Co-chairs AJ Schnack and Thom Powers, accompanied by Danielle DiGiacomo from Indiepix, welcomed the crowd to the Cinema Eye Honors announcement at Sundance today. Filmmakers Laura Poitras (director of the Academy-award nominated MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY) and Joe Berlinger (here at Sundance with his current film CRUDE) helped read out the nominees across categories. A list of nominees can be found at the blog All These Wonderful Things.
Editor Sam Pollard (juror for US Docs this year at Sundance) with director Ross Kauffman
Co-director of the Toronto International Film Festival Cameron Bailey with Alison McAlpine (director of SECOND SIGHT at Slamdance 09) and Thom Powers.
Filmmaker (and juror for US docs this year) Patrick Creadon with Sundance programmer David Courier.
Ingrid Kopp of Shooting People, David Redmon of Carnivalesque Films, and Karina Longworth of SpoutBlog.
Andrea Meditch (executive producer of MAN ON WIRE), BBC Storyville’s Nick Fraser and sales agent Annie Roney of Roco Films.
L to R: Director of SXSW film festival Janet Pierson, programmer of the Sarasota Film Festival Tom Hall and entertainment lawyer Dan Satorius.
L to R: Cinema Eye Honor co-chairs Thom Powers and AJ Schnack with filmmaker Laura Poitras.
L to R: Jess Search of 
Our STF regulars – editor Michael Taylor (editor on ORDER OF MYTHS) with filmmaker David Leitner (FOR ALL MANKIND).
Film festival programmers David Wilson (True/False Film Festival) and Jarod Neece (SXSW).