Deadline for all divisions is April 10, 2009 (postmark)

Extended Deadline is April 24th (arrival) with $10 extra fee.

The award winners will be shown at the Courtyard Gallery and other Asheville venues on May 2-5, 2008.

Entries will be juried by filmmakers, audio artists, videographers, graphic designers, media scholars, students and marketing professionals.

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2007 AWARDS

Andras Novak
Director; Producer
Budapest,Hungary
Siren--1st place-Experimental/Narrative���North Am. premier
A story about an accidental and fatal acquaintance of a Hungarian boy and a Russian soldier during the 1956 Revolution in Budapest.

Harry Kellerman
New York, NY
The Little Gorilla-2nd place-Experimental/Narrativee
A jungle gym as big as the sky. A boy who's afraid to climb it.

Theodore Wallach
Director; Producer; Executive Producer
Denmark
Buoy-3rd place
A film about an old American, a young Dane and their dance with death.

Michael Stanmore
Barnet, Herts. United Kingdom
Press Play-4th Place���North Am. premier
A dystopian view of a future Britain in which music is outlawed.

Feature Film

Jurgen G.H. Hoppmann
Goerlitz, Germany
AstroEuros-1st place-World premier
AstroEuros is a downright untruthful conspiracy story about the EURO and some dark financial obscurantists in the German government.

Adam Simcox
Salford, United Kingdom
The Superhero-2nd place-World premier
A city is brought to its knees by an army of drug addicts. A masked vigilante desperately fights back. The line between good and evil blurs into one in 'The Superhero', a cutting edge mix of live action and animation from first time writer/director Adam Simcox.

Andrew Shea
Austin, TX
Forfeit--3rd place
An armored car guard's elaborate plan for revenge is threatened by his relationship with an old friend -- a brilliant and unpredictable television preacher.

Neil Mandt
los angeles, CA
Last Stop for Paul-4th place
Two guys travel around the world in search of answers only to discover the world is full of wacky people and experiences.

Brett Mauser
San Antonio, TX
Black and White-5th Place-World premier
A film told and viewed from three different perspectives. View the heroine's side of the story, the villain's side of the story, or view the both as a feature.

Bevan Bell
Pacifica, CA
Devine Manipulation of the Threads-6th place
A comedic take on a bank heist in the vein of Ocean's Eleven, Reservoir Dogs, and Clerks

Short Drama

John Mavety
Sydney, Australia
The Von-1st Place���World premier
Alex Vonzitzavitz is about to face the most humiliating experience of his life. But don't panic, superheroes like 'The Von' always find a way...

Jessica Wethington
Los Angeles, CA
A.W.O.L.-2nd place
1972. An American soldier, Marquette (David Morse), is captured and tortured in Vietnam. At the height of agony, Marquette suddenly finds himself home, living an idyllic life in the US with a loving wife and children that he���'s never seen before

Omar Beqaj
Woodside, NY
Dog Hate Cat-3rd place
Are Cats really evil? Just why do Dogs Hate Cats?

Sheila Schroeder
Denver, CO
Crunch-4th place
Life is full of challenges, but when 75-year-old Beverly Burns stumbles upon something she initially finds horrific she determines she has a choice: she can dwell on the tragedy or she can find the comedy.

Danny Grossman
South Pasadena, CA
Finding Space-5th Place���World premier
Unable to find a parking space at the mall, their discussion becomes more and more heated until a secret comes out that changes them both forever

Garrick Lane
Conover, NC
Meter-6th place
Randle picks up his last fare of the night and both he and his client's lives are changed forever.

Mark Edgington
Brooklyn, NY
Security-7th Place���World premier
A cache of encrypted documents is discovered in a park in Brooklyn, setting off a cat-and-mouse game between authorities and a shadowy cell.

Alex Lubliner
New York, NY
Pop Rocks-8th Place���World premier
What if your obsession was the only thing that could save you?

Doug Osman
Bradenton, FL
See Rock City-9th place���World premier
'See Rock City' is the story of a one-time stage performer who makes a daytrip to Atlanta to give what may possibly be her last performance before an audience.

