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Fall 2024 WINNERS

 WWIFF has established a method where entries are acknowledged for their own unique merits rather than competing against one another, ensuring that each film is examined and rated individually.
They essentially compete against themselves since each entry is evaluated according to its own merits and assigned a score based on a set of innate values.

When it is your turn to be judged, the judges concentrate on your film rather than all the other films that are in queue. This ensures that they won't be thinking about comparisons when they should be thinking only about YOU.

The winning entries are recognized and awarded not only for Best Of Festival and Best Of Show, but also for two Awards of Excellence levels, two Awards of Merit levels, a Kudos Endeavor Award, or no award at all. Judges score entries on a performance scale.

Entries with very extraordinary artistic and technical achievements are awarded Awards of Excellence; the top scoring entries for each season receive Best Of Festival & Best of Show honors; and notable achievements are acknowledged at the Merit and 'Kudos' award levels.

Best of Festival and Best of Show films are selected
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Not all categories had a Best of Festival or Best of Show winner
Sub-Category winners are listed at the end of this page.

We screen only Best of Festival winners.
Our screening event is to collect audience reactions to be used by our distributors. We don't conduct after-screening networking parties or seminars.
Video interviews of the viewing audience may be conducted and shown on WRPN.tv

AWARDS SCALE
In order of importance

BEST OF FESTIVAL

BEST OF SHOW

OUTSTANDING EXCELLENCE

EXCELLENCE

EXCEPTIONAL MERIT

MERIT

KUDOS

We select  two Best Of Festival Award Winners for
Domestic and Foreign in various categories, if available.
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Dry Wells of the Paso Basin: A Tragedy of the Commons

Directors Sheila Gail O'Rourke, Boris Temujin Jocoy
in Environmental Documentaries
United States





In the early 1990s, agricultural corporations and other investors began buying thousands of acres of cultivated and uncultivated land with water rights in the scenic wine country of San Luis Obispo County, California. They planted more vineyards and sank dozens of deep, powerful wells for irrigation that have over-drafted the already depleted Paso Robles Basin aquifer. Around 2010, the shallower wells of hundreds of country homes and small farms and ranches began failing. This documentary tells that story through the voices of three small landowners who lost their livelihoods and hopes for their futures when their wells went dry. The film then follows how they and their supporters organize social force to participate in local political processes to assert their water rights and their concerns for the environmental health of the Paso Basin.