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SpIFF 2016: The audience applauds

Above: Rich Hinz co-stars in Shirlyn Wong's film "The Mobile Stripper."

And, finally, the audience has its say. Following my posting of the juried awards for the films screened at the 2016 Spokane International Film Festival, now come the audience awards (courtesy of SpIFF co-director Adam Boyd). They are as follows:

Best Animated Short: "If I Was God"

Best Documentary: "Landfill Harmonic"

Best Feature: "My Internship in Canada"

Best Short: "Marty"

Best International Short: "Crevette"

Best of the NW Short: "The Mobile Stripper"

Best of the NW Feature: "The Glamour and the Squalor"

By the way, Boyd reports that Jason McKee's short "Marty" received 93 percent of the votes for its screening. McKee also was the jury pick for Best of NW Filmmaker.

Dan Webster

Dan Webster has filled a number of positions at The Spokesman-Review from 1981 to 2009. He started as a sportswriter, was a sports desk copy chief at the Spokane Chronicle for two years, served as assistant features editor and, beginning in 1984, worked at several jobs at once: books editor, columnist, film reviewer and award-winning features writer. In 2003, he created one of the newspaper's first blogs, "Movies & More." He continues to write for The Spokesman-Review's Web site, Spokane7.com, and he both reviews movies for Spokane Public Radio and serves as co-host of the radio station's popular movie-discussion show "Movies 101."