Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Spokane International Film Festival (SpIFF) top awards, which they call the Golden SpIFFys:

Best Feature Film: “Tucker & Dale vs. Evil,” director Eli Craig.

Best Documentary: “An Ecology of Mind,” director Nora Bateson.

Best Short Film: “The Fall Line,” director Tyler Stableford.

Best Animation: “The Lost Thing,” director Shaun Tan, Andrew Ruhemann.

Best of the Northwest: “Tucker & Dale vs. Evil,” director Eli Craig.

Audience Award, Feature: "The Waste Land," directors Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, Joao Jardim.

Audience Award, Short: "The Big Sayonara," Don Hamilton.

Most Promising Filmmaker: Adam Harum, "Disintegration" and Sara McIntyre, "Two Indians Talking."

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