Thanks to all who came out to 3fest today! The winners, selected by audience ballot, are:
Best Film: Rafael!
Best film for kids by a grown-up: Live Outside the Box
Best film by a kid: The Hunt
You can see descriptions of these films below, and descriptions of their winnings above (PRIZES).
Click to see a few other films from the fest:
Reflection,
Touch
Loss of Taste
Demon Story
Description of Accepted Films - Little 3
Little 3 - 11:00-11:40 a.m.
By kids
DICKENSON STUDENTS (5th grade)
Butterfly Life Cycle - Hailey Bauer (Documentary,
:51, South Bend, IN) Explains how butterflies grow.
The Star & Planets - Katera Jefferies (Claymation, :55, South Bend, IN) Clay sky.
The Diary Of A Wimpy Kid - Cheese Touch – Romero Frison, 11 years old, Beronica Centeno, Brianna Robinson, Denise Smith, Samantha Mangus, (Adaptation, 1:58m, South Bend, IN) After the novel by Jeff Kinney.
In Trouble - Bethany Ryman, Dorian Boatright & Savannah Jones (13 years old ) - (Claymation, :58, South Bend, IN) Tiger goes to jail.
Monster Truck Kills Shark - Dakota Rhoades - (Claymaytion, :24, South Bend, IN) Death by flattening.
Pig & Wolf - Dorian Boatright - (Claymation, :11, South Bend, IN) Pink pig fights gray wolf.
My License – Elizabeth Herrick, 12 years old (Animation, 1:28m,
Plantation, FL) Underage driving antics.
Lego Pirate Battle - Gabriel Fowler, 11 years old (Stop motion, 2:54m,
Granger, IN) Comrades attempt rescue of imprisoned fellow Lego-man.
Magic Maniacs– Lola Chalmers-Dibbell, 10, & Sofia L.,
11 years old (Stop motion, 2:00m, South
Bend, IN) Child magicians make things and siblings appear and disappear.
CHAIRco – Devyn
Dowls & Kaitlyn Rutledge (Mock Advertisement, 1:00m, South Bend, IN). The
insurance industry through a child’s eyes.
Comedians of Success - Bradley
Lyons, Jaheim Harris, Omarria Hughes, Alhji Karbo, Akim Glover of the Dr. Ronald McNair Elementary School with Joanna White-Oldham (Comedy, 2:12m,
Brooklyn, NY) Boy dreams of making it big.
(Older kid audience)
The Hunt -
Gabriel DeAngelis, 9 years old (Horror, 2:30m, Salt Lake City, UT) Child monster
hunters.
Demon Story – Lola
Chalmers-Dibbell & Jessica Peri Chalmers
(Horror, 1:57m, South Bend, IN) Girl
gets captured by unknown backyard forces.
Zombie Movie – 3rd and 4th-grade
students at the Perley Fine Arts Academy & Jessica Peri Chalmers (Horror, 1:27m,
South Bend, IN) School kids fight zombies on the playground.
By adults
iPorter & Dim Bulb– Jonathan
Lyons (Animation, 4:00m, San Rafael, CA) Two near-escape adventures starring
the same janitor character, Floyd the Android.
*Bean Society - Jotoni (Animation, 2:14m, Madrid, Spain) See
above.
*Monday - Eric Swartz/ Sarah Bolton
(Music video, 1:27m, Memphis, TN)
See above.
Keenan at Sea – Jeremy Galante and David Cowles (Music video/Animation, 2:04m, Chagrin Falls, OH)
Rowboat voyage with hungry dog and two hungry girls. As time passes, each begins to see the others
as dinner.
*Hungry Kitty–
ASM Kobayashi (:30m, New York, NY) See above.
*Hide and Seek
– Aminder Dhaliwal (Animation, 2:37m, Ontario,
CA) See above.
alas it is only winter – Krista Hamlen
(Animation, 2:22m, East Amherst, NY) A man who craves change doesn’t notice the
changes around him.
The Wonders of the World – Jeremy Dickie-Clardy (Drama, 2:52m,
Dallas, TX) A girl confined to a
wheelchair gives others a lesson in wonder.
*Live Outside the Box - Shu Hsuan Lin (Animation, 4:16m, San
Francisco, CA) See above.
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* Playing at both Little & Big
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Descriptions of Accepted Films - Big 3
Big 3 - 1:00 - 1:40 pm
First Date – Cynthia Granville (2:13m, Weehawken, NJ) Is honesty always the best policy? Guy responds to opener “so tell me about yourself” with total candor.
*Hide and Seek – Aminder Dhaliwal (Animation, 2:37m, Ontario, CA) A dinosaur hides underwater from his dinosaur friend as part of a game. When he finally emerges, it’s 65 million years later.
Bed of Moss– Kurtis Hough (Experimental, 2:44m, Portland, OR) A lyrical, music-driven look at the peculiar green dewy beauty of moss.
Loss of Taste– Luca Nestola (Experimental, 2:37m, San Vito dei Normanni, Italy) An Italian couple’s banal daily meal is animated by memory and old wine.
Cat Food – Tom Radovich (Comedy, 2:00m, Monroe Center, IL) Guy comes home to pet. One of them is REALLY hungry.
The Forest– Zachary Kerschberg (Drama, 3:56m, New York, NY) What happens in the forest after a dog is mistakenly run over.
Cliffstarter– Nolan Cubero (Parody, 2:44m, Louisville, KY) Goofy filmmaker pitches his non-script.
Speed of Fencing – Holly Buechel (Experimental, 2:32m, New York, NY) The sport of fencing transformed into dance by the camera’s eye.
Touch - Michael Chickering (Fantasy, 2:56, Lafayette, CA) Boy with grim power wanders town checking names off list.
*Monday - Eric Swartz/ Sarah Bolton (Music video, 1:27m, Memphis, TN) Father gets children ready for the day. Sweet homage to domestic life.
The Reflection – Todd Boruff (Animation, 2:00 m, South Bend, IN) Cartoon girl finds self through curious drug use.
*Bean Society - Jotoni (Animation, 2:14m, Madrid, Spain) Bean species who live among other bean species fight on a precipice. Below? The soup that threatens them all.
La Piñata – Manuel Arija (Comedy, 3:00m, Madrid, Spain) It seemed like a good idea to give a coin to a street performer.
Be the One - Marie Katz (Music video, 3:26m, New York, NY) Video meditation on love, loss and public allure.
Rafael - Caitlin G. Worm (Comedy, 2:59m, South Bend, IN) Girl gets a surprise when she pursues the man of her dreams.
*Live Outside the Box - Shu Hsuan Lin (Animation, 4:16m, San Francisco, CA) High rise devours city until businessman wakes up angry to find that his own house has also been devoured.
*Hungry Kitty– ASM Kobayashi (Split screen mixed media with YouTube cat clip, :30, New York, NY) Kitty rocks bowl. Artist matches YouTube clip with own bowl, cat paw.
The next festival will be held on April 14th, 2012.
We're part of the Riverbend Film festival this year! Info can be found HERE.
This year, Little 3 will be aimed at an audience of kids 12 and under.
Big 3 is for an all-age audience.
This year, Little 3 will be aimed at an audience of kids 12 and under.
Big 3 is for an all-age audience.
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