Awards

Festival's director statement: "I'm not a big fan of documentaries usually, as I often find that they are overworked, over politicized, and can be fairly dull in terms of subject choice, or at least so muddled as to what the true story is that the subject then becomes boring in its delivery. The Drive though, which is a documentary through and through, finds a great balance between the subject which it is investigating - artists collaborating and connecting from NYC to San Francisco, and the inclination all round filmmaker Guillaume Le Vallois is trying to cement with his film. The actual film itself has a free form edit, which helps when considering the overall structure of the documentary, and its structure as a whole. Then there's also the set of character artists we meet, who are often interviewed or introduced in different styles or locales. It's all quite varied, and at times feels like a strong collage of people, cities, places and the arts in general. Overall the film is quite impressive, and one that inspires as a strong ideal of what documentary films could be in terms of exciting within their form."