On-demand Friday Harbor Film Festival awards announced

||| FROM ELLEN ROBERTS & KAREN PALMER for FRIDAY HARBOR FILM FESTIVAL ||| 

The On-Demand Friday Harbor Film Festival Audience Choice Awards are presented to those films that viewers chose through their votes after viewing the documentaries at www.FHFF.org between October 30 and November 5. Nearly all features from the In-Theatre Festival, plus additional On-Demand Only features, all short films, and all Young Filmmakers Showcase films were eligible for these awards.

Congratulations to the On-Demand Audience Choice Award winners for 2023:

• Best Overall Feature – Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On, Madison Thomas, Director
• Best Feature 1st Runner-Up – A Cedar Is Life, Leslie D. Bland & Harold C. Joe, Directors
• Best Feature 2nd Runner-Up – You Just Can’t See Them from the Road, Keely Brazil Covello & Michaela Brazil Gillies, Directors
• Best Short Film – Call of the Orcas, Jessica Plumb, Director
• Best Short 1st Runner-Up — Kabwe Ka Mukuba, Audrey Colgin & Joshua Kalenga, Directors
• Best Short 2nd Runner-Up – PUPS, Amy Herdy, Director
• Winner, Young Filmmakers Competition, Ages 13 – 17 – Unveiling the City, Nueva Social Impact Filmmaking Club with Oliver Cho, Director
• 1 t Runner-Up, Young Filmmakers Competition, Ages 13 – 17 – Coral Reef Restoration, Daniel Miller, Director
• 2nd Runner-Up, Young Filmmakers Competition, Ages 13 – 17 – Save Our Soil, Ayush Talukder, Director
• Winner, Young Filmmakers Competition, Ages 18 – 26 – Not a Hero, Fernando Betancourt, Director
• Winner, Young Filmmakers Competition, Ages 18 – 26 – The Elements of Indonesia, Rebecca Still, Director
• 1st Runner-Up, Young Filmmakers Competition, Ages 18 – 26 – Believe in Wonder, Caleb Jacobson, Director
• 2 nd Runner-Up, Young Filmmakers Competition, Ages 18 – 26 – Discussions of a Particular Pallet, Leah Rose Shannon, Director

FHFF appreciates all the filmmakers who submitted their work and all the film-lovers who viewed the On-Demand documentaries and voted for their favorites. We look forward to offering a “Best of the Fest” film free each month from January through September 2024 in Friday Harbor. Details will be announced at www.FHFF.org.