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The Fairhope Film Festival (www.fairhopefilmfest.com) has announced the 2008 Festival Award Recipients. The winners were selected by jury members from the University of South Alabama and the national filmmaking community. The 2008 awards were presented to the following films:

Grand Jury Award | "Racing Daylight" | Directed by Nicole Quinn

Best Feature Film | "Cold Play" | Directed by D. David Morin and Geno Andrews

Best Documentary Film | "In the Wake of the Assassins" | Directed by Robert Clem

Best Short Film | "The Gift Wrapper" | Directed by Daniela De Carlo

Audience Choice Award | "All Along" | Directed by Robert Masciantonio

Special Mention Best Cinematography | "A Thousand Hills" | Directed by Mary Allison Wilmarth

Honorable Mention Creative Romance | "Boyfriend Latte" | Directed by Mark Sanders

The Heart of Fairhope Award | "Jim and Jung" | Directed by Matt Paulson


Using the Fairhope Beach, the University of South Alabama Baldwin County Performance Theater, the Faulkner State Centennial Theater and the Fairhope French Quarter (for the Awards Social); this new film festival brought 13 filmmakers from around the country and Canada to Fairhope, sold 150 – 200 tickets for its Opening Night Premiere and averaged around 50-80 ticket holders per screening. This was festival was a great success and was truly a weekend to remember for Fairhope. “The Fairhope Film Festival has already begun the preliminary stages for next years festival and is sure to be labeled to be bigger and better”, Ryan Robinson (Festival Director).

About FFF
The Fairhope Film Festival (FFF) is striving to create a truly unique experience in the world of cinema. The FFF will bring a collection of films to the local community on the Gulf of Mexico. The FFF is also determined to become an ongoing, annual tradition showcasing talented filmmakers from around the world.
The FFF is committed to giving filmmakers the best experience possible: extensive promotion of their films which are screened several times in theatres packed with attentive audiences, while enjoying the hospitality of the staff and volunteers in a storybook type charm destination which Coastal Living Magazine described as one of their top 10 most Romantic Destinations.

This festival was held on Thursday, April 3, 2008 – Saturday, April 5, 2008.