productions (5)
  • Eat The Mayor (OR, USA) Joel Wear Tuwin Entertainment (3)
  • Echoes (France) Perrine Lievois Instagno Production (1)
  • Edge, The (New Zealand) Lucy Edwards Spookle Films (5)
  • Emma Fire (Canada) David Latreille David Latreille Productions Enr. (4)
  • Empty House (AZ, USA) Sean Christensen Square One Cinema, LLC (4)
  • Everything Bad is Good (CA, USA) Len Richmond (1)
  • Execution of Solomon Harris, The (ME, USA) Wyatt Garfield & Ed Yonaitis (4)
  • Expansive Ground “Ein weites Feld” (Germany) Gerburg Rohde-Dahl (1)
  • Expired Love Music Video (CA, USA) Brian Bleaser Mikhail Tank Productions (4)
  • Fan Mail (AZ, USA) Sean Christensen Square One Cinema, LLC (4)
  • Federal Case (AZ, USA) Trisha Ray Car Angel/Boat Angel (1)
  • Finding Nothing (CA, USA) Mitchell deQuilettes Kurious Cid Productions (4)
  • First and Last (AZ, USA) Damien Patrik Pepper Media (3)
  • Fool’s Paradise, A “Le Paradis de l’Imbecile” (NC, USA) Patrick Griffin WPM Pictures (3)
  • For a Fistful of Snow (Switzerland) Julien Ezri (4)
  • Four on the Floor (TN, USA) Jon Russell Cring Extra/Ordinary Film Project (1)
  • Fuckin’ Old Bitch (MO, USA) Jack Truman Dixie Productions (4)
  • Future Perfect (WA, USA) Marc Steele Budden-Steele Productions (2)
  • Gaining Ground “Land Gewinnen” (Germany) Marc Brummund Hamburg Media School (2)
  • Gifts of Seeing (NY, USA) Andrea Olivier Social Imaging (3)
  • Goombah Goodbye (Canada) Jerry Rector Perigee Productions (5)
  • Gorilla Boy (CA, USA) Randolph Splitter (3)
  • Greetings from Mackenzie, B.C. (Canada) Andrew McIntosh Here Is Where Productions (4)
  • Guilty Conscience (WA, USA) Erik Howell FuD FilmS (3)
  • Gynaecologist, The “A Xinecologa” (Spain) Alfonso Camarero (4)
  • Habits (NJ, USA) Hyejin Kwon (5)
  • Harris Brother in NY (NY, USA) Mayumi Komuro (4)
  • Health, Money and Fear (OR, USA) Paul Hochfeld Another Heron Production (1)
  • Heart Spoke, The (France) Hadrien Don Fayel Instagno Productions (2)
  • Homesick (NJ, USA) Christopher Werner (3)
  • Hope: Making a Difference for Foster Kids in Coos County (OR, USA) Joel Wear Tuwin Entertainment (4)
  • House of Numbers (TN, USA) Brent Leung Knowledge Matters, LLC (1)
  • Hummingbird Magic (CA, USA) Alicia Brauns Hummingbird Magic, LLC (2)
  • I Am a Man: From Memphis, a Lesson in Life (TN, USA) Jonathan Epstein Old Bridge Media (2)
  • I Would Rather (OR, USA) Shawn Nelson Double Decher Productions (4)
  • I’m On Fire (CA, USA) Alex Cassun (1)
  • I Speak Soccer (WA, USA) Terry Kegel (1)
  • If You’re Not Here “Si Tu No Estas” (GA, USA) Noe Santillan-Lopez (3)
  • Inflatable You (Netherlands) Eric Wobma Raving Butterflies Publishing (5)
  • Intermezzo (Netherlands) Eric Wobma Raving Butterflies Publishing (4)
  • Journey of the Heart (Australia) Adrian Crawford Kurralta Films (3)
  • Joy (CA, USA) Drew Money Red Love Film (1)
  • Junk Dreams (CA, USA) Skye Borgman Top Knot Productions (1)
  • Just Wrong (CA, USA) Omar Mora Acento Productions (4)
  • Larry and Roz (Italy, USA) Kristen Palana (4)
  • Last Call (NY, USA) Steven Tanenbaum The Sullivan Project (1)
  • Last Day (CA, USA) Braide Keyland (4)
  • Last New Year, The (Canada) Garfield Lindsay Miller The Nightingale Company (1)
  • Lesson from the Man (Finland) Altsi Toivianien Reve Image (4)
  • Let’s Find A Way (Canada) Waleed Abdulhamid Let’s Find a Way Society (2)
  • Living To Dream (OR, USA) Eva Kosmas Loyola Marymount University (3)
