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
August Sun Film &  TV Festival
11271 Ventura Blvd  Suite #340
Studio  City, CA  91604             
Tel: (818)  284-9084
Fax: (818)  906-2706
_www.augustsunproductions.com/festival_
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Shining bright for  Eleven years!