1991, 24th annual humboldt int’l film festival
Awards
Jonas Mekas diary award
Best 16 mm 100′ Film
Cinematic disobedience award#
$3000 in cash and prizes.
Judges
Deborah Fort
An Independent Filmmaker for ten years, has been teaching film production and history at Humboldt State University for six years (84-90). She received a Jerome Foundation Grant for her work in film installation and has exhibited her films and installations throughout the country and in Europe. The film, “Mort’s Court,” co-produced with the Humboldt county Victim Witness Association for children going into the court system, is being used by Victim Witness programs throughout the country. Deborah has worked as camera operator and sound recordist on independent film projects, as well as producing and directing her own films. Deborah received her MFA in Filmmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute, where she also worked as technical advisor to students and faculty.
This year, Deborah is a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz teaching Films, Video and Audio Production. In the summer of 1990, Deborah was selected to participate in the National Endowment Summer Seminar for College Teachers, “Autobiographical Form in Film and Video.”
Bill Nichols
Bill Nichols has published extensively on issues in film and contemporary culture. His two volumes of the anthology Movies and Methods helped define the field of film studies in the university. His books on Newsreel: Documentary Filmmaking on the American Left and Ideology and the Image dealt extensively with issues of documentary film theory and practice. He has lectured widely in the United States as well as in Australia, Canada, China, Great Britain, Finland, Malaysia, the Soviet Union and Sweden. In addition to his writing, Bill Nichols also reviews contemporary films for KUSP, a National Public Radio affiliate in Santa Cruz, California.
Tom Thonson
Studied Film/Theater Arts, Humboldt State University 10/72-12/75. Live in Los Angeles. Have worked in the FIlm Industry since 1978. I am currently working as a Writer. An original feature screenplay of mine will go into production — May, 1991. Member of the Writer’s Guild and the Director’s Guild.