August Sun Film & TV Festival award winners for 2008
August Sun Film & TV Festival announces their award winners for 2008. Festival goers and filmmakers enjoyed screenings at The Crest Theatre in Westwood, and wonderful seminars over at Bel Air Camera in Westwood. Seminar speakers included Legendary Publicst/Talent Manager Joe Sutton, 3
time Oscar nominated Director Vince DiPersio, Emmy Award winning Writer Russ Woody, Eric Haney Executive Producer of CBS’s “The Unit”, Director John Stecenko “Legend of Bloody Mary”, Talent Manager
Caron Feldman, and Screenplay Gurus Nancy Sexton and Alon Bar. The award ceremony was held last Saturday at Sinigual Restaurant in Beverly Hills hosted by Festival Director Robert J. Locke, and awards presented to the filmmakers by Brooke Lewis. The People’s Party Band provided the music, and
after the ceremony the band played on until the wee hours of the night. For our Grand Award “The Grand Peace Award”, it’s came down to the following:
Does a short film about self sacrifice, or a feature documentary about Forgiveness, or a documentary about Israeli Top Gun Pilots that destroy a nuclear weapon from a Hostile Nation or a documentary about the US military industrial complex, or a feature about a Jewish woman and a Nazi Soldier who held together and their son gets sent to a concentration camp and his mother poses as a nurse to help set him free.
Which of these wonderful films best promotes World Peace? Sound like a tough call, it sure was.
The Grand Peace Award Sebastian’s Vodoo Directed by Joaquin Baldwin It has received over 400,000 hits on youtube!!
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The August Sun Productions, Production deal
Television Pilot I Quit written by Hope Pagano
The Grand Jury Award & Best Documentary Short form
“The Big Question” Directed by Vince DiPersio
Best Animation film: Sebastian’s Vodoo Directed by Joaquin Baldwin,
Best Short film Comedy Orion Slave Girls Must Die, Directed by Eric
Kallevig
Best Short Film The Cave Directed by Tim Schultz.
Director’s Awards for Debut filmmaker To
Director’s Lucy and Fred Smith for Color of Truth
Director’s award for Bravery for producing the controversial film SuperPower
Director, Barbara-Anne Steegmuller.
Best Screenplay to Knuckleballer by Michael Murphy
Best TV Pilot Script Comedy I Quit by Hope Pagano.
Best feature documentary Tammuz Directed by Nir Toib.
Best TV Pilot Comedy _Tickle Me Silly_ (javascript:void(0)) dir. by _Miguel
Martinez-Joffre_ (mailto:miguel@atomicshelter.com)
Best TV Pilot Dramedy Donut Heaven dir. by Annetta Marion
Best TV Pilot Script Drama _Law Review_ (javascript:void(0)) by _Stephanie
Guyon_ (mailto:snguyon@msn.com)
Best TV Pilot Script Comedy Runner-up _In-Laws & Outlaws_
(javascript:void(0)) by _Louis Farley_ (mailto:reedfarley@verizon.net)
Best TV Pilot Script Drama Runner-up _Charlotte’s Webs_ (javascript:void(0))
by _britt Kazmac_ (mailto:bkuzmo@aol.com)
Best Short Film Drama Runner-up _Absolute Zero_ (javascript:void(0)) by
_Alan Woodruff_ (mailto:awoodruff@hotmail.com)
Best Short Film Comedy Runner-up _Bushwacker_ (javascript:void(0)) dir. by
_Kal Goudey_ (mailto:mortise321@yahoo.com)
Honorable Mention Screenplay _Child of the Sea_ (javascript:void(0)) by
_Andrew Coffin_ (mailto:coffi101@chapman.edu)
Honorable Mention Screenplay Sanguis Christi (Blood of Christ) by _John
Schneider_ (mailto:jschnei2@san.rr.com)
Honorable Mention Screenplay _The Ace of Aces_ (javascript:void(0)) by
_Geoffrey Breuder_ (mailto:gbreuder@yahoo.com)
Honorable Mention Screenplay _Journal of a Dinka Boy_ (javascript:void(0))
by _Jomo Merritt_ (mailto:jomoabdul@aol.com) on
Robert J. Locke
Director
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Shining bright for Eleven years!