A portrait of an animal control officer. It tells the story of a dedicated public servant forced to make fatal choices.
WINNER
Eastman Kodak Excellence in Filmmaking Award, Cannes Int'l Film Festival (France)
First Appearance Award, New Director's Showcase, International Documentary Filmfestival - Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
26th Student Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (USA)
IFC2000 Student Film Competition (NYC, USA)
CINE Golden Eagle Awards (Wash. DC, USA)
Great Plains Int’l Film Festival (Neb., USA)
No Dance Film & Multimedia Festival (Park City, UT, USA)
Columbus Int’l Film Festival (Ohio, USA)
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Cannes Int'l Film Festival (France)
International Documentary Filmfestival - Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (NC, USA)
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (Ark., USA)
Brussels Int'l Film Festival (Belgium)
Guanajuato Int'l Film Festival (Mexico)
Dhaka Int'l Film Festival (Bangladesh)
Mostra de Video Independent (Barcelona, Spain)
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival (France)
Taos Talking Picture Festival (NM)
Oberhausen Int'l Short Film Festival (Germany)
Nantucket Int'l Film Festival (Mass., USA)
Bilbao Int'l Film Festival (Spain)
Shorts Int'l Film Festival (NYC, USA)
Tehran Int'l Film Festival (Iran)
Charlotte Film Festival (NC, USA)
PREVIOUS BROADCASTS:
Independent Film Channel
Bravo Network
Canal Plus (France)
Telewizka - Polska (Poland)
SKS (South Korea)
MTV2
PBS
UNC-TV, NC Public Broadcasting
RANDOLPH BENSON
(DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, EDITOR)
Randolph Benson's work has garnered numerous awards, most notably an Academy Award for Best Student Documentary at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Academy Awards. Benson received an Eastman Kodak Excellence in Filmmaking Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a First Appearance Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. He has been an instructor of film and video at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for over a decade, and he serves on Award Juries at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (Durham, NC, USA) and the Let’s All Be Free Film Festival (London, UK).
rbenson@thesearchersfilm.com