  • Long Road to Nowhere, The (NJ, USA) Tahir Bellamy Rebel Republic Films (1)
  • Long Way Home, A (IA, USA) Josh Heineman (3)
  • Long Wooden Tobogganist, The (Canada) Andrew Wall Bottle Rocket World Entertainment (4)
  • Loop, The (CA,USA) John Paul Olsen 4th Avenue Tamale Parlour (4)
  • Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Canada) May Charters & Mark Hug/Fruitstand Loft Films (1)
  • Lucid (CA, USA) Garet Roth ZGF Pictures (1)
  • Luck of the Draw (CA, USA) Mitchel Resnick One L Productions (3)
  • Lunch Box, The (GA, USA/Slovakia)Lubomir Mihailo Kocka (2)
  • M Dimension (CA, USA) Sabine Asanger Bunnybeez Productions (5)
  • Man of Letters, A (United Kingdom)Thomas Turley (4)
  • Marina Experiment, The (NY, USA) Marina Lutz An Observer Presents (3)
  • Me, Joe & B.T. K. (United Kingdom)Matthew Clyde Kodiak Films (1)
  • Meteni (Ethiopia) Wondwossen Deress Gem TV/Ethiopian Gemini Trust (3)
  • Mighty Power, The (CA, USA) Hanjin Park UCLA (5)
  • More Than Skin Deep: Skin Cancer in America(FL, USA) Stanley Kozma Z Film, LLC (1)
  • Mother, Mine (United Kingdom)Susan Everett Dave The Horse Productions (3)
  • Mountains of Hope (NY, USA) Patrick Christell (2)
  • Mouse That Soared, The (OR, USA) Kyle Bell (4)
  • Mr. Brooklyn (NY, USA) Jason Sokoloff JSOK Films (3)
  • Mr. Cynic (CA, USA) Michael Campbell (2)
  • My Deer Friend (TX, USA) Andrew Cherry (3)
  • My Quest for the Holy Burrito (PA, USA) Jonathan Sell (1)
  • My Sixteenth Summer (GA, USA) Savvy Lorestani (1)
  • New York Sky (WI, USA) Vlash Droboniku Life on Frame Studio (4)
  • Nobodies (PA, USA) Russell Lofgren (1)
  • Nowhere (Canada) Raymund Santos (4)
  • Oberschule (CA, USA) Amanda Beggs (3)
  • On Homeostasis (GA, USA) Matt Boman (4)
  • On The Bus (Canada) Tracy D. Smith (4)
  • One (MI, USA) Vivekanand Palavali Blue Sun Productions (4)
  • Oscillating Fan (OR, USA) Rob Tyler VCR100 (4)
  • Particle Vortex (OR, USA) Todd Kesterson New Media Communications/OSU (5)
  • Patty Cake (MO, USA) Fred Weems Music for Warthogs (3)
  • Penny For, A…. “Voor Een Dubbeltje…” (Netherlands) Eric Wobma Raving Butterflies Publishing (4)
  • Pink Bag (NY, USA) Susan Hippen (5)
  • Pinot: Escape from Wall Street (CA, USA) Stefan Sargent (1)
  • Post (NY, USA/China)Chloe Zhan Stratford Films (4)
  • Prey (KS, USA) Grant Babbitt University of Kansas (4)
  • Prey for the Island (CA, USA) Timothy Pape (1)
  • Prick (WA, USA) Lucien Flynn Donkey Punch Films (3)
  • PuppyDragon Land: Pets (CA, USA) Jera Askey (4)
  • Question of Content, A (United Kingdom)John Basham brokenarrowfilms (4)
  • Ragman (MO, USA) Dale Ward DWard Media (3)
  • Reality Check! (Canada/Philippines)John Martin Tuko Productions (4)
  • Reflection (GA, USA) Dan Dowding Escape Entertainment (3)
  • Repaired? (CA, USA/South Korea)Seung-Hoo Ihm The Academy of Art University (4)
  • Rethink The Shark (United Kingdom)Erica Brumage Ground Glass For The Save Our Seas Fnd. (5)
  • Return to French Pete Creek (OR, USA) Todd Kesterson New Media Communications, OSU (5)
  • Rimshot (CA, USA) Kirk Diedrich WaWa Productions (3)
  • Road, The (CA, USA) Owen Thomas (4)
  • Root Explorations (OR, USA) Todd Kesterson New Media Communications, OSU (5)
  • Sabah: Making a Difference (NY, USA) Dan Jeswald Heated Tunnel Productions (3)
  • Sacred Food, The (NY, USA) Jack Pettibone Riccobono All Rites Reserved, LLC. (4)
