FEATURES.

*****Grand Festival Award- Features

Crazy Jones - Joe Aaron - 94:00

A quirky drama of life, death and leaf-blowing.

 

****Best of Festival Award- Features

Ultimate Reality - Phil Gorn - 71:00

A combination of two classics,”The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “Marty”. The main character is a perpetual daydreamer who gets a little too caught up with his fantasy world.

 

SHORT FEATURES.

*****Grand Festival Award- Short Features

Alchemy - Anna Condo - 18:30

A Doctor, a Lawyer, the Actor and the Dresser, are all touched by Saskia’s gift of this most unusual candlestick.

 

****Best of Festival Award- Short Features

August - Hoku Uchiyama - 17:00

The noises coming from under her house lead young Izzy to believe a dead boy is haunting her basement.

 

****Best of Festival Award- Short Features

Wrong Number - Austin Stark - 15:00

A reclusive invalid is home alone, patched into a wrong number, she overhears plans for a murder. Paranoia sets in when she thinks it’s her own murder.

 

****Best of Festival Award- Short Features

For an Eye  - Emily Dell - 41:00

A thrilling drama of how even the sweetest revenge can turn poisonous. 

 

****Best of Festival Award- Short Features

Santa - Hoku Uchiyama - 5:00

A young boy’s parents convince him that he’s killed Santa Claus.

 

****Best of Festival Award- Short Features

Surface Calm - Michael Colton Miley - 18:00

A nervous housewife finds an old chain that triggers a series of attacks against herself as she loses her grip on reality.

 

****Best of Festival Award- Short Features

The First Time - Aaron Katzman - 9:00

The story of a mother’s heightened anxiety on her daughter’s prom night.

 

****Best of Festival Award- Short Features

Fisherman’s Blues - Hoku Uchiyama - 5:00

A shy young man’s date tries to teach him the art of Nasty dancing.

 

****Best of festival- Short Features

What You Wish For - Heather Von Rohr - 22:00

A modern day fairy tale about smoking, drinking and unrequited love.

 

DOCUMENTARIES.

*****Grand Festival Award- Documentary

Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election - Joan Sekler and Richard Perez - 48:00

Unprecedented is a cautionary tale, warning us that we must insist our elections be conducted in a manner above approach. Anything less undermines our faith in democracy.

 

****Best of Festival Award- Documentary

Ashes to Ashes: The Art of Rebecca Haseltine - Barbara Klutinis - 10:00

Visual artist, Rebecca Haseltine describes her reactions to the September 11 attacks on the US, her artistic process and her role as an artist in expressing the unimaginable.

 

****Best of Festival Award- Documentary

Exploration of Our History: The Story of East Contra Costa County - Doug Harris - 58:00

A compelling historical overview of the origins and growth of

East Contra Costa County.

 

****Best of Festival Award- Documentary

L’dor V’dor - Jaclyn Beck - 7:00

A first hand account of the experiences of a woman who was sterilized in a Nazis concentration camp.

 

ARTS.

****Best of Festival Award- Arts

The Language of Sound & Movement – Eve A. Ma - 12:00

The music and dance traditions of the Bay Area’s southern Indian community, as excerpted from an hour-long performance.

 

EXPERIMENTAL.

*****Grand Festival Award- Experimental

The Orange Orange - Natasha Maidoff - 12:00

A young female artists gets locked out of her house and hit over the head by a Magical Orange. Thus begins her odyssey.

 

****Best of Festival Award- Experimental

What Now? - Nicolas Weiss - 20:00

An imagined world in which time runs backwards for some people and forward for others.

 

****Best of Festival Award- Experimental

Shadows of Things - Rob Cala - 4:00

An interpretation of an original poem with shadows being another reality.

 

 

COMMERCIALS. PSA’S.

*****Grand Festival Award- Commercial

That’s Cazadero – Jonathon Gordon – 4:30

A promotional commercial for Cazadero’s Performing Arts Camp.

 

*****Grand Festival Award- PSA's

“Water Balloons,” “Cards,” and “Hose - Center for Independent Living - 9:00

Public service announcements using humor as an effective tool in recruiting personal assistants to work with disabled persons.

 

EDUCATIONAL.

*****Grand Festival Award- Educational

Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks - Robert Hudson & Bobby Houston / Tell the Truth Pictures - 40:00

In one amazing moment Rosa Parks changed the course of American History. She and her neighbors created a template for social change that rocked the world.

 

***Award of Excellence- Educational

Vital Signs: An Introduction to Deaf People, American Sign Language, & Non-verbal Communciation Skills - Susan Schaller and Yoon Lee - 20:00

The experiences of deaf people and their language is presented to help hearing professionals learn to communicate visually in more effective ways.

 

MUSIC VIDEOS.

*****Grand Festival Award- Music Video

Black Pearl - Mahealani Uchiyama / Hoku Uchiyama - 8:00

A Tahitian tale about Teufi, the Princess of the ocean, and the most beautiful Black Pearl of all. Filmed in Tahiti on the island of Mo’orea.

