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Snowtown Film Festival

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Snowtown Film Festival
LocationWatertown, New York
FoundedJuly 9, 2015
AwardsGrand Prize, North Country Filmmakers Award, Winter Through Film Award
Websitewww.snowtownfilmfestival.com

The Snowtown Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Watertown, New York. The festival was announced on July 31, 2014 after local residents made the suggestion to Greater Watertown North Country Chamber of Commerce to complement the city's winter festival. [1]

The inaugural festival screened fourteen films[2], including Carthage, New York filmmakers Clay DuMaw and Richard Cooke's film Hold'em[3]. The 2017 festival screened Matt Ross's Captain Fantastic, with actor Viggo Mortensen in attendance.[4]

The festival awarded Mortensen an Inspiration to Artists award and a metal sculpture of a Crow,[5] an animal that the actor expressed admiration for in interviews preceding his appearance in 2017.[6]

In 2018, the festival screened a documentary, Canuck, featuring a mischievous Vancouver, British Columbia crow who exhibits the independence and intelligence referenced by Mortensen.[7]

The festival presents official selections by local filmmakers, and a short film competition. Describing itself as a “a winter celebration of film", the festival presents winter-themed films and work by filmmakers with a connection to the North Country (New York). The best short film, as determined by a review panel and the board of directors, is awarded the Grand Prize.

In December 2018 the festival was thrown into the spotlight by the resignation of a town court judge who resigned[8] amid a finding that he made homophobic comments at the time of the 2017 festival, telling an attorney promoting the event to commit sex acts on Mortensen. [9]

The Snowtown Film Festival Grand Prize featuring 'captured lightning' crystal

Grand Prize winners[edit]

Year Film Director(s)
2015 Snowdysseus Evan Curtis
2016 Long John Joseph Bellavia
2017 Bardo Scott Aharoni, Dennis Latos
2018 The Book of Judith Alex Mendez Giner

North Country Filmmakers Award[edit]

Year Film Recipients(s)
2015 Coldest Winter Michael Mustizer
2015 Annulment Bryan Stumpf
2016 -1287 Ian Thomas Ash
2016 The Fish Colin Riendeau
2017 Before Your Eyes Skyler Bocciolatt and Canon Brownell
2018 Proper Goodbye Tyler Sutton and C.J. Girard
2018 The Marksman Sam Avery

Outstanding Animation Award[edit]

Year Film Director(s)
2015 Snowdysseus (also Grand Prize) Evan Curtis
2016 Saline Rebecca Ng
2017 Fruit Gerhard Funk
2018 U & I Masashi Yamamoto

Outstanding Foreign Language Film Award[edit]

Year Film Director(s)
2016 Bosniak Kejd Kuqo
2017 Speechless Robin Polák

Winter Through Film Award[edit]

Year Film Director(s)
2017 Snovlo Gillian Kirkland
2018 eyetooth Cory Thibert

References[edit]

  1. "Document: FILM FEST TO DEBUT/ SNOWTOWN USA: SILVER SCREEN TO MATCH/WINTER - CARNIVAL - America's News". Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  2. Botero, Julia (January 30, 2015). "Snowtown film festival screens winter-themed movies". WRVO media. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  3. "First Snowtown Film Festival deemed a success". NNY Business. February 2, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  4. "Viggo Mortensen to kick off film festival in his NY hometown". Associated Press. January 26, 2017. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  5. Jackson, Jen (February 21, 2017). "Nothing to Squawk At: NNY Artist presents two time Oscar nominee with award". NNY Living. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  6. "Viggo Mortensen: Making peace with the camera". CBS News. December 11, 2016. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  7. Brown, Scott (January 17, 2018). "Vancouver's Canuck the crow now a sought-after film star". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  8. Haney, Stephanie (December 12, 2018). "'You and Viggo Mortensen should get a hotel room and suck each other's d**ks': New York judge resigns in the face of a formal complaint that he made homophobic comments to an attorney". London Daily Mail. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
  9. Lombardo, David (December 12, 2018). "Upstate judge resigns for making homophobic remarks". Albany Times Union. Retrieved January 18, 2019.

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