best of fest

ACFF Best of the 2012 Film Festival includes Bidder 70, Cape Spin! An American Power Struggle and The Last Iceman of Chimborazo. If you would like to sponsor a Best of Fest at your location, please contact us at .

Runner-up for both the Audience Choice and Green Fire awards and very timely for Maryland audiences, Cape Spin! An American Power Struggle is the surreal, fascinating, tragicomic tale of the battle over America's largest clean energy project. When energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon first proposed putting 130 wind turbines in fabled Nantucket Sound, he had no idea that a firestorm would erupt. Cape Spin! tells the incredible tale of how America's first proposed offshore wind farm triggered a schism in this idyllic coastal region, pitting neighbor against neighbor and environmentalist against environmentalist. 

The Last Iceman of Chimborazo won the Best Student Film award. This short documentary is a portrait of Baltazar Ushca, a 68-year-old Kichua Indian who lives in a small Ecuadorian village next to the volcano Chimborazo. Deep in the volcano is hidden an ingredient that people attribute healing and sacred powers. Baltazar is the last man on earth who knows how to find it.