The 2006 Winners

2006 NSWCFF Humanitarian Award

Wangari Maathai (2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate)

Film Company of the Year Award

Rhombus Media - Canada

Jack London Screenplay Award

Debating Robert Lee (USA)
By Dan Polier

Jack London Spirit Award

Serko (France)
by Joel Farges

Margrit & Robert Mondavi Peace & Cultural Understanding Prize

...More Than a 1000 Words (Germany)
By Solo Avital

Best International First Feature

Un Buda - A Buddha (Argentina)
By Diego Rafecas

Best First Feature - US

Bangkok (USA)
By Colin Drobnis

Best Independent Feature Under $100,000

Mojave Phone Booth (USA)
By John Putch

David Wolper Documentary Film Prize

Five Days in September (Canada)
by Barbara Willis Sweete

Best Documentary / Arts

Tango - A Strange Turn
by Mercedes García Guevara

Best Historical Documentary

The Damnedest Finest (USA)
by James Dalessandro

Best Documentary Feature - Cinema of Conscience

Friendly Fire: Exposing Gulf War Syndrome (USA)
by Gary Null

Best Documentary Short/Cinema of Conscience

At Risk: Uninsured in America (USA)
by Jim Hil

Best Documentary - International

Sofia (Peru)
by Peter Goetz

Best Feature Documentary - Eco Cinema GAIA Award

America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie (USA)
by David O’Shields

Best Short Documentary - Eco Cinema GAIA Award

Texas Gold (USA)
by Carolyn M. Scott
- TIE -
Apalachicola River: An American Treasure (USA)
by Elam Stoltzfus

Best Short (International)

Dammi Il La (Italy)
by Matteo Servente
- TIE -
Cold Kenya (Poland)
by Lawrence Walsh

Best Short (Domestic)

Far As The Eye Can See (USA)
by Roy McDonald

Best Comedy Short (Domestic)

The Death of Salvador Dali (USA)
by Delancy Bishop

Best Animation

Our Man In Nirvana (Germany)
by Jan Koester

Best Novella Film

Stranded (Australia)
by Stuart McDonald

Audience Favorite

Conversations With Steve (USA)
by Brian Ades

Best Director

Matt Dickinson
Cloud Cuckoo Land (UK)

Best Cinematography

Piotr Sliskowski
In Piotr Trzaskalski’s The Master (Poland)

Best Actor

Steve Varden
In Matt Dickinson’s Cloud Cuckoo Land (UK)

Best Actress

Labina Mitevska
In Sergej Stanojkovski’s Kontakt (Macedonia/Germany)

Best Ensemble Cast

In Dan Polier’s Debating Robert Lee (USA)

"TERROIR OF CINEMA"

We speak often of “terroir” in the the wine countries of the world. Terroir is what gives a wine its unique quality that links it to a particular place with a particular set of climatic, geological and atmospheric influences.

"The Terroir of Cinema" is our term that expresses our feelings about the deep roots that give us our unique attributes, tastes and cultural distinctions. Film, like wine and cuisine, reflects the roots of the filmmakers and subjects they focus on... A Cultural Terroir if you will, that arises from our roots.

In these times, these distinctions cut both ways; at this Festival we choose to celebrate our differences rather than fear them. Cinema, and the other arts (especially the culinary arts and music) awaken us to cultural diversity and lead us to a richer and deeper understanding of what it means to be human.

Stephen Ashton
NS WCFF Founder/Director
© 2009 Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival
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