Rob Forbes
Evans, GA
ARose For The Little Lady-Honorable Mention-Special Screening w/Filmmaker 2008
A Rose for the Little Lady is all about our choices, and how they affect our lives---and those of everyone we touch.

Alyssa Polacsek
Free to Good Home, 10m Honorable Mention
"Free to Good Home"-- Based on actual events. FREE TO GOOD HOME warns about the dangers of posting 'free' pet ads

Ben Weeks
West Palm Beach, FL
The Detention Teacher-1st place Studentt
After a fight with his wife over the fact that they don't talk anymore, a high school detention teacher forces two people who would never talk otherwise

Joel Davenport
Wilmington, NC,
The Drill-2nd place studentt
During a 1950's citywide nuclear drill, three grade school boys learn to come to terms with the era in which they live.

Nitzan Mager
Israel
I Am God-3rd place Student-World premier
In a country torn by chaos, sometimes finding yourself is not enough.

Lis Anna
Asheville, NC
Rutherford County-WNC Achievement Award-North Am. Premier
When three men running contraband from Miami to New York get lost in Rutherford County their lives are forever changed by a strange encounter with the local people.

Documentary

Alan Woodruff
St Kilda, VIC Australia
Absolute Zero-1st place
An account of the grim and ironic death by freezing of a man trapped inside a refrigerated meat wagon, told using a combination of archival and imagined material to speculate on the man's final hours.

James Newton
London, United Kingdom
Homeless Me-2rd place���World premier
A contemplative look at one man's life living in a makeshift hut on the riverside in Tokyo

Kristin DeGroat
New York, NY
Gulf War Syndrome-Killing our Own-3rd place-World premier
The US sent soldiers to Iraq--little did these soldiers know that their own government would inflict greater harm upon them thanthe enemy

Bruce Parsons
Athens, OH
Drawing Between the Lines-4th place
A look at the autobiographical world of comic artist Jeffrey Brown.

Ryan Howard
Elon University
Elon, NC
In the Midst of a Movement-5th place(Best Student)-World premier
In the Midst of a Movement tells the stories of five Southern journalists who worked to bring an end to segregation.

Rita Blitt
Leawood, KS,
Caught in Paint-6th place
Caught in Paint' captures painter/sculptor Rita Blitt painting on transparent surfaces while the David Parsons Dance Co. dance in mid-air

Dariusz Zawislak
WARSAW, Poland
Crossroads: Generation John Paul II-7th place���North Am. Premier
A film about the intersecting lives of people who never met but were united through one man���'s imprint on a generation. A film about us...
... and the man, the pope, the hero, John Paul II, who we will never forget

Leyla Leidecker
Brooklyn, NY
Golden Gloves-8th Place, World Premier
The womens side of the Golden Gloves
America oldest and most prestigious boxing tournament

Jason Price
NY, NY
The Professor-9th Place/2nd Student
A lyrical portrait of the former President of Liberia who lives alone, on welfare, in a New York City housing project.

Susana Casares Domingo
barcelona, Spain
Foreword (Avant-Propos)-10th Place, (3rd Student)North Am. Premier
This film tries to build bridges between the Western world and the Arab world taking women in Tunisia as the axis of the discourse.

Joe Acton
Bellevue, WA
Courage Doesn't Ask-Honorable Mention
The solitude of a military hospital can't prevent a gay veteran from reliving the traumatic events that took his leg and made him both a hero and a statistic.

Craig Yahata and Robert Horsting
Stevenson Ranch, CA
Citizen Tanouye-Honorable Mention
Follows the three-day journey of eight ethnically diverse students as they search for the clues to uncover the lost story of World War II hero and Medal of Honor recipient Ted Tanouye

Commercial

Grigory Ivanchenko
Moscow, Russian Federation
It���'s not time that Decides-1st place���World premier
It's not time that decides. Who decides?

Edgar Dubrovskiy
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire United Kingdom.
Tetley Tea-2nd Place-World premier
The winning entry of the Tetley Tea Moving Image Competition 2006. Made by a 17yrs old director.

