Guam Film Festival Awards Revolution and Cicada
Kel Muna speaks at the GIFF 2014 awards ceremony at Agana Shopping Center.
Festival co-founders Jason JD Iriarte, left, and Don Muna, right, hand out awards at the GIFF 2014 awards ceremony at Agana Shopping Center.
The weeklong showcase of international films at the Agana Stadium Theatres wrapped up Sunday with an awards ceremony honoring the best of the 2014 Guam International Film Festival.
The 2014 GIFF Grand Jury Award winners were chosen by local and international judges.
Friends, supporters, filmmakers and actors, including those from centerpiece film "Cicada" attended the ceremony.
Here are the winners:
Best narrative feature:
• Winner: "Cicada" (Japan and U.S., Director: Dean Yamada).
• Nominee: "Big Significant Things" (U.S., Director: Bryan Reisberg).
Best narrative short:
• Winner: "Balcony" (Kosovo, Director: Lendita Zeqiraj).
• Nominee: "A Man On The Edge" (Australia, Director: Edward Lyons).
• Nominee: "Berlin Troika" (Germany, Director: Andrej Gontcharov).
• Nominee: "The Story of M" (Russia, Director: Anna Arlanova).
Best docu feature:
• Winner: "Revolution" (Canada, Director: Rob Stewart).
• Nominee: "Kumu Hina" (US, Director: Dean Hamer).
Best docu short:
• Winner: "Not Anymore: A story of Revolution" (Syria, Directors: Matthew VanDyke and Nour Kelze).
• Nominee: "Sailing Canoe" (Guam, Director: Adam Thompson).
Best made in Marianas:
• Winner: "The Psyche of Manson" (Director: Kent Velesrubio).
• Nominee: "#LiveLife for Kicks" (Director: Michael Marriott).
• Nominee: "Across The Water In Time" (Director: Jillette Leon-Guerrero).
• Nominee: "Adonis of Denver" (Director: Neil Tinkham).
• Nominee:"First Day of Spring" (Director: Nick Kinkade).
• Nominee:"Jam: A Strawberry Girls Documentary" (Director: Theodore J. Maider).
• Nominee:"Po's Journey" (Director: Wednesday Alexander Palacios).
• Nominee: "Sleepwalker" (Directors: Niel Romero, Justin Baldovino).
Achievement in acting:
• Winner:Yugo Saso, "Cicada."
• Nominee: Harry Lloyd, "Big Significant Things."
• Nominee: Afa Pio Tupua "Coral."
• Nominee: Matthew Burton, "Berlin Troika."
• Nominee: Aaron Hitz, "Lothar."
