The first award of the BFF 08 was announced at the closing ceremonies at the Manhattan Room on Sunday, it goes to EAT YOUR HEART OUT for Best Feature Film, and the prize is a full week theatrical run at the brand new 941 Theater in Northern Liberties this Summer!

The Official Backseat Film Festival 2008 Stats
19 Awards
84 Shorts
14 Features
17 screenings
38 Hours of Movies
36 Cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon
34 bottles of hard booze

BACKSEAT FILM FESTIVAL 2008 AWARDS
Best Feature Film - Eat Your Heart Out – Dir. James Tucker
Best Featurette - Seven Signs – Dir. J.D. Wilkes
Best Short Film- Bitch - Dir. Lilah Vandenburgh
Best Documentary - Blood, Boobs & Beast: A Documentary about B-Movie Director Don Dohler – Dir. John Paul Kinhart
Best Animation – Puppet - Patrick Smith
Best Music Video - Riverboat Gamblers "Don't Bury Me…I'm Still Not Dead – Dir. Christopher Rose
Best Local Filmmaker (Feature) – The Last Stand – Dir. Lucas Sabean
Best Local Filmmaker (Short) Gemini Rising – Dir. Gina Andreoli
Best Soundtrack - Cannibal Flesh Riot! – Dir. Gris Grimly
Best Movie Title - The Lord is My Shotgun – Dir. Gabriel Dowrick
Best Drinking Movie - Zombie Blood Chaos – Dirs. Albert Cook & Tim Cronin
Best Breasts – Female Cast of “Eat Your Heart Out”
Best Zombies - Naked Ape "Fashion Freak" – Dirs. Eric Althin & Shannon Henegan
Best SPFX (Visual) Razor Sharp – Dir. Marcus Perry
Best SPFX (Creature) - Demonology of Desire- Dir. Rodrigo Guidino
Funniest Film - Phone Sex Grandma – Dir. Jack Truman
Most Disturbing - Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill! – Dir. Chad Ferrin
Most Original - Tyger - Dir. Guilherme Marcondes
Staff Favorite (Feature) – Nobody – Dir. Shawn Linden
Staff Favorite (Short) - Zombie Western – Dir. Tor Fruergaard

Prizes for awards supplied by Sire Press, Mirror Image Duplication, Pabst Blue Ribbon, The Greater Philadelphia Film Office, Fear.net, TLA Video, Coldstone Creamery, Backseat Conceptions and more!