2006 Lakedance International Film Festival (Formerly IPIFF)
2006 Recap
August 23rd through the 27th of 2006 were the days of the first ever international film festival in North Idaho, the Idaho Panhandle International Film Festival. Sandpoint Idaho's historic 550-Seat Panida Theater was the venue for all films during this monumental event, and several other Sandpoint locations were host to panel discussions.
IPIFF 2006 Featured fifty-five films from nine countries, selected from roughly 150 submissions from seventeen countries. IPIFF 2006 also focused attention to ten films from the Northwest United States. One featured short film, BINTA Y LA GRAN IDEA, has gone on to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. IPIFF also World Premiered Slamdance accepted DIE BESUCHER, and THE GIVING among many others that have been accepted to film festivals around the globe.
Twelve filmmakers were on hand to support their films and take part in the event, many answering Question & Answer sessions on stage following their screenings and participating in panel discussions located around Sandpoint.
Articles about IPIFF 2006 appeared in The Inlander, Bonner County Bee, Spokesman-Review, River Mountain Journal, Boise Weekly, The Reader, Sandpoint Magazine, and North Idaho Lifestyle magazine, and IPIFF was featured on 106.7 The Point and 95.3 KPND radio stations during the month of August.
Sandpoint Harbor: Filmmakers Enjoyed the Lake in 2006
Ken Reed and Don Hayes: Presenting their film onstage.
SandpointFilms: Sandpoint Films Worked Hard
IPIFF Lets Eagles Soar
Thirty hours of films at the Idaho Panhandle International Film Festival August 24-26th culminated in a one-hour presentation of nineteen awards onstage at the historic Panida Theater, site of the entire festival. DJ Robin from 106.7 The Point emceed the event, which featured several filmmakers present to receive their awards onstage and make an acceptance speech. Among those present was Jenny Meyer, subject of Jeff Bock documentary “Jenny’s Journal” about Jenny’s struggle with cancer, and Marianne Love, both of whom broke away from Jeff’s wedding long enough to attend. And what a weekend for Jeff indeed, as Jenny said “he got a bride… and an award!”.
Jeff won the IPIFF Eagle for Best Northwest Filmmaker, and when Jenny stood to accept his award, the crowd cheered her in support.
IPIFF innovatively also gave their sponsors a chance for extra exposure to present their award onstage, including CEO Tom Chasse of Schweitzer Mountain, Owner Fred Colby from Laughing Dog Brewing, and FC Weskil’s owner Yolanda Wilike.
Here are the award winners and those nominated:
Soaring Eagle Award
Best Narrative Feature
Winner: The Garage (Carl Thibault)
Nominated:
The Garage
The Trouble With Dee Dee
Approaching Union Square
Soaring Eagle Award
The Idaho Club
Best Narrative Short
Winner: Die Besucher (The Visitors)
Nominated:
Binta’s Gran Idea
Die Besucher (The Visitors)
Looking For My Brother
The Extra
Soaring Eagle Award
Pend d’Oreille Winery
Best Documentary
Winner: Art Seymour, Solo Performance
Nominated:
Art Seymour - Solo Performance,
Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana
Ride of the Mergansers
Schweitzer Mountain
Best Director
Winner: The Trouble with Dee Dee (Michael Meiners)
Nominated:
Looking For My Brother (Nathaniel McCullagh)
Five Moments of Infidelity (Kate Gorman)
The Trouble with Dee Dee (Michael Meiners)
Laser Image, Inc.
Best Cinematography
Winner: Art Seymour, Solo Performance
Nominated:
Binta’s Gran Idea,
Five Moments of Infidelity
Art Seymour, Solo Performance
Litehouse Foods
Best Male Performance
Winner: Kurtwood Smith, The Trouble With Dee Dee
Nominated:
An Open Door (Charlie Capen)
The Extra (Ryan Stiles)
Bachelorman (David DeLuise)
The Trouble with Dee Dee (Kurtwood Smith)
Ammara Spa
Best Female Performance
Winner: Die Besucher (The Visitors) (Johanna Geissler)
Nominated:
Die Besucher (The Visitors) (Johanna Geissler)
The Trouble with Dee Dee (Lisa Ann Walter)
Five Moments of Infidelity (Annie Jones)
Something True (Lena Reno)
Laughing Dog Brewing
Best Comedy
Permission
FC Weskil’s
Best Drama
An Open Door
Horizon Credit Union
Best Ensemble Cast
Approaching Union Square
Motel 6 Ponderay
Best Editing
Art Seymour, Solo Performance
InBody Studio
Best Sound
The Bachelorman
95.3 KPND
Best Music
Binta’s Gran Idea
Neiman’s Floral and Music
Best Mise-en-Scene
Fizzy Days
Mountain Sky, Unlimited
Best Screenplay
The Garage
Sandpoint Magazine/SandpointOnline.com
Best Northwest Filmmaker
Jenny’s Journal
Café Trinity
Best Costuming
A Day of Reckoning
Sandpoint Realty
Best Animated Film
Soap Opera
Six Star Automotive
Most Promising Filmmaker
Mark Mann, Making a Living
The Idaho Panhandle International Film Festival took place at the Panida Theater in downtown Sandpoint on August 23-26th. IPIFF Featured introductions from the filmmakers themselves alongside 55 films from 8 countries.
