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D.L. Mabery Independent Film/Video Award
The D.L. Mabery award is given annually to the best Minnesota independent short and feature film of the year. Dubbed the "Minnesota Oscar," the D. L. Mabery Award is named for a longtime friend of the arts and journalist who devoted his energies to covering the Minnesota arts scene at Skyway News and many other local and national publications.
Eligible projects include any Minnesota project that had its first public screening in the prior calendar year.
Ballots for nominations are sent to the Minnesota production community in mid-January. The five features and five shorts with the most votes become finalists. The finalists' projects are then viewed by a panel of judges who select the winners.
Winners are announced Oscar night at HOLLYWOOD, the Twin Cities annual Academy Awards® benefit held by the Minnesota AIDS Project. Winners receive a special public screening during the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival.
Past judges have included film critics from Pulse, Skyway News, Pioneer Press and the Star Tribune.
For more information contact Ben Nelson at [email protected], or call him at 612.332.6493.
Read the latest press release or see pictures from the 2002 Awards dinner.
Finalist History
2001
Winners were announced at the Hollywood 2002 benefit at the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis on Sunday, March 24th, 2002
Features
The Atlas Moth, Rolf Belgum* (tie)
Bill's Gun Shop, Dean Hyers* (tie)
I Hate Babysitting!,Tara Spartz
Jerome's Razor, John Swon
Mulligan, Tim Vandesteeg
Shorts
Normal, Chris Orr
An Idiot's Guide to Running for President, Jim Taylor* (tie)
Bike Ride, Tom Schroeder
Camcorder, David Gillette
Eugene McCarthy: I'm Sorry I Was Right, Mike Hazard* (tie)
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2000
Winners were announced at the Hollywood 2001 benefit at the State Theater in Minneapolis on Sunday, March 25th.
Features
Herman U.S.A., Bill Semans
Peter, John Swon
Poles Apart, Greg Stiever*
Puentes De Almas (Bridge Of Souls), Anne Mcquinn
Uprising: Revolution from the Roots, Kevin Zinneal
Shorts
A Young Man's Guide to Dating, Darren Roark
Grandfather's Birthday, Gayle Knutson
Moment One, Benno Nelson
Spaceboy, Scott Bowman
The Quiet Storm, Scott Sterling*
Wired, Darin Heinis |
1999
Shorts
Chromium Hook, Ace Allgood*
Access, Matt Ehling
Hot Bird: Then & Now, Kathleen Laughlin
And Then There Was Family, Marti Lufkin
Through Our Eyes, Veneta Sheperd Lykken
Features
Eileen Is A Spy, Sayer Frey*
Go To Hell, Michael Heagle
Los Enchiladas, Mitch Hedberg
Madison on Tour, Riley Tillman
Death of the Dream, John Whitehead |
1998
For the first time, Shorts and Features were presented in two distinct categories.
Shorts
Astral Sonmambulist, Tim Kinzy
The Honeymoon, Kella Prill*
Shortwave, Wyatt McDill
Features
With or Without You, Wendell Andersson*
Cut Glass, Michelle Lepsche
Snow, Eric Tretbar
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1997
White Wash, Amy Ostergaard
26 Summer Street, Peter Syvertsen and Steve Larson
The Interview, Eric Howell
Not a Nickel's Worth of Doubt, Terri Myers*
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1996
For the 1996 Awards, the Award was open only to film and video projects, not organizations or people.
Emperor of the Air, Ali Selim*
The Last Goodbye, Mary Ahmann
Women on Fire, Kathleen Laughlin
Portraits from the Cloth, Roger Schmitz
Looks into the Night, Lorraine Norgarrd
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1995
The First Annual D.L. Mabery Award was designed to honor a Minnesota film/video artist, writer, arts reporter, critic, funder, film programmer or any person or organization who made a significant contribution to creating or supporting innovative new work on film or video during calendar year 1995.
Independent Feature Project/North*
Cynthia Gehring, President, Jerome Foundation
Andrew Peterson, producer, World and Time Enough
Neil Sieling, producer, Alive-TV
World & Time Enough, written and directed by Eric Mueller
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* Denotes Winners.
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D.L. Mabery
D.L. Mabery (1953-1994) was an author and journalist who devoted his energies to covering the Minnesota arts scene for more than 10 years at Skyway News and many other local and national publications including the Boston Globe, Billboard magazine, WET magazine and the Des Moines Register. John Killacky, Curator of Performing Arts (1988-96) for the Walker Art Center, says "D.L. was one of those expansive thinkers who got us to think of things in a new way. The art world has lost a friendÂ…a power."
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