SANTA FE – NM Film Office Director Lisa Strout and NM Filmmakers Program Director Trish Lopez today announced the eleven winners of the 2009 New Visions/New Mexico Contract Awards. Now in its fourth year, the program annually provides awards to local filmmakers to help fund their original narrative, documentary, animation and experimental films. This year's winners are listed below:
Animation
Frederick Aragon
Coyote Tales: Dark is My Light
Animation Alternate: Kate Brown, "Rosaruby Seeks and Finds"
Documentary
Melinda Hess
Letter from Cloudcroft
Brian Konefsky
Secession: Gene Youngblood
Eric Maddox*
A House Divided
Kate McCunn
Books in Between
Documentary Alternate: Brent Morris, "Flamenco School"
Experimental
Xuan Chen
Out
Robert Drummond
Almas
Experimental Alternate: Ethan Bach, "Retrieving Humanity"
Narrative
David Garcia
The Cuentos Project
Sydney Freeland
Drunktown's Finest
Kara Sachs*
King 4 a Day
Ewen Wright
Validation
Narrative Alternate: Mary Holyoke, "The Donor"
This year the NM Film Office is pleased to continue its relationship with Panavision, a major supplier of cameras and lenses for the film industry world-wide. They will once again provide the use of two motion picture camera packages (HD, 16 mm or 35mm) at no charge to the winners. Those names with asterisks (*) noted will each receive one of the packages.
