We are pleased to announce Guy Maddin as the guest of honor for the upcoming Fargo Film Festival.

One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary cinema, Guy Maddin is a Winnipeg-based filmmaker with ten features to his credit, including cult-classics Tales from the Gimli Hospital and Archangel, which won the U.S. National Film Critics Award for best experimental film of the year, an honor Maddin would repeat with his brilliant short The Heart of the World.

Since then Maddin has been honored with numerous awards including the Telluride Silver Medal for life achievement in 1995, an Emmy for his ballet movie Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary, and the San Francisco International Film Festival’s prestigious Persistence of Vision Award in 2006.

Mr. Maddin’s other celebrated films include Cowards Bend the Knee, The Saddest Music in the World, Brand upon the Brain!, and My Winnipeg, winner of the Toronto International Film Festival City TV Prize for Best Canadian Feature. His latest project, Keyhole, will be released in 2011.

Maddin is also a writer and teacher, and occupies the position of Distinguished Filmmaker in Residence at the University of Manitoba.

On Friday, March 4 at 7pm, Mr. Maddin will appear in person following the screening of some of his work for an on-stage conversation with Wexner Center for the Arts Director of Film/Video David Filipi.

Contact the Fargo Theatre box office for ticket information.

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of animation for 2011. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST ANIMATION:

* The Silence Beneath the Bark (Joanna Lurie)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* The Gruffalo (Max Lang & Jakob Schuh)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* The Lost Thing (Andrew Ruhemann & Shaun Tan)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

* Anaelle (Stefan Gruber)

* Deux petits bateaux (Kate Raney)

* Dot (Ed Patterson & Will Studd)

* The Forbidden Forest (Keith Rondinelli)

* Giant Episode 1: Army (Céline Desrumaux & Yann Benedi)

* Giant Episode 2: Sun (Céline Desrumaux & Yann Benedi)

* Horse Glue (Stephen Irwin)

* La chaussettologie (Céline Desrumaux & Yann Benedi)

* Leonardo (Jim Capobianco)

* A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation (Martin Wallner & Stefan Leuchtenberg)

* Make, Believe (Brent Young)

* Missed Aches (Joanna Priestley)

* The Mouse That Soared (Kyle T. Bell)

* Paper Dreams (Kenneth Onulak)

* Petting Zoo I (Stefan Gruber)

* Petting Zoo II (Stefan Gruber)

* Photograph of Jesus (Laurie Hill)

* The Renter (Jason Carpenter)

* Sensology (Michel Gagné)

* Angry Man (Anita Killi)

* Something Left, Something Taken (Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata)

* Thought of You (Ryan Woodward)

* Urs (Moritz Mayerhofer)

* Wisdom Teeth (Don Hertzfeldt)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of documentary features for 2011. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:

* Reel Injun (Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge & Jeremiah Hayes)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* Made in India (Rebecca Haimowitz & Vaishali Sinha)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

* The Believers (Todd Holland)

* Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (Lev Anderson & Chris Metzler)

* Roll Out, Cowboy (Elizabeth Lawrence)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of documentary shorts for 2011. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT:

* Found (Paramita Nath)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* Mothersbane (Jason Jakaitis)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

* Ocean Monk (Sanjay Rawal)

* Spiral Transition (Ewan Duarte)

* Tami Tushie’s Toys (Melody Gilbert)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of experimental films for 2011. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST EXPERIMENTAL:

* Engergie! (Thorsten Fleisch)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* 131 Russ (Silvia Turchin)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

* A Movie by Jen Proctor (Jen Proctor)

* Please Report Any Suspicious Activity (Erin Persley)

* Wound Footage (Thorsten Fleisch)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of films in the Indigenous Voices category for 2011. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST INDIGENOUS VOICES:

* Lost Sparrow (Chris Billing)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* Cry Rock (Banchi Hanuse)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* How People Got Fire (Daniel Janke)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

* The Only Good Indian (Kevin Willmott)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of narrative features for 2011. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE:

* I Shall Remember (Vitaly Vorobjev)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* Absentia (Mike Flanagan)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* Cup Cake (Colin McIvor)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

* Earthwork (Chris Ordal)

* I Heart Regina (14 Canadian filmmakers)

* The Lutefisk Wars (David E. Hall & Christopher Panneck)

* The Scenesters (Todd Berger)

* Sparrow (Yuri Shiller)

* urFRENZ (Jeff Phillips)

* A Yakuza’s Daughter Never Cries (Sergey Bodrov & Guka Omarova)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of narrative shorts for 2011. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST NARRATIVE SHORT:

* The Butterfly Circus (Joshua Weigel)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* The 3rd Letter (Grzegorz Jonkajtys)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

* An Affair with Dolls (Hans Montelius)

* Dish (Brian Harris Krinsky)

* Not Interested (D.W. Young)

* Over Cards (Marwan Abderrazzaq)

* Something Fishy (Ben Young)

* So Soon Forgotten (Zach Bernbaum)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of student films for 2011. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

WINNER BEST STUDENT FILM:

* UnderCover (Iman Zawahry)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* A Lutefisk Western (Eric Carlson)

HONORABLE MENTION:

* The Underground (Tony Grosz)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

* Beautiful. Thank You. (Kate Enge)

* Between a Bridgerock (Josh Wallace)

* Boundary Waters (Lee Houghtaling)

* Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (Talia Alberts)

* Chief Serenbe (Evan Curtis)

* Dragon’s Breath (Ben Pimlott)

* Keycards (Russell Yaffee)

* Style & Grace (Linda Friend)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of invited films for 2011.

INVITED FILMS:

* The Cleaning Lady (Tom Brandau)

* George Ryga’s Hungry Hills (Rob King)

* Lines of Communication (Greg Carlson)

* Northern Pains: The Story of the Fargo-Moorhead Derby Girls (Raymond Rea)

* The Years (Kristen Conaty)