Vimeo hands out 2010 awards

David Lynch, M.I.A and Roman Coppola were among the judges on the panel at this weekend’s Vimeo Festival + Awards, responsible for changing one filmmaker’s life with a grand prize of $25,000.

“The quality of films I watched for the Vimeo Festival was 'A-number one',” Lynch commented, while Coppola added: “There is some really inventive stuff out there and I appreciated having a window into the creative work that people are producing.”

The overall winner of the fest’s Best Video award went to Eliot Rausch for Last Minutes With ODEN (above), which follows the final days of a dog who is losing a battle with cancer.

Not only did Rausch pick up the top prize, but he was awarded a grant of $25,000 to go towards his next original work.

“We developed the Vimeo Festival + Awards to recognise the people behind the most original creative videos on the Internet and give them a venue to learn from and inspire each other,” says Blake Whitman, the fest’s co-director.

“We received such incredible enthusiasm for this inaugural event, and the quality of the work that people have submitted has been incredible.”

You can watch all the winning videos online below…

Narrative: “ Thrush ” by Gabriel Bisset-Smith

Music Video: “ Liars ‘Scissor’ ” by Andy Bruntel

Animation: “ Between Bears ” by Eran Hilleli

Original Series: “ Break-ups The Series ” by Ted Tremper

Experimental: “ oops ” by Chris Beckman

Motion Graphics: “ TRIANGLE ” by Onur Senturk

Captured: “ Fluid Sculpture ” by Charlie Bucket

Remix: “ BREAKDOWN the video ” by Kasumi

Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.