California Film Awards
| California Film Awards | |
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| Location | San Diego, California |
| Country | United States |
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The California Film Awards is a film awards ceremony that offers awards in the categories of Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Cinematography, Directing, First-Time Directors, Editing, Screenplay, Animation, Art Design, Music Videos, Short Films, Experimental Films, Student Films, California Films, Foreign Films, Documentaries and Feature Narratives.[1] Only independent films are eligible.[2]
The award in the California Films category is given to Californian films that tell stories with distinctly Californian subjects.[3] In 2010, the Australian film Where The Streets Have No Name won a Diamond Award.[4] The following year, Dexter Gregoire's Behind the Eight Ball was named Best Drama.[5]Life! Camera Action... by Rohit Gupta won the Orson Welles Award.[6] 40 West won a California Film Award in 2012[7] while Bank Roll was the Best California Feature.[8] In 2013, the award ceremony was held in San Diego.[9] The grand jury award was given to Wampler's Ascent, a film about a man with cerebral palsy who made his way up El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.[10] Nathan Hill's Model Behaviour won a Gold Award that year.[11] Fred Burdy's Tríd an Stoirm won the award for Best Animation.[12]
Award winners
2010 winners
Grand winners
- Grand Jury Award: Exodus Fall - Ankush Kohli (USA)[13]
- Special Jury Prize: The Taste of Relation - Mukesh Asopa (Canada)
- Special Jury Prize: Homeless in Los Angeles - Brandon James Miller (USA)
- Special Jury Prize: The Darkroom - Z. Eric Yang (USA)
- Special Jury Prize: Mind Games - Daniel Deason (USA)
- Special Jury Prize: Darkmoon - Alexander G. Seyum (USA)
- Special Jury Prize: The Gypsy - Jon Navarro (USA)
- Best Narrative Film: Mud - Karlos Alastruey (Spain)
- Best Feature Film: The Story - Steve Bellamy (USA)
- Best Documentary Film: The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination - Tom Jennings (USA)
- Best Narrative Short: Running Away With Blackie - Lucas Garcia (USA)
- Best Dramatic Short: Liminal - Stephen Keep Mills (USA)
- Best Foreign Film: Little Perfect Girls - Clement Schneider (France)
- Best Foreign Short: Toby's Odyssey - Steven Forrester (United Kingdom)
- Best Student Film: Year of the Faun - Chloe Chevalier (France)
- Best Student Short: Grandfather - Hanjin Park (USA)
- Best Animated Film: Little Gobie - Tony Tang (Hong Kong)
- Best Animated Short: A Noiseless Patient Spider - Nancy Rodwan (USA)
- Best Director: Atroz - Francisco Alvarez (Spain)
- Best First-Time Director: Awakening Arthur - Courtney Dixon (USA)
- Best Screenplay: A Cigar At The Beach - Stephen Keep Mills (USA)
- Best Actor: Friends and Lovers - Ron Pike (USA)
- Best Actress: Anne Jennings - Lauren Montgomery (Japan)
- Best Comedy: The Other Cheek - Ivonne Contreras (USA)
- Best Family Film: My Little Princess - Enzo Zelocchi (USA)
- Best Drama: Behind the Eight Ball - Mike Graveline (Canada)
- Best First-Time Documentary: Whats Up? - Kim Sheridan (USA)
- Best California Film: The Drummond Will - Alan Butterworth (United Kingdom)
- Best California Short: Two Hours In The Dark - Chip Hackler (USA)
- Best Experimental Film: The Nature of Cities - Chuck Davis & Timothy Beatley (USA)
- Best Music Video: Kill For You' - Dawn Cobalt (USA
- Best Television Pilot: 4 Track: Sketch Comedy TV - Nicholas Morrison (USA)
Screenplay competition
- 1st: I'll Die Tomorrow written by John Maffucci
- 2nd: San Andreas written by Joshua Rutherford
- 3rd: Winless Winner written by Randy Hatch
- 4th: Tales of the Arranged Marriage written by Harrish Mandyam
- 5th: Death and Forgiveness written by Joe Barton
2011 winners
Grand winners
- Grand Jury Award: The Italian Key - Rosa Karo (United Kingdom)[14]
