Philadelphia Documentary & Fiction Festival - 2004 Awards

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AWARDED FILMS BY CATEGORIES:

SWEET HIDE AWAY
by PATRICK MCKNIGHT
Life is good in the business of stolen identities, until Price Brown steals the wrong one.
 
Special Prize to the Best Fiction Film

THE TARTAN APPLE: THE SCOTS IN NEW YORK CITY
by HARLAN D WHATLEY
Tells the story of the Scottish-Americans who emigrated from Scotland to New York City from the 17th century to the present.
 
Special Prize to Best Documentary Film

EVERYONE. EVERYWHERE. THE INTERNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
by RENEE Y. ROSENFELD
Narrated by Ian McKellen chronicles the persecution of gays around the world and illustrates the importance of public pressure.
Awarded Category: Integral Realization

LIFE GOES ON
by MARK CAIRNS
The last propaganda film of the Third Reich.
 
 
Awarded Category: Direction

FORGETTING APHRODITE
by REBECCA FOSTER
In the mythological landscape of Cyprus, a young American girl discovers the beauty of fantasy and challenges of love. The story is the dialogue between the external world and her internal reality.
Awarded Category: Screenplay

TWO DAYS WITH JULIET
by MICHAEL E. MUSTIZER
Juliet struggles with her recovery from self-mutilation after inheriting a boarding house. With the help of a recovered drug addict, the wise old housemother, and her suicidal younger sister, Juliet faces her family's forgotten secrets.
Actress Performance: Laura Yuhasz

SOLD
by MICHAEL W. MEYER
Door to door pencil salesman Herb Steltzman enters a world of immense success and, unknowingly, international espionage when he is introduced to the automatic pencil.
 
Actor Performance: Sean Reynolds

A SPACE OF TIME
by DIEGO BONILLA
The interaction between a homeless person, David, and a young college student, Pandora. As the story progresses, David's complex psychological profile unfolds through the recollection of events that remain trapped inside a century-old building.
Awarded Category: Art Direction

COMPARED TO WHAT
by RICHARD HARRIS
The story of US jazz performer, Lawrence Jones, popular leader of The Brighton Jazz All-Stars.
 
Awarded Category: Photography

BEYOND HONOR
by VARUN KHANNA
A graphic and violent depiction of the devastation of the American dream for an immigrant cross-cultural family.
 
Awarded Category: Editing, Victoria English

SPECIAL MENTIONS:

A DANCE WITH FRIENDS
by KIRRILLY BRENTNALL
Being in a mixed marriage in former Yugoslavia was not a matter of simply choosing a side, it meant being a stranger in your own street. Now, in the middle of Melbourne suburbia, 'Friends? holds regular parties where dancing, singing and feasting are all that matter.

A ONE COLOR SYSTEM
by YUELL NEWSOME
When an interracial couple moves into an exclusive neighborhood the local home owners association goes to extreme lengths to get them out.

ORWELL - AGAINST THE TIDE
by MARK LITTLEWOOD
Neither a fascist bullet through the throat nor Stalin's secret police could silence George Orwell's great voice for freedom.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
by alphabetical order:

A DANCE WITH FRIENDS by KIRRILLY BRENTNALL
A ONE COLOR SYSTEM by YUELL NEWSOME
A SPACE OF TIME by DIEGO BONILLA
ALONG CAME FOURSTARDAVE by JAMES G. MURELLO
BELLPORT by CRAIG MOWRY & STEVE PANARIELLO
BETWEEN WAKING AND DREAMING by MICHAEL QUILTY
BEYOND HONOR by VARUN KHANNA
COMPARED TO WHAT by RICHARD HARRIS
EVERYONE. EVERYWHERE. THE INTERNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION by RENEE Y. ROSENFELD
FIRECRACKER by JONATHAN GALLI SPROUL
FROM SAINT TO SAINTHOOD by PAYAL MOHANKA
HATE THE PLAYER by HATE THE GAME,BENTON STEPHENS
HAUNT by DONALD L. PATTERSON
HEARTS OF GOLD-BEYOND THE DISABILITY by BROOKE THOMPSON MCLAUGHLIN
HOWLING by RUSSELL CARMONY
HUMAN SHIELD by DEBRA HUSSONG
MAGNUS OPUS by GORDON CURRIE & ANDREW KENNETH MARTIN
ONE LONG DAY by ROBERT J. LOCKE
ONO NIHA by HENRY TWINCH
ORWELL - AGAINST THE TIDE by MARK LITTLEWOOD
SCENE STEALERS by CRAIG MOWRY
SECONDS by OBINNA ARIGUZO
SWEET HIDE AWAY by PATRICK MCKNIGHT
THE GLACIER TWINS CAT/DOG SMOKER 2003 by ANDREA TRAPOLINO DUPUIS
THE TARTAN APPLE: THE SCOTS IN NEW YORK CITY by HARLAN D WHATLEY
TOADSPOTTING: THE LEGEND OF OLD RIP by TODD KENT
TWO DAYS WITH JULIET by MICHAEL E. MUSTIZER

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