Best Student Short – Anna, Emma, and the Condors

Best Short – Sound People

Best Human Interest – Spoil

Best Action Sports – The Swiss Machine

Best Feature – If a Tree Falls

Jury’s Award – American Outrage

People’s Choice - Happy

For more detailed information on the films by name, by session, and by date, please use the search function on our home page.

Please note, there are two separate venues showing films simultaneously so study up because you may need to pick and choose carefully this year!

The film will be screened first in Sedona and then in Flagstaff at 7pm at the Harkins 13.   Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members, and will be available at Harkins prior to the screening.  Let’s support our friends from Sedona and treat ourselves to this magnificent film! For more information, click here.

The students interviewed a range of specialists and civilians to offer various points of view. Locations for key shots and interviews include the local recycling plant, the Cinder Lake Landfill, the NAU Green Building, the Center for Environmental Research and Recycling at NAU, Macy’s Coffee Shop, and Flagstaff High School. The students also shot at the Leupp School with a focus on sustainability on the reservation and FRY’s grocery store, where the focus was on plastic bags and packaging. Currently in post-production, we believe that this documentary will inspire a wide variety of people to take initiative and to definitely question their current efforts.

The Emerging Filmmaker Program is an after-school activity for local youth to both learn about filmmaking and current issues. We are recruiting for next year’s program! If you are interested in helping out or know of a high school student that would like to participate, please contact Denise Stilley at AlmaLibre.Productions@gmail.com

Immediately following the screening, we were treated to an open forum with Colin Goddard himself. Mr. Goddard is extremely well-spoken and informative, and most of his thoughts were met with audience enthusiasm and applause. The few audience members who challenged his position on Arizona’s recently vetoed bill SB 1467, which would have allowed guns on university campuses, fell silent at his counter-arguments.

Mr. Goddard is an advocate for gun safety, campaigning for all states to require criminal background checks by private vendors at gun shows to help prevent people such as the shooter at Virginia Tech from acquiring military grade weapons. Rather than challenge our country’s second amendment, he simply asks for stricter laws in regards to gun sales, trafficking, ammunition sales, concealed weapons permits, and the like.

For everyone interested in becoming involved in Colin’s cause, I encourage them to visit the web page for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Corina Roche
FMFF Intern

There is no fee for submitting your film for consideration so there’s no reason not to do it!

Visit our submission page for more information…