- Special Jury Prize: Boxed Up - Sean McCarthy (USA)
- Special Jury Prize: Flat Tire - Machua Koinange (USA)
- Special Jury Prize: Marathon Boy - Gemma Atwal (United Kingdom)
- Special Jury Prize: Baer - Bryce Hirschberg (USA)
- Special Jury Prize: Compulsion - Jon Myers (USA)
- Best Animated Film: Dead Technology - Adam Tinius (USA)
- Best California Film: Stage Left: A Story of Theater in San Francisco - Austin Forbord (USA)
- Best California Short: The Glitter Emergency - Paul Festa & Kevin Clarke (USA)
- Best Comedy: MILF Money - Aaron Preist (USA)
- Best Commercial: Poker Face - Marc Morgenstern (Canada)
- Best Director: Menschenliebe - Alexander Tuschinski (Germany)
- Best Action Sports Film: Winter - Steve Bellamy (USA)
- Best Documentary Film: Women in the Dirt: Landscape Architects Shaping Our World - Carolann Stoney (USA)
- Best Drama: Jalopy - Libby Blood (USA)
- Best Dramatic Short: Kissed by the Devil - M. Legend Brown (USA)
- Best Experimental Film: 6 for 7 - Michel Massicotte (Canada)
- Best Family Film: Smartie Pants - Michael Kontaxis (USA)
- Best First-Time Director: Zombie - Thomas Caruso (USA)
- Best First-Time Documentary: Nefarious: Merchant of Souls - Benjamin Nolot(USA)
- Best Foreign Film: Meherjaan - Rubaiyat Hossain (Bangladesh)
- Best Foreign Short: Common Ground - Hollie Fifer (Australia)
- Best Humanitarian Film: National AIDS Memorial Grove Tribute - Andrew Ehrenfeld (USA )
- Best Music Video: Oh Luv - Magz Magda Sztompka (USA)
- Best Narrative Film: Teenagers - Paul Verhoeven (France)
- Best Narrative Short: Half Empty - Jessica Manherz (USA)
- Best Screenplay: The Diner - Adam Smith (USA)
- Best Student Film: The King's Garden - Phoebe Fronista (USA)
- Best Television Pilot: Stardust and the Bandit - Sarah Sher & Dick Fisher (USA)
Screenplay competition
- 1st Place: Jupiter written by Richard Moon
- 2nd Place: Select Society written by Barbara Nicolosi
- 3rd Place: The Watermelon Project written by Jennifer Bouani
- 4th Place: Burning Ice written by N.A. Bevins
- 5th Place: Pot Shop written by Judah Ray Neiditch
Diamond Award winners
Animated film competition
- 5 Minutes Each - Vojin Vasovic
- 8 Second Dance - Trey Moya & Howard Cook
- Heart - Erick Oh
Television productions competition
- Day Zero: Episode 1x1 - "Lethal" - Cal Nguyen
California film competition
- Assisted Fishing - Joe Crouch
- Paper Drama - Steven M. Hirohama
Commercial competition
- Nerf Nuke - Victor Masters
Documentary film competition
- Beaverbrook - Matthew Callahan
- Ciao Cirella - Berthaud Christophe
- Haterolgy - Danny Singleton
- Living River - Vinit Parmar
- Simurgh - Ruhi Karadag
Music video competition
- Anutha Time - David Padadac
- Don't Wake Me Up - Lydia Galeno
- H2O - Jean-Marie Marbach
- Hunger - Daniel Chisholm
- Mutant Calculator - Alexander Tuschinski
Narrative film competition
- 40 West - Dana Packard
- Beach Spike - Tony Tang
- Hamesima X - Yuval Ovadia & Or Yashar
- Princess - Shane Rodgers
2012 winners
Grand winners
- Grand Jury Award: Wampler's Ascent - Elizabeth Wampler (USA)[15]
- Special Jury Prize: Uprising - Fredrik Stanton (Egypt, USA)
- Special Jury Prize: Eternity - Alex Galvin (New Zealand, Hong Kong)
- Special Jury Prize: End of the Road: How Money Became Worthless - Tim Delmastro (Australia)
- Special Jury Prize: Dance of Love - Wilco de Groot (Netherlands)
- Special Jury Prize: Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia - Robert Lemelson (USA)
- Best Narrative Feature : 180º - Fernando Kalife (Mexico)
- Best Documentary Feature: American Songwriter - Michael Altman (USA)
- Best Narrative Short: Fight Night Legacy - Hisonni Johnson and Michael Sarnoski (USA)
- Best Documentary Short: Beyond Superman - Alexander Hadden (USA)
- Best Foreign Feature: Siberia, Monamour - Slava Ross (Russia)
- Best Foreign Short: Passage 2011 - Sisy Boat, Thomas Huber, Wolfgang Aichner, & Matthias Fuchs (Germany)
