“GODSPEED”
WINNER: Special Jury Award for Exceptional Artistic Achievement - 2009 CINEVEGAS FILM FESTIVAL
WINNER: Golden Ring for Best Film - 2010 Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival
NEW YORK TIMES
“A small picture vibrating with grand passions, Godspeed transforms the vast lawlessness of the Alaskan wilderness into a playground for damaged souls and Old Testament mischief.
Directed with gothic flair by Robert Saitzyk, Godspeed...ends confidently with a climax that’s bloody enough to jolt but not enough to sicken — a trick that too many directors have yet to master.”
- Jeannette Catsoulis
AUSTIN CHRONICLE
“...this tautly wound and even more tightly paced mini-epic of love, loss, and redemption deep in the heart of God's country (aka Alaska) is nothing if not awe-inspiring.
Shot with a John Fordian eye for sweeping natural vistas, not to mention Ford's passionately cynical humanism, Godspeed is a Northern gothic that at times seems co-written by Stephen King and Flannery O'Connor...
Director Robert Saitzyk somehow manages the impossible and completely sidesteps the usual traps inherent in such Old Testamental material...with a powerful combination of grace and fury.”
- Marc Savlov
FILM THREAT
“...intense, brutal, intriguing and expertly executed...It’s easily one of the best indie films of the year.”
- Don Lewis
“white of winter”
OFFICIAL SELECTION: 2003 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
“Director Robert Saitzyk has an expert grasp of digital cinematography and he manipulates light and imagery for maximum effect, turning the beautiful, stark winter landscape of Montana into a vivid hue of its own.”
- John Cooper, Director of Programming (from catalog)
“after the flood”
indieWIRE
“...an audacious work that show[s] tremendous talents in direction, writing and acting; a film unabashed in embracing certain stylistic and thematic risks...”
- Fiona Ng