Film festival to recognize winners
Advertiser Staff
The second annual Cinema Paradise-Island Independent Film Festival celebrates the end of a week of international film screenings with the announcement of this year's winners at a ceremony Thursday, hosted by W Honolulu.
The festival showcased 100 titles from around the world and hosted a series of talks and workshops by some of the 40 visiting filmmakers. The Wallace Theaters Art House registered record audience attendance numbers, with standing room only for most shows during the week.
Highlights included "What Alice Found," "Drunken Monkey," "Bomb The System," "Stoked," "Madame Sata," "Bus 174," and the animation and short programs, including the new media showcase titled "Flash TV."
Cinema Paradise winning films
- Best Dramatic Feature: "What Alice Found," directed by A. Dean Bell
- Best Documentary Feature: "Bus 174," directed by Jose Padilha
- Best Short Film: "The Anniversary," directed by Ham Tran
- Best Animation: "Tomato Love," directed by Joey Kan
- Experimental Film: "Displacement Map," directed by Theo Lipfert
Audience Awards
- Dramatic Feature: "Bomb The System," directed by Adam Bhala Lough
- Documentary Feature: "Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator," directed by Helen Stickler
- Short Film: "Downsizing," directed by J. Brad Wilke
- Animation: "Roof Sex," directed by PES
- Experimental Film: "Displacement Map," directed by Theo Lipfert
The Hale Ki'i'oni'oni Award and $5,000 cash prize, presented to a local filmmaker by The Movie Museum and Cinema Paradise, went to "Kamehameha," directed by Nathan Kurosawa.
The judges were Hawai'i filmmaker Edgy Lee, Hawai'i State Film Office head Donne Dawson, and Peter Britos of the University of Hawai'i Academy for Creative Media Information and Computer Science.
