2012 Winner Golden Palm Award Documentary Short
Mexico International Film Festival
Congratulations! Above the Ashes has been chosen as a recipient of the Golden Palm Award at the 2012 Mexico International Film Festival. Our judges felt that your film demonstrated excellent and outstanding filmmaking. Your film was among the very best submitted from over several dozen countries around the world.

 

2012 Winner Best Documentary Short
Indie Spirit Film Festival
Colorado Springs, Colorado

http://www.indiespiritfilmfestival.org/2012/

 

Above the Ashes was awarded a Sierra Nevada Award in the Mountain Culture Category from the 2012 Mountain Film Awards. 

Thanks to the talents of supervising sound editor David Bondelevitch, MPSE, CAS, Above the Ashes was nominated for a prestigious MPSE GOLDEN REEL Award for BEST SOUND EDITING: SHORT FORM DOCUMENTARY. Above the Ashes is in competition with Man Made – “Bugatti Super Car”and Tim Tebow: Everything In Between.

The 59th Golden Reel Award ceremony took place in Los Angeles, California on February 19, 2012.

Here are links to articles and films that are featured in the award ceremony. Above the Ashes is listed under  BEST SOUND EDITING: SHORT FORM DOCUMENTARY

LA Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/01/golden-reel-sound-editing-nomination-announced.html

Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/motion-picture-sound-editors-super-8-283473?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Compose -

Variety
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118048903/

The Wrap
http://www.thewrap.com/awards/column-post/super-8-speaks-loudest-sound-editors-34558

Deadline Hollywood
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/sound-editors-give-super-8-war-horse-rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-most-nominations/

Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/20/idUS388678997220120120

Above the Ashes broadcast on Colorado Public Television in the late Fall of 2011.

Above the Ashes will re-broadcast on Colorado Public Television, Channel 12 in 2012.

Above the Ashes documents the Fourmile fire through the eyes of Sunshine residents who refused to evacuate and joined together to fight the Fourmile fire. Their heroic actions saved numerous homes in the historic Sunshine community. Using haunting visuals Above the Ashes reveals tales of bravery, family, friends, loss and the rebuilding of a community.