Superfest International Disability Film Festival

Guess whose book was made into a film that won an award?!  Yep!  Keep reading! 

Thank you to Day Al-Mohamed at Day in Washington for bringing this to our attention.  Congratulations to Sven Werner of Luxemberg for winning the Pamela K. Walker Award.  Our congratulations to ALL actually…

The following is taken from the Superfest 2007 Awards page:

SUPERFEST XXVII WINNERS 

Congratulations to this year’s award winners!
   
The following contains a list and descriptions of the
    award-winners for SUPERFEST XXVII (2007).
To browse through photos from the award-winning films, click here.

Superfest XXVII Award Winners’ List 
   

Best of Festival   

• The Epidemic [51 min.] Producer: Niels Frandsen, Denmark

Excellence Awards   

• No Bigger Than a Minute [52:30 min.] Producer: Steven Delano, U.S.
• Outsider: The Life and Art of Judith Scott[26 min.] Producer: Betsy Bayha, U.S. 

Achievement Awards
   

• Headstrong: Inside the Hidden World of Dyslexia and ADHD [26:41 min.]                         Producers: Chloe Sladden, Ben Foss, Steve Schecter, U.S.
• Stroke [58 min.] Producer: Katarina Peters, Germany
• The Rest of My Life: Stories of Trauma Survivors [25 min.]                                            Producer: Gabriel Ledger, M.D., U.S.   

Merit Awards   

• Carmela [30 min.] Producer: Guillermo Lopez Perez, Mexico
• Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life[92 min.] Producer: Roll With Me Productions, U.S.
• Mercury Stole My Fire [12:12 min.] Producer: Anitra Nelson, Australia
• Seeing Is Believing [13 min.] Producer: Tofik Shakhverdiev, Russia
• Symphony of Silence [22 min.] Producer: Yves J. Ma, Canada

Spirit Award

• No Bigger Than a Minute [50:15 min.] Producer: Steven Delano, U.S.
     

Pamela K. Walker Award   

• Planet of the Blind [20 min.] Producer: Sven Werner, Luxemburg

Emerging Artist Award   

• Let Us Spell It Out for You [2:36 min.]  Producer: Joseph Santini, US.