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. •Details• SCALLOP POND | Best Picture l Director: Carlos Ferrer  | • "Nothing is what it seems to be..." Scallop Pond is a psychological thriller where greed, sex, and selfishness push life beyond reality. Our story takes place in the plush town of Southampton, New York. Nights are tarnished by mystery and fear when young men are murdered without a trace of a motive. The story revolves around Carla Wilson, a famous mystery writer, her sister Erika, and the people who surround them. An obsessive fan with peculiar demeanor shows up in the most unexpected places and the two sisters later fall under suspicion when the trail of dead men leads to their door. [Screening TBA]

. •Details• HOTEL LOBBY | 2nd Place l Director: Jenny Foster | • On the surface, a key has been lost. Below that surface, a world of fantasy and shadow becomes unlocked. Have you lost your key, too? [Screening TBA]

•Details• FOGBOUND l 3rd Place l Director: ATE de JONG l   • FOGBOUND stars Luke Perry -- A trio of attractive yet distrubed thirtysomethings bare their souls, psyches and inevitably their bodies to one another. "Brimming with provocative ideas and charged with a jarring yet refreshing psychosexual energy, this film is a love it or hate propsition about demons within." Eddie Cockrell -- Variety.com

Drama -- Narrative

. •Details• HOME l Best Picture l Director: Nancy Deren l 29:00 • Sierra Farber plays Dorrie, a ten-year-old being raised by her disillusioned grandmother (K Callan), whose life gets a jolt when her mother (Traci Lords) returns home, determined to turn over a new leaf.

. •Details• ANDANTE CANTABILE l 2ND Place l Director: Yue Liu l  • In nineteen sixty China, Jing, a fourteen year old girl, is secretly taught piano by Bin, a very popular, western educated Chinese piano instructor. During a lesson of Tchaikovsky, Pan, a Red Guardsman, catches Jing and Bin. In addition, their fatal mistake was accidentally kicking Mao’s Zedong’s and breaking it. Shortly after, Bin is executed while Jing is released and her reputation is ruined. Years later Jing travels to the United States to continue studying piano and comes under the tutelage of Michael Paris. She becomes an accomplished piano player and begins tutoring a boy named Jerry. By happenstance, Jing sees a picture of Jerry’s father. The picture turns out to be Pan, the Red Guardsman responsible for Bin’s execution. Months later on the day she is to give a piano recital, Jing murders Pan at his home but write a letter to the police admitting her crime. Before she is arrested she plays Tchaikovsky’s Andante Cantabile for her instructor Michael.

•Details• TOY l 3rd Place l Director: Joe Miale l 8:00 • Trapped in the overbearting clutches of his dying mother, a young boy learns to use the one thing he has control over -- his marionette -- to ease her suffering and liberate himself.

•Details• LOST l Finalist l Director: Katherine MaKinney l 12:00 • Two men are hopelessly lost in the wilderness. They split up. One of them has a near death experience, bringing him face to face with his Creator only to argue against God's existence. The films explores the nature of faith.

THRILLER

. •Details• THE 17TH MAN l Best Picture l Director: yimeng jin l 18:00   • In the game of deception only one can survive in the final Chapter of 'the 17th man' .

Animation

•Details• BIRDON l Best Animation l  Director jackie huang   l 3:31   • This is a story about a bird in a birdcage.The birdcage is a totally simulation world. However, we will never know what the true world is out of the bird cage if we don't figure it out.

•Details• ROOM TO GROW l 2nd Place l Co-Directors:  woody yocum, walt kubiak l   • Tiny Earth Garden is a fabulous world where the care of plants and other creatures is the responsibility of an entire community of little beings called, 'Flora'. But young Rose's failureto do her task brings alive the angry monster, 'Weed'. Now the entire garden faces disaster unless our heroine can act responsibly and save her friends.

•Details• WILLIS SILLIM'S TALL TALE l 3rd Place l Director:  Steffen Vala l 6:40  • Tormented since birth by his extreme height, Willis Sillim joins the circus sideshow. From a distance, he falls in love with Irene, the big top belly dancer, but his height thwarts him from meeting her. A train accident could finally be the chance for Willis to reach his true love. [screening TBA]

Comedy

•Details• MODEL CHASER l Best Picture l Director: J.C. Khoury   l 15:00  • A wannabe hip-hop DJ convinces a high profile columnist to shwo him how to be smooth with the ladies.

