And Then It Ends…
Posted in deadCENTER 2010 on June 15th, 2010 by Dwight – 1 CommentSunday
Day 5 ended up with brunch at La Baguette at the Colcord and the Best of Fest shorts at OKCMOA which featured some of the award winners.
The 2010 deadCENTER Film Festival Award Winners were:
- Best Student Film: In This Place
- Best Animation: O Pintor de Ceos (Painter of the Skies)
- Best Narrative Short: Junko’s Shamisen
- Best Documentary Short: A Song for Ourselves
- Best Narrative Feature: earthworks
- Best Documentary Feature: A Good Day to Die
- Best Okie Short: The Rounder Comes to Town
- Best Okie Feature: The Rock ‘n Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher
- Grand Jury Narrative Feature: Simmons on Vinyl
- Grand Jury Documentary Feature: Our House
At the Best of Fest, they screened the animation winner and all of the short film winners. They also, for some reason, screened LA Bag Brothers. That one, perhaps tellingly, was my least favorite of the bunch. Being somewhat of a folk music fan, I found the documentary A Song for Ourselves quite interesting. The Painter of the Skies had some promise but it was too shaky and blurry, perhaps due to a bad transfer or some other technical issue. The Rounder Comes to Town was highly anticipated. It was perhaps a little too indulgently Tarantino-ish and lacked an assured tone. I wasn’t quite sure how funny or campy it was genuinely going for. Perhaps I was taken aback knowing the actor who spouted the oddest lines (something like: I like kitty cats. Kitties in the morning, day and night. Kitties for brunch. Mimosas and kitties. Except he wasn’t talking about kittens.) Still, it showed a bunch of promise. A few changes here and there and it could’ve easily been my favorite of the festival. But my favorite for the day was Junko’s Shamisen, which also happened to be the one film from the Mixtape program that we had to skip out on the evening before. It was a very nice combination of live-action and gorgeous animation. I loved it.
That means that the 2010 festival is in the books. Now it’s on to a new decade of deadCENTER awesomeness. As always, many kudos to Melissa, Cacky, Kim, Ian, and Kevin for putting on a really great festival. Until next year…
