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Sarasota News Leader April 26, 2013 Page 81 films that accomplish a lot with very limited an unlikely friendship with a man who has recently been released from prison. resources. The primary award went to Matthew Johnson's The Dirties, a Canadian narrative feature about two socially awkward high school students who are frequently bullied by a group of students referred to as "The Dirties" and the fantasies they have about exacting revenge. In the Documentary Feature Competition, the main award went to Martha Shane and Lana Wilson's After Tiller, an American film about the four remaining late-term abortion physicians in the United States, their clinics, their employees, their patients and the risks they take daily to do their work. The secondary award — known as the Golden Pond Award for Artistic Accomplishment — went to Chad Hartigan's This is Martin Bonner, an American narrative feature about a lonely man in his 50s who attempts to start a new life in Reno, NV, and ends up forming The competition's Special Prize for Direction went to Benjamin Greené's Survival Prayer, a Canadian and American film about members of an indigenous community who live on a small archipelago northwest of British Columbia called Haida Gwaii. The movie focus- Narrative short Tina for President Director Carmen Emmi (right) poses for photos with his mother on the red carpet prior to the Filmmaker Tribute Awards. The film was shown as part of the SFF's Youthfest program for children.