The Wavecrest Awards at
2011 Clearwater Film Festival
The Wavecrest Award is our unique trophy designed to honor the filmmaker or artist who excels in their category.
Best Feature
Best Short
Best Documentary
Best Animated Film
Best Actor / Actress
Best Director
Best Original Music / Soundtrack
Best Triple Threat (Actor/Writer/Director)
The Wavecrest Award is an original design by San Jose CA sculptor Jeff Owen. A sleek plate of shining steel dances with a ribbon of hand cut metal filmstrip to become a one of a kind work of art that we are proud to have as our own.
The Wavecrest Award was unveiled at the inaugural Clearwater Film Festival. Created to honor the actor / writer / director, what the festival dubs a “triple threat filmmaker”. Wavecrests were awarded in thirteen categories. In form to follow the Academy Awards they followed format presenting the Best Supporting to Railed Up and Wrecked (Canada) Actor John Webb with the very first Wavecrest. The accolades to follow included Kate Layden, Best Supporting Actress for Innocent Crimes (United Kingdom), Best Animated Film Thembi’s Diary (USA), Best Documentary The Story Of Human Rights (USA), Best Screenplay Twenty Ten (Australia), Best Musical Score/Soundtrack Sneakers & Soul (USA), Best Short Film Lastrain (Spain), which also took home Best International Film and Best Director (Tony Lopez).
Malerie Grady and George Telfer won Best Actor & Actress Awards for roles in Sissy (USA) and Innocent Crimes (UK). Best Feature Film went to Director Byron Kaye for Twenty Ten and Best Triple Threat was Neil Webb for Railed Up and Wrecked.
Twenty-nine films held nominations which were kept in secrecy until moments before the award ceremony. Filmmakers Byron Kaye and Neil Webb were in attendance to accept their awards.
Jeff Owen In His Own Words
“I try to approach each sculpture without following a set pattern. My work begins with any idea. These ideas can begin with a found object or they can begin with no object. When I’m in my studio I may stumble and kick a few bits here and there — and they may just happen to throw into a pattern that sets me off, that sets off a vision of how I would create and finish. If only it all had that kind of accidental beauty to it. I want to be like a poet, with my sculpture, my paintings, my life. My sculptures unite shapes – organically manipulated objects and textures, merging energy, allowing my spirit to emerge. My sculpture is both negative and positive space, coexisting in one cohesive medium. The presence and substance of raw steel ignores the realm of the smelter and lives deeply, with emotion and a unique unknown clarity – deep within me. My sculptures are an existential part of me – brought to the surface for all to see. There is no deeper communication I can express.”
