Iris Film and Video Festival Yearly Results
2011
Brian Friedman Award: Verity
Directed by: Sam Rauch.
Crew members: Javier Ramirez, Elyse Holloway and Luke Fisher
Honorary Audience Award: Sati
Directed by: Anton Goddard
Best Editing: Sparks
Directed by: Gesumino Aho-Rulli
Edited by: Ed Wu
(Editing Honorable Mention: The Crystal Prophetess
Directed by Mike Panfil)
Best Screenwriting: JFK's Cat
Directed by: Chelsey McKrill
Written by: Luke Fisher
(Screenwriting Honorable Mention: World's Wildest Police Interrogations
Directed by: Julian Shine)
Best Cinematography: Sati
Directed by: Anton Goddard
(Cinematography Honorable Mention: A Triptych: Lollipops, Tea Party and an Identity Crisis
Directed by: Austin Timme)
The John Waters Special Jury Prize: To Austin Timme for filming himself with rats eating Fruit Loops out of his mouth.
2010
Brian Friedman Award: It Happens Every Night
Directed by: Curtis Byrnside Miller and Sahar Pastel-Daneshgar
Honorary Audience Award: Lewd Dewd
Directed by Max Watters, Drew Daudelin and Tricia McNutt
Best Editing: Tangomente
Directed by: Matt Rice
Editing Honorable Mention: MSS directed by Cody Baldwin
Best Screenwriting: An Alphabetical Dictionary Conversation with Chet Toddsworth
Directed by: Charlie Myers
Screenwriting Honorable Mention: Giggles directed by Gesi Aho-Rulli and Ed Wu
Best Cinematography: The Drink
Directed by: Luke Fisher
Cinematography Honorable Mention: Rêves Lucides directed by Matt Starr
2009
Brian Friedman Award: The Other Truth
Directed by: Johnny Coughlin
Honorary Audience Award: Duck Heart Teslacoil
Directed by: Tyler Kupferer
Best Overall Jury Prize: Duck Heart Teslacoil
Directed by: Tyler Kupferer
Best Screenwriting: A Dream Departed
Directed by: Luke Fisher and Joey Mattucci
Best Cinematography: Perpendicular Crosstalk
Directed by: Jeremy Davis
2008
Best Fiction Film: A No Fairy Fairytale – The Cinderella Nightmare
Directed by: Annika Pampel
Best Non-Fiction Film: Prizzy Prizzy Please "Flea Bomb"
Directed by: Cory Hensley
Best Animation Film: Ara
Directed by: Tyler J. Kupferer
Brian Friedman Award: And So It Goes…
Directed by: James Lindsey
Honorary Audience Award: Ventilation
Directed by: Kevin Weaver
2007
Best Fiction Film: Bon Con 07
Directed by: Sagan Stier, Cody Baldwin, Alex DiBlasi, Lindsay Rafayko
Best Non-Fiction Film: Moustache
Directed by: Phil McLaughlin
Best Animation Film: Biological Warfare Ain't Easy
Directed by: Tyler J. Kupferer
Brian Friedman Award: Yume Monogatari (An Account of an Empty Dream)
Directed by: Andrea Rettig
Honorary Audience Award: Jack!
Directed by: Matt Rice