| Moving Pictures Magazine is proud to announce the winners of its Spring 2007 Short Film Contest. The winning filmmakers in the categories of Best Narrative, Best Documentary and Best Animation will be flown to Festival de Cannes, where they will have their work showcased in the Short Film Corner as well as attend a special screening of their films and a party in their honor. These films were selected by a panel of distinguished entertainment industry judges. An additional award, the Audience Choice Award, is given to a film (after qualification) receiving the most votes from viewers watching them on our website. All winning films will be featured on a DVD that will be in an issue of Moving Pictures Magazine on newsstands later this year. The winners are: - Best Narrative: Nick of Time - Director, Be' Garrett
Synopsis:
An old-school Brooklyn barber recounts an incident from his past to a troubled young man who is on the verge of making a major life-altering decision. But can the barber get through to him before things spiral out of control?
- Best Documentary: Meet Me Out of the Siege - Director, Jessica Habie
Synopsis:
Hani Zu'rob, one of Palestine's most prominent emerging visual artists, has been stuck in Paris for more than a year. Originally traveling to France for a rarely permitted three-month stay, Hani has been unable to return to his wife and homeland due to Israel's severance of diplomatic ties with the Palestinian Authority after the democratic election of the Hamas Government. Hani is joined in Paris by another deeply respected Palestinian artist, Kamal Boullatta, who shares his own story of exile that began in 1967. Meet Me Out of the Siege unravels the stories of both men, and observes as these two resilient and patient artists reflect on the origins of creativity, the pressures of everyday life under occupation, and the geometric language of exile.
- Best Animation: Dear Beautiful - director, Roland Becerra
Synopsis:
Don't rip souls apart.
The sudden appearance of exotic flowers in New Haven spawns an unprecedented epidemic that threatens to destroy the city. Paul and Lauren, a married couple, are caught between the catastrophe and their own troubled relationship. Lauren comes in contact with one of the flowers and becomes infected. Though her symptoms worsen, Paul's denial of her illness puts the couple in grave danger. As the city is overrun with infected people, media frenzy, National Guard, protestors and a panicked populace, Paul struggles to save both their lives.
- Audience Choice Award: Window - Director, Varda Hardy
Synopsis:
Nurse Jackson (Cassandra Braden) wheels two ailing veterans into a hospital room. Gene gets the bed by the window. Ralph, an angry amputee, ends up on the other side of the room. Separated by a curtain, they can't see each other, but Ralph won't let Gene alone. He wants that "window seat." When Gene dies and Ralph finally gets to the window, what he sees brings him to a painful realization. He wants Gene back. Academy Award winner Louis Gossett Jr. and Robert Peters give moving performances as the two ailing veterans.
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