While we love every film in the festival, in the end only a few can take home one of the coveted Bacchus Awards…
Audience Choice Award: Best of Fest Feature
ALMA & THE WOLF dir. Michael Patrick Jann
Audience Choice Award: Best of Fest Short
SOGNO ROSSO dir. Coco Roy
Audience Choice Award: Best Debut Feature
FUCKTOYS dir. Annapurna Sriram
Best New England Film (David Kleiler Memorial Award)
NADIR: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT SURFING IN NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND IN THE SUMMER AND MOST OF THE OTHER TIMES AS WELL dir. Jack Galvin
Director’s Choice: Best Feature
THE UGLY STEPSISTER dir. Emilie Blichfeldt
Director’s Choice: Best Short
MAKE ME A PIZZA dir. Talia Shea Levin
We’d like to express our most sincere thanks and gratitude to this year’s awards sponsors: AVID, Blackmagic Design, Kodak, and the Massachusetts Production Coalition for their invaluable support; to festival supporters at the Brattle Theatre, BudgetDCP, Kush Groove Dispensary, Space Poppers, and Letterboxd; to all the BUFF and Brattle volunteers and staff; to all the participating filmmakers; and to our incredible audience, who came out over the past five days to celebrate cinema.
It’s an enormous labor of love to put this event together year after year and we do it with just a handful of cash, no corporate sponsorship, and very few hours of sleep; a feat of a 100%-volunteer team driven by passion for films and our film community.
It’s been an incredible 25 years. Thank you.