  • Salome (NY, USA) Alexia Anastasio & Kevin Sean Michaels/Camp Festival (3)
  • Saving Face (FL & MI, USA) Jim Gilmore Acadia Pictures & Blue Planet Films, LLC. (1)
  • School Story, A (NJ, USA) David Simonetti Forgotten Films (4)
  • Self Life Not Shelf Life-Positive Images of Aging (Australia)Karen McMullan (2)
  • Shuya Show (Canada) Jon Tewksbury (2)
  • Slushai (WA, USA/Bulgaria)Bogdan Darev Image Mind Light & Studio Trifusion (3)
  • So Far, So Good (CA, USA/France)Djamel Bennecib (4)
  • Soul Cylander 09 (OR, USA) Nic Phelan Aurix (4)
  • Soul Cylander 10 (OR, USA) Nic Phelan Aurix (4)
  • Soul Cylander 11 (OR, USA) Nic Phelan Aurix (4)
  • Soul Cylander 12 (OR, USA) Nic Phelan Aurix (4)
  • Stephanie’s Image (CA, USA) Janis DeLucia Allen Coffee and Language Productions (1)
  • Stolen Childhood (Ethiopia) Adanech Admassu GemTV/Ethiopian Gemini Trust (3)
  • Storyteller, The (KS, USA) Ajani Jackson (4)
  • Straws & the Radio (AL, USA) Spencer Lenzie (2)
  • Strike Dice! Betting on My Father (NY, USA) Natalie Picoe Fat Cat Films (1)
  • Stuck (FL, USA) Banks Helfrich (4)
  • Sun Up (CA, USA) Jeremiah Flores Loyola Marymount University (3)
  • Surprise! (France) Fabrice Maruca Plein la Vue (3)
  • Symphony (CA, USA) Erick Oh UCLA (4)
  • Tah-Dah (Canada) Stacey Chomiak (5)
  • Talking Dead, Silent Living “Muertos Que Hablan, Vivos Que Callan” (Spain)Maria Jose Ruiz Fenollera/LMV Production (2)
  • Tao of the Traveller (Australia) Robin Ramsay Saligram (1)
  • Ten For Grandpa (NY, USA) Doug Karr Chop Wood Carry Water (4)
  • Tenant, The (Canada) Isil Degirmencioglu Humber College Institute (3)
  • Thanksgiving (NY, USA/Germany) Anja Marquadt Franklin & Dean Productions (3)
  • Thing of the Past, A (Canada) Nick Butler (3)
  • Tigers at the Gate (Canada) Nina Sudra ButterflyTyphoon Pictures (3)
  • Timeout (LA, USA) Chris Hewitt (4)
  • Timetravel_0 (WA, USA) Scott Norwood Fast Track Productions (1)
  • Together (NJ, USA) Joe Rosario Together Films (3)
  • Tourist, The (Australia) Matthew Jenkin Matthew Jenkin Productions (4)
  • Translucitum (CA, USA Sabine Asanger Bunnybeez Productions (4)
  • Trouble in the Water (NC, USA) Roger Edwards, Jr. Turnip LLC. (3)
  • True Beauty This Night (CA, USA/Germany)Peter Besson (4) Trust Us, This is All Made Up (NY, USA) Alex Karpovsky (1)
  • Twenty, The (CA, USA) Choppe Bernet Walk The Path Productions (1)
  • Ugly Little Table, The (MA, USA) Ilya Polyakov Lucid Film Productions (4)
  • Uintah United (UT, USA) Isaac Goeckeritz IG Films (1)
  • Umbrella (OR, USA) Catherine Tyc Stop and Pause Productions (3)
  • Under the Bridge (TX, USA) Braig Ballin & Scott Fernandez/Don Key Productions (1)
  • Unfair [Bill Madden] (CA, USA) Andrew David Watson MadMuse (4)
  • Unidentified (NY, USA) Maya Kuroki Brooklyn College (4)
  • WSIM: What Suffered Inside Me (Canada) Jennifer Hardy (5)
  • Waiting List, The (OR, USA) Mike Vogel (1)
  • Walking the Tightrope “La marche du funambule” (Canada) Mathieu Drouin Les Films Terre Nomade (4)
  • Water’s Handle Music (MT, USA) Bill Neff Montana State University (4)
  • Without Papers (CA, USA/Argentina) Florencia Krochik University of Southern California (3)
  • Woodlands Season 1 (OR, USA) Todd Kesterson New Media Communications, OSU (5)
  • World Outside, The (GA,USA) Josh Lind Dandy Dwarves (3)
  • Zufallbringen (Switzerland) Dennis Ledergerber Bad Habit Entertainment (1)
  • Zugzwang (MT, USA) Luke Hystad Motion Pictures (4)