- Best Student Feature: Life Without - Franz Erian (USA)
- Best Student Short: Ave Rats Lost Downtown - Christopher Schlumpf (USA)
- Best Animation: Trid an Stoirm - Fred Burdy (Ireland)
- Best Animated Short: Vengeance + Vengeance - Mark Chavez
- Best Director: Mossadegh - Roozbeh Dadvand (USA)
- Best Screenplay: 35 South - John Morton (USA)
- Best Actor: Dio Johnson of Fight Night Legacy - Hisonni Johnson and Michael Sarnoski (USA)
- Best Actress: Amber Kent in CiviliTEA - Johnnie Hector (USA)
- Best Supporting Actor: Tomas Boykin of Elegy for a Revolutionary - Paul van Zyl (South Africa, USA)
- Best Supporting Actress: Bari Hyman of Damaged Goods - Michael Miceli (USA)
- Best California Feature: Bank Roll - Doug Maguire (USA)
- Best California Short: The Body Bag - Dean Whitney (USA)
- Best Experimental Film: Counterfeiters - Bryce Hirschberg (USA)
- Best Music Video: Super Bass Man (The Fishing Song) - Greg Zajac and Simon L. Baker (Canada)
- Best Television Pilot: Mevuasim (Busted) - Asaf Yecheskel (Israel)
- Best Comedy: Spaghetti Fur Zwei - Matthias Rosenberger (Germany)
- Best Family Film: Small Market, Big Heart - Tobin Halsey (USA)
- Best First-time Director: RGB - Kailas Prasannan (Australia)
- Best First-time Documentary: American Autumn: an Occudoc - Dennie Trainor Jr. (USA)
- Best Dramatic Film: A Drop of Love - Golam Mustofa (Canada)
- Best Television Commercial: LAZR - Xiao Zheng (USA)
Screenplay competition
- 1st: Pearl written by Lyvia A. Martinez
- 2nd: Squiddy, Sedona, and Me written by Steven M. Hirohama
- 3rd: How I Became a Hot Chick With Average Breast Size written by Dong Won Kang
- 4th: Marriagehood written by John Harris
- 5th: Worm written by Keir Burrows
2013 winners
Grand winners
- Grand Jury Award: The K Effect. Stalin's Editor directed by Valenti Figueres (Spain)[16]
- Special Jury Prize: Agnus Dei directed by Agim Sopi (Kosovo)
- Special Jury Prize: Out Smart directed by Dawn Cobalt (USA)
- Special Jury Prize: My Sundance Obsession directed by Rod Lopez (USA)
- Special Jury Prize: Honor Diaries directed by Dana Wilsey (USA)
- Special Jury Prize: Dance of the Books directed by Lorena Fernández Carrillo (SPAIN)
- Best Narrative Feature: The Immortal Edward Lumley directed by William Wall (USA)
- Best Narrative Short: Greedy Girl directed by Megan Anderson and Isabelle Gander (Australia)
- Best Foreign Film: Una Larme De Plus directed by Paul Verhoeven (France)
- Best Musical: Beauty and the Beat directed by Yann Le Quellec (France)
- Best Student Short: Thin Air directed by Natalie Nalesnyik (Australia)
- Best Animation: The Symphony of Our Life directed by Paul Verhoeven (France)
- Best Director: Swalk directed by Dawn Cobalt (USA)
- Best Actor: McKinley Freeman, Greencard Warriors directed by Miriam Kruishoop (USA)
- Best Screenplay: Fetiche written by Candace Infuso (USA)
- Best Actress: Marta Gastini for Tanith directed by Germano Boldornini (Italy)
- Best California Film: Joshua directed by Sungjin Ahn (USA)
- Best California Short: Ocean directed by Tory Nelson (USA)
- Best Music Video: Phoenix Song directed by Kate Marzullo (USA)
- Best Television Pilot: Johnny directed by Roberto D'Antona (Italy)
- Best Comedy: Love in the Time of Advertising directed by Matt Berenty & David Bokser (USA)
- Best Family Film: Zombeo & Juliecula directed by Stev Elam (USA)
- Best First-time Director: Awake directed by Connie Lisogar-Cocchia (Canada)
- Best Dramatic Film: Mind Trip directed by Eros D'Antona (Italy)
- Best Thriller: Blur directed by Jazz Virk (Canada)
Screenplay competition
- 1st: The Marcoing Incident written by Jeffery W. Travis
- 2nd: Soulless Town written by Sierra Bothof
- 3rd: Stat Dad written by Charles Laulette
- 4th: Munsey Park written by Ingrid Abrams
- 5th: The Renovation written by Brian Hugh O’Neill
2014 winners
Grand winners
