The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of documentary shorts for 2009. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT:

* A Day Late in Oakland (Zachary Stauffer, Oakland, California)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* Raw (Shelly Roby, San Francisco, California)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* Richart (Dawn Smallman, Vanessa Renwick & Greg Snider, Portland, Oregon)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

* Beholder (Eric Daniel Metzgar, Brooklyn, New York)

* Bloodsucker (Meghan O’Hara, Stanford, California)

* Click Whoosh (Reid Kuennen & Mandy Hubbard, Seattle, Washington)

* I Can See Everything (Kristine Samuelson & John Haptas, Palo Alto, California)

* Just Add Water (Jeffrey Mead, Rochester, New York)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of experimental films for 2009. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM:

* Themes + Variations for the Naked Eye (Caitlin Horsmon, Kansas City, Missouri)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* Double Thunder (Potter-Belmar Labs, San Antonio, Texas)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

* Automatic (Sharon A. Mooney, Chicago, Illinois)

* 4 Minutes on an Abandoned Bridge (Todd Tinkham, Durham, North Carolina)

* Random Access Memory (Gavin Rehder, Fargo, North Dakota)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of music videos for 2009. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST MUSIC VIDEO:

* Parson Brown: Mexican Standoff (Bill Plympton, New York, New York)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* Leela Gilday: One Drum (Helen Haig-Brown, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

OFFICIAL SELECTION:

* M’Girl: Eyes Wide Open (Renae Morriseau, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of narrative features for 2009. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE:

* River (Mark Wihak, Regina, Canada)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* …And on the 7th Day, God Rocked (Jason Page, Duluth, Minnesota)

OFFICIAL SELECTION:

* Come Hell or High Water (Wayne Shipley, Jessup, Maryland)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of narrative shorts for 2009. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

* Las Gafas (Alberto Garcia Martin, Santa Cruz De Tenerife, Spain)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* Butterflies Die in Snow (Karim Azimi, Ardabil, Iran)

HONORABLE MENTION

* Pim, Pam, Pum (Andoni De Carlos Yarza & Asier Urbieta, Sevilla, Spain)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

* Black (Seth Anderson & Nathan Anderson, Santa Monica, California)

* 50 States (Caity Birmingham, Chicago, Illinois)

* A Helping Hand (John-Kristian Dalseth, Oslo, Norway)

* This Bus, Every Day (Todd Tinkham, Durham, North Carolina)

* Twistee Treat (John Herzog, Orlando, Florida)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of Native American Voices for 2009. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST NATIVE AMERICAN VOICES:

* Moccasin Flats: Redemption (Rob King, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* Beyond the Mesas (Allan Holzman, Santa Monica, California)

* Good Looking (Joseph Lazare, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

* The American Carver (Hans Erchinger-Davis, Bellingham, Washington)

* Beautiful Resistance (Allan Holzman, Santa Monica, California)

* Journey My Heart (Reil Munro, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

* Poison Wind (Jenny Pond, Gilbert, Arizona)

* Wasteful Sorrow (Tanya Carriere, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of student work for 2009. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST STUDENT DOCUMENTARY:

* The Greatest Silent Sport (Rebecca Gilbuena, Moorhead, Minnesota)

WINNER BEST STUDENT NARRATIVE:

* Harvest Moon (Micah Ranum, Tallahassee, Florida)

STUDENT DOCUMENTARY HONORABLE MENTION:

* This Is Me (David Sam, St. Paul, Minnesota)

STUDENT NARRATIVE HONORABLE MENTION:

* First Kill (Micah Ranum, Tallahassee, Florida)

STUDENT NARRATIVE HONORABLE MENTION:

* Brainless (Jeremy Wanek, Edina, Minnesota)

STUDENT NARRATIVE HONORABLE MENTION:

* ae (Maxwell Heesch, Moorhead, Minnesota)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

* Facade (Andrew Neill, Moorhead, Minnesota)

* The Letter (Johan Anderson, Moorhead, Minnesota)

* Perfection (Eric Carlson, Moorhead, Minnesota)

* Victim (Marcus Mann, Moorhead, Minnesota)

Emmy-winning documentary moviemaker Anne Aghion’s “Ice People” has been selected to open the 2009 Fargo Film Festival. To create the documentary, Aghion spent four months on the ice with modern-day polar explorers, to find out what drives dedicated researchers to leave the world behind in pursuit of science, and to capture the true experience of living and working in this extreme environment.

“Ice People” has direct ties to the Fargo-Moorhead community.  In the image above, North Dakota State University geology undergraduates Kelly Gorz (right) and Andrew Podoll (left) trek across rough terrain

More details about “Ice People” at the 2009 Fargo Film Festival will be released in the coming weeks, but in the meantime, festival fans are encouraged to click here to visit the movie’s official website.

Submissions are arriving daily for the 2009 Fargo Film Festival.  If you are a moviemaker seeking an opportunity to have your work judged for competition in North Dakota’s premier film festival, complete an entry form and send us your work.  The festival’s regular postmark deadline is January 1, 2009.  Visit our SUBMISSIONS page for entry forms and detailed information about requirements.

In just one short month, the early submission deadline for the 2009 Fargo Film Festival will pass. If you are a moviemaker considering festival entry opportunities, take advantage of the reduced rates by sending us your project before the regular deadline period begins.