Texas Black Film Festival
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2008!

Studio Movie Grill

DALLAS
HOUSTON
ARLINGTON

TBFF 2008! AWARD NOMINEES


 Best Overall Film

Cuttin' Da Mustard directed by Reed McCants

Lifted directed by Randall Dottin

Sister's Keeper directed by Kent Faulcon

Best Texas Film

Life and Tragic Death of James Byrd directed by Ricky Jason        

A Day to Remember directed by Quincy Minor

The Restaurant directed by Maurice Durham

Strange as Strangers directed by Rodney Perkins

Best Actor or Actress in a Short or Feature Film

Kent Faulcon for Sister's Keeper

Al Thompson for Liberty Kid

Vondi Curtis Hall for Crenshaw Nights

Quisha Freeman for  Lifted

Best Director

Randall Dottin for Lifted

Reed McCants for Cuttin' Da Mustard

Kent Faulcon for Sister's Keeper

Illya Chaulken for Liberty Kid

Best Feature Film

Sister's Keeper – directed by Kent Faulcon

Cuttin' Da Mustard – directed by Reed McCants

Sarbane's Oxley – directed by Ramcess Jean-Louis

Liberty Kid – directed by Illya Chaulken

Best Short Film

Lifted - Randall Dottin

Crenshaw Nights - Dwjuan Fox & Peter Gelles

Morning Due - Barbara Allen (Chicago, IL)

Best Documentary

Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons -
Margaret B. Young & Darius A. Gray

The Life and Tragic Death of James Byrd - Ricky Jason  (Beaumont, TX)

Democracy in Dakar - Ben Herson

Best Animation

Simulacra - Tatchapon Lertwirojkul (Jersey City, NJ)

Obara & The Merchant - Rich McKeown

Dex Davis - Child of God - Horace Christian, Jr.

HONORABLE MENTIONS


Feature Films

How to Build a Rapper by Lewis Powell

Tapioca directed by Michael Houlihan

Sympathetic Details by Ryan Sands

Something is Killing Tate directed Leon Lozano

Short Films

Keys by Damen Fletcher

The Buzzard by Troy Ransome

Vista View by Kofi Oliver

Promises Kept by Jason Camp

B.A.M. by Laron Austin

5 Man Confession by Jeffrey Williams

C-Lo In the Beginning by Kimberly Singleton

Urban Genesis by Larry Bryant

Diary of a User by Kevin Franzen

The Choice by Mack Syler

Animations

Ugly Ducky directed by Shirley Lin

Documentaries

Wade in the Water directed by Gabriel Nussbaum/ Elizabeth Wood

A Little Bit of Love – The Making of a Message directed by Scott Hatfield

Who is Unita Blackwell? directed by Aaron Lehmann

Race to Execution  directed by Rachel Lyon

Freedom Flyers of Tuskegee directed by Lisa Boags

 

 

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