*Running Time Categories:

(1) Feature, over 45 minutes

(2) Short, over 20 and under 45 minutes

(3) Shorter, over 10 and under 20 minutes

(4) Shortest, over 3 minutes and under 10 minutes

(5) Mini, under 3 minutes
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BEST OF FEST

  • House of Numbers, Brent Leung

BEST FOREIGN FEATURE

  • Zufallbringen, Dennis Ledergerber

BEST LOCAL FEATURE

  • Angel of Death, Cameron Nigh

BEST FOREIGN WORLD PREMIERE

  • Aimless, Tobias Tobbell

BEST LOCAL WORLD PREMIERE

  • Timetravel_0, Scott Norwood

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

  • Blessings of Metapsychiatry, The, Nancy Rosanoff & Jessie Krysko

BEST LOCAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

  • I Speak Soccer, Terry Kegel

MOST AMBITIOUS FEATURE

  • The Crimson Mask, Elias Plagianos

MOST ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY

  • Strike Dice! Betting on My Father, Natalie Picoe

MOST AMBITIOUS DOCUMENTARY

  • Nobodies, Russell Lofgren

MOST AMBITIOUS TRAVEL DOCUMENTARY

  • My Quest for the Holy Burrito, Jonathan Sell

MOST INSPIRING DOCUMENTARY

  • Saving Face, Jim Gilmore

MOST INSPIRATIONAL SHORT DOCUMENTARY

  • Sabah: Making a Difference, Dan Jeswald

BEST SHORTEST DOCUMENTARY

  • Living To Dream, Eva Kosmas

BEST SHORTER DOCUMENTARY

  • Hummingbird Magic, Alicia Brauns

BEST FOREIGN ANIMATION

  • For a Fistful of Snow, Julien Ezri

BEST LOCAL ANIMATION

  • The Mouse That Soared, Kyle Bell

BEST FOREIGN MINI

  • WSIM: What Suffered Inside Me, Jennifer Hardy

BEST FOREIGN SHORTEST

  • A Question of Content, John Basham

BEST FOREIGN SHORTER

  • 88, Andrew S. Loveland

BEST FOREIGN SHORT

  • Bathtub to Happiness “Badewanne zum Gluck”, Nadine & Norbert Keil

BEST SHORTEST FILM

  • And What Remains, Marc Havener

BEST SHORTER FILM

  • Sun Up, Jeremiah Flores

BEST LOCAL SHORTEST

  • Calvin, Charles Taylor Gould

AUDIENCE AWARD, LOCAL SHORTER

  • Prick, Lucien Flynn

AUDIENCE AWARD, LOCAL SHORT

  • Future Perfect, Marc Steele

AUDIENCE AWARD, LOCAL FEATURE

  • The Waiting List, Mike Vogel

AUDIENCE AWARD, FEATURE

  • Stephanie’s Image, Janis DeLucia Allen

AUDIENCE AWARD, DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

  • Everything Bad is Good, Len Richmond

AUDIENCE AWARE, LOCAL SHORTEST

  • Affinity, Cathleen Robertson

OVERWHELMINGLY UNANIMOUS AUDIENCE AWARD

  • Water’s Handle Music, Bill Neff

ACTOR PARTICIPATION AWARD

  • We would like to honor Larry Stockel who came to represent the film, Joy. Thank you Larry!

STAR VOLUNTEERS

  • Colby Denton & Makailey Wright. You guys are the BEST!