Editor

The 33rd Portland International Film Festival announces the Oregonian Audience Award winners. This year's Festival wrapped up its 18 day run Sunday, February 28th after 195 total screenings at multiple theater locations in the downtown cultural district of Portland. This year's Festival was attended by over 30,000 attendees and included 77 features and 39 shorts from over 40 countries.

Audience winners include Best Narrative Feature THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (Sweden) and Best Documentary Feature THE TOPP TWINS: UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS (New Zealand). The winner of the Best New Director Award is Hernán A. Goldfrid with MUSIC ON HOLD (Argentina).

This year's Short Film Award goes to Portland filmmaker Kyle Bell with the film THE MOUSE THAT SOARED. 

This year's PIFF presenting sponsors include The Oregonian and Regal Cinemas Major sponsors include the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Wieden + Kennedy, LAIKA, Alaska Airlines, Blue Heron Paper, Stella Artois and Firesteed Winery.

PIFF 33 OREGONIAN AUDIENCE AWARDS

NARRATIVE FEATURES


1.  THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO / Sweden / Niels Arden Oplev BEST  NARRATIVE AWARD

2.  THE SICILIAN GIRL / Italy / Marco Amenta

3.  MUSIC ON HOLD / Argentina / Hernán A. Goldfrid *Tie* 

     JOHN RABE / Germany, South Korea / Florian Gallenberger 

4.  FOREVER ENTHRALLED / China / Chen Kaige              

5.  LETTERS TO FATHER JACOB / Finland / Klaus Harö

6.  NORA'S WILL / Mexico / Mariana Chenillo

7.  A TOWN CALLED PANIC / Belgium / Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar

8.  WELCOME / France / Phillipe Lioret

9.  THE REVERSE / Poland / Borys Lankosz

10. A PROPHET / France / Jacques Audiard

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

1.  THE TOPP TWINS: UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS / New Zealand / Leane Pooley BEST    

     DOCUMENTARY AWARD

2.  THE ART OF THE STEAL / US / Don Argott

3.  THE SHOCK DOCTRINE / Great Britain / Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross

4.  SONS OF CUBA / Great Britain / Andrew Long

5.  REPORTER/ US / Eric Daniel Metzger

SHORTS

1.  THE MOUSE THAT SOARED / US / Kyle Bell BEST SHORT AWARD

2.  THIS WAY UP / Great Britain / Adam Foulkes

3.  GRANNY O'GRIMM'S SLEEPING BEAUTY / Ireland / Nicky Phelan


The Festival is produced by the Northwest Film Center, a regional media arts resource and service organization founded to encourage the study, appreciation, and utilization of the moving image arts, foster their artistic and professional excellence, and to help create a climate in which they flourish. In addition to the Portland International Film Festival, the Center produces the annual Northwest Film & Video Festival, Portland Jewish Film Festival and a variety of year-round of film and video exhibition, educational and information programs serving Oregon and residents of the Northwest.