Silverdocs. Awards.

Silverdocs has wrapped and announced its awards; you'll find the list after the jump. But first:

"Perhaps it says something about my tastes or my interests that all of the films I've seen so far at Silverdocs offer extreme views of womanhood." From there, Cynthia Rockwell segues into her initial takes on The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief, Leila Khaled, Hijacker and Only Belle.

On Saturday, Chuck Tryon's caught two more films: Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple "provides a valuable window into a history that most people have forgotten, recalling the tragic end of the story when over 900 people were killed rather than the culture that led up to it. B.I.K.E. offers a glimpse of the Black Label Bicycle Club, a group of artists and activists who form a community around the pro-bicycle movement."

Update: Cynthia Rockwell finds Walking to Werner "an unabashedly sentimental and sweet and inspirational road movie, made by an adorably sweet young man."

On Sunday, he saw Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos, "a fun film about the meteroic rise and fall of US soccer enthusiasm in the 1970s," and Walking to Werner, "a film very much in the spirit of the director who inspired it, Werner Herzog."

The awards:

• Sterling Feature Grand Jury Award: Jesus Camp.
• Sterling feature honorable mention: Chairman George.
• Audience Award Winner: Can Mr Smith Get to Washington Anymore?.
• Sterling Short Grand Jury Award: Seeds.
• Sterling short honorable mentions: McLaren's Negatives, Aluminum Fowl and A Girl Like Me (student award).
• Docs Rx Grand Jury Award: Blood of the Yingzhou District.
• Docs Rx honorable mention: Before Flying back to the Earth.
• Music Grand Jury Award: Rolling Like a Stone.

Posted by dwhudson at June 19, 2006 6:11 AM