Fantastic Planet Film Festival - 2010 Festival Award Winners

2010 Festival Award Winners

(For a full list of all films that screened at the festival, see the 2010 program.)

(To see the list of the festival's 2009 winners click here.)

BEST FILM
I Heart Doomsday
(dir. Patrick Downing)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Evil in the Time of Heroes
(dir. Yorgos Noussias)

BEST DIRECTOR
Matthew Avant (Lunopolis)

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Tied:
Dan Bierne (I Heart Doomsday)
Shea Whigham (Radio Free Albemuth)

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Christine Ghawi (I Heart Doomsday)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Hooked

BEST SHORT FILM
Connected
(dir. Jens Raunkjær Christensen &
Jonas Drotner Mouritsen)

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
The Astronomers Sun
(dir. Simon Cartwright & Jessica Cope)

BEST AUSTRALIAN SHORT
Facing Rupert
(dir. Gregory Erdstein)

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD: BEST AUSTRALIAN SHORT
The Streets Fell into My Window (Music video for the band
THE RED PAINTINGS, Director Clint Lewis)

INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD: SHORT FILM
Hotel Limbo, Episode 1: Can We Help You?
(dir. Erica Stanga & Marco Snow)

INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD: FEATURE FILM
Mortal Fools
(dir. Phil Moore)

DIRECTORS' CHOICE AWARD: BEST FEATURE
Radio Free Albemuth
(dir. John Alan Simon)

SCREENPLAY COMPETITION

SHORTS:
1st place: The Ladder by Faisal Qureshi
2nd place: Carbon Dating by Louis Rosenberg
3rd place: Separation by Greg Austin

Finalists:
Carbon Dating by Louis Rosenberg
Charlie's Train by Franck Zuanic
Clawed and Sally by Roger Blonder
Dark Space by Herbert Jackson
MOS by John Edwards
SEA by Michael Kam
Separation by Greg Austin
Silence of the Bees by Ron Podell
Star of the Guardians by Kevin T. Stein
The Curfew by Brian Hauser
The Duty of Living by Brandon Hunt
The Ladder by Faisal Qureshi

FEATURES:
1st place: Cockpit by Jesse Griffith
2nd place: Cataclysm by Brian Cavallaro
3rd place: Jonas and the Werefish by J.R. McGarrity

Finalists:
Cataclysm by Brian Cavallaro
Cockpit by Jesse Griffith
Cull by David Gilbank
Cult Flick by Brian Hauser
Floaters by Gabriel Walsh
Garbo Returns! by Kristof Bathory
Jonas and the Werefish by J.R. McGarrity
Loknus by David Campfield
Shadowland by Susan Denton
Soul Cages by Joan Chandler
Super High Maintenance by Leo Jenicek
The Majority by Angel Mirou

Festival Judges:
Antony I. Ginnane (SPAA, IFM World Releasing)
Simon Foster (SBS)
Oscar Hillerstrom (SCI FI)
Steven Kastrissios (Dir: The Horseman)
Doug Edmonds Turner (Dir: I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer)
Pablo Piccioli (Dir: Benny)

Congratulations to all of the festival winners, and thanks to each and every filmmaker and screenwriter that submitted to the festival!

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