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WorldFest Houston

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    Grand Award

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    Experimental Film & Video Awards, Best of Show

    • Winner

        Vessel Wrestling

      8.2 (42)
      Lisa Yu

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Foreign

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Julies Geist

      6.6 (31)
      Bettina Wilhelm

    Platinum Award

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    Independent Experimental Film & Video - Live Action (Little or No Dialogue)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Blink

      6.7 (193)
      Deborah Vancelette

    Independent Short Subject-Film & Video - Fantasy/Horror

    • Winner

        Out There

      6.1 (32)
      Snowden Bishop

    Independent Student Film & Video - Graduate Level Student Productions

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Thunderbird

      7.4 (24)
      Ward Swan

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Comedy

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        The Rose Technique

      4.0 (219)
      Jon C. Scheide

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Family/Children

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Children on Their Birthdays

      6.4 (611)
      Mark Medoff

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - First Feature

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Mile Zero

      5.8 (121)
      Andrew Currie

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Suspense/Thriller

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Under the Influence

      6.8 (45)
      Eric Gardner

    Screenplays - Romance

    • Edward Jordon
      Winner
      • Edward Jordon
      For "Paper Shoes".

    Short Subject Film & Video Awards 2002

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Try

      7.5 (436)
      Jonas Åkerlund

    Television and Cable Production - Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Monster Hunters

      5.5 (18)
      Peter von Puttkamer

    Television and Cable Production - News & Documentary Program Videography

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Fenceline: A Company Town Divided

      7.2 (13)
      Slawomir Grunberg

    Television and Cable Production - TV & Cable Feature/Show Pilots

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Testimony: Profiles in Faith

      A. Troy Thomas
      David Druckenmiller
      For episode "David Berkowitz".

    Television and Cable Production - TV Series-Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Monster Hunters

      5.5 (18)
      Peter von Puttkamer
      For episode 2.

    Television and Cable Production - TV Special-Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Monster Hunters

      5.5 (18)
      Peter von Puttkamer
      For episode 1.

    Gold Special Jury Award

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    Best Feature

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Zelimo

      6.0 (43)
      Aleks Rosenberg

    Best Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Baba's House

      6.7 (7)
      Shandi Mitchell

    Short Subject Films and Videos - Live Action - Narrative

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Border

      7.8 (21)
      Annette Solakoglu(director)
      New Moon Productions
    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Crown of the Continent

      8.5 (31)
      John Grabowska

    Gold Award

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    Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Robert F Kennedy Medical Foundation

      Marta Houske(Producer, Director, Writer)
      Matrix Communications

    Film & Video Production - History & Archaeology

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Hello Girls

      7.0 (11)
      Wayne Miller
      Festival title: A Shade of Gray.

    Film & Video Production - Leisure & Recreation

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Tracks Ahead

      9.0 (37)
      David Baule
      For episode "Copper Canyon".

    Independent Experimental Film & Video - Comedy

    • Winner

        Learn to Speak Body

      8.4 (14)
      Mitchell Rose

    Independent Short Subject-Film & Video - Comedy-Original

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Dodgeball

      5.8 (146)
      Donald Bull
    • Winner

        Legalized America

      7.3 (11)
      Michael Ball
    • Winner

        Over My Dead Body

      7.5 (28)
      Arie Posin
    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Charlie Noir

      8.4 (11)
      Keith Davidson

    Independent Short Subject-Film & Video - Dramatic-Adaptation

    • Winner

        Petite mort

      Stephanie Keating

    Independent Short Subject-Film & Video - Dramatic-Original

    • Winner

        To Forever

      Isabel del Rosal

    Independent Short Subject-Film & Video - Fantasy/Horror

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Happy Halloween

      8.2 (60)
      Gaby Bahlsen
      Simon Bahlsen

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Action/Adventure

    • Winner

        Dune 7

      4.8 (17)
      Feri Hefti

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Dramatic

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Out of the Black

      4.2 (373)
      Karl Kozak

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Fantasy/Horror

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Unspeakable

      3.6 (1.6K)
      Pavan Grover

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - First Feature

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Film School Confidential

      6.5 (61)
      Douglas Underdahl

    Low Budget - Theatrical

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Be My Valentine

      Yankee Zhou
      Central Motion Picture Corporation

    Music

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Little Dickie

      7.0 (41)
      Anita Reilly McGee
      Jeff Smallwood
      Kickham East Productions
      Bravo!

    Short Subject Film and Video Awards - Dramatic Original

    • Winner

        The Upstairs Neighbour

      Eric Manchester
      Instinct Entertainment

    Television and Cable Production - TV Series-Dramatic

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Then Love Came Along

      • S2.E19

      • Twice in a Lifetime

      7.2 (370)
      David Winning
    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Andromeda

      6.6 (16K)
      David Winning
      For episode "A Heart For Falsehood Framed".
    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Termination

      • S5.E6

      • Earth: Final Conflict

      6.3 (5.2K)
      David Winning

    Silver Award

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    Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        In My Parents' Basement

      7.7 (13)
      Maureen Judge
      Makin' Movies

    Independent Short Subject-Film & Video - Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Haitian Slave Children

