The 2017 Traverse City Film Festival (TCFF), founded by Michael Moore in 2005, wrapped after screening 115 feature films and 66 shorts in its 13th year. For the first time in TCFF history, Moore was unable to attend the festival due to a conflict with his Broadway show “The Terms of My Surrender,” which opened Friday, July 28.
Audience Awards went to “The Divine Order” for Best Fiction Film and “I Am Evidence” for Best Documentary. The Founders Grand Prize went to filmmaker Raoul Peck for his two TCFF selections, “I Am Not Your Negro” and “The Young Karl Marx.”
The 14th Annual Traverse City Film Festival will take place July 31 to August 5, 2018.
2017 TCFF AWARD WINNERS
AUDIENCE AWARDS
AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FICTION FILM
“The Divine Order” by Petra Volpe
Runner Up: “Truman” by Cesc Gay
AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
“I Am Evidence” by Trish Adlesic, Geeta Gandbhir
Runner Up: “Chasing Coral” by Jeff Orlowski
AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
“Viola, Franca” by Marta Savina
AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
“Knife Skills” by Thomas Lennon
AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST KIDS SHORT
“Hola Llamigo” by Charlie Parisi and Christina Chang
FOUNDERS AWARDS
FOUNDERS GRAND PRIZE
Raoul Peck for “I Am Not Your Negro” and “The Young Karl Marx”
FOUNDERS AWARD FOR BEST US FICTION FILM
“Mr. Roosevelt” by Noël Wells
FOUNDERS AWARD FOR BEST FOREIGN FICTION FILM
“The Divine Order” by Petra Volpe
FOUNDERS AWARD FOR BEST US DOCUMENTARY FILM
“500 Years” by Pamela Yates
FOUNDERS AWARD FOR BEST FOREIGN DOCUMENTARY FILM
“Cause of Death: Unknown” by Anniken Hoel
ROGER EBERT PRIZE FOR BEST FILM BY A FIRST TIME FILMMAKER
Pau Faus for “Ada for Mayor”
SPECIAL FOUNDERS PRIZE FOR CITIZEN JOURNALISM
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently in “City of Ghosts”
Nori Sharif in “Nowhere to Hide”
Curt Guyette in “Here’s to Flint”
Myron Dewey in “Awake, a Dream from Standing Rock”
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER SPECIAL FOUNDERS SCIENCE PRIZE
“AlphaGo” by Greg Kohs
SPECIAL FOUNDERS PRIZE
“Long Strange Trip” by Amir Bar-Lev
BUZZ WILSON PRIZE FOR BEST AVANT GARDE FILM
“Austerlitz” by Sergei Loznitsa
STUART J. HOLLANDER PRIZE FOR BEST FAMILY FILM
“Fanny’s Journey” by Lola Doillon
SHORT FILM AWARD WINNERS
BEST FICTION SHORT FILM
“Retouch” by Kaveh Mazaheri
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
“Ten Meter Tower” by Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson
LARS KELTO PRIZE FOR BEST COMEDY SHORT FILM
“Hot Winter: A Film by Dick Pierre” by Jack Henry Robbins
SPECIAL MENTION SHORT FILM
“Skull + Bone” by Victoria Rivera
SPECIAL MENTION SHORT FILM
“It’s Alright” by Nina Knag
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