Alas, aside from a few re-screenings tonight, 2009's AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs festival is over. We laughed, we cried, we ate green goblin food. And now we wait for the best selections to get commercial releases and, if history repeats, some Oscar love.

Until then, here's a list of fest winners:

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Winning the Sterling US Feature Award at Silverdocs was a surprise to directors Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, whose documentary October Country moved beyond the traditional three-act narrative with a layered character study of a low-income rural American family.

The portrayal is particularly intimate in that it follows Mosher's own family.  He is the eldest of three to a mother who admits to forfeiting her dreams to motherhood at an early age and having a knack for picking bad men.  The same trait seemed to pass to her daughter Daneal, now the single and unemployed mother of a beautiful toddler named Ruby. Littlest is Desi, a sharp-minded but devastatingly sweet girl who despite being privy to child and domestic abuse and teen pregnancy, shows promise for breaking out of her family's cycle.

I had the opportunity to meet with Palmieri and Mosher this weekend. Here's what they had to say:

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