Awards were given out in 4 Major Categories:
2008 Festival Awards
2008 Home Grown Award
2008 Music Competition Winners
2008 Home Grown Music Competition Winners
2008 Festival photos are available now
2008 Festival Awards
Feature
The Flyboys
Dark Coast Pictures
Rocco DeVilliers
The Bud Abbott Award for Feature Length Comedy
The Sublet
No Logik Films
Georgiana Nestor
M. Carroll Raver Award for Cinematography
The Flyboys
Jim Orr
Short (TIE)
Hold On
Doug Olear
&
Hearts Of Desire
Loren Haynes
Lou Costello Award for Comedy Short
Driving Lesson
May Sky Entertainment
C. Fraser Press
International Short
Wednesday
Future Time Pictures
Rob Sorrenti
Family Short
Highlights
Mary Novak
International Family Short
Ruby Who?
Hailey Bartholomew
Student Short
The Windfisherman
Anna McRoberts
“The Dead Batteries Award”
For Marketing Genius
The Ninja Always Rings Once
Stoic Pictures, Inc.
Christopher Genovese
The Emanuel “Manny” Berlingo Award
For Feature Length Documentary Filmmaking
Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Edition
David Stein/Vanessa Arico
International Documentary - Feature Lengths
Orange Chronicles
DK Productions
Damian Kolody
Feature Length Documentary Broader Vision Award
The Road Home
Tell Their Story Films, LLC
Phil Hopper
Multi Media Award
Dialogue
EvolveArts, Inc.
Michael Garabaldi-Frick
Documentary - Short (TIE)
The Legends Behind The Comic Books
Stonebridge Productions LLC
Chip Cronkite
&
4 Chosen
Starline Films
Jon Doscher
Family Documentary – Feature Length
Motown High
Aarrow Productions, Inc.
Barbara Hager
Cell Animation - short
Shuteye Hotel
Plymptoons
Bill Plympton
Animation CGI
Snowtime
Axis Animation
Dana Dorian
Music Video (TIE)
I Dream In Stereo
Ken Glaser
&
Can You See Us
Matthew Kosinski
International Music Video
Portuguese Skies
Tu Meke Productions Ltd.
Andrew Hunt
"Siempre Pude Ver"
LiveTribe Productions
Gary Ravenscroft
Broader Vision Award – Music Video
The Cow Project: We Can Change Our World
Michael Licisyn
PSA
Clean Ocean Action
Edvantage Media, Inc.
Grace Hanlon
Commercial
Snack Support
Sam Littenberg-Weisberg
Student - Animation
A Faery’s Tale
Sylvia Apostol
The Garden State Film Festival would like to recognize films shot in the State of New Jersey with the following winners in the “Home Grown Award” categories:
Home Grown Feature (TIE)
Greetings From The Shore
Greg Chwerchak
&
Rock The Paint
Wren Court Films
Dallas Mitchell Brennan
Home Grown Horror
Leeds Point
Santo Scardillo
Home Grown Short
Escape From Fire
Joel Dunn
Home Grown Feature Length Documentary
The Flight of Emillio Carranza
Robert Emmons
Home Grown Documentary - Short
Roots Unknown
Zara Phillips
Home Grown Animation Short
Keep This Coupon
Bruce Knapp
Home Grown Music Video
Hipster Girl
Mixed Nuts Productions
Michael Licisyn
High School Student - Short
Contact
Matthew Caruso
High School Student - Short Documentary
How To Avoid Awkward Situations
Nick Chirumbolo
The Garden State Film Festival Movie Music Competition Winners:
BEST MUSIC IN A FEATURE
Juan Frances
Amy French and Spencer John French
BEST VOCAL MUSIC IN A SHORT
Hearts Of Desire
BEST SHORT SCORE
KIYALA
KIMBERLY AND DEREK COLEMAN PRODUCERS
BEST SCORE IN A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Nuremberg
Michael St. John Composer
BEST INTERNATIONAL SCORE
La Regn Di Fanes
Susy Rottonara Writer
AND NOW THE HOME GROWN MUSIC AWARDS...
BEST MUSIC IN A FEATURE
Rock The Paint
Song: Hip Hop in the Morning
Alan Boxer and Carl Restivo Producers
BEST MUSIC IN FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
Snake Hill
Song: Remembrance Lullaby
Matt Diamond Composer
BEST MUSIC IN A SHORT
Escape From the Fire
BEST MUSIC IN A MUSIC VIDEO
C.O.W. Project We Can Change the World
Deb Chamberlin, Eileen Lucarini & Robert Wynn
Garden State Screenplay Competition
Hat Trick
Robert Gately
Pick Of the Flicks (TIE)
Leeds Point
Santo Scardillo
&
Greetings From The Shore
Greg Chwerchak
Honorees:
Lifetime Achievement Award for Acting:
Lou Costello
Lifetime Achievement Award for Screenplay Writing:
Budd Schulberg
Broader Vision Award for Filmmaking Dedicated to the Greater Good:
Kate Carter, LifeChronicles
The Robert Pastorelli Rising Star Award for Acting:
Kevin Interdanoto