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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 (29)
      Bettina Wilhelm

    Platinum Award

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

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Blink

      6.6 (193)
      Deborah Vancelette

    Independent Short Subject-Film & Video - Fantasy/Horror

    • Winner

      Out There

      6.1 (28)
      Snowden Bishop

    Independent Student Film & Video - Graduate Level Student Productions

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Thunderbird

      7.4 (23)
      Ward Swan

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Comedy

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Rose Technique

      4.0 (224)
      Jon C. Scheide

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Family/Children

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Children on Their Birthdays

      6.3 (601)
      Mark Medoff

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - First Feature

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Mile Zero

      5.7 (121)
      Andrew Currie

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Suspense/Thriller

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Under the Influence

      6.9 (42)
      Eric Gardner

    Screenplays - Romance

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

    Short Subject Film & Video Awards 2002

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Try

      7.5 (429)
      Jonas Åkerlund

    Television and Cable Production - Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Monster Hunters

      5.1 (17)
      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

      5.1 (17)
      Peter von Puttkamer
      For episode 2.

    Television and Cable Production - TV Special-Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Monster Hunters

      5.1 (17)
      Peter von Puttkamer
      For episode 1.

    Gold Special Jury Award

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    Best Feature

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Zelimo

      5.8 (39)
      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 (19)
      Annette Solakoglu(director)
      New Moon Productions
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Crown of the Continent

      8.5 (32)
      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 (10)
      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

      5.7 (145)
      Donald Bull
    • Winner

      Legalized America

      7.3 (11)
      Michael Ball
    • Winner

      Over My Dead Body

      7.5 (29)
      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

      4.9 (16)
      Feri Hefti

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Dramatic

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Out of the Black

      4.2 (372)
      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

      6.3 (58)
      Douglas Underdahl

    Low Budget - Theatrical

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Be My Valentine

      Yankee Zhou
      Central Motion Picture Corporation

    Music

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Little Dickie

      7.1 (40)
      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

      Twice in a Lifetime

      Episode: 

      Then Love Came Along

      7.0 (364)
      David Winning
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Andromeda

      6.6 (15K)
      David Winning
      For episode "A Heart For Falsehood Framed".
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Earth: Final Conflict

      Episode: 

      Termination

      6.3 (5K)
      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

      3.8 (469)
      David Michael Latt

    Short Subject Film & Video - Horror

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Haunted

      8.9 (18)
      Billy D. Marchese
      Geoffrey O'Brien

    TV Series -- Family/Children

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat

      7.2 (1.5K)
      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

      8.3 (31)
      Joe Woodward
      For episode #22.

    Bronze Award

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    Comedy Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Boy Scout

      6.9 (41)
      Ward Roberts
      Mark Henein
      Cambria Stephens
      Corey Michael Blake
      Christina Mauro
      Bradley Morris

    Film & Video Production - Medical/Health/Fitness

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Semmelweis

      8.2 (29)
      Jim Berry
      Sam Riegel

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

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Portishead - Cowboys

      9.2 (26)
      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 (35)
      Nick Palmer
    • Winner

      Good Stuff

      7.3 (17)
      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 (30)
      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 (66)
      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 (22)
      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 (410)
      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 (89)
      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 (24)
      Jared Micah Herman

    Independent Student Film & Video - College Level Student Productions

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Quiet

      6.3 (38)
      Michael Chukerman

    Independent Theatrical Feature Films - Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

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

      7.9 (107)
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Deza-Femijet (Kosovo 2000)

      8.2 (62)
      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?

      7.3 (80)
      Roger Weisberg(director)
      Murray Nossel(director)
      Francisco La Torre(sound)

    Platinum Remi Award

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    Animated

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Horses on Mars

      6.7 (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

      5.1 (17)
      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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