IFFB Wrap Up!

Well, the 2008 Independent Film Festival of Boston has called it quits for another year. We are sorry we were unable to provide daily coverage as we intended, due to illness. However, our coverage isn't done yet...

We will be featuring a complete wrap up of the festival, it's happenings and goings on, and reviews of several films, on a special edition of PNR's podcast Subject:CINEMA, which will be up and running on Friday morning.

In the meantime...here are the winners of the festival competition...

JURY COMPETITION

Narrative:
Grand Jury Prize: BALLAST
Special Jury Prize: MOMMA'S MAN

Documentary:
Grand Jury Prize: SONG SUNG BLUE
Special Jury Prize: SECRECY

Short Film:
Grand Jury Prize: MAN
Special Jury Prize: GLORY AT SEA!

Programmers Choice Award: GOLIATH

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:

Narrative: MY WINNIPEG

Documentary: LIFE. SUPPORT. MUSIC.

Short Film: TONY ZOREIL (TONY ZEAR)

Congrats to the winners.

We will continue to post reviews of festival films throughout the weekend and in fact, throughout May as we see a number of the films we missed both in theatres and through screeners.

And Subject:CINEMA will be featuring a different narrative film all month long as part of our ongoing Film Festival review series, so dont' miss it!

Thanks to the IFFB for a great week of films!