Previous Festivals: 2006

Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail with the Alloy Orchestra at Mass MoCA

James Ponsoldt, Trevor Morgan in Q & A after Off the Black

Season Eight was characterized by a number of sold-out events - the American premiere of 10 Items or Less on opening night, a joint screening of Alfred Hitchock's Blackmail with MASS MoCA, the romantic comedy The Treatment starring Chris Eigeman and Ian Holm, and the season finale Shut Up and Sing. Other popular titles were Wide Awake, Islander, Little Fugitive, 21 Up America, Full Grown Men, the annual all-shorts slot, Off the Black with Nick Nolte and Trevor Morgan, and Stephanie Daley, winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance.

For the first time the Festival gave a prize: the Christopher and Dana Reeve Audience Award, named for two major supporters of WFF. The winner - announced at the Gala by Reeve's son Matthew - was William Dixon's short Trailer Talk, which edged out Gayle Knutson's If There Were No Lutherans, Would There Still Be Green Jell-O? and David Dean Bottrell's Available Men. Dixon received an original artwork painted for the occasion by WFF board member Stephen Hannock.