See the ‘Best Of’ choices here!

We are so proud of everyone who was nominated and want to encourage you to take the time to read these books, watch these films and support these storytellers!

Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival 2011 presents the ‘Best of’ choices as voted for by Festivalgoers and supporters:

Depiction of an Interracial or Intercultural Relationship – Literature

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford

Depiction of an Interracial or Intercultural Relationship – Film

Mississippi Masala dir. Mira Nair

Historically Accurate Depiction of the Mixed Experience – Literature

Sally Hemings, Barbara Chase-Riboud

Historically Accurate Depiction of the Mixed Experience – Film

One Big Hapa Family, Jeff Chiba Stearns

Reveal of a Person Who is Passing – Literature

One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race & Family Secrets

Reveal of a Person Who is Passing – Film

Imitation of Life, dir. Douglas Sirk

Book Featuring a Mixed Character

Caucasia, Danzy Senna

Film Featuring a Person with a Mixed Background – Short

Silences, Octavio Warnock Graham

Film Featuring a Person with a Mixed Background – Feature

One Big Hapa Family, Jeff Chiba Stearns

Book Representing the Mixed Experience – Non-Fiction

Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race & Identity, Lise Funderburg

Book Representing the Mixed Experience – Fiction

White Teeth, Zadie Smith

Proudest Mixed Moment

Having a biracial President

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