CUT! The Roxbury Film Festival Wrap-Up.

Sunday, August 1, brought to a close the Roxbury International Film Festival, featuring four days of films, workshops and panels.  The festival is a  partnership between Color of Film Collaborative and Roxbury Center for Arts at Hibernian Hall. This year the name of the event changed from Roxbury Film Festival to Roxbury International Film Festival to acknowledge the global scope of the offerings. The festival, which took place July 29 through August 1 in Hibernian Hall and beyond at Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Wentworth Institute and Mass College of Art, featured over 50 groundbreaking independent films. The schedule included a mixture of film shorts, animation, documentaries and full length narratives. Additionally, festival organizers were excited to have veteran industry insiders Peter Allen, Topper Carew, Quincy Newell among others as panelists as well as renowned coach Troy Rowland conducting acting workshops.

 

RIFF is a competitive festival and the program committee was challenged in selecting from a number of strong competitors in determining this year’s list of prize recipients. At the Awards Brunch Terri Brown and Lisa Simmons of Color of Film Collaborative announced the 2010 winners in eight categories:

Audience Favorite Award: Money Matters
Produced and directed by Ryan Richmond

Best Documentary Short: Me & The Devil Blues
Produced by Miranda Worthington, directed by Aidan Prewett

 

Kay Borne Award for Emerging Filmmaker: Soul Sisters
Produced and directed by Rahman Oladigbolu

 

Touch 106.1FM Award for Best Narrative Short: The Cycle
Produced by Frantz Cayo, Directed by Roy Clovis

Best Youth Produced Film: Mr. President
Directed by Rene Dongo

Kamal Gordon Award: Underground
Produced by Jenny Lima, directed by Wilbert Bethaud Jr.

Best Documentary: Contract
Produced and directed by Guenny Pires