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Santa Cruz Film Festival Audience Award Winners 2006

Over 5000 ballots cast AND counted!!! Thank you voting film-o-philes!!!

BEST OF FEST
Kintaro Walks Japan
Tyler MacNiven

Best Narrative
In a Day
Evan Richards

Best Narrative Short
Spin
Jamin Winans

Best Documentary
The Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
Thomas Allen Harris

Best Documentary Short
Awakening
Joel Weber + Dominic Howes

Best International Film
Automne
Ra'up McGee

Best Short International
Feminine Breeze: Arts & Freedom in Iran
Antje Beyen

Best Docudrama
Earthling
Tristan Bayer

Best Comedy
Last Stop for Paul
Neil Mandt

Best Animation
Painting Day
Daesup Chang

Best Experimental
Missing Pages (Amended Versions)
Jerome Olivier

Best Student Film
What's Love Doing in the Mountains
Yunus Emre Firat

Best Under 18 (Evan Kuhn Award)
Genie in a Bottle: Unleashed
Stephen Sotor/Trace Gaynor

Best Under 18 (Evan Kuhn Award)
Goodbye Afro: A Trip to the Barbershop
Ethan Kuperberg

Best Surf Biopic
One Winter Story
Sally Lundberg/Elizabeth Pepin

Best Surf Film
The Addicted
Anthony Ruffo

Director's Awards

In Memory of My Father
Christopher Jaymes

Waterborne
Ben Rekhi

Johnny Berlin
Dominic J. DeJoseph

Zen & Zero
Michael Ginthoer

The Apparition of the Eternal Church
Paul Festa

Most People Only Dream of Flying
Omar Alhegelan

War Prayer
Harold Cronk

Frozen Food Section
Andrew Menan