2009 Fresno Film Festival

Best feature-length film: Waltz with Bashir
Best live-action short: Land Gewennin
Best animation or experimental short: Night with Nixon
Best documentary short: The Women’s Kingdom

7 p.m. • SKILLS LIKE THIS (with short film OLD DOGS)

9:30 p.m. • OPENING NIGHT PARTY

Immediately following Skills Like This, join Filmworks for the Opening Night Party, welcoming visiting filmmakers and the public to the festival. The party, catered by The Painted Table Catering Company, will include hors d’oeuvres and champagne. Award-winning local jazz composer and saxophonist Benjamin Boone will provide entertainment, with violinist/mandolinist Eva Scow and friends.

11 a.m. • THE GENERAL (with short film DUKE BAA)

1:30 p.m. • THE GARDEN (with short film COLORADO EXPERIENCE)

4:30 p.m. • SHORTS PROGRAM 1 (with special filmmaker appearances)

Fresno Film Festival short film category

MISSING THE BOAT
Pieter De Graeve, Australia and Belgium, 14 min.

VERNAYA (FAITHFUL)
Nastia Tarasova, Russia, 27 min.

ONE MINUTE MORE [excerpts]
Guy Livingston, USA, 15 min.

STORSTAD (BIG CITY)
Rafael Deugenio, Sweden, 12 min.

WIG
Todd Holland, USA (LA and Fresno), 21 min.

8 p.m. • THE CLASS

11:30 a.m. • MERMAID (with short film PINK BAG)

2 p.m. • WALTZ WITH BASHIR (with excerpts from ONE MINUTE MORE)