Crulic - The Path To Beyond and The Jeffrey Dahmer Files take top jury honors at 2012 Milwaukee Film Festival
Andrew Swant (left) and Chris Thompson of The Jeffrey Dahmer Files
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With only four days remaining in the 2012 Milwaukee Film Festival, organizers have announced this year’s Jury Award winners. Two awards were handed out, one for Competition films and one for the Cream City Cinema program. Animated documentary Crulic - The Path To Beyond took home the Competition award, while Chris Thompson’s The Jeffrey Dahmer Files—which features another Milwaukee filmmaker, Andrew Swant, as Dahmer—nabbed the Cream City Cinema award. The Cream City Cinema award also comes with a Filmmaker-In-Residence award, a year-long residency that includes a $20,000 prize package and a $2,500 cash award.
The full list of Jury Award winners is below:
Competition Winner
Crulic - The Path to Beyond (dir. Anca Damian)
Competition: Honorable Mention
5 Broken Cameras (dirs. Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi)
Competition: Best Acting
Saul Williams, Tey
Competition: Best Directing
Mohammad Rasoulof, Goodbye
Cream City Cinema: Filmmaker-in-Residence
Chris James Thompson, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files
Cream City Cinema: Special Jury Prize for Short Film
So I Could Fly Away (dir. Blyth Renate Meier)
Cream City Cinema: Special Jury Prize for Feature Film
As Goes Janesville (dir. Brad Lichtenstein)
The Allan (H.) Bud and Suzanne L. Selig Audience Awards for Feature and Short Films will be announced when the festival concludes Oct. 11.
