2008 edition winners The 2008 awards ceremony will be held Sunday, June 8, 2008. The Award ceremony is open to the public and free. Winner list will be will be available Monday June 9th

Through the resources of industry-related sponsors, the Brooklyn International Film Festival awarded the 2007 winners with a total of $80,000 in prizes and film services. PRIZES SPONSORED BY: A TO Z MEDIA, ABEL CINETECH, AVID TECHNOLOGIES, CINECALL SOUNDTRACKS, FILM FRIENDS, KITS & EXPENDABLES, LOWEL LIGHT, MEDIA SERVICES, MIK CRIBBEN STEADY-CAM, NICE SPOTS, PANAVISION NY, SOLAR FILM AND VIDEO, XENO LIGHTS GRAND CHAMELEON AWARD This Award is intended to reward the best film of the year Eligibility: All the films in the competition are eligible for this award regardless of their length, category, or format Jury: This award is assigned by the Board of Directors of the Festival and chosen among the winners of the Chameleon Statuette DIANE SELIGMAN AWARD With this annual $5,000 cash award, both the Festival and the grant maker, Lowel Light, intend to reward, support, and encourage the next generation of inspired documentary filmmakers. In memory of Diane Seligman, a beautiful person who celebrated life in the way she lived. And for all those who knew Diane and in whom she lives, The DIANE SELIGMAN AWARD is presented to the "Best Documentary". BEST IN CATEGORY AWARD Assigned to the best film in each category Chameleon Statuette by Don Everhart II Eligibility: Feature, Documentary, Short, Animation, and Experimental films in competition Jury: Chameleon Statuettes are assigned by the panels of Judges BEST NEW DIRECTOR SPIRIT AWARD films in which the festival recognizes its own spirit Spirit Awards are assigned in each category Eligibility: All films in competition are eligible Jury: Spirit Awards are assigned by the Board of Directors of the Festival. CERTIFICATE OF EXELLENCE Certificates are assigned for outstanding achievement in the following categories: Direction, Screenwriting, Cinematography, Editing, Original Score, Acting (female), Acting (male). Eligibility: All films in competition are eligible Jury: Certificate Awards are assigned by the panels of Judges AUDIENCE AWARD Audience Awards are assigned in each category as follows: Feature, Documentary, Short Subject, Animation and Experimental. judges 2007 edition ANASTAS MICHOS - DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY BETH WARSHAFSKY - PROFESSOR OF ANIMATION, PRATT INSTITUTE BRUNO DERLIN - INDIEVISION, EDITOR IN CHIEF CHRISTIAN CALABRO - ART DIRECTOR DAVID CHACHERE - PUBLISHER, INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO MONITOR DEJAN GEORGEVICH - DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY DUCCIO FABBRI - FILMMAKER GLENNA ROSS - SCRIPT SUPERVISOR GUY MORGAN - CINEMATOGRAPHER HILARY THAYER HAMANN - WRITER, VERNACULAR PRESS INDRANI SEN - WRITER JOHN WOODS - WRITER KARL BARDOSH - PROFESSOR, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MARTA MONDELLI - ACTRESS & JOURNALIST NAIEF YEHYA - FILM CRITIC, EL FINANCIERO NATASHA LARDERA - BEAUTIFUL PUBLISHING PETER HALL - WRITER & FILMMAKER TRILBY SCRIBER - PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER ANIMATION, SVA