Short Films Festivals Information

2004 Awards

2003 Awards

AWARDED FILMS BY CATEGORIES:

SCENT OF THE LOTUS POND

by SATYAJIT MAITIPE

A Buddhist Parable in 3 Parts.

Special Prize to the Best Fiction Film

DAUGHTERS FROM CHINA by LARRY LING-HSUAN TUNG

Documentary about Chinese girls adopted by Caucasian Americans, and provides a light-hearted look at the joy and struggles they have in their daily lives.

Special Prize to the Best Documentary Film

SANDSTORM

by MICHAEL MAHONEN

Trapped for twelve days during a massive sandstorm, a Chinese policeman cares for his dying wife. Memories of his part in the horrific persecution of Falun Gong practitioners torment him...

Actress Performance: Lilly Li

BEYOND THE SOUL

by RAJIVE ANCHAL

Beyond the Soul is a re-discovery of a long lost heriatge of the human race. Every Action has an Equal and Opposite reaction.

Actor Performance: Thampi Anthony

YORK STREET 1929

by STEPHAN ANSPICHLER

A deeply emotional family drama set at the time of the Great Depression, around the Wall Street crash in New York City. It relates he fortunes of a European immigrant family during one of the hardest times America has ever seen.

Awarded Category: Screenplay

BABS JOHNSON AND THE CAVALCADE OF PERVERSION by NICK KARNER

Enter the world of Babs Johnson, the most controversial entertainer to hit the Raleigh scene. Armed with the cavalcade of perversion, she has committed acts so terrible, the local nightclub owners. Fear her.

Awarded Category: Direction

WANGALA

by ROBIN DE

The documentation of the cultural and religious believes and their practice by the one of the ancient most tribe of the world, the ACHIKS, famously known to the other world as the GARO.

Awarded Category: Integral Realization

I'M WALKING: A JOURNEY THROUGH PARCHMAN

by REX MILLER

The 10-year incarceration of Mitchell Pendleton, a Chicago-born blues musician, at Mississippi's infamous Parchman Penitentiary, a former plantation for runaway slaves. Awarded Category: Photography

MY MOTHER'S NOTEBOOK

by PERRY RIKI

Years after her death, Motti, the eldest son, found a black notebook in one of the old bags that he saved of his mother?s belongings. The notebook was handwritten in his mother?s native Russian and it describes her life in a manner that was unknown to them.

Awarded Category: Art Direction

DID YOU NOTICE?

by MILIND GAWALI

The film explores a simple thought of how beauty lies within all God's creations, which we fail to notice in our everyday life.

Awarded Category: Editing

SPECIAL MENTIONS:

HOPE FOR HAITI

by GRANT KNISELY

Hugues Bastien sees something on the island of Hispaniola that no one has seen in 200 years; he sees hope.

THE GOLD NECKLACE

by KARINA GOODMAN

Finding a friend when you are in trouble is worth gold

THE LIFT

by MICHAEL MCILRAITH

Three people trapped in an elevator and somebody farts. Who is responsible for the pollution? Is it the package courier? Is it the British exchange student? Is it the business woman? Or could there be another farter? As the blame game is on, hilarity ensues.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:

Honolulu International Festival

Films by alphabetical order:

BABS JOHNSON AND THE CAVALCADE OF PERVERSION: AN EXPLORATION IN EXPLOITATION by NICK KARNER

BEYOND THE SOUL

by RAJIVE ANCHAL

DAUGHTERS FROM CHINA

by LARRY LING-HSUAN TUNG

DID YOU NOTICE?

by MILIND GAWALI

FIGUREHEADS

by GORAV KALYAN and ASHISH KAPOOR

HOPE FOR HAITI

by GRANT KNISELY

I'M WALKING: A JOURNEY THROUGH PARCHMAN

by REX MILLER

IN THE PIT

by SEAN LEWIS and LENINA ULREY

MUFFIN MAN

by JESSICA D. EISNER

MY MOTHER'S NOTEBOOK

by PERRY RIKI

SANDSTORM

by MICHAEL MAHONEN

SCENT OF THE LOTUS POND

by SATYAJIT MAITIPE

TANTRA

ABHILASH BHATTACHARYA

THE GOLD NECKLACE

by KARINA GOODMAN

THE LIFT

by MICHAEL MCILRAITH

THE MARCH, THE BURDEN, THE DESERT, THE BOREDOM, THE ANGER

by ELS DIETVORST

THE SECRET OF REDGATE

by LYNDA J COWEN and JIM MARRS

THE SKIN HORSE

by KAREN GOODMAN-HAWK and TYRUS COURSEY

THIRST

by PETER COX

WANGALA

by ROBIN DE

YORK STREET 1929

by STEPHAN ANSPICHLER

YOUNG CHINESE MUSICIANS: CHORDS IN HARMONY - ZHANG XIAN

by ALAN LEE

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2004 Awards

2003 Awards