•Details• THE REGULAR GUY l 2nd Place l Director: Fulvio Cecerel 18:00 •A story of two very different brothers. One of the brothers has too much bran for breakfast one morning and gets lost on his way to work. His life starts to unravel as he desparately tries to find a place to relieve himself.

•Details• "50" l 3rd Place l Director: Jon Balch   l 15:00    • '50' the movie is a short comedy film disguised as a movie trailer for a horror film entitled '50.' The movie '50' is about a middle-aged man who has not yet accepted the fact that he is turning 50 years old. This mock movie trailer reveals supposed snippets from the film which show our lead character in different situations as he faces the stark realization of what it means to get older.

•Details• TEA TIME l Finalist l Director: Jay Bogdanowitsch  l 8:00    • When a starving Soldier targets a delicious baked goodie next to a Gentleman reading a newspaper on a battlefield; then the Soldier's mission is clear: acquire that pastry, until he captures the pastry when he finds out he's in for a big surprise. Even in War, you are what you eat.

Documentary

•Details• AN UNRELIABLE WITNESS l Best Documentary l  Director: Michael McHugh  l   • 'An Unreliable Witness' highlights many issues related to Bloody Sunday: journalistic respect and reliability, survivor guilt, truth, reconciliation and issues of memory. [Screening To Be Announced]

•Details• GULF WAR SYNDROME: A DEADLY LEGACY l 2nd Place l Director: GARY NULL, PH.D  l 60:00  • Gary Null will take you on a journey with participants who explain first hand what they witnessed in the Gulf. Independant scientists and researchers objectively determine whether or not the Veterans sustsained chemical exposure during the war.

•Details• AN EYE FOR ROCKS l 3rd Place l Director: BERT SHAPIRO l • A cameo view of one mans love for the indigenous and randomly found rocks in rural Pennsylvania. Steve Snyder supports himself by restoring stone structures and constructing new ones using traditional materials and proportions that are native to Bucks County. The film focuses on building a traditional forge, one stone at a time, and also reveals the passionate occupation of creating stone sculpture in a remarkable outdoor studio. A personal look inside the mind of a contemporary man working with the ancient tools of hands and eyes.

Student Category

•Details• SPIDERMEN l Best Student Film l Director: Harry Kellerman l 8:00 • In the middle of the night, a little boy sneaks out to reclaim the Halloween candy his mother confiscated. An 8 minute superhero story.

•Details• REX STEELE: NAZI SMASHER l Best Student Animation l Director: ALEXANDER WOO l •Those pesky Nazis are at it again, and who better to clobber those Krouts sour than Rex Steele, Nazi Smasher extraordinaire?

. •Details• CONTRA l Best Foreign Student Documentary l Director: Ella Waternann l 29:00• Ma'ale School of Television/ Israel l Shlomo feels his connection to nature through the construction and restoration of musical instruments. A visit to his studio and workshop is a journey inside the contrabass (double bass) that he is restoring, shedding light on the inner world of a surprising musician.

. •Details• EICHA l Finalist l Director: Eliezer Shapiro l 19:00 • Ma'ale School of Television/ Israel l Eicha is a young religious girl living in a typical West Bank settlement. Her unique and unusual name, Eicha, is the Hebrew title of the biblical scroll of lamentations that is read on Tisha B’av, the annual fast day commemorating the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem 2000 years ago. Tisha B’av is also Eicha’s birthday. Upon reaching the age of 18 she decides to change her name and try to establish her own identity.

Children's Category

•Details• THE PAPER CASTLE l Best Picture l Director: Stephen Unger  l  24:00   • A sick little girl, Joey, and an old man, Cliff bond in a hospital room. Cliff illustrates a story to help joey feel better. A story is told with colorful animation.

