TBFF 2010! AWARD NOMINEES

Nominees forBest Feature Film
Unequal dir. by John White (Compton, CA)
Bilal’s Stand dir. by Sultan Sharrief (Ann Arbor, MI)
Disowning Claire dir. by A.C. Abbott (Dallas, TX)
Dream Mali dir. by Barbara Kowa (Berlin)
The Good Fight: James Farmer Remembers the Civil Rights Movement
dir. by Jessica Schoenbaechler (Dallas, TX)

Nominees for Best Short Film
Empty Space dir. by Rob Underhill (Raleigh, NC)
Letters From Home dir. by Keva Keyes (Goose Creek, SC)
Shades of Gray dir. Sharon Hill (Los Angeles, CA)
Sounds of Poetry dir. by Henderson Maddox (Atlanta, GA)
Thank You For Washing dir. by Camille Brown (Los Angeles, CA)
Painting Poetry dir. by Earl Latchley (Houston, TX)
Type O dir. by Brianna Brown (Mississauga, ON Canada)

Nominees for Best Documentary
Frederick Douglass and the White Negro
dir. by John J Doherty (Dublin, Ireland)
Neshoba dir. by Micki Dickoff (Los Angeles, CA)
Herskovitz- At The Heart of Blackness dir. by Smith, Brown & Sommers (CA)
One Square Mile dir. by Carl Crum (Fort Worth, TX)
Nourishing The Kids Of Katrina - The Edible Schoolyard
dir. by Robert Grant (Sacramento, CA)

Nominees for Best Animation
O PINTOR DE CEOS (THE PAINTER OF SKIES)
dir. by Jorge Morias Valle (Vigo-Pontevedra, SPAIN)
Cartoon Comedy Rob and Coppers dir. by Ervin O’Neal (Chicago, IL)

Nominees forBest Texas Film
Disowning Claire dir. by A.C. Abbott (Dallas, TX)
Changing dir. by Lela Bell (Plano, TX)
Painting Poetry dir. by Earl Latchley (Houston, TX)
Picnic dir. by Alexandra Thomas (Austin, TX)
The Night We Died dir. by Ron Gonzalez (TX)

Nominees for Best Actor or
Actress in a Short or Feature Film
Alex Mulzac, for his role as Shaun in “Grace”
Dee Smith, for her role as Ellis in “All Out”
Earl Latchley, for his role as the co-star - “Painting Poetry”
Julian Gant, for his role as Bilal in “Bilal’s Stand”
Maria Acosta, for her role as Glenda in “Osvaldo’s”
Mike Wiley, the one man cast in “Empty Space”

Nominees for Best Director
A.C. Abbott - for Disowning Claire
Camille Brown for Thank You For Washing
Earl Latchley - for Painting Poetry
Henderson Maddox for Sounds of Poetry
O'Shea Myles for All Out

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Asbury Park dir. by Robert Andersen (Jersey City, NJ)
Can She Be Saved? dir. by Yasmin Shiraz (Chantilly, VA)
Change dir. by Jay Rodriguez (Jackson, NJ)
Grown in Detroit/Teen Moms become Urban Farmers
dir. by Mascha Poppenk & Manfred Poppenk (Netherlands)
In Retrospect... dir. by Logan Coles (Brooklyn, NY)
Jitters dir. by Jason S. Williams (Winter Parl, FL)
Jodi dir. by Jordan Auten (Van Nuys, CA)
Nobody Has to Know dir. by Julian Walker (Davidson, NC)
Nothing More, Nothing Less dir. by Dui Jarrod (New Orleans, LA)
Tags dir. by Dominique DeLeon (Brooklyn, NY)

HONORABLE MENTION - NOT PROGRAMMED
Certain films which are worthy of Honorable Mention are not programmed due to various factors including: screen availability; appeal to small niche audiences; or TBFF lacking any Premiere status. The following films, although not programmed, are worthy of Honorable Mention.

Chasing Keino dir. by (Dripping Springs, TX)
The Fire Inside dir. by Monique Walton (Austin, TX)
Coming Correct dir. by Joseph L. Stovall (Lawrenceville, GA)
River Toll dir. by Kenny Brown (LA, CA)
Brothers, Inc. dir. by Michael Johnson (LA, CA)
Johnny’s Leaving dir. by Kali Baker-Johnson (Maplewood, NJ)