6 th Starz Denver Pan African Film Festival
April 25 - May 1, 2005
AWARD WINNERS!

Juried Awards:
Best Feature -
"Cape of Good Hope" dir. Mark Bamford
Best Documentary -
"The Healing Passage: Voices From the Water"
dir. S. Pearl Sharp
Best Short -
"In Time" dir. Maurice Dywer and Adetoro Makinde
Best Student Film -
"Rubber Soles" dir. Christina Turner

Audience Awards:
Best Feature - "Constellation" dir. Jordan Walker-Pearlman
Best Documentary - " The Healing Passage: Voices From the Water"
dir. S. Pearl Sharp
Best Short - "Home Grown" dir Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Achievement Awards:
Gordon Parks Maverick Award
- Billy Dee Williams, Actor/Painter
SoulSpirit Award - Don Cheadle, Actor/Activist

Liberation Awards
The Last Poets and Jill Scott, Poets

Beverly Robinson Renaissance Award
Mojisola Sonoiki, Film Activist

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5th Starz Denver Pan African Film Festival
April 26 - May 2, 2004

AWARD WINNERS!

Juried Awards: Best Feature - "Love, Sex & Eating the Bones" dir. Sudz Sutherland
Best Documentary - "A Place of Our Own" dir. Stanley Nelson
Best Short - "Butch Mystique" dir. Debra Wilson
Best Student Film - "Inventos: Hip Hop Cubano" dir Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Audience Awards:
Best Feature - "Baadassss!" Mario VanPeebles
Best Documentary - "8 Wheels and Some Soul Brotha Music" dir. Tyrone Dixon
Best Short - "The Sacrifice" dir. Catherine Bruhier

Achievement Awards:
Gordon Parks Maverick Award - Oscar Brown, Jr., Poet/Performer/Composer
SoulSpirit Award - Melvin VanPeebles, Director

Liberation Award - Amiri Baraka, Poet/Author

Beverly Robinson Renaissance Award - Yvonne Welbon, Director

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4th Starz Denver Pan African Film Festival
April 21-27, 2003

AWARD WINNERS!

Juried Awards:
Best Feature - "Karmen Gei" dir. Joseph Gai Ramaka
Best Documentary - "Divas: Love Me Forever" dir. Edimburgo Cabrera
Best Short - "The Call" dir. Princess Monique
Best Student - "The Burger King Stalker" dir. Inyata Jordan (Manula High School-Denver)

Audience Awards:
Best Feature - "Hip-Hop Hope" dir. Darrell Wilkins
Best Documentary - "Straight Outta Hunters Point" dir. Kevin Epps
Best Short - "Path Altered" dir. Ali Jackson

Achievement Awards:
Gordon Parks Maverick Award - Stanley Nelson, Director
SoulSpirit Award - Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Director

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3rd Starz Denver Pan African Film Festival
April 25 - 28, 2002

AWARD WINNERS!!
Juried Awards:
Best Feature - "Kali's Vibe" dir. Shari Carpenter
Best Documentary - "Femi Kuti: What's Going On?" dir. Jacques Goldstein
Best Short - "Kickin Chicken" dir. Joy Phillips

Audience Awards:
Best Feature - "Kali's Vibe" dir. Shari Carpenter
Best Documentary - "Strange Fruit" dir. Joel Katz
Best Short - "Whoa" dir. Maurice Dwyer

Achievement Awards:
Gordon Parks Maverick Award - Eriq LaSalle, Director
SoulSpirit Award - Carl Seaton, Director

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2nd Starz Denver Pan African Film Festival
Landmark Mayan Theatre & AMC Theatre
at Tiffany Plaza

April 26 - 30, 2001
AWARD WINNERS!!

Audience Awards:
Best Feature - "Middle Passage" dir. Guy Deslauriers
Best Documentary - "Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme" dir. Kevin Fitzgerald
Best Short - "Voice of the Voiceless" dir. Tania Cuevas Martinez

Achievement Awards:
Gordon Parks Maverick Award - Gordon Parks, Director/Photographer

1st Starz Denver Pan African Film Festival
Landmark Mayan Theatre & AMC Tivoli Theatre
April 27 - 30, 2000

AWARD WINNERS!!
Audience Awards:
Best Feature - "Punks" dir. Patrik-Ian Polk
!BLAM Best Feature - "Kirikou & The Sorceress" dir. Michele Ocelot
Best Documentary - "Nobody Knows My Name" Rachel Raimist
Best Short - "Groupie" Mad Mathewz
 

7th Denver Pan African
Film Festival

April 24 - 30, 2006


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