The Fresh Air Award is doled out on the Feature & a short podcast by a Fourwind chosen panel of four cinephiles. They each nominate 5 movies that have pushed the art form forward the most in the assigned decade. We will be giving out this award once each year for 11 years. 2024 will be the decade 1940-1949.


1900’s

Fantasmagorie

Director: Émile Cohl

Genre: Animation

Cinephile Panelists

Elizabeth Chatelain, Justin Joseph Hall, Inga Moren, Shirley Venard

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South

Director: Frank Hurley

Genre: Documentary

Cinephile Panelists

Elizabeth Chatelain, Justin Joseph Hall, Kevin Hinman, Jason Tucker

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1910’s


1920’s

Man with a Movie Camera

Director: Dziga Vertov

Genre: Documentary

Cinephile Panelists

Elizabeth Chatelain, Tracey Goessel, Justin Joseph Hall, Kevin Hinman

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1930’s

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Director: David Hand

Genre: Animation

Cinephile Panelists

Elizabeth Chatelain, Justin Joseph Hall, John Robert Hammerer, Kevin Hinman

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2010’s

The Act of Killing

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer

Genre: Documentary

Cinephile Panelists

Justin Joseph Hall, Thomas Kelsey, Jasmine Szympruch, Elizabeth Yoo

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