      Ron Becks
      Young Man Kang

    Independent Short Subject-Film & Video - Live Action-Narrative

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Absolution

      6.7 (19)
      Dan Bronzite

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Foreign

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        The Third Lion

      Manlio Roseano

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Low Budget

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Jane White Is Sick & Twisted

      3.7 (478)
      David Michael Latt

    Short Subject Film & Video - Horror

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Haunted

      8.9 (17)
      Billy D. Marchese
      Geoffrey O'Brien

    TV Series -- Family/Children

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat

      7.2 (1.6K)
      George Daugherty
      David Ka Lik Wong
      Amy Tan
      Gretchen Schields
      Michel Lemire

    Television and Cable Production - TV Series-Documentary

    • Winner

        Shop with Me

      6.4 (10)
      Mark Terry
    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Zoo Diaries

      8.0 (33)
      Joe Woodward
      For episode #22.

    Bronze Award

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    Comedy Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        The Boy Scout

      6.9 (43)
      Ward Roberts
      Mark Henein
      Cambria Stephens
      Corey Michael Blake
      Christina Mauro
      Bradley David Morris

    Film & Video Production - Medical/Health/Fitness

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Semmelweis

      8.2 (28)
      Jim Berry
      Sam Riegel

    Film & Video Production - Performance Arts-Dance, Drama, Music

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Portishead - Cowboys

      9.2 (23)
      Yaniv Raz

    Independent Experimental Film & Video - Dramatic

    • Winner

        Wish

      7.4 (17)
      Rene Mohandas

    Independent Short Subject-Film & Video - Comedy-Original

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        One Angry Dwarf

      7.8 (36)
      Nick Palmer
    • Winner

        Good Stuff

      7.3 (16)
      Alex Appel

    Independent Short Subject-Film & Video - Dramatic-Original

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Woman X

      8.1 (39)
      Evan Richards
    • [object Object]
      Winner

        The Last Frontier

      6.1 (28)
      Bob Hercules

    Independent Short Subject-Film & Video - Historical

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        The Great Desert Railroad Race

      Ted Faye

    Independent Short Subject-Film & Video - Live Action-Narrative

    • Winner

        The Quarry

      7.8 (68)
      Greg Chwerchak
      Gabrielle Berberich

    Independent Student Film & Video - College Level Student Productions

    • Winner

        A Long Road to Travel

      Markus Davids
    • Winner

        Remote

      Ethan Tobman

    Independent Student Film & Video - Graduate Level Student Productions

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Moosh

      8.8 (21)
      Erez Tadmor

    Screenplays - Dramatic-Adaptation

    • Todd Baker
      Winner
      • Todd Baker
      For "Call Me Angel"

    Screenplays - Romance

    • Edward Jordon
      Winner
      • Edward Jordon
      For "Robbi's Angel".
    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Dog

      7.2 (418)
      Suzie Templeton

    Special Jury Award

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    Best Cinematography in a Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Baba's House

      6.7 (7)
      Stan Barua

    Best Director

    • Jon C. Scheide
      Winner
      • Jon C. Scheide
      • The Rose Technique

    Film & Video Production - Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Scene Smoking: Cigarettes, Cinema & the Myth of Cool

      4.0 (85)
      Terry Moloney

    Independent Experimental Film & Video - Dramatic

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Casablanca

      7.5 (58)
      Mike Saenz
    • Winner

        That Brief Moment

      Geoffrey J. Felder

    Independent Short Subject-Film & Video - Dramatic-Original

    • Winner

        Life's Calling

      Kerry Logan
    • Winner

        Empty

      7.7 (25)
      Jared Micah Herman

    Independent Student Film & Video - College Level Student Productions

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Quiet

      6.3 (37)
      Michael Chukerman

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Witness to Hope: The Life of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II

      7.9 (109)
    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Deza-Femijet (Kosovo 2000)

      8.1 (61)
      Ferenc Moldoványi

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Suspense/Thriller

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Briar Patch

      5.4 (1.4K)
      Zev Berman

    Career Achievement Award

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    • JoBeth Williams
      Winner
      • JoBeth Williams

    Gold Remi Award

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    Best Dramatic Original Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        The Missing Piece

    Independent Student Film & Videos - Graduate Level Student Productions

    • Winner

        Revival

      Meghna Haldar

    Bronze Remi Award

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    Best Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Baking Lessons

      Lisa Porter(director)
      Pope Productions

    Independent Short Subject-Films & Video - Documentary (Under 60 Minutes)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Why Can't We Be a Family Again?

      7.4 (82)
      Roger Weisberg(director)
      Murray Nossel(director)
      Francisco La Torre(sound)

    Platinum Remi Award

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    Animated

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Horses on Mars

      6.6 (133)
      Eric Law Anderson

    Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        A Brooklyn Family Tale

      8.2 (9)
      Roger Weisberg(director)
      Murray Nossel(director)

    TV & Cable Production - TV Series

    • [object Object]
      Winner

        Monster Hunters

      5.5 (18)
      Peter von Puttkamer
      Sheera Von Puttkamer
      Gryphon Productions

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    • WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival

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    Event date

    April 5, 2002 - April 14, 2002

    Event location

    Houston, Texas, USA

    Event links

    • http://www.worldfest.org/

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