"Two Harbors" - The Final Tally

After two years, "Two Harbors" has finally wound up its festival run, somewhat reluctantly. I say reluctantly only because that was the primary way for audiences to see the film. Yes, it's available on DVD from a number of sites (new post regarding those sites soon), but it's not all that easy to stumble upon most of those sites and then decide, hey, I want to see that film "Two Harbors" even though I've never heard of it. It will help when it's available on Amazon, and there's a link from imdb.com. But until then....oh well.

So here it is, the final accounting, festivals and awards (I'll post photos of the actual awards when I get them uploaded. The coolest may have been the glass sculpture Alex got for winning Best Actor at the Winnipeg International Film Festival last year. Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo of it before I gave it to Alex, so maybe I'll have to see if I can get him to send me a photo. A close second was the award from Milwaukee - a large (heavy) old fashioned movie projector welded out of scrap auto parts. Very cool.)

Here's the list. 22 festivals. 9 awards. Roughly in chronological order:

2005 Fargo Film Festival

2005 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival (Best Feature, Emerging Filmmaker Competition - that was sort of nice)

2005 Free Range Film Festival (in a barn near Wrenshall MN - one of my favorites)

2005 Bay Street Film Festival - Thunder Bay, ON

2005 Austin Film Festival (Honorable Mention)

2005 Nolita Film Festival - New York (I don't think this festival exists any longer)

2005 Milwaukee International Film Festival (Best Feature, Midwest Filmmaker Competition)

2005 Beloit International Film Festival

2006 Beverly Hills Fine Arts Industry Showcase (twice)

2006 Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival (Silver Eddy Award)

2006 Sarasota Film Festival

2006 Victoria (Australia) Festival of Motion Image (Victoria Award for Best Feature) ("Two Harbors" was the only American film in the entire festival, so winning was sort of nice.)

2006 Mendocino Film Festival

2006 Eugene Film Festival (Best Feature)

2006 Winnipeg International Film Festival (Best Actor - Alex Cole)

2006 River's Edge Film Festival (KY)

2006 Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival

2006 Rural Route Film Festival (NY) (Honorable Mention)

2006 SoCal Film Festival (Honorable Mention)

2006 Connecticut Film Festival

2006 FAIF Film Festival (Hollywood - at Grauman's Chinese Theater!)

2006 Queens International Film Festival

And that's it. 2006 was a busy year for the film. I went to several of those festivals, and someday soon I'll write a little bit about each of them. (I posted my thoughts about some of them last year. Maybe I'll pull that into a new, complete summary of my festival activities.)