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Audience Award Winners - 2009

The Festival presents Audience Awards for: Best Feature, Best Debut Feature, Best Short, and Best Documentary. Audience Awards are determined by popular vote of the audience. At each screening, viewers will receive a ballot to rate the film. Voting is simple, so please return your ballot at the end of each screening at the exit door. Winners will be announced at the Closing Party.

Congratulations to the Audience Awards winners of the twelfth anniversary of the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival:

 

Best Debut Feature:

     First place: Skin
     Second place: Necessities of LIfe
     Third place: The Burning Plain


Best Documentary:

     First place: Out in Silence
     Second place: Edie and Thea: A Very Long Engagement
     Third place:  Herb and Dorothy


Best Short:

     First place: Toyland
     Second place: Our Wonderful Nature
     Third place: Western Spaghetti


Best Feature:

     First place:  Departures
     Second place: Marcello Marcello
     Third place: Patrik, Age 1.5

 

 

History of Audience Award Winners

 

Year

Best Feature

Best Debut Feature

Best Documentary

Best Short

2009

Departures

Skin

Out in The Silence

Toyland

2008

Captain Abu Raed

The World Unseen

Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains

Tripe & Onions

2007

The Rocket

Dear Mr. Waldman

Nanking

The First Time

2006

Elsa & Fred

Sweet Land

Been Rich All My Life

Christmas Wish List

2005

Walk on Water

Ladies in Lavender

Music From the Inside Out

Perpetual Motion

2004

Facing Windows

My Mother Likes Women

Howard Zinn – You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train

The Dud

2003

Tipping The Velvet

James’ Journey to Jerusalem

Diary of a Male Porn Star

My Flesh & Blood

Left Behind

2002

Autumn Spring (Bab i΄ lēto)

The Trip

War Photographer

Leonard

2001

Borstal Boy

The Next Big Thing

The Turandot Project

Zen and the Art of Landscaping

2000

My Mother Frank

Four Dogs Playing Poker

Pop & Me

Turkey.Cake.

1999

Bandits

24 Nights

Climb Against the Odds

A Mile in My Shoes

1998

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