Special Achievement

•Details• TITILLATING STEVEN l Director: JACKIE & KERRY DONELLI l • The Donelli Twins comedy feature -- Naive twin sisters struggle to get their screenplay produced in Hollywood by lengendary director mogul, Steven Speilstein. Their final disastrous attempt ends their careers, but fate has a funny way of twisting things.. paritally based on a true story. Festival Winners of: Berkeley Video & Film, New York Internationl Independent Film and Video, Philadelphia International, Moondance Film Festivals. [SCREENING 3/29]

•Details• TALKING WITH ANGELS l 2nd Place l Director: Yousaf Ali Khan l • Talking with Angels questions the idea of what constitues a normal family as 10 year old Alan leads his schizophrenic mother and his siblings to the clinic for Mum's regular injection. [SCREENING TBA]

Best Screenplay

•Details• THE SOUND OF SEPTEMBER l Best Screenplay l Writer: Karen Morss l • You greet September with mixed emotions when your husband's a race pilot. Time for the National Championship Air Races where the best of the best compete for eight grueling days. Some people call it Thunder in the Desert but to me it's the sound of September. Go behind the deadline for an up close and personal look at the world's fastest motor sport.

Director Awards

•Details• HOME l Best Picture Dramatic Short l Director: Nancy Deren l 29:00 • Sierra Farber plays Dorrie, a ten-year-old being raised by her disillusioned grandmother (K Callan), whose life gets a jolt when her mother (Traci Lords) returns home, determined to turn over a new leaf.

•Details• THE 17TH MAN l Best Picture-Thriller l Director: yimeng jin l 18:00   • In the game of deception only one can survive in the fianl Chapter of 'the 17th man' .

•Details• FOGBOUND l 3rd Place Feature Film l Director: ATE de JONG l   • FOGBOUND stars Luke Perry -- A trio of attractive yet distrubed thirtysomethings bare their souls, psyches and inevitably their bodies to one another. "Brimming with provocative ideas and charged with a jarring yet refreshing psychosexual energy, this film is a love it or hate propsition about demons within." Eddie Cockrell -- Variety.com

PSAs

•Details• PETA: SuperBowl Ad l Best PSA  l Produced by : PETA l :60  • What you didn't see on SUPER BOWL SUNDAY -- funny, with serious message!

•Details• THREE AMIGOS l 2nd place  l  Director: Firdaus Kharas l 23:09  •The Three Amigos is a series of twenty Public Service Annoucements (PSA's) on HIV/AIDS prevention created by 80 volunteers that use comedy as a medium.

MUSIC VIDEOS

•Details• ENDLESS l Best Music Video  l  Director: Joe Miale l 4:28  • Stylized music video featuring Etro Anime performing their single, 'Endless.'

•Details• EXILE FOR PRESIDENT l 2nd place l Director: Wayne Simbaro l 5:00 • If Arnold can make govenor, then why the hell can't this guy run for president? Now there's a new urgency in hip-hop, amidst the bore of conventional big budget bling. EXILE, known by many as one of L.A.'s finest DJs, has a bone to pick and so he picked up the mic .

Women's Category

•Details• AMERICA'S VICTORIA, REMEMBERING VICTORIA WOODHULL l Best Picture  l  Director: VICTORIA lynn WESTON l 15:00 clip  • Before women could vote, one campaigned for US President on a platform of "free love" and "equal rights for women". An objective yet sympathetic look at the first woman to run for US President in 1872, Victoria Woodhull. Interview include feminist icon, Gloria Steinem. Kate Capshaw performs the voice over of Woodhull's own words.

•Details• THE CORSET l 2nd Place   l  Director: ANNAMARIE KLOSE  l 6:00  • A young Victorian woman prepares for a ball and the beautiful gown that awaits her. Her only way to fit into the dress depends upon lacing herself tightly into a restricting corset. However, the girl's determination and her mother's impatience lead to tragedy.

Zoie seXyShorts Winners

•Details• FORGETTING APHRODITE l Best SeXyShort l Director: Rebecca Foster l 25:22 • In this mythological landscape, Cyprus, a young American woman discovers the beauty of fantasy and the challenges of love. The story is a dialogue between the external world and her internal reality.

•Details• MAID OF HONOR l 2nd Place l Director: Matt Morillo l 25:36 • She's hot, sexy and on the rebound. And she's smarter than you think. She's about to take Bill on a ride he'll never forget.

•Details• HONING THE EDGE l 3rd Place l Director: James Canfield l 14:13 • A man and a woman, desperate and lonely, search for passion in a waterfront hotel.

•Details• SEX Cells l FINALIST l Director: Flame Schon l 1:49 l "Sex Cells” - feminist spoof of x-rated films---1min 49sec music: Blind Light

•Details• •Details• Dance with Mel Finalist l Director: HoneyMae l 3:00 • An original creation of sensual childlike fantasy.

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