 

****Best of Festival Award- Music Video

Body Tjak / The Celebration - Crosspulse / Keith Terry - 10:00

An excerpt from a performance work which combines Balinese vocal percussions with body music.  Performed by Crosspulse, an international music/dance ensemble.

 

YOUNG PRODUCERS.

*****Coming of Age Award- Young Producers

The Summer Off - Colin Bannon - 25:00

Humorous, coming of age story in which a teenage boy spends the summer with his quirky uncle, after surviving a drunk-driving accident. The two characters ultimately learn valuable life lessons from each other.

 

*****Whiz Kid Award- Young Producers

Cheez Whiz - Jett Gelber - 5:00

Parody of teen substance-abuse documentaries that examines the self-destructive lifestyle of teens who are hopelssly addicted to Cheez Whiz.

 

***** Das Wunderkind Award- Young Producers

Interview with Wallace - Max Strebel - 7:30

Animated mockumentary, in which the Wallace character from “Wallace and Grommit” is interviewed as if he were a real actor.

*****Running Man Award- Young Producers

The Most Dangerous Game - Noah Walker - 19:00

Stylishly photographed and edited, the classic short story about a man trying to outrun an expert hunter is given the look and feel of a modern day action film.

*****Broken Heart Award- Young Producers

Poison - Steven Band - 11:00

Intense drama about a young couple whose relationship is being destroyed by an act of infidelity.

*****Best Thriller Award- Young Producers

Disconnection - Zack Sultan & Jack Bradbury - 9:00

Constructed like a maze, this edgy, stylized thriller involves a worker who discovers a woman's purse and cell phone. He is offered $50 if he will drive to a rendezvous point and return it to her.

****Pop Tart Award- Young Producers

Pop ‘n Fresh - Maybeck High School, Producer: John Diller - 6:00

A parody of the lifestyle of superficial female rock groups.

****Best Experimental Award- Young Producers

Shortcut - Zack Sultan - 6:00

Contemplative, experimental thriller in which a man is haunted by his shocking discovery on a remote hillside.

 

****Best Wacky Animation Award- Young Producers

Mr. Stick Goes Sky Diving – Maybeck High School, Producer: John Diller - :30

A wacky chalk board animation of life and death on the edge.

 

****Supreme Kid Vid Award– Young Producers

“Up and Down” & “Attack of the Giant Mosquito” –  East Bay School of the Arts: Summer School 2002, Janet Blair, Director, Maimone Attia, Producer / Instructor – 10:00

In “Mosquito,” a young boy and his babysitter battle over the fate and treatment of a giant mosquito. In “Up and Down,” a t.v. addict faces eternal damnation for his addiction.

****Best Documentary- Young Producers

Blair in Mind - Harassment - Blair Academy, Producer: Judith Kahan Kampmann - 14:00

One segment of a video magazine focusing on issues of harassment and byllying in the community of Blairstown, New Jersey and beyond.

 

Special Screening Music Vids - Young Producers

“Moon Dotted Colored Rainbows” & “What’s it Gonna Be?” – East Bay Media Center/Summer Media Camp 2002 & Big Brutha Soul & Higher Octave/Capital/EMI Records (non-juried entrant) – 9:00

 

 

ANIMATIONS.

*****Grand Festival Award- Animation

Game Boy - Sanghee Bae - 3:00

A story about a boy’s video game addiction and how a video game can affect a player’s sense of reality.

 

****Best of Festival Award- Animation

The Money Pig - Tina Banda - 10:00

A subtle satire of class relations within a group of toys in a child’s playroom.

 

ETHNOGRAPHIC.

*****Grand Festival Award- Ethnographic

Immigrant of the Year - Siciliana Treviño - 15:00

In a Berkeley garden paradise, voices of a mother and daughter recall leaving Mexico City for California in 1956, and how Los Matlachines, a children’s Mexican dance group in Oakland, magnified conflict and pride in their family.

OUTDOOR PATIO AWARDS

****OUTDOOR PATIO BEST OF FESTIVAL- DOCUMENTARY

The World Famous - Donald H. Williams II - 45:00

The story of Sway and King Tech's ground-breaking radio show that introduced the hip hop world to some of the greatest MC's in the music biz today.

****OUTDOOR PATIO BEST OF FESTIVAL- FEATURE

Feisto - Frank Moore -1:44:00

A clothes designer finds a creature who turns her life upside down. Together they explore a warm playing erotic small sexual messy fun turned-on reality.

****OUTDOOR PATIO BEST OF FESTIVAL- FEATURE

Reflections of Evil - Damon Packard - 2:08:00

A flustered watch peddler is trapped in a self created purgatory of extreme hostility.Introduction by Hollywood's great Tony Curtis.

***OUTDOOR PATIO AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - DOCUMENTARY

Stop the Cycle of Violence - J.C.McIlwaine - 5:00

Guns and smoke, cops and rocks. Anti-FTAA demonstration in Quebec City, Canada 2001

SUPPLEMENTAL AWARDS