2009 Competition
There was no festival in 2008. The 2009 festival had 2,400 attendees and a record 250 entries. The 2009 $101,000 "Best of the Festival" award went to The Widow's Might, the story of a community coming to the rescue of a widow about to lose her home. Nineteen-year-old John Moore wrote and directed the film. Fireproof, which made the highest grossing independent film in 2008, won the "Best Feature Film" category, and a documentary on the Terri Schiavo case won Best Documentary. The festival was held on January 8–10.
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