The NatureTrack Film Festival announced the award-winning entries of this year’s juried competition. The award for Best in Festival (Feature) was awarded to two feature-length films that tied for first place, Last Kings of Bioko (Oliver Goetzel) and Realm of the Robber (Moritz Katz and Braydon Moloney). Best in Festival (Short) was awarded to Kokoly (Blue Ventures, Garth Cripps, and Paul Antion).
The Dan Conaway Award (or Kids Connecting with Nature) was awarded to Traces (Sebastien Pins), while the Igniting Passion for (and with) Nature Award was awarded to By Hand (Kellen Keene). Two films tied for the Audience Award, which was awarded to The Beaver Believers (Sarah Koenigsberg)(pictured) and Saliega’s Lineage: The Return of the Iberian Lynx (Javier Ortega Martinez).
Five feature-length films were honored in the following genre categories: Queen Without Land (Asgeir Helgestad) for Adventure; 83 Degrees: Ski the North (Matthias Mayr) for Outdoors (or Out of Bounds); Lost Kings of Bioko (Oliver Goetzel) for Conservation; The Earthling Movie: The Remarkable Science of Grounding (Josh and Rebecca Tickell) for Biography; and Realm of the Robber (Moritz Katz and Braydon Moloney) for Scenic.
Eight short films were awarded in the following genre categories: ICEolation (Sophie Ballagh and Ewan Blyth) for Adventure; One Breath Around the World (Guillaume Nery) for Outdoors (or Out of Bounds); Ferret Town (Virginia Moore) for Conservation; Kokoly (Blue Ventures, Garth Cripps, and Paul Antion) for Biography; Carrizo Plain: A Sense of Place (Jeff McLoughlin) for Scenic; Six Mile Stretch (Carol Chambers) for Animation; Yikasdabi: Awaits the Dawn (Gabriela Clar) for Student Film; and Traces (Sebastien Pins) for Kids Connecting with Nature.
Visit naturetrackfilmfestival.org for more details and updates on next year’s NatureTrack Film Festival.
This article appears in Nov 5-12, 2020.