Ryan Landels
Culver City, CA
Blak Coffee-3rd Place-World premier
Skipping the cream and sugar, a sleepy young woman decides to take her coffee Blak

Andrew Vannata
Brooklyn, NY
Any Given Saturday-4th place-world premier
I wanna go back to Ohio State, To old Columbus town,
I wanna go back, I gotta go back, To O-HI-O.

Outdoor

Rebecca Schild
U.S. Outlying Islands
First Ascent-Honorable Mention
First Ascent sends the viewers and producers on a globe trotting journey to follow the most inspired and talented rock climbers in pursuit of climbing's pinnacle achievement- the first ascent.

Chris Mehl
U S A
For Right or Wrong-Honorable Mention
An action sports documentary chronicling the lives of the world's greatest snowboarders as they trek the globe doing what they love, for right or wrong.

2006 Awards

Schedule of Award Winning Film, Video and Audio Screenings, 2006

Script Writing Award Announced on 17th September, 2006

Fri. April 28--Feature Film Self-Medicated, 8PM--Courtyard Gallery
Review of Self-Medicated

4th Place, Feature Film: Self-Medicated by Monty Lapica, Las Vegas, NV
A desperate mother hires a private company to kidnap her troubled son and take him to a locked-down and corrupt psychiatric hospital where he is subjected to the secret physical and emotional abuses of the institution. 1:47:53

Sat. April 29, (Rain Date, May 6)--Grand Opening -9 Walnut St.
Audio Performances in the Courtyard--11am-8:30pm
Film Screenings (TBA) in the Courtyard Gallery-12 noon-8pm
Film Screening featuring Double Edge Productions and other films (TBA)--9pm-12mid.

Tuesday May 2, Pack Library, Lord Auditorium
Film Screenings (TBA) 5pm-7:45pm

Thursday, May 4, Fine Arts Theatre, Biltmore Ave.
Feature Films (TBA) and Award Announcements--9:30pm-finish

Courtyard Gallery and Agency, 9 Walnut St. Downtown Asheville, NC

11am-8:30pm -Audio and Perfomance Art in the Courtyard by Devine Productions

Award Winners 12th Annual Twin Rivers Media Festival

Feature

1st Place Feature and Best of the Fest: Ellektra? by Rudolf Mestdagh, Brussels, Belgium.
Review

Following a tragic accident, a number of people lose their principal gift. Hiding behind the mysterious name, eLLektra? a young girl brings those people together and offers them solace for their loss. (Runtime: 01:43:00)

2nd Place Feature: The Garage by Carl Thibault, Burbank, CA.

A mechanic at his father's garage, Matt dreams about leaving his small town existence and pursuing grander ambitions. But strong feelings about a new girlfriend and a deep bond with his parents and brother prevent Matt���'s escape, despite pressure from best friend Schultz to take off with him immediately. It's about the choices we make...and the roads we take.

3rd< Place Feature, Journeyman by Daniel Lee? LA, CA.JOURNEYMAN follows the adventures of a 21-year-old girl traveling across the country looking for her father, who left when she was very young.?

4th Place, Feature Film: Self-Medicated by Monty Lapica, Las Vegas, NV
A desperate mother hires a private company to kidnap her troubled son and take him to a locked-down and corrupt psychiatric hospital where he is subjected to the secret physical and emotional abuses of the institution. 1:47:53

HM Feature: Reality Trap, Michael Bergmann? New York, New York

This satirical caper-comedy starts when a repentant ex-adulteress/sociology professor goes on a talk show to promote her book on adultery and is surprised by the host, who confronts her with the wives of her ex-lovers. Humiliated, she hatches a brilliant plot that will culminate in the host���'s humiliation. He realizes she is after him and starts his own counter-plot���raising the stakes in this cat and mouse game and leaving the winner very much in question.

HM feature: (HONEYMOON) by Sejin Hur, South Korea.

This is a story about one man's journey to find the truth about his beloved wife's death and the meaning of eternal love. (Runtime: 01:57:00)

Short Drama

1st Place Drama: Fields of Mudan? by Stevo, , Florida State University.

A young Asian girl forced into modern day slavery , befriends another young girl in the brothel and dreams of a better life in the US. (23:00)

2nd Place Drama: Lamia? by Katerina Slantcheva

The only thing worse than losing your memory is finding it again. (19:45)

3rd< Place Drama ?Umbrellas? by by: Richard Martin, Laguna Niguel, CA.

