SFF Announces 2019 Awards

The 2019 Soo Film Festival took place September 12-15 at the historic Soo Theatre and Bayliss Public Library in downtown Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Festival attendees are asked to choose their favorites by ballot. By audience acclaim, the winning films are:

Narrative Feature

Empty Metal, directed by Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer

Foreign Narrative Feature

The Very Last Day, directed by Cedric Jouarie

Documentary Feature

An Armenian Trilogy, directed by Dan Yessian

Foreign Documentary Feature

From Seed To Seed, directed by Katharina Stieffenhofer

Documentary Short

An Edited Life, directed by Mathieu Faure

STudent Documentary Short

The Dawes Act, directed by Frederick Dakota

Music Video

Potion: Dark Matter, directed by Annie Maley

Foreign Music Video

FEAR, directed by Lu Pulici

Student Music Video

Too Hard to Love, directed by Casey Zenner

Animation

Framed, directed by Marco Jemolo

Foreign Animation

Little Cosmic Shore, directed by Pavel Kungurov

Student Animation

Undone, directed by Sara Laubscher

Narrative Short

Private Barry, directed by Tyler Szuch

Foreign Narrative Short

Reminiscing, directed by Luke Grandmont and Dallas Varcoe

Student Narrative Short

Things We Carry, directed by Paul Morisette

The next Soo Film Festival will take place September 2020.

Soo Film Festival, Inc. is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote and host film and allied arts festivals in the City of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Soo Film Festival, Inc. seeks to showcase the work of independent and emerging filmmakers, especially from the Great Lakes of North America. Our Mission: Great Lakes, Great Movies