Grand-prize package includes:
- Consulting time with distribution expert - Stacey Parks;
- Consulting time with cinematography expert - Jon Fauer;
- An opportunity to have a trailer of their film cut by Hollywood Trailer House, Secret Headquarters Incorporated;
- A trip to the Sundance Independent Producers Conference; and
- A filmmaker’s production pack (including an HP 8710w mobile workstation, Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite software for color and VFX, and Avid editing software and hardware).
Meet the judges:
- Director: Gary Winick (Bride Wars, Lipstick Jungle, Ugly Betty, Charlotte’s Web, 13 Going on 30)
- Producer: Jake Abraham (Lovely by Surprise, Flakes, Starting Out the Evening)
- Cinematography Expert: Jon Fauer, A.S.C. (author of Film and Digital Times)
- Distribution Expert: Stacey Parks (founder of Film Specific and author of The Insider’s Guide To Independent Film Distribution)
- Film Editor: Kevin Tent, A.C.E. (About Schmidt, Blow, Election, The Golden Compass, Sideways)
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Watch the runners-up:
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Glenn Forbes
Violins And Coarse Language
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Glenn Forbes is a producer/director/writer. Collectively, his short films and screenplays have competed at over 70 film festivals and screenwriting competitions. |
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Michael Mouyal
Seawars
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Michael Mouyal just finished his first feature movie, A Viking Saga – Son of Thor. He has won numerous awards and nominations on the festival circuit around the country. |
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Andi Nakasone
From Alive, to Alaska
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Andi Nakasone discovered his profound love for film and storytelling at an early age. He now strives to combine these passions into films that inspire the uninspired, and explore the unexplored. |
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Alex Adler
Can You Declare Love?
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Alex Adler has worked in Germany, Russia, Ukraine and Israel. Since 2006, Alex has been working for the Israeli Television Channel 2. |
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Pierre Kuhl enjoys working with different kinds of media from graphic/web design or audio, to book and concept writing, and many more. This year, Pierre celebrated one of his biggest successes - receiving an award for one of his stories from cinematographer, Michael Ballhaus (The Color of Money, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Departed) at the UN Convention of Biodiversity. Now, Pierre definitely wants to enter the film business.
