February 2012 University of Art and Design Center Students FREE

The Best Of New Media Film Festival Los Angeles Screening Series

7:30PM –Networking | Screening Begins at 8PM | Monday Feb 6, 2012

 ANIMATION WINNER –

Tempo: A Sound Story  

2010 | Mexico | 3:00 | Dir. Eduardo Ramirez Montiel

Tempo is a story about a Hologram Musician that can't concentrate this night, 'Tempo ' is missing his girlfriend, she is unreachable, he is experiencing this moments in life, where any kind of artist needs to face the frustration, when creativity is not work and there is no inspiration, but if you keep trying something good will happen.

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SHOT ON RED WINNER –

Sleeping With Frank

2011 | USA | 4:35 | Dir. Lily Baldwin

Sleeping With Frank shows a slice of a morning in Queens, NY. A couple readies for the day. Wake-up, get dressed, eat breakfast. The tableaux are familiar: cozy, rote, intimate and distant. Dance and choreographed gestures reveal a potent underbelly to the lacquer of such domestic normalcy.

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SRC - SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE CONTENT WINNER–

The Drop

2010 | USA | 7:00| Dir. Marvelyne Engel

A young man works hard to reclaim 
his life. Before he can return to the outside world he must first complete "The Drop".                                   

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MOBILE WINNER –

The Sun Is Down

2011 | USA | 2:00 | Dir. Jason Whiton

In this experimental short for his award-winning remix for Yoko Ono, Jason Whiton celebrates the Japanese meaning of Yoko's name, ocean child, with images of sea animals dancing and moving through their secret garden.

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DOCUMENTARY SHORT WINNER -

Yannick Sire

 2011 | USA | 5:33 | Dir. Oli & Joe and Olivier Chatard

A short film about French born, Los Angeles based artist Yannick Sire of Sire Custom Performance.

Cannes 2011 selection.

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DIGITAL COMIC WINNER–

     Madam Samurai  

     2010 | USA | 86 pages - writer Harry Brown

     Madam Samurai is a two volume graphic novel

     that tells the story of a female samurai warrior

     who travels from feudal Japan to Victorian

     London on a mission.

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APP WINNER – 

Doddle Pro

2011 | USA | Richard Kwiat

The Industry's first mobile International Production

Guide with Digital Interactive Call Sheets featuring

rich contacts. Sold as a Smart Phone Application

and also as a Computer Software Program.

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WEBSERIES WINNER -

Jungle Fever 2

2010 | New Zealand | 2:30 | Dir. Peter Haynes

An action packed puppet themed webseries

from New Zealand.

The Best Of New Media Film Festival San Francisco Screening Series  

ANIMATION WINNER -

A love story... in milk

2011 | UK | 2:00| Dir. Danann Breathnach

 The most romantic Film you'll ever see about milk cartons.

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SHOT ON RED WINNER -

Meditations - Supper

2011 | USA | 10:19 | Dir. Jonathan Ade

While hiding in an attic, two teenagers discover personal artifacts from the 1940's.

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SRC - SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE CONTENT  WINNER -

 Attraction

2010 | UK -Japan-France| 12:00 | Dir. Anrick Bregman & Koji Morimoto

 Attraction is the worlds first interacttionally animated short film, using cutting-edge webcam motion tracking technology. It tells the story of Hiro, Koichi and Ren, three kids in Tokyo 2040. The film was commissioned by the French Ministry of Health, and aims to teach young people in an engaging and innovative way about the dangers of smoking.                                                                                         

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ANIMATION HONORABLE MENTION -

Sunday Jog

2011|USA|3:10|Dir. Colus Havenga 

A Sunday in an animated cubist world takes a strange turn

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MUSIC VIDEO HONORABLE MENTION -

Semi Precious Weapon

 2010 | USA | 3:00 | Dir. Nicholas Colombini 

Magnetic Baby is a song by American glam rock band Semi Precious Weapons, and is the second single from their studio album You Love You, which was released on January 19, 2010. 

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APP WINNER -

Treasure Kai

2011 | 1:50 | Australia | Dir. Karen Robertson

Adventures of treasure Kai and the lost gold of shark island and interact different levels

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MUSIC VIDEO WINNER -

Sesko

2011 | USA | 1:55| Dir.Carlos Florez     

Sekso' a young homeless man in the city fails to adapt to the organized matrix of our society and becomes invisible to our eyes- literally- when his body breaks apart and multiplies

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LGBT WINNER -

Friends and Benefits

2011 | Australia | 8:23 |Dir. Christopher Kam

A queer web series that follows the life of Ben Fitzgerald as he explores the world of online dating.  The naive Ben finds it all very daunting, but luckily he has his three best friends to help him out. 

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ART ON WALL HONORABLE MENTION -

The Abstract Mind 

2011 | USA | 0:36 | VFX. Janielson Jon Foong

Colourful visualisation of the brain during an MRI scan.

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TRAILER WINNER -

The power of you - For Big Sisterof RI    

 2010 | USA | 7:00 | Dir. Adam Jones

 When a woman volunteers as a big sister, her efforts are infinitely multiplied by the power of two. Winner 2010 RI 7 Day PSA Competition.

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WEBSERIES WINNER -

GiGi

2011 | USA | 4:09 | Dir. Ty Clancey

Josh Gad stars as Gigi, a loveable foreigner with dreams of fitting in as an "Average American". This slapstick comedy series follows Gigi's adventures as he lets nothing-- not his lack of street smarts, nor his incomprehensible grasp of the English language-- stand in his way

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