A husband trapped in a loveless marriage must try and escape from the prison of suburbia. But there's only one thing holding him back...his daughter. (Runtime: 00:05:59)

4th Place Drama: Moving? by Paul Gill, Los Gatos, CA.

Perplexed individuals discover their homes have been totally emptied by unseen forces and must undertake personal journeys, collaborating with neighbors they have never before met, to unearth the mystery behind Moving. (Runtime: 00:10:30)

5th Place Drama: A Piece of Mind? City College, NYC

Student film about how the mind can play tricks on you. An assassin, attempting to leave his profession, finds that leaving can be a dangerous and confusing idea.

6th Place Drama: The Cacophone? by Kristen Maxwell, Austin, TX.

An introverted young girl must confront her family���'s destiny when she inherits an ancient musical instrument with a sinister history. (Runtime: 00:25:00)

7th Place Drama: Dolores Van Peaches? by Dara Silverman, New York, NY.

Dolores and Browne live tumultuously in their own little world until one strange night Browne is drafted in a most curious and musical way and Dolores ultimately must decide whether to wait patiently for him to return or to rescue him from the perils of the outside world. A cabbage, a lot of yarn, a lot of women. A feminist, musical, anti-war farce in the style of magic realism. (Runtime: 00:11:52)

8th Place Drama: Dark Decisions? by Scott Lawson, Banff, AB, Canada.

While camping with his girlfriend and best mate, James awakens to them in an ����ш����������intimate���' embrace. He could stay or confront them, or leave and start a new journey. (Runtime: 00:16:00)

HM Root Doctor? by Emily Edwards, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Four women search rural North Carolina for the legendary root doctor, Onzi Jack, and a cure for all their sorrows. (Runtime: 01:00:00)

HM Short Drama: Arrowhead by Christopher Holmes, Greensboro, NC
Two rural eccentrics jostle for ownership of a coveted arrowhead, forcing the issue to the frontier of better logic. The result is an allegorical crash course in manifest destiny and American imperialism.
24:46

HM Short Drama: Eddies Winning Date by Julia Radochia, LA, CA
Eddie loses a Super Bowl bet and must call back and apologize to every woman he's ever dated and ditched. 15:30

HM Let Go? by Brian McQuery, Lake Bluff, IL.A single guy finds something wrong with every woman he dates, but his best friend thinks that he is the one with the problem. (Runtime: 00:18:00)

HM Crazy Mary by Ralph Neilson, Asheville, NCTrue story about a crazy women that inhabited the hills in Appalachia Tenn.

HM Hunted by Moe Charif, Miami Beach, FL.Emily wakes up to find herself in the middle of nowhere. Chased by a group of complete lunatics; and for reasons beyond her comprehension, instincts kick in as she tries to make sense of the mess she has stumbled into whilst surviving at the same time. (Runtime: 00:20:49)

HM The Resurrectionist, Susan Ball, FSU 14:45

Fredrick, a 19th century gravedigger, steals a corpse to sell to the local medical college at the urging of his wife. He discovers that sometimes the past is best left buried.

Short Drama Fantasy

1st Place Fantasy: Moondance? by Will Bigham, Florida State University.Who���'s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? In a world where we fell we must protect smaller countries, have we become the Big Bad Wolf? (14:30)

2nd The Showdown by Fulvio Sestito, Hollywood, CAA confrontation between a batter and a pitcher in a high-stakes baseball game, juxtaposed against a deadly duel between two gunslingers in the old west. (Runtime: 00:17:15)

3rd Place Fantasy: Rusty Forkblade? by Evan Daugherty, Dallas, TX.

