AUDIENCE AWARDS
Audience Award Winner for Best American Film: “5 to 7”
Audience Award Runner Up for Best American Film: “Sister”
Audience Award Winner for Best Foreign Film: “One Chance”
Audience Award Runner Up for Best Foreign Film: “The Hunt”
Audience Award Winner for Best Documentary Film: “Meet the Patels”
Audience Award Runner Up for Best Documentary Film: “The Case Against 8”
Audience Award Winner for Best Kids Film: “Thunder and the House of Magic”
Audience Award Winner for Best Narrative Short: “Pony Place”
Audience Award Winner for Best Documentary Short: “The Lion’s Mouth Opens”
Audience Award Winner for Best Kids Short: “Gnarly in Pink”
FOUNDERS AWARDS
Discovery Award: Grace Kaufman
Visionary Award: Ira Deutchman
Visionary Award: Rick Prelinger
Changemaker Award: Tom Morello
Michigan Filmmaker Award: Robert J. Flaherty
Mid-Lfe Achievement Award: Barbara Kopple
Founders Grand Prize for Best Film: “Rich Hill”
Founders Grand Prize for Best Film: “Meet the Patels”
Founders Prize for Best Drama: “Omar”
Founders Prize for Best Comedy: “The Volcano”
Founders Prize for Best Documentary: “Finding Vivian Maier”
Founders Prize, Special Award: “Life Itself”
Founders Prize, Special Award: “The Newburgh Sting”
Founders Prize, Special Award: “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz”
Founders Prize, Special Award: “Silenced”
Founders Prize, Special Award: “Rubber Soul”
Founders Prize, Special Award: “Don’t Leave Me”
Founders Prize for Best Narrative Short “Kakara”
Founders Prize for Best Documentary Short: “A Hole in the Sky”
Founders Prize for Special Mention Short Film: “I Think This is the Closest to How the Footage Looked ”
Stanley Kubrick Award for Bold and Innovative Filmmaking: “Stations of the Cross”
Roger Ebert Prize for Best Film by a First Time Filmmaker: “Fishing Without Nets”
Stuart Hollander Prize for Best Kids Film: “Rabbit and Deer”
Buzz Wilson Prize for Best Experimental/Avant Garde Film: “Eleven Forty Seven”
TCFF FIM GROUP BUMPER CONTEST WINNERS
First Place ($1,000!): “Homemade” – Colin Campbell
Second Place: “Paper Movies” – Claire Holloway
Third Place: “Marv & Marvin: Wash Your Hands” – John Plough
Honorable Mention: “Corny Anniversary” – Eve Hinz
Honorable Mention: “Whatever It Takes” – Layne Austin Simescu
TCFF DOWNTOWN WINDOW DECORATION CONTEST
First Place: Great Lakes Bath & Body
Second Place: Toy Harbor
Third Place: Ella’s
