Editor

The ninth annual Tallgrass Film Festival wrapped Sunday night with a sold-out screening of Anne Buford's "Elevate" and the Closing Night Gala party at the Ulrich Musuem of Art. Thanks to the Ulrich and the Galichia Foundation for sponsoring the closing night event.

With an audience of 9,500, this year's festival set attendance, ticket sales and attending filmmaker records! Thank you to our sponsors, volunteers, board members, pre-screeners, programmers, staff and Wichita audiences for making this the best festival to date.

Following is a list of award winning films:

Golden Strands Programming Awards

"We Need To Talk About Kevin"
directed by Lynne Ramsay

"Wish Me Away"
directed by Bobbie Birleffi
and Beverly Kopf

txtwrks Audience Awards

Winning Features

Narrative

Documentary

"The Selling"
directed by Emily Lou

"Just Like Us"
directed by Ahmed Ahmed

Runner Up

"The Encore of Tony Duran"
directed by Fred Sayeg

Runner Up

"The Clean Bin Project"
directed Grant Baldwin

Winning Shorts

"Incident In New Baghdad"
directed by Jim Spione

"Highway 9"

directed by Parke Metzer

"Get Off My Porch"

directed by Patrick Rea

Mission

Founded in 2003, the Tallgrass Film Festival is a program of the Tallgrass Film Association. TFA is a 501(c)3 arts organization dedicated to fostering community appreciation of the cinematic arts by entertaining, educating and enlightening audiences in America's heartland through the annual Tallgrass Film Festival, the Tallgrass Third Thursday series, the summertime Cinema Al Fresco series, Tallgrass Filmmakers Lab workshops and Special Screenings throughout the year, while showcasing the city's venues, cultural attractions and artistic communities.

Affiliating with like-minded film, artistic and community organizations, Tallgrass provides support to local and regional filmmaking communities in all areas of motion picture production to spark a dialogue among filmmakers and enhance artistic expression in Wichita, Kansas and the Heartland region.

Sponsors for 2011 include:

Executive Producers

Go Wichita!, Howerton + White, City of Wichita, Clear Channel Radio, Wichita Downtown Development Corporation, Bonavia Family Charitable Trust, Deana & Albert Murray, Real Development, Hotel at WaterWalk

Producers

KPTS - Channel 8, Tallgrass Brewing Co, KMUW 89.1-FM, Burly Studios, Jean & Willard Garvey Fund, House of Schwan, Galichia Foundation, LivingSound, Integrated Media Group, FMI: Forming and Machining Industries, Ulrich Museum of Art, 250 Douglas Place, Beyond Napa at Rock Island Studios, The Orpheum

Directors

Hammer + Sickle Vodka, The Sheppard Foundation, Rain Cafe & Lounge, The Wichita Eagle, Fidelity Bank, Consolidated Equities Trust, LIV Fest, Spirit AeroSystems, Maximum Outdoor Equipment & Service Inc., FOX Kansas, Trust Company of Kansas, Total Printing Solutions, Naked City Magazine, The Forum Events Center, Northrock Lanes, Barry & Paula Downing, Ray Party Rental, Joe Luinstra