2006 Atlanta Film Festival Awards
2006 Atlanta Film Festival Awards: June 17, 2006
Grand Jury Prize, Best Narrative Film:
Pope Dreams by Patrick Hogan
Grand Jury Prize, Best Documentary Film:
What Remains by Steven Cantor
Audience Award, Best Narrative Film:
Quinceañera directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer
Audience Award, Best Documentary Film:
The Trials of Darryl Hunt by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg
Best Actor (tie):
John Maxwell (Oh Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write?)
Chris Butler (The Little Death)
Best Actress:
Ruby Dee (No. 2)
Ossie Davis Award:
Cicely Tyson
Audience Award, Best Short Film:
SPIN
Best Animated Film:
The Wraith of Cobble Hill directed by Adam Parrish King
Best Documentary Short:
Closing Time
Best Narrative Short for Oscar Consideration:
A Supermarket Love Song (UK)
Southeastern Media Award:
Keesha's House, Narrative Feature by David Collins (Producer), Dee Wagner (Screenwriter) and Steve Coulter (Director, Screenwriter)
Magnolia Teen Filmmaker Award:
To Serve, Documentary Short by Michael Thomas (Reel Works in Brooklyn, NY)
Women in Film Award:
Director Anne Makepeace (Rain in a Dry Land)
Perfect Pitch Finalists:
Patrick Franklin and Andy Rusk for "Plaster Man"
Mary Branson for "The Best Town on Earth"
Rachel Stamper for "The Prom King"
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Brussels European Film Festival Awards
Jerusalem Film Festival Awards
Karlovy Vary Film Festival Awards
Quinceañera I am very eager to see because I know that the theme of the 15 year old pregnant teenager will inevitably anger some watchdog group, especially the groups who protest every time someone “insults” their culture. But for me, it highlights how all of the important social issues that I grew up with have vanished; Teen pregnancy being one of them. The push for abstinence as the government’s official stance on teen sex has made girls who are in their teens who get pregnant outcasts again. No they don’t get sent away to special homes anymore or get taken out of schools but most of them end up having no choice but to drop out of school and are usually thrust into poverty. Like AIDS, teen pregnancy is something the doesn’t seem to happen anymore, at least according to the media. The millions of teenage girls who become pregnant and get lost in the world are much less important than missing blondes in Aruba who leave bars with three strange men at a time or dumb blondes who happen to date men who kill their pregnant wive. The era of Maurine Dallas Watkins “sob sister” journalism is once again upon us and has made stories like Quinceañera less important somehow, this time it’s not slattern gun molls who are the criminals but a media that sees Lifetime Movie Network fantasies of rape and romance (the movies shown often combine the two as romance novels also do) have made stories about real women with real issues like Quinceañera obsolete.