2024 Awards: Port Townsend Film Festival

JURY AWARDS ANNOUNCED

We had a wonderful time celebrating this year’s Jury Award winners at the Awards Party on September 21, 2024 at Vintage. We are pleased to share the winners in each category:

• Best Short Documentary
  A Home on Every Floor
  Signe Rosenlund-Hauglid

• Best Short Narrative
  Tennis, Oranges
  Sean Pecknold

• Jim Ewing Award (for first-time director of a feature film)
  Porcelain War
  Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev

• Best Feature Documentary
  Porcelain War
  Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev

• Best Feature Narrative
  Stakes is High
  Jean-Pierre Caner

• Spirit of PTFF
  Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith

• Visionary Leadership Award
  Louie Schwartzberg

• Visionary Leadership Award
  Catherine Hardwicke

The categories of Best Feature Documentary and Best Feature Narrative each receive cash prizes of $2,500. The winner of the Jim Ewing Award receives a $1,000 cash prize.

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Jury Commendations

In addition to our primary awards, our Jury gave several commendations:

• Jury Commendation for Editing - Feature Documentary
  Christoffer Heie and Kristian Tveit
  A New Kind of Wilderness

• Jury Commendation for Cinematography - Feature Documentary
  Ben Sturgulewski
  Champions of the Golden Valley

• Jury Commendation for Outstanding Performance - Feature Narrative
  Rahad Coulter-Stevenson
  Stakes is High

• Jury Commendation for Screenwriting - Feature Narrative
  H Nelson Tracey
  Breakup Season

• Jury Commendation for Social Impact - Short Documentary
  Emily Clark
  Is Gay Marriage Next?

• Jury Commendation for Washington State-specific documentary - Short Documentary
  Jennifer Moslemi and Marita Davison
  Líť'sit yiká· xá·bil-ts: Quillayute River Restoration

• Jury Commendation for Best Live Action Short - Short Narrative
  Kersti Bryan
  Stalled In Eight Etudes

THANK YOU TO THE 2024 JURY

Let’s take a moment to thank the jury members who reviewed hours of films as part of their process determining our 2024 award winners.

Feature Documentary

• Maggie Contreras

• Ross Kauffman

• Brad Forder

Feature Narrative

• SJ Chiro

• Kiwi Smith

• Ariel Estrada

Short Documentary

• Jeremy Seiffert

• Lisa Klein

• David Byars

Short Narrative

• Leon Chambers 

• Greg Sorvig

• Allison Otto

Jim Ewing Award (for first feature)

• Barbara Ewing

• Jennifer Ewing

Once again — Congratulations to all the filmmakers!