The 18th edition of Aspen Shortsfest was a tremendous success!  There were many highlights and wonderful guests. Check out the indieWIRE spotlight of Aspen Shortsfest '09! Below is the list of this year's award-winners.  If you are interested in seeing a print source list, please download it or see below the awards list.

2009 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY

The International Competition Jury recognizes creative excellence by honoring finalists that are most accomplished in their storytelling and distinctive in their cinematic voice. The esteemed 2009 International Competition is comprised of the following industry professionals:

	Jon Bloom is an Oscar® and five-time Emmy® nominated filmmaker with broad experience as a director, producer, writer, cinematographer and editor. He is a renowned specialist in entertainment marketing through his production company, BloomFilm. His best known trailers include Dances with Wolves, The Last Emperor, E. T., Throw Mama from the Train and Far and Away. Bloom was nominated for an Academy Award® for Producing and Directing the live-action short film Overnight Sensation, based upon a Somerset Maugham short story and starring Robert Loggia and Louise Fletcher. It was also awarded the Grand Prize at Aspen Filmfest in 1984. A three-term Governor at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Jon also serves as Chair of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch. His early work experience includes stints with Robert Wise, Robert Altman, and Francis Coppola.
	Lisa Kennedy has been the Denver Post’s film critic since May 2003. Before joining the paper, she lived in Phoenix where she freelanced for Wired, the Sunday magazine of the London Times, TV Guide, and the Phoenix New Times where she briefly served as art critic. She also wrote a weekly media/culture column for Niaonline.com, a web-based community for African American women. Before moving to Arizona, Lisa lived in New York City where she had been managing editor at Us Magazine. Before that she was Senior Editor-Film, as well as Arts Editor at The Village Voice. She is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. For the past three years, she's been a juror for Film Independent's Someone To Watch Spirit Award. Her reviews and cultural coverage have placed a number of times in the Society of Professional Journalists Colorado Chapter’s Excellence in Journalism Awards. She was a finalist of the Freedom Forum/ASNE Award for Diversity Writing. Her articles have appeared in a number of anthologies, including: Rock She Wrote, The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock, and Black Popular Culture.
	Lewis Teague At NYU, one of Lewis Teague's student films It's About This Carpenter won the Kingsley Award and a director's contract at Universal Studios where he apprenticed with Sydney Pollack and directed an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. In 1965, he opened the Cinemateque-16 on Sunset Strip, an experimental/underground movie theater that served as a meeting place for many of L.A.'s aspiring independent filmmakers. He went on to run KCET's film department, and for a decade worked on documentaries, including the Oscar®-winning Number Our Days and Woodstock. In 1979 he directed his first feature The Lady in Red for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, which was followed by twenty more movies including Alligator and Cujo (his personal favorites). Lewis directed such motion pictures as The Jewel of the Nile and Navy SEALS, those being his most successful. For television, he has directed pilots, series, and movies including Dark Target, Nash Bridges, Dukes of Hazard: Reunion!, and Tom Clancy’s OP Center. He is now finishing episode 8 of a 10 episode web series titled CharlottaTS.
	Robert Weide started as a documentary filmmaker, chronicling iconic American comedians. His productions include The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell, The Great Standups, the Emmy®-winning W.C. Fields Straight Up, and Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition. In 1996, Aspen Filmfest screened Robert's first feature film as writer/producer, Mother Night, based on the Kurt Vonnegut novel. In 1998, Aspen Filmfest presented his Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (another Emmy® winner and Oscar® nominee for Best Feature Documentary). In 1999, Robert served as director and Supervising Producer of the HBO comedy special, Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm, which served as the springboard for the HBO series, Curb Your Enthusiasm, for which he served as principal director and Executive Producer for the first five seasons. He received Emmy® nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Comedy Directing for four years running, having won the directing award for his episode “Krazee Eyez Killa.” In addition to eleven Emmy® award nominations and three Emmy® awards, he has also won a Golden Globe® award, an AFI Award, two Producer’s Guild awards and was a DGA Award nominee. In 2008, Robert’s feature directorial debut, How To Lose Friends & Alienate People, was released. The film opened in the #1 spot in the U.K. and remained a top-ten box-office performer for a month. He is currently editing his documentary, Kurt Vonnegut: American Made