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
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