First Prize, Flickers' Film Festival International Humanitarian Award

This week at Flickers' Film Festival in Rhode Island, "Refugee" won first prize for the festival's International Humanitarian Award. Every year, Flickers' awards a Grand Prize and First Prize in the category to films or filmmakers who "inspire social change and community outreach and strive to better the world in which we live". The grand prize in this category went to "Man in Red Bandana", directed by Matthew Weiss.