Only the Young

Directed by Jason Tippet & Elizabeth Mims

Produced by Derek Waters

Only the Young is nominated for:

  • Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking  Jason Tippet, Elizabeth Mims and Derek Waters
  • Direction  Jason Tippet & Elizabeth Mims
  • Cinematography  Jason Tippet
  • Debut Feature Film  Jason Tippet & Elizabeth Mims

Garrison and Kevin live in a small desert town with nothing to do. In foreclosed homes and deserted underpasses they create their own fun and avoid the realities of being an adult. Skye is strong-willed, beautiful and wise beyond her years. She’s trying to fight bank managers from taking the house her grandparents raised her in. Over one last summer of first loves and heartbreaks, friendship and self-made adventure, these three teenagers find everything they knew beginning to transform before their eyes. An incredibly intimate, candid and instantly relatable portrait of a moment in life we’ve all shared, this is a film that will be close to people’s hearts. Only the Young is a staggeringly beautiful story of male teenage friendship, the complications of young love and the moment life moves from the stability of childhood into an ever-changing adult world. – Charlotte Cook (Hot Docs)

Cinema Eye Honors

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2013 Ceremony

The 2013 Cinema Eye Honors will be held January 9, 2013 at New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image