PTFF 2024 Jury Awards Announced!

We had a wonderful time celebrating this year’s award-winning films at the Awards Party this past Saturday night at Vintage. We are pleased to share the winners in each category:

• Best Short Documentary
  A Home on Every Floor
  Signe Rosenlund-Hauglid

• Best Short Narrative
  Tennis, Oranges
  Sean Pecknold

• Jim Ewing Award (for first-time director of a feature film)
  Porcelain War
  Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev

• Best Feature Documentary
  Porcelain War
  Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev

• Best Feature Narrative
  Stakes is High
  Jean-Pierre Caner

• Spirit of PTFF
  Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith

• Visionary Leadership Award
  Louie Schwartzberg

• Visionary Leadership Award
  Catherine Hardwicke

The categories of Best Feature Documentary and Best Feature Narrative each receive cash prizes of $2,500. The winner of the Jim Ewing Award receives a $1,000 cash prize.

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Jury Commendations

In addition to our primary awards, our Jury gave several commendations:

• Feature Documentary
  A New Kind of Wilderness

• Jury Commendation for Editing
  Christoffer Heie and Kristian Tveit

• Feature Documentary
  Champions of the Golden Valley

• Jury Commendation for Cinematography 
  Ben Sturgulewski

• Feature Narrative
  Stakes is High

• Jury Commendation for Outstanding Performance
  Rahad Coulter-Stevenson

• Feature Narrative
  Breakup Season

• Jury Commendation for Screenwriting
  H Nelson Tracey

• Short Documentary
  Is Gay Marriage Next?

• Jury Commendation for Social Impact
  Emily Clark

• Short Documentary
  Líť'sit yiká· xá·bil-ts: Quillayute River Restoration

• Jury Commendation for Washington State-specific documentary
  Jennifer Moslemi and Marita Davison

• Short Narrative
  Stalled In Eight Etudes

• Jury Commendation for Best Live Action Short
  Kersti Bryan

As Danielle mentioned at the Awards Party, because of the record number of submissions PTFF reviewed this year, there were many excellent films that we couldn’t put into our line-up. Being an Official Selection in PTFF 2024 should be considered an award in itself.

Congratulations to all the filmmakers!