2008 Awards

Best American Historical Document
"Trouble the Water"

Special Jury Prize for Amazing Non-Fiction Film Construction
"Bigger, Stronger, Faster*"

Special Jury Prize for Non-Fiction Filmmaking
"Pray the Devil Back to Hell"

Best Non-Fiction Film by a New Filmmaker
"The Youngest Candidate"

Best Documentary
"Body of War"

Firefighters Award for Excellence in Humor
"Hamlet 2"

Audience Award, Best Non-Fiction Film
"Body of War"

Audience Award, Best Fiction Film
"Captain Abu Raed"

Michigan Film Incentive Award
(Should Have Been Shot Here in TC)
France's "Tell No One"

Funniest Fiction Feature
(The Bamboozler Award)
"Kenny"

Best Storytelling, Fiction Film
"The Pope's Toilet"

Best American Indie, Fiction Film
"Frozen River"

Best Foreign Indie, Fiction Film
"The Grocer's Son"

Best of Fest, Fiction Film
"Captain Abu Raed"

Stanley Kubrick Prize for Bold and Innovative Filmmaking
"Theater of War"

Founders Prize
"Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame"
"Profit motive and the whispering wind"

Fiction Jury
Bob Bahle, Chair
Rich Brauer
Tracy Kurtz
Rebecca Reynolds
Michael Mittelstaedt

Non-Fiction Jury
Aaron Olson, Chair
Lisa Rosendahl
Kathy Gibbons

Firefighter Jury for Comedy Films
Tim Gies (Chair)
Keith Fritz
Roxan Hessenaur
Jim Tuller
Theo Weber