2001 Festival Highlights

Best Feature
Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner by Zacharias Kunuk

Best Native Film
Christmas in the Clouds by Kate Montgomery

Best Latin Film
Y Tu Mamá Tambien by Alfonso Cuarón

Best Documentary
Paperboys, by Mike Mills

Best Short
Gina, An Actress, Age 29, by Paul Harrill
Dragonflies, the Baby Cries, by Jane Gilooly

Highlights
In the Bedroom (USA) by Todd Field
Italian for Beginners (Denmark) by Lone Scherfig
Lantana (Australia) by Ray Lawrence
No Man's Land (Slovenia) by Danis Tanovic
Charlotte Gray (UK/Australia) by Gillian Armstrong
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Japan) by Shohei Imamura
Baran (Iran) by Majid Majidi
Brotherhood of the Wolf (France) by Christophe Gans
Possible Loves (Brazil) by Sandra Werneck
Dark Blue World (Czech Republic) by Jan Sverák
Devils on the Doorstep (China) by Jiang Wen
Diamond Men (USA) by Daniel Cohen
Trouble Every Day (France) by Claire Denis
Millennium Mambo (Taiwan) by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Mortal Transfer (France) by Jean-Jacques Beineix
What Time Is It There? (Taiwan) by Tsai Ming-liang

Retrospective Tributes

Felipe Cazals, Writer/Director
El apando (1975)
Canoa (1975)
Las Poquiianchis (1976)
Los Motivos de Luz (1985)
Su Alteza Serenísima (2000)

Ismail Merchant, Producer
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
The Golden Bowl (2000)
Mystic Masseur (2001)
Mary Woronov actress
Eating Raoul (1982)
The New Women (2001)

Special Guest
Donovan Leitch, Independent filmmaker/Singer
Last Party 2001

Panel discussions
Forget What You Know: The Screenwriters' Survival Guide
New Mexico Film Resources
The Motion Picture Package - It Is Nuclear Physics
Digital Cinema Frontiers
“Are the Movies Attuned to Women on the Movie?