After a freak boating/drinking/grilling accident, a Texas redneck is mistakenly transported to Valhalla, the legendary afterlife meant for slain Viking heroes. (Runtime: 00:24:44)

4th Place Zoom Suit by Donna Taddeo, Lighthouse Point, FLWhen 12 year old Myles Mason Mistakes a top secret alien battle suit for a Halloween costume the worlds newest and youngest hero is born! Clothes make the man, or in this case, the boy in this superhero Cinderella story. (Runtime: 00:09:00)

Short Drama Comedy

1st Place Drama/Comedy: Round it Goes?by Joe Stillman, creator of Beevis and Butthead, King of the Hill Episodes and Beevis and Butthead do America.Next time you���'re stuck in traffic, take a look at the stories going round and round in your own head. (Runtime: 00:05:59)

2nd Place Short Drama (1st Student)/Comedy: The Sky is Falling����ш���������� by Adam J. KrepsJay, a bellboy must prevent a patron from jumping to his death, in this comedy set in the depression era. (19:45)

3rd Place Short Drama(2nd Student)/Comedy: The Problem with Fiber Optics����ш���������� by Greg JordenA shy nerd���'s life becomes suddenly nightmarish after purchasing a memory implant to give him sexual confidence.

4th Place Short Drama/Comedy: And Now a Word from Our Sponsors ...? by Wojciech Lorenc, Evanston, IL.A young man���'s quest for a condom turns strangely surreal as he is bothered by an army of supermarket sellers soliciting their products. If he doesn���'t outsmart them on time he will lose his chance with a beautiful girl waiting in his apartment. Will he make it on time? And what surprise will he find once he arrives? (Runtime: 00:09:10)

5th Place Short Drama/Comedy: Perils in Nude Modeling? by Scott Rice, Austin, TX.A student on the verge of expulsion must choose between life-long ambition and love when a nude model makes a dangerous demand in the middle of a prestigious art school drawing class. (Runtime: 00:09:55)

6th Place, All Bookies Wear Speedos by Jack Bank, NYC, NY

The Borscht Belt meets Goodfellas in a comedic look at the dark life of a Gambler, his son, his crony and fun characters we meet along the way. (Runtime: 00:16:57)

HM Fairy Tale Follies by Sarah Happel, Los Angeles, CALooking for her 'fairy tale ending,' fashion model Isabel becomes trapped in a series of hilarious and disastrous dates inside the dating world of Hollywood, California. (Runtime: 00:20:00)

HM In Case of Emergency by Matt Chapman, Hayward, CAIn Case of Emergency is the tale of Joe. A recovering ex-smoker who is faced with the addiction that he so badly want's to overcome. He soon finds nothing is really as it seems when his urges come to manifest. (Runtime: 00:07:24)

HM South of Spain by Ms. Glo, Asheville, NC.A melodramatic look back to the 1920s, when laughing at tragedy was acceptable. (Runtime: 00:03:00)

Animation

1st Place Animation: Farren of the Sea, by Heather Hawkins, FSU Film School

Farren, who dreams of the ocean, spends his time building sea creatures out of junk. One day while gathering junk, he finds magic and is lead to a secret submarine and the adventure begins. (Runtime: 07:52)

2nd Place Animation: Stars, by Dawn Mac Allister, Dublin, Ireland. ����ш����������Stars���' tells a tragic story of a young woman descent into illness due to a fatal neuron disease. Using animation the film constructs a dual reality between our perception and the woman���'s altered perception of reality through her hallucinations. (Runtime: 00:10:27)

3rd Animation: Nostalgia for the Present, by Anya Belkina, Duke University. This black and white short visualizes the urge to unpeel or to crack open the illusory layers of nostalgia in order to reveal a deeper longing for the full apprehension of living.

4th Place Animation: Dear Sweet Emma, by Loraine Cernak, Winston-Salem, NC. Unbeknownst to all, Emma has an uncontrollable dark side. (Runtime: 00:05:17)

5th Place Animation: Flyaway by Loraine Cernak, Winston-Salem, NCA little wooden plane, despite the price it must pay, does the impossible and joins a world it could only dream of. (Runtime: 00:10:55)

HM Vitruvius Toybox by Dennis Iannuzzi, Philadelphia, PA

Experimental animation that explores the relationship between motion graphic techniques, electronic music and the use of traditional graphic design ideas as a way of visually organizing an animated film. (Runtime: 00:06:03)

Documentary

1st Place Documentary: Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea����ш���������� by Christopher Metzler, San Francisco, CA.

