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Past Award Winners

The LRFF presents cash prizes, custom awards, and travel prizes for the winners of the following competitive categories:

  • The Golden Rock for Best Narrative Feature Film
  • The Golden Rock for Best Documentary Feature Film
  • Oxford American Best Southern Film Award
  • Charlie B. Pierce Award for Best Film “Made in Arkansas”
  • Best Short Film
  • Audience Award
  • Best Music Video from the Arkansas Music Video Competition and Showcase
  • LRFF Youth! Awards

LRFF 2009 Awards

2009-Andthewinnersare2009 Golden Rock Award Winners with LRFF Founders and Executive Director
 
2009-That-Evening-Sun-AwardThe Golden Rock for
Best Narrative Feature:
That Evening Sun		 2009-way-we-get-byThe Golden Rock for
Best Documentary Feature:
The Way We Get By
 
 Maual PracticoBest Short Film:
Manual Práctco del Amigo Imaginario (abreviado)		 2009-Slumberland-award Charlie B. Pierce Award–Best Film “Made in Arkansas”:
Slumberland
   
2009-dear-danielBest Arkansas Music Video:
The Good Fear, “Dear Daniel”		  

2009-BreakingUpwardsawaradAudience Award:
Breaking Upwards

 

2008 Award Winners
 

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Best Narrative Feature Film Award was presented to The Promotion, a sidesplitting comedy directed by Steven Conrad. John C. Reilly and Seann William Scott play two mid-level Chicago supermarket employees who go head-to-head in a battle of wits for a coveted promotion. The film will be distributed by the Weinstein Company.

  

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Best Documentary Feature Film Award was presented to Behind Forgotten Eyes, directed by Anthony Gilmore. The film documents the lives of Korean women kidnapped by Japanese soldiers during WWII and forced into sexual slavery.
 

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Best Short Film Award was presented to The Adventure, directed by Mike Brune. When a retired couple’s quiet picnic in the park is violated by a silent intruder whose story exposes the troubling mysteries of existence.

  

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The Charles B. Pierce Filming Arkansas Award was presented to War Eagle, Arkansas directed by Robert Milazzo, produced by Vincent Insalaco, and written by Graham Gordy. A touching film about friendship and baseball, based on a true story and filmed in in the Ozark Mountains, this film sold out four screenings over the weekend.
Best Music Video Award was presented to Kevin Stanbury and Bryan Stafford, collectively known as Deluxe36, for the video “Like Zombies” by the band The Moving Front. A Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Charles B. Pierce, pioneering independent filmmaker from South Arkansas. Mr. Pierce has produced and directed over 12 feature films including the cult classics The Legend of Boggy Creek, and The Town that Dreaded Sundown.
   

2007 Award Winners
offside-1Best Feature Film:
Offside		 ein, zwei dinge_Sophie_210Best Short Film:
Ein, Zwei Dinge
LittleBirdsBest Documentary Film:
Little Birds		 wheres_my_closeup_from_tim1Best of Arkansas:
Where’s My Closeup, Mr. Thornton?