‘Dirtbag’ snares most 2018 SpIFF awards

So, the 2018 Spokane International Film Festival — the 20th version of that annual event — has passed. And yet it's still in the news.

As in how the documentary "Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey" took just about every SpIff award it was eligible for. In the category of Juried Awards, "Dirtbag" took Best Feature and Best Documentary.

As for the audience awards, the Finnish/German/Estonian film "The Fencer" was named Best Feature, but "Dirtbag" won both Best Documentary and Best Northwest Feature.

Among the other Juried winners, the documentary "Expedition Alaska" won Best Northwest Feature and took second to "Dirtbag" as Best Documentary. The Best of the Northwest Short was Will Magness's "The Manual," with Magness taking the title of Most Promising Filmmaker.

The complete list can be found here.

The Manual - Teaser Trailer from Wil Magness on Vimeo.