Film Awards

Awards

The 2nd Annual Little Rock Film Festival came to a close on Sunday night with an Awards Ceremony and a screening of Charlie B. Pierce's classic drive-in thriller The Legend of Boggy Creek in the outdoor Riverfest Amphitheatre. The film festival concluded an amazingly successful year of 55 films, multiple parties, panels and workshops, and with over 5,000 people in attendance.

Acclaimed Arkansas filmmaker and Hollywood producer Harry Thomason (Evening Shade, Designing Women) who attended the festival said "we've never been treated as well as we were here, and we hope we can do a film that will deserve to come back." Thomason also claimed that with the strong program, and tight organization, the Little Rock Film Festival "in its second year, is where [the] Sundance Film Festival was in its tenth."

The 2008 Little Rock Film Festival Awards Winners are:

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.

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.

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.

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.