2003 Festival Highlights

Milagro Award Winners

Best of the Fest
Since Otar Left
Julie Bertuccelli, France/Belgium, 102 min.

Best Short
Simone's Labyrinth
Ivan Sainz Pardo-Lange, Germany, 15 min.

Best Short Honorable Mention
Blackwater Elegy
Matthew Porter and Joe O'Brien, USA, 19 min.

Best Documentary
Lustron: The House America's Been Waiting For
Ed Moore, Bill Kubota and Bill Ferehawk, USA, 58 min.

Best Independent Spirit
Tie:
Break a Leg
Monika Mitchell, USA, 97 min.

Virgin
Deborah Kampmeier, USA, 108 min.

Best Creative Spirit
Jon E. Edwards Is In Love
Chris Bradley and Kyle La Branche, USA, 85 min.

Best Animation
Fast Film
Virgil Widrich, Austria, 11 min.

Best Latino
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Kim Bartley & Donnacha O'Briain, Ireland/Venezuela, 74 min.

Best Native
Spirit of the Game
Annie Frazier Henry, Canada, 47 min.

Best Southwest
Jesus Freak
Morgan Nichols, USA, 96 min.

Audience Choice
Indigo
Stephen Simon, USA

Festival Highlights

Program Highlights
The Agronomist (USA) Jonathan Demme
Bang Rajan (Thailand) Tanit Jitnukul
Barbarian Invasions (Canada) Denys Arcand
The Company (USA) Robert Altman
Crimson Gold (Iran) Jafar Panahi
Dirty Pretty Things (United Kingdom) Stephen Frears
Distant (Uzak) (Turkey) Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Divan (Hungary/Ukraine/USA) Pearl Gluck
Girl With A Pearl Earring (United Kingdom/Luxembourg)
Peter Weber
The Hi-Lo Country (USA) Stephen Frears
House of Sand and Fog (USA) Vadim Perelman
I'm Not Scared (Italy/Spain/United Kingdom) Gabriele Salvatores
In America (Ireland/UK) Jim Sheridan
A Japanese Story (Australia) Sue Brooks
Joe (USA) John Avildsen
Luminal (Italy) Andrea Vecchiato
Modern Times (USA) Charlie Chaplin
Monsieur Ibrahim (France) Francois Dupeyron
Particles of Truth (USA) Jennifer Elster
Postmen of the Mountains (China) Huo Jianqi
The Station Agent (USA) Tom McCarthy
A Talking Picture (Portugal/France/Italy) Manoel de Olveira
This So-Called Disaster (USA) Michael Almereyda
Les Triplettes de Belleville (Belgium/France) Sylvain Chomet
21 Grams (USA) Alejandro González
The Wild Bunch (USA) Sam Peckinpah
Yunnan Great Rivers Expedition (China/USA) James Norton

Luninaria Life-Time Achievement Award Tributes

Peter Boyle, Actor
Joe (1970)
X-Files: "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (1993)
Everybody Loves Raymond: "Grandpa Steals" (2003)

Max Evans, Writer, Actor
The Hi-Lo Country (1998)

Stephen Frears , Director
Dirty Pretty Things (2003)
The Hi-Lo Country (1998)

Special Guests

Walon Green, Screenwriter
The Hi-Lo Country (1998)

Lynn Stalmaster , Casting Director
He has casted The Great Escape, The Right Stuff, In the Heat of the Night, Being There, West Side Story, Deliverance, Harold & Maude, among others.

Special Performance
Michael Sakamoto, Performance Artist
Dr. Chi, Glorious Day for an Unknown Woman

Panel discussions
“So you want to be in the movies?”
Lynn Stalmaster, casting director
Jon Bowman, moderator, SFFF Executive Director

“HD: How Great is it, really?”
Sascha Rice, director, "Mango Kiss"
Stephen Simon, director, "Indigo"
Les Guthman, Executive VP for Outside TV
Andrea Vecchiato, director, "Luminal"
James Finn, Marketing Executive, Panavision/Dallas
Morgan Nichols, director, "Jesus Freak"
Peter McCarthy, moderator, College of Santa Fe faculty

“New Mexico Resources for Filmmakers”
Jonathan Wacks, Chair, Moving Image Arts Department, College of Santa Fe, and director, Garsons Studios
Frank Zuniga, Head of New Mexico Film Office
John Hendry, New Mexico Department of Tourism
Lisa Van Allen, City of Santa Fe liaison for filmmakers
Susan Gurule, New Mexico SAG rep / Denver
Senator Shannon Robinson, New Mexico State Senator
Robert Rivera, moderator, Film Industry Lobbyist and NMFAB member

“Beyond the Boundaries of Film”
Marshall Monroe, Governor's Task Force on Film
Roger Holzberg, Creative Director, The Walt Disney Company
Geoff Marslett, animator
Ed Angel, Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Media Arts, Director, Arts Technology Center
Brad Carvey, CGI artist, animator
Sarah Biondi, moderator, Marketing Manager New Mexico Film Office

"The "Don't Change That Channel" Panel
Katie Lanigren, Director of Publicity, Sundance Channel
Danny Bishop, Project Development for Regent Entertainment Dallas (Premier ICP/Regent Entertainment)
Ginny Cerrella, Independent Film producer, Tough Cookie Productions
Bobbi Valentine, Zia Film Distribution
Doug Heller, Zia Film Distribution
Kirk Ellis, moderator, screenwriter


Milagro Awards Ceremony credits:
Video clips edited by Tom Gates
Music composed by Patrick Dumont
Event Coordinator: Anna Schoel