2016
2016 FILMS
198 : Josh Lunden
365 : The Brothers McLeod
38 River Road : Josh Weissbach
A Boy and His Guns : Sean Kafer
Aakhir - At Last : Tarun Jain
Absent : Devashish Makhija
After Adderall : Stephen Elliott
Barbie Beach : Courtney Dixon
Blue Eyed Boy : Amir Masoud Soheili
Body Language Zone : Kim Saarinen
The Call : Alban Ravassard
Casablanca Mon Amour : John Slattery
Curtain Down : Emett Casey
darKleto (dittiKo antimediatiKo-capitolo #2) : E.G.O.
Die Formel : Kathrin Frey
Do Not Blink : Anton Verstakov
Dollface : Kirsten Johnson
Double-Blind No. 1 : Zenon Kohler, Jasper St Aubyn West, Ian Anderson, Ricky Marks & Raoul Teague
Drone Vision : Jed Hilton
Electric Faces : Johnny Herbin
Fire : Chris Andrews
Fish : Saman Hosseinpuor
Free Flow : Jeroen Sebrechts
Fruitcake : David Wilkinson
Get a Life : Austin Alexander
Girls and Boys : Tomasz Gubernat
Head : Stav Levi
The Herd : Colin A. Borden
Honey and the Hive : Austin Alward
I Am a Knife with Legs : Bennett Jones
Ideal : Kevan Tucker
In the Wake of a Second Cook : Rolf Belgum
Kaddish! : Emeline Castaneda
Lalu : Ion Michael Furjanic
Lil' Benny : Che Walker
Living Like Kings : Benjamin Kaplan
Love Bite: Laurie Lipton and Her Disturbing Black & White Drawings : James Scott
Mine : Nick Dixon
Ms. Long Legs : Milo Addica
My Sister Mosy : Ted Limpert
Nasty : Prano Bailey-Bond
Never Wendy : Kirsty Hughan
Nothing Happened
The Phoenix Incident : Keith Arem
Porn Star Quotidian : Tara Pixley
The Rainbow Kid : Kire Paputts
Ritual of the Fall : Kathy Rose
Sisters of the Wicked Wig : Adam Golub & Gayatri Kaul
Tapioca : Doug Mallette
Unicorn Blood : Alberto Vázquez
What Am I : Greg Penn
BEST OF 2016:
BEST OF FEST - FEATURE: RAINBOW KID
BEST OF FEST - SHORT: FIRE
BEST DIRECTOR: RAINBOW KID
BEST ACTRESS: FABIOLA BUZIM
BEST ACTOR: DYLAN HARMAN
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: FREE FLOW
BEST EDITING: GIRLS AND BOYS
BEST FILM SCORE: BODY LANGUAGE ZONE
BEST WRITING: MINE
BEST ANIMATION: HEAD
EXCELLENCE IN FEATURE FILM: AFTER ADDERALL
EXCELLENCE IN SHORT FILM: DO NOT BLINK
JUDGES:
PAUL POLYCARPOU, NASHVILLE ARTS MAGAZINE
Paul Polycarpou is currently the Publisher and Editor of Nashville Arts Magazine. He is also a filmmaker who has won numerous awards including the 1994 Best Director award at the New York International Film Festival for his production Faces in the Forest.This year he co-wrote and produced the documentary Saving Banksy. Paul is also a musician who toured with legendary country singer Tammy Wynette.
JEREMY CHILDS, ACTOR
Jeremy Childs is an actor with film highlights such as Dreamworks’ The Last Castle, Screen Gems’ Country Strong, and Closer to God with writer/director Billy Senese, whose short film The Suicide Tapes, in which Jeremy played the lead character, won Best International Short at the prestigious Fantasia International Film Festival. Jeremy also has a recurring role on ABC’s Nashville. He is company member of the distinguished and award-winning Studio Tenn Theatre Company in Franklin, Tennessee, and has appeared in well over one hundred equity stage productions.
DENIS DECK, SEQUITUR CINEMA
Denis Deck is Owner and Executive Producer at Sequitar Cinema, based in Nashville. Since forming the company in New York City in 2012, Deck has produced commercial campaigns both nationally and internationally. In 2015, he produced the feature documentary Mom Jovi and co-produced the feature narrative film In the Radiant City.
WILL MORGAN HOLLAND, FILMMAKER
Will Morgan Holland is a commercial and narrative film maker residing in Nashville since 2001. Over the past few years, his clients have ranged from Bose Speakers to Castrol Oil to Tennessee Tourism. He is the 2014 recipient of London-based MoFilms' Best Commercial Director award. Most recently, Will wrote, directed, and produced his first narrative film, The Unbeliever, which premiered with several nominations at the Nashville Film Festival in 2016.
TIF HASSLER, WET PAINT
Tif Hassler is a story developer, producer, and editor based in Nashville. Since 2012, Tif has been a freelance producer working on feature narratives and documentaries, commercials, short films, and content for the web and mobile devices. She produced the award-winning feature film Homeless, which took home the Grand Jury Prize at Dances With Films Festival in 2015. Tif is currently shepherding Wet Paint’s second feature, STL, through post-production.
2016 PRESS:
NASHVILLE ARTS MAGAZINE
THE TENNESSEAN
THE EAST NASHVILLIAN
NOBLE NASHVILLE
DISH MAGAZINE
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