RUNNING FOR JIM

CenFlo, Central Florida Film Festival, held over the Labor Day Weekend in Ocoee, Florida, announced the winners of this year’s festival.  The British film, RETURN TO THE HIDING PLACE, co-directed by Josiah Spencer and Peter C. Spencer, won the award for Best Feature.  RETURN TO THE HIDING PLACE is a World War II movie about the Dutch resistance. When the Nazis begin killing Jews in Holland, a group of youth fight to save the lives of the innocent. RUNNING FOR JIM, co-directed by Dan Noyes and Robin Hauser Reynolds, which chronicles the story of Jim Tracy, the most decorated high school cross-country coach in California history, and his battle with fatal Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) – won the award for Best Documentary.The supernatural horror film, YOU WILL LOVE ME, directed by Stephen McKendree was voted Audience Choice. In YOU WILL LOVE ME, a teen girl, after visiting a supposedly haunted forest, comes to believe that a violent poltergeist followed her home and is stalking her.

Award Winners

Best Documentary – RUNNING FOR JIM

Best Foreign Project – SEX ON THE BEACH (United Kingdom)

Best Animation Project – EMBER

Best Comedy Short – AMERICA 101

Best Dramatic Short – IF I WERE A BELL

Paul Leder Award (Best Student Project) SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL (Miami Dade College)

Best Feature – RETURN TO THE HIDING PLACE

Best Florida Project – BLIND PASS

Audience Choice – YOU WILL LOVE ME