Bluegrass Independent Film Festival
‘Sixes’
earns audience pick;
Oldham native earns award
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LA GRANGE, Ky. (October 2006) – “Sixes and the
One-eyed King,” a film directed by Ray Nomoto Robison, was the
audience’s choice for best film at the second annual Bluegrass
Independent Film Festival held Sept. 8-10 in La Grange. The event was
organized by the Oldham County Arts Association and held at the Great
Escape Oldham 8 Theatres, with help from many local sponsors.
According to Tamara Lee Fulkerson, BIFF director, 217 films from all
across the United States and from at least 10 foreign countries were
received. Of those, 74 were selected for screening, representing 47-plus
hours of viewing. More than 2,000 people participated in some aspect
of the event.
The winners by category:
• Best Comedy: “The Man Who Couldn’t Dance”
directed by Barry Prescott
• Best Animation: “The Bushman of Bunyip Billabong”
directed by Cameron Edser & Michael Richards
• Best Documentary: “It’s Happiness – A
Polka Documentary”
directed by Craig DiBiase
• Best Feature: “The Trouble with Dee Dee,”
directed by Michael Meiners
• Best Foreign: “Geoffrey Bagel,” directed
by Jared Houseman
• Best Regional: “By the Wayside,” directed
by Soozie Eastman
• Best Student: “Theodore,” directed by Jorge
Moran
• Best Short: “Rosa,” directed by William
Ollsen
• Best Originality: “Rigoletto in the Bluegrass,”
directed by Rob Swales
• Best Feature Writing: “Firefly,” directed
by Pete Marcy
Audience Appreciation Award - “Sixes and the One-eyed
King,” directed by Ray Nomoto Robison.
“They Are Still There,” winner of the Director’s Choice
for Best Regional Film, is scheduled for broadcast on a number of public,
educational, and governmental access channels across the country. Dewayne
Rudd, a local Louisville resident and director of the film, said, “The
festival provided the credibility and publicity this documentary needed
to reach a national audience.”
A full listing of results is available on the festival’s Internet
website at: www.bluegrassfilmfest.com.
“We all are very pleased at the response from everyone – from
the filmmakers who attended the Festival to our audience,” Fulkerson
said. “Without the support of our sponsors in the business community,
Great Escape Oldham 8 Theatres and volunteers, the festival would not
be possible. We’re already looking forward to the third annual
festival in 2007 and have begun the planning process.”
The 2006 festival was dedicated by Fulkerson to Bart Frederick, a victim
of the Aug. 27 Comair 5191 disaster in Lexington, Ky., and his family
– wife Kyra and children Edie, Victora and Seth, including the
rest if the victims and their families. At the awards ceremony
on Sept. 10, a moment of silence was observed in commemoration of the
9/11 tragedy.