The Buffalo International Film Festival announced the winners of the 2011 Audience Awards selected by a direct vote from the audiences screening the films between October 7-23, 2011.
5th Annual Buffalo International Film Festival
Audience Awards
Best of Festival
1st Place: Tie: Cape No. 7, Taiwan, 2010
Tie: The Whisperer in Darkness, United States, 2011
Honorable Mention: Cultures of Resistance, United States, 2010
Drama
1st Place: Shock Corridor, United States, 1963
2nd Place: Essential Killing, Poland, Norway, Ireland, Hungary, 2010
Honorable Mention: Janie Jones, United States, 2010
Documentary Film
1st Place: If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, United States, 2011
2nd Place: Cultures of Resistance, United States, 2010
Honorable Mention: Kumpania, United States, 2011
Foreign Language Films
1st Place: Cape No. 7, Taiwan, 2008
2nd Place: Orz Boyz, Taiwan, 2008
Honorable Mention: Gallants, Romantics Anonymous
Short Films
Documentary: A Tribute to Milton Rogovin, 3 short films
Fiction: Made In Buffalo: 15 Short Films from Buffalo and Western New York
Comedy
1st Place: Gallants, Hong Kong, 2010
2nd Place: Romantics Anonymous, France, 2010
Horror / Science Fiction
1st Place: The Whisperer in Darkness, United States, 2011
2nd Place: The House on Haunted Hill, United States, 1957
Honorable Mention: Black Eve, Canada, 2011
Animation
Flatland, United States, 2007
Special Event:
Meet the Pros: Filmmaking Workshop with David Heely & Joan Kramer
First Annual Samuel Fuller Guerilla Filmmaking Award
Atwill, United States, 2011, Charles Dennis