- Grand Jury Award: Reflections of Maya Rose directed by Alexandra Wedenig[17]
- Special Jury Prize: One Small Hitch directed by John Burgess
- Special Jury Prize: If The Trees Could Talk directed by Michael Weinstein
- Best Narrative Feature: Indigo directed by John Smith
- Best Documentary Feature: Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back directed by Regina Russell
- Best Narrative Short: Wake Up, Samantha Evans directed by Haley Doyle
- Best Documentary Short: Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution directed by Matthew VanDyke
- Best Foreign Feature: The Boss Wants a Happy Ending directed by Kivanc Baruonu
- Best Foreign Short: I Remember The Future directed by Klayton Stainer
- Best Student Short: Two and a Quarter Minutes directed by Joshua Ovalle
- Best Animation: I Need My Monster directed by Howard Cook
- Best Director: Blue Chameleon directed by Teresa Carante
- Best Screenplay: The Niece written by Martin Ponferrada
- Best California Feature: Waiting In The Wings: The Musical directed by Jeffrey A. Johns
- Best California Short: Slushamed directed by Anne McGrath
- Best Music Video: Away directed by Rodney Daughtrey
- Best Television Pilot: Todd and Anne: Water in the Pot Jeffrey Engelson
Screenplay competition
- 1st: The Family written by Steven Shepherd
- 2nd: Soul to Soul written by Michael Sieve and John Harris
- 3rd: And On The Seventh Day written by Phillip Hardy
- 4th: Dead Men Will Rise written by Connor Twigg
- 5th: Forgive Me Father written by Jose Olivier
California film competition
- Gen RX directed by John B. Taschner
2015 winners
Gold winners
Narrative film competition
- To Love Somebody written and directed by Ben Rider [18]
References
- ↑ "California Film Awards". MovieBytes. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
- ↑ "Student films win awards". Swinburne University of Technology. January 15, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2015.
- ↑ "Bishop's "Mule Days" documentary wins California Film Award". The Sheet. January 23, 2013. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
- ↑ "Where The Streets Have No Name to be screened in Sydney". Metro Screen. September 21, 2011. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
- ↑ Melanie Minty (August 11, 2011). "Audition resolution for this, another 'new year'". The Now. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
- ↑ "Life! Camera Action... wins Orson Welles Award". filmyboxoffice.
- ↑ Dennis Perkins (January 24, 2012). "Indie Film: '40 West,' filmed in Maine, marked for big things". Portland Press Herald. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
- ↑ Szmit, Kathleen (June 20, 2013). "On a (bank) roll". The Barnstable Patriot. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
- ↑ "PH animated short wins three times abroad". Philippine Daily Inquirer. January 31, 2013. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
- ↑ Alessandra Selgi-Harrigan (February 7, 2013). "'Wampler’s Ascent' Wins California Film Awards Prize". Coronado Eagle & Journal. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
- ↑ Stacy Allen (February 2, 2013). "Filmmaker from Surrey Hills wins California Film Award". Herald Sun. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
- ↑ "'Tríd an Stoirm' Wins Best Animation at the California Film Awards". Film Ireland. January 30, 2013. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
- ↑ "California Film Awards 2010 Winners". Retrieved January 25, 2011.
- ↑ "California Film Awards 2011 Winners". Retrieved January 25, 2012.
- ↑ "California Film Awards 2012 Winners". Retrieved January 25, 2013.
- ↑ "California Film Awards 2013 Winners". Retrieved January 25, 2014.
- ↑ "California Film Awards 2014 Winners". Retrieved January 7, 2015.
- ↑ "Winners 2015". California Film Awards. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
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