Nominated Best Documentary Feature: When my uncle died, I packed up my car and hit the road, Headed West and my 6 week drive turned into a 6-month journey from glass artist to glass artist, studio to studio. What started out as diversions turned into a cathartic criss-crossing of the United States. I met friends I didn't know I had. This country's glass community carried me from coast to coast...it was wonderful.
And, what better way to celebrate my uncle than tell the stories of these folks who also work with their hands?
Nominated Best Student Film: Alex has always known he was adopted, but now an unexpected discovery stirs his desire to uncover even more. Finally gathering the courage to dig up his birth records, he starts down the uncertain path to find answers from the most important woman he's never met... his birth mother.
