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2009 Winners

Best in Show

  • The Drummer by Bill Block

Student Category

  • 1st - Simon by Nebojsa Vukobradovic
  • 2nd - Le Paradis de I'Imbecele by Patrick Griffin
  • 3rd - Token Hunchback by Tim Reckart

Animation Category

  • 1st - I Am So Proud of You by Don Hertzfeldt
  • 2nd - The Evil Twin by Yun Wang
  • 3rd - Birdy by Agnieszka Woznicka

Documentary Category

  • 1st - The Life Penalty by David Quint
  • 2nd - Forced Into Comfort by Theo Lipfert
  • 3rd - The Triangle of Death by Folleh Tamba

Experimental Category

  • 1st - Severing the Soul by Barbara Klutinis
  • 2nd - No One Thinks About the Garden by Tara Khalili
  • 3rd - I Covered My Eyes by Paul Turano

Narrative Short Category

  • 1st - The Drummer by Bill Block
  • 2nd - Compact Only by Pamela Green
  • 3rd - Order by Daniel Cava

Narrative Feature Category

  • 1st - Le Murmur de Ruines by Liliane de Kermadec
  • 2nd - The Business of Story by Rebecca Ormond
  • 3rd - Air by Jeremy Osbern

2008 Winners

Awards:

  • 1st - $750.00
  • 2nd - $600.00
  • 3rd - $400.00
  • Best in Show: $1000.00

Experimental:

  • 1st - Slipdream
  • 2nd - We Hear Sirens

Animation:

  • 1st - When the World Goes Dark
  • 2nd - Silent Samauri

Documentary:

  • 1st - Spirit of Sacajewa
  • 2nd - My Cab Driver
  • 3rd - Racing Home

Narrative Comedy - Short:

  • 1st - Jonna's Body Please Hold
  • 2nd - Soup Ladel
  • 3rd - Driving Lesson

Narrative Comedy - Feature:

  • 1st - Grilling Bobby Hicks

Narrative Drama - Short:

  • 1st - The Wannabe
  • 2nd - The Street Cleaner
  • 3rd - Being Dead

Narrative Drama - Feature:

  • 1st - The List
  • 2nd - The Garage
  • 3rd - Manje

Best in Show:

  • Jonna's Body Please Hold

2007 Winners

Comedy

  • 1st - Don't Talk to Strangers - William Grammer (Warner Robins, GA)
  • 2nd - El Conquistador - Rob Franz (Sandy Springs, GA)
  • 3rd - Notferatu - Ryan Farriss (Cedar Park, TX)
  • HM - No More - Gary Lynch (Newnan, GA)

Drama

  • 1st - Home for Good - Todd Tinkham (Chapel Hill, NC)
  • 2nd - The Lonely Lights. The Color of Lemons - Richard Grula (Orlando, FL)
  • 3rd - Bartlett - Ryan Farriss (Cedar Park, TX)
  • HM - Ode to a Pagan Prince - Gilbert Banks (New York, NY)

Documentary

  • 1st - All Aboard: Rosie's Family Cruise - Charlton McMillian (Los Angeles, CA)
  • 2nd - Richard Johnson: Hill Country Troubadour - Max Shores (Tuscaloosa, AL)
  • 3rd - Bragg Jam - Bright Blue Sky (Macon, GA)
  • HM - The New Millennium Project - Jerome Gratigny (Macon, GA)

Animation

  • 1st - The World Naked as a Jaybird - Richard Grula (Orlando, FL)
  • 2nd - E-mail - Timothy Farrell (Atlanta, GA)
  • 3rd - Returning - Nancy Jean Tucker (Los Angeles, CA)
  • HM - 2nd If By Crook - Rich Ponte (Raleigh, NC)

Experimental

  • 1st - Romp TST - Chris Rogers (Louisville, CO)
  • 2nd - Folding of Wings - John KD Graham (Santa Fe, NM)
  • 3rd - Rapt - Sara Joel (New York, NY)
  • HM - Mind Control - Shawn Dunbar (Astoria, NY)

Music Video

  • 1st - Meriwether: The Damage - Clay Achee (Baton Rouge, LA)
  • 2nd - Wailing Wall - Tabby Crabb (Leslie, GA)
  • 3rd - Coyote Music - Reginald J. Solomon (Macon, GA)

Best of Show

  • All Aboard: Rosie's Family Cruise - Charlton McMillian (Los Angeles, CA)

2006 Screening List

  • Love Stains - Christopher Pecoraro
  • Lunch - Christopher Pecoraro
  • Really Close Goodbye Forever - Jon Lynn
  • Shade 1st - Lauren Garber and Tate Bunker
  • Commitment - Brian McQuery
  • Snare - Brian McQuery
  • Everybody Sins - Brian McQuery
  • The Depression of Detective Downs - Anthony Thurman
  • Not Until you Dance - Anthony Thurman
  • And then there were Nun - Todd Tinkham
  • Riverside - Todd Tinkham
  • The Idiot Boxer - Scott Blazer
  • A Dawg's Tale - Damien Kincannon
  • Trapper Jack - Clay Achee and John Graham
  • Loyalty - Clay Achee and John Graham
  • A Girl's Guide to Depravity - Heather Rutman
  • 24 at 1201st - Chris Sides
  • Happy Ending - March Mariscando
  • 20 Minutes - Dalton Harpe
  • Rock/Hard Place - Roger Beebe
  • SAVE - Roger Beebe
  • Busted - William Grammer
  • Speeder - William Grammer
  • Remote - William Grammer
  • To Mint Again - Isidore Bethel
  • A Story - Isidore Bethel
  • Going Dutch - Stefan Gray
  • Unseen - Albino Maitioli
  • Give Peach a Chance - Michael J. Maraden
  • Blue Milk - William Grammer
  • Margin - Tommy Love
  • Composition in Red and Yellow - Roger Beebe
  • Convulse - Cara Marisa deLeon

Additional Non-jurored Screenings

  • Love is a Crime - Spiro Winsett
  • 3x1st - Tabitha Lynne Walker
  • 3re - Andrei Gomes da Costa
  • Briars in the Cotton Patch - Brad Stanley
  • Billy's Museum -?
  • Strip Mall Trilogy, part one - Roger Beebe
  • Tin Man - Jackson Walker