One last award to announce for IFFBoston 2008 folks. We here at the festival had let the attending filmmakers know that we would be presenting one of them with a Best Marketing Award for the person who came up with the most creative and eye-catching promotional techniques to promote their screenings. We were inspired to create this award last year by Naomi Greenfield and Sara Taksler when they had balloon artists create balloon sculptures all over town to promote their screenings of TWISTED: A BALLOONAMENTARY.

This year’s award goes to Helen Hood Scheer and her film JUMP! To help promote the film’s screenings Helen arranged to have a team of professional jumpropers come to Davis Square, Somerville and perform a number of amazing, acrobatic jumproping routines to the delight of everyone who was passing through the square. We thought this was a great added element to the festival atmosphere and we are happy to present Helen with this award. As part of this award Helen will receive a free iPod Touch.

So congratulations to Helen and thanks to all the jumpropers who came out and performed at the festival. We will have some photos of the jumpropers doing their thing on our website in the near future along with all of the 2008 IFFBoston festival photos, so stay tuned!

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