2019 Winners
2019 Movie Music Competition Winner
Best Theme From A Comedy
“He’s A Beautiful Boy (Theme from Lil’ Balzac)”
Composer: Jan van Oene
Performed by: Jan van Oene, Evan Lincoln, and Shannon Burke
Best Orchestration from a Documentary
“World Water Puerto Rico – Main Theme”
Composer: Kenneth Blaine
Performed by: Kenneth