Fargo Film Festival

FRAMING THE OTHER directed by Willem Timmers and Ilja Kok

The Fargo Film Festival unveiled its official program of documentary shorts for the 2014 festival. FRAMING THE OTHER directed by Willem Timmers and Ilja Kok is announced as the winner of Best Documentary Short.  FRAMING THE OTHER is a short documentary about tourism and its complex relationships with indigenous communities.  It reveals the intriguing thoughts of a Mursi woman from Southern Ethiopia and that of a Dutch tourist as they prepare themselves for meeting each other.  This ultimately results in an awkward encounter. Duk County directed byJordan Campbell received an Honorable Mention.

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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

Call Me Ehsaan (Micah Garen)

Cardboard Titanias (Sam Frazier, Jr.)

A Good Wife (Linda Brieda)

Haenyeo: Women of the Sea (Kevin Sawicki)

Herd in Iceland (Lindsay Blatt)

I Never Said I Wasn’t Happy (Sara Peak Convery)

Life Changing Moments (Sherry Thomas)

The No Name Painting Association (Joe Griffin)

The Pier (Chris Abernathy)

Sweet Crude Man Camp (Isaac Gale)

There She Is (Emily Sheskin)

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The Fargo Film Festival named David Filipi as the recipient of the Ted M. Larson Award. Filipi will accept the award on Saturday, March 5 during the closing session of the Fargo Film Festival. The 2011 Fargo Film Festival also announced the best-in-show awards.

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The Fargo Film Festival announced its 2011 program schedule complete with screening times and locations.  The festival opens on Tuesday, March 1 with “The Lutefisk Wars,” a regionally produced feature film, shot in a faux documentary style, which follows the comic misadventures of a neighborly Norwegian, a heated rivalry and a mysterious recipe.

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