It's a Wrap.
BIFF 2012 IS IN THE BOOKS
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Congratulations to all of the participants of the 2012 Beaufort International Film Festival. The attendance record was broken with 7000 people taking part in some part of the festival.
Powers Boothe: Jean Ribaut Excellence in Acting
Craig McKay: Jean Ribaut Excellence in Film Editing
Cal Johnson: Jean Ribaut Excellence in Stunt Coordination
Best Feature: Happy New Year, directed by K. Lorrel Manning, New York, NY
Best Documentary: Awaken the Dragon, directed by Liz Oakley, Charleston, SC
Best Short Film: Quirk of Fate, directed by Mark Riedl, Cologne, Germany
Best Student Film: Road to Jacob, directed by Matt Allen, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
Best Animated Film: Stitched and Sown, directed by Austin Taylor, Winston-Salem, NC
Best Screenplay: The Wedding Photographer, written by Teresa Bruce, Beaufort, SC
Best Actor: Jesus Guevara, Santiago, Los Angeles, CA
Best Director: Felix Martiz, Santiago, Southgate, CA
Audience Choice: Awaken the Dragon, Charleston, SC
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Powers Boothe
Receives Jean Ribaut Award at Beaufort International Film Festival
Powers Boothe, the multitalented, award winning actor of the stage, screen, and television, was presented the Jean Ribaut Award for Excellence in Acting at the 6th Annual Beaufort International Film Festival which took place February 15 - 19, 2012 in Beaufort, SC. He won an Emmy in 1980 for the role of Reverend Jim Jones in the Guyana Tragedy. Other notable performances were in the major motion pictures Southern Comfort, Red Dawn, Nixon, Men of Honor, and Tombstone just to name a few. He appeared most recently as Vice-President Noah Daniels in the TV series "24" and villain Cy Tolliver in Deadwood. Presenting the award was Academy Award Nominated Actor, Tom Berenger.
Powers Boothe and Tom Berenger appear together in the upcoming History Channel Mini-series, Hatfields and McCoys.
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Cal Johnson, Stunt Coordinator
Honored at the
Beaufort International
Film Festival
Cal Johnson was presented with the Jean Ribaut Award for Excellence in Stunt Coordination at the 6th annual Beaufort International Film Festival held February 15 - 19, 2012 in Beaufort, SC. Actress Kim Delaney from Army Wives presented the award.
Johnson is a stunt coordinator, stuntman, and actor with more than 20 years’ experience in over 250 film and episodic television shows, videos, national and regional commercials, and live shows. He has worked with many of the world's finest directors in the history of film; such as, Robert Redford, Ridley Scott, Barry Levinson, and Robert Altman.
He has also served as a stunt double for A-List actors such as Matt Damon, Kenneth Branagh, William Macy, Mark Hamill, Robert Duvall, and many others. In order to successfully coordinate and perform many of the high-risk and dangerous stunts in film, Johnson, who is ambidextrous, uses his many athletic abilities including: martial arts, gymnastics, precision car driving, sky diving and scuba diving. Johnson has also executed 2,000 high falls from heights up to 150 feet, and has the unique ability to hold one's breath underwater for an extended period of time. His talents and working knowledge enables him to keep actors safe, while allowing directors to get the best possible and exciting shots to captivate the audience.
Johnson's interest in the daring life as a stuntman, began in the 5th grade. Johnson states, "I was watching the movie How the West was Won, and I saw a stuntman jump off a moving train onto a cactus and then roll onto the ground. At that moment I knew I wanted to do that for the rest of my life." Years later, after jumping off 15-story buildings and out of helicopters, crashing cars, and being set on fire, Johnson had the opportunity to have lunch with Loren Janes, the stuntman he had watched jump from the moving train. Janes, one of Hollywood's most famous stuntmen, has doubled Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, and Jack Nicholson. Johnson recalls, "I told him he was the reason why I was in the film business, and he replied, 'That's cool, hopefully one day you will hear that from someone.'"
Some of Johnson's most notable films and television shows include: The Last Song, The Notebook, Footloose, The Strangers, Nailed, Hannibal, The New Daughter, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Leatherheads, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Forces of Nature, Undertow, Major League 3, The In Crowd, "O", Ride, Polish Wedding, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, One Missed Call, Shooter, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, The Reaping, The Patriot, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Wedding Crashers, The Walking Dead, Zombieland, The General's Daughter and Sweet Home Alabama.
Johnson's recent projects include the mini-series Coma for A&E, the award-winning Lifetime television series Army Wives, now in their 6th season, and the successful Showtime series Homeland.
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Academy Award Nominee
Craig McKay Recognized with the Jean Ribaut Award for Excellence in Film Editing
Two time Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award Winner Craig McKay was presented the prestigious Jean Ribaut Award for Film Editing at the 6th Annual Beaufort International Film Festival held February 15 - 19, 2012 in Beaufort, SC. Academy Award Winner Eugene Gearty presented the award.
Mr. McKay is an award-winning feature film editor, director, and executive producer.
Recognized with two Oscar ® nominations for editing Reds and The Silence of the Lambs, and an Emmy and Eddie Award for editing the NBC mini-series Holocaust, he has edited more than fifty films including Philadelphia, The Manchurian Candidate, Cop Land, Maid in Manhattan, and Robert Redford's The Conspirator.
His directing credits include the Emmy Award-winning Bubbe Meises, Bubbe Stories for PBS and HBO's Subway Stories The Red Shoes, written by John Guare. Story consultant credits include Bravo's Haiti: Dreams of Democracy, Academy Award-nominated Mandela, and PBS's award-winning Witness: Voices from the Holocaust.
McKay has served as a creative advisor at the Sundance Institute Filmmaker's Lab and is also an executive producer of the award-winning feature-length documentary A Normal Life.
He is a member of the DGA, AMPAS, WGAE and Local 700. McKay has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.
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