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AWARDED FILMS BY CATEGORIES:
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SANDSTORM
by MICHAEL MAHONEN
Trapped at home for twelve days during a massive sandstorm, a Chinese policeman cares for his dying wife. Memories of his horrific persecution of Falun Gong meditation practitioners torment him, waking him to deeper truths.
Special Prize to the Best Fiction Film | |
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WE STILL WANT TO LIVE
by RADAN SPRONGL
This documentary investigates the causes and effects of the AIDS epidemic in Odessa, Ukraine.
Special Prize to Best Documentary Film | |
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WA'A HO'OLAULE'A
by MARTINEZ BURGMAIER
A journey of the Polynesian Canoe with some of the worlds master carvers at an annual festival in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii.
Awarded Category: Integral Realization | |
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1/2: THE DOCUMENTARY
by DONNY TAM
For 33 years, the Brenner Family has entertained hundreds of people at their party and left them with memories to last a lifetime. This heart-warming, yet comedic documentary will surely make you want to join this tradition.
Awarded Category: Direction | |
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BABS JOHNSON AND THE CAVALCADE OF PERVERSION
by NICK KARNER
Enter the world of Babs Johnson, the most controversial entertainer to hit the Raleigh scene. Armed with the cavalcade of perversion, she has committed acts so terrible, the local nightclub owners. Fear her.
Awarded Category: Screenplay | |
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YORK STREET 1929
by STEPHAN ANSPICHLER
A deeply emotional family drama set at the time of the Great Depression, around the Wall Street crash in New York City. It relates he fortunes of a European immigrant family during one of the hardest times America has ever seen.
Awarded Category: Art Direction | |
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WANGALA
by ROBIN DE
The documentation of the cultural and religious believes and their practice by the one of the ancient most tribe of the world, the ACHIKS, famously known to the other world as the GARO.
Awarded Category: Photography | |
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EARS, OPEN. EYEBALLS, CLICK.
by CANAAN BRUMLEY
The "kill, kill, kill 'em all" world of Marine Corps boot camp.
Awarded Category: Editing, David Payne | | |
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SPECIAL MENTIONS:
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AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
by ANDRÉS GUILOFF
The Film relates the trip of 3 chilean youths to middle east, taking the construction of the polemic security fence like starting point, to portray the human drama that is lived there. | |
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FOREVER FREE - THE SECRET FORCE OF LIFE
by LIN YUNG-CHIH
Something evervbody is looking for, but nobody truly believes it can happen. Discover the secret force of life to be forever free. | |
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I'M WALKING: A JOURNEY THROUGH PARCHMAN
by REX MILLER
The 10-year incarceration of Mitchell Pendleton, a Chicago-born blues musician, at Mississippi's infamous Parchman Penitentiary, a former plantation for runaway slaves. | |
OFFICIAL SELECTION
by alphabetical order:
1/2: THE DOCUMENTARY by DONNY TAM
A FORKED WORLD by CAREY BURTT & JAMES DIGIOVANNA
AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL by ANDRÉS GUILOFF
BABS JOHNSON AND THE CAVALCADE OF PERVERSION by NICK KARNER
BLACK STUDIES, USA by 'NIYI COKER, JR.
CO-EXISTENCE WITH NATIONALITIES IN SLOVAKIA - HUNGARIANS by PETER KEREKES
EARS, OPEN. EYEBALLS, CLICK. by CANAAN BRUMLEY
ELDER by TYLER STOCKTON
EVERY THING BLUE by JESSE ACEVEDO
FOREVER FREE - THE SECRET FORCE OF LIFE by LIN YUNG-CHIH
I'M WALKING: A JOURNEY THROUGH PARCHMAN by REX MILLER
INDONESIA: OPEN DOOR by HELENA WEBB
MOVE! (WHERE ARE YOU GOING?) by PIETRO JONA
RABIN by BEN SHANI
SANDSTORM by MICHAEL MAHONEN
SING UNTIL THEY SLAUGHTER YOU by MATHIAS BARBIER
THE BENEFITS OF LIFTING WEIGHTS FOR WOMEN by KEVIN W. GREGO
THE WAGER by STACEY PERETZKI
WA'A HO'OLAULE'A by MARTINEZ BURGMAIER
WANGALA by ROBIN DE
WE STILL WANT TO LIVE by RADAN SPRONGL
YORK STREET 1929 by STEPHAN ANSPICHLER
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Philadelphia Documentary & Fiction Festival - 2005 Awards