Meet the friendly residents on the shores of California���'s newest ecological timebomb. Hungarian Revolutionaries, Christian Nudists, and other zany charactors. (Runtime: 01:10:34)

2nd Place Documentary: Secret: The Josephine Baker FBI Files, by Kathy Corley, St. Louis, MO.
Drawn from thousands of pages of FBI files and archival footage, SECRET tells the story of St. Louis born artist Josephine Baker and two men who pursued her: Walter Winchell and J. Edgar Hoover. (Runtime: 00:18:03)

3rd Place Documentary: DEADLY PASSION - The Tragedy in Katmai, by David Kaplan, Kodiak, AK.
The Timothy Treadwell Tragedy is an Alaskan film that delivers a powerful message. Alaskan Brown Bears are ����ш����������Predictably Unpredictable.���' . (Runtime: 00:35:17

4th Place Documentary: Of My God, by Demetrius Wren, Wilson Tang, Florida State University.
Synopsis: Chemg is forced to grow up quicker than he wants after witnessing the death of his father. He struggles between the joys of childhood and the responsibility that he now holds in a broken household. Chemg learns the true meaning of love and responsibility.

5th Place Documentary: Gathering Remnants, by Kendall Nelson, Sun Valley, ID.Directed and produced by Kendall Nelson, ����ш����������Gathering Remnants���' might very well be a portrait of the last American cowboys��������묢:(50:00)

6th Place Documentary: Keep Drinking, Men! The Story of Beer Drinkers in Space, by Frank Delle, Longwood, FL.Frank Delle has interviewed every person involved with the production of the movie to make Keep Drinking, Men! The Story of Beer Drinkers in Space, an affectionate look back at this quirky, ambitious project. (Run time: 00:57:17)

7th ...MORE THAN 1000 WORDS by Solo Avital, Tel Aviv, IsraelZiv Koren's photographs have become instantly recognizable icons that have helped shape our perception of the conflict in the Middle East. In '����ш�����묨���More Than 1000 Words' director Solo Avital followed Ziv over a two-year period, shooting in the heart of riots, terror attack scenes, secret meetings with wanted militants, all the way to Israel's pullout from Gaza. (Runtime: 01:17:48)

HM Promenades by Patricia Ferrando Luquin, Barcelona, Spain

Promenades takes us on a stroll through Singapore. With the help of a radio contest we accompany the inhabitants on their present journey which gradually leads us to their past. (Runtime: 00:21:00)

HM Un azard habanero - Voci da un'isola by Francesco Scura, Rome, Italy

Born out of a journey that brought us to discover the new Cuban approaches to art, this documentary explores and unravels Cuba���'s new artistic languages - the wishes and the experience of an island which is contradictory but growing and constantly on the move. (Runtime: 00:49:03)

HM Pupas Garden, Italy

Touching documentary about the filmmakers grandmother in Italy

HM Katrina Diary by Justin Pearce, Gautier, MS

Through the lens of J. Justin Pearce's video equipment, you see yourself through him and his friends as they ride along the coastline of Biloxi making jokes of the approaching Hurricane Katrina, filming historical homes and landmarks and having no idea that their predictions would soon become a reality that would destroy their homes and send them on a journey of relief efforts and spiritual growth. (Runtime: 00:38:00)

HM Harnessing Speed by Todd Grossman, Redondo Beach, CA

Journey across 3 continents with Oscar winning filmmakers and actors as they confront a 200 ton Gimbal, an explosive re-creation of the DMZ, and high speed shoots aboard a Nimitz class US Aircraft Carrier to achieve the highly visual summer action film, Stealth. (Runtime: 01:16:00)

Narrative

1st Place Narrative: A Cigar at the Beach, by Stephen Keep Mills, Malibu, CA.

A married man detours the demands of domestic life through fantasy and stumbles upon renewal. (Runtime: 00:15:00)

2nd Place Narrative: Sirah, by Cristine Spindler

Sirah, a young Muslim girl going to school in the US, must choose between the world she wants to be a part of, and the one she grew up in. (17:23)

3rd Place Narrative: Past Imperfect, by Birgit Martina Rudel, Los Angeles, CA.

An old man in Siberia, Anatoly Polyakov faces reality through his memories as he cleans exhibits in a laboratory. (Runtime: 00:09:53)

4th Place Narrative: Ed I Hide, by Pierre Rouger, Malibu, CA.Eddie has had a fight with his girl. He heads to the woods to escape the conflict. But can he get away when the conflict is within? (Runtime: 00:28:30)

5th Making a Living by Mark Mann, New York, NY

A darkly intimate short film about the getting ready rituals of two damaged girls trying to make the best of the abusive patterns that rule their lives, and the guy who���'s trying to make sense of them through the lens of his video camera - as they all deal with the inevitability of doing what they have to do to survive. (Runtime: 00:25:32)

HM The Final Curtain, by Jakob de Laval, Stockholm, Sweden

The world lays in ruins. There is silence in every corner. One young man remains. He is walking the scored lands, looking for survivors. We follow him one night and take part of his thoughts����ш�����묨��� and his fear����ш�����묨��� (Runtime: 00:04:40)

HM 51st State, by Vicente Gonzalez, Greensboro, NC

Antonio grew up between two cultures; the Hispanic ethnicity of his parents, and the American culture in which he was raised. When his identity comes in to question, Antonio struggles to reclaim what was lost while also attempting to win over the beautiful and mysterious Paloma. (Runtime: 00:26:37)

Experimental

1st Place Experimental: Rumble, by Devora Rogers, Los Angeles, CA

One moment at a local train crossing could change the way they experience the world forever. (Runtime: 00:07:00)

2nd Place Experimental: Memory Collector, by Soo Jin Hwang
A girl gives away a painful memory only to find that she wants it back as an adult.(8:21)

3rd Place Experimental: Dissolution, by Matt Costanza, Livonia, NY.

Dissolution attempts to dissolve the notions of personal boundaries through elemental transformations. It portrays life and human action as fluid, elegant, and ever changing. (Runtime: 00:05:03)

4th Place Experimental: Wait For Me, by Noel Paul, University of Washington

Seattle, WAA poem, a dance, a speeding motorcycle. Wait For Me is a cinematic haiku whose three movements tell a simple love story. (Runtime: 00:11:50)

5th Place Experimental:Iris, by Ben KimA family���'s love endures life and death (8:21).

HM Experimental: 10 Bulls, Kim Bour, London, England

Kim Bour presents the famous 12th century Zen fable as a modern epic
of mankind's quest to find purpose and understanding. You'll soon find your mind gently unzipped by the groundbreaking fusion of sounds and images.

HM Experimental: Monster House by Kotaro Shinagawa, Daly City, CA
5 roommates are sharing a toilet and a bathtub in the house. One day, one of them thinks that he wants to take a pee.... (Runtime: 00:03:45)

HM Experimental: Sister Rose by Paul Gill, Los Gatos, CAA young nun struggles with a moral dilemma and the consequences of her actions. (Runtime: 00:09:00)

HM Experimental: The Timekeeper by Pat Pecorella, Wilmette, ILBoy meets Girl, but what happens when time runs out? 'The Timekeeper' is a tale of kindness and cruelty, terror and acceptance, love and loss. Noir drama with a Hitchcockian twist. (Runtime: 00:10:12)

The festival will be hosted and shown at the Courtyard Gallery Other venues include the Pack Memorial Library and The Fine Arts Theatre in Downtown Asheville, North Carolina!

The festival is hosted and shown at the Courtyard Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina!

Screenings of 2006 winners will take place throughout the year before Thursday's Open Mic Nights at 7pm and Friday Classic World Cinema Series, 8pm, at the Courtyard Gallery and Agency beginning April 28, 2006, hosted by "The Courtyard Gallery and Agency"

Other resources: For Writers: Scriptfly For Media Artists:film festival listings

Our multimedia festival offers submission to the following Divisions:

• Film and Video
• CD Multimedia
• Made on Mac
• Internet Media
• Audio
• Script Writing
• Outdoor Writing

We accept media in the Animation/Graphic, Feature, Narrative, Drama/Short, Experimental/Visual, Documentary,Commerial/Promotional, Outdoor and Soundtrack categories.