2005 NaFF WINNERS & SPECIAL AWARDS

DREAMMAKER AWARD
A Midwinter Night's Dream (Goran Paskaljevic, Serbia and Montenegro)

BEST DOCUMENTARY (sponsored by Ground Zero)
The Real Dirt on Farmer John (Taggart Siegel, USA)
Honorable Mention: Missionary Positions (Bill Day, USA)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY(sponsored by Ground Zero)
Small Town Secrets (Katherine Legget, USA)
Honorable Mention: Dimmer (Talmage Cooley, USA)

DISH MAGAZINE AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE (four-way tie)
The Aryan Couple (John Daly, USA)
Hustle & Flow (Craig Brewer, USA)
Loggerheads (Tim Kirkman, USA)
The Thing About My Folks (Raymond De Felitta, USA)

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY
Cowboy Jack's Home Movies (Or, Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan) (Robert Gordon & Morgan Neville, USA)

GOVERNOR'S AWARD (sponsored by the Tennessee Film, Entertainment & Music Commission)
Cary Brokaw

PRESIDENT'S AWARD (presented by Alan Brewer, NaFF Board President)
Rick Wakeman

REEL CURRENT AWARD (presented by Al Gore and sponsored by Current; for extraordinary insight into a global/social issue)
Taggart Siegel, for The Real Dirt on Farmer John

BEST MUSIC IN A FEATURE FILM (sponsored by BME/Brewman Music & Entertainment)
Hank Williams First Nation (Aaron James Sorensen, Canada)

IMPACT OF MUSIC AWARD (sponsored by Gibson Guitar; winner receives a Gibson guitar)
Rhythm Is It! (Thomas Grube & Enrique Sanchez Lansch, Germany)
Honorable Mention: Lomax the Songhunter (Rogier Kappers, Netherlands)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO (sponsored by Opus Entertainment)
Whiskey Lullaby (Rick Schroder, USA)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO BY A NASHVILLE DIRECTOR (sponsored by Opus Entertainment)
When I Think About Cheatin' (Robert Deaton, George Flanigen & Marc Oswald, USA)

MUSIC VIDEO AUDIENCE AWARD
Mercy Now (Demetria Kalodimos, USA)

BEST SHORT NARRATIVE
In the Morning (Danielle Lurie, USA)
Honorable Mentions: The Man Without A Head (Juan Solanas, France) & Intervention (Jay Duplass, USA)

BEST COLLEGE STUDENT SHORT NARRATIVE (sponsored by Kodak)
Victoria Para Chino (Cary Fukunaga, USA)

BEST ANIMATION
The Tree Officer (Neil Jack, Scotland)
Honorable Mention: Insomnia (Vladimirs Lesciov, Latvia)

BEST COLLEGE STUDENT ANIMATION
Backseat Bingo (Liz Blazer, USA)
Honorable Mention: O (Circle Of Life) (Keum-Taek Jung, USA)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL WORK
Layette (Ariana Gerstein, USA)
Honorable Mention: Highway 403, Mile 39 (Mitch McCabe, USA)

TENNESSEE INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD
Cowboy Jack's Home Movies (Or, Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan) (Robert Gordon & Morgan Neville, USA)
Honorable Mention: Super 7 (Ballard C. Boyd, USA)

BEST YOUNG FILMMAKER
And Then Everything I Saw, I Liked (Ariel Jackson, Ashley Rutledge, Emily Brisbon, USA)
Honorable Mention: Mobile (C. Brent Mooney, USA)