2009 Audience Award Winners

Audience Choice Award Feature Film Winner: Sweet Crude SWEET CRUDE shows the humanity behind the statistics, events and highly sensationalized media portrayal of the region. Set against a stunning backdrop of Niger Delta footage, the film gives voice to the region’s complex mix of stakeholders and invites the audience to learn the deeper story. [More] Run time: 94 min. | USA | Language:English, Nigerian with English Subtitles The Audience Award Winning Feature Film may be a documentary, narrative, domestic or foreign film. The award is granted to the feature film screened at the festival scored highest by the audience.

Audience Award Winning Short Film: Lost Paradise A man and a woman are tenderly making love in a one star hotel room. A moment later when they are both dressed up, the idyll that seamed authentic is now gone. A present-day Adam and Eve story. [More] Run time: 10 min. | France, Israel The Audience Award Winning Short Film may be a documentary, narrative, domestic or foreign film. The award is granted to the short film screened at the festival scored highest by the audience.

Audience Choice Runnerups House of Numbers | Fish Out of Water | For My Father The Audience Choice Runnerup Feature film may be a documentary, narrative, domestic or foreign film. This merit is granted to the three films screened at the festival that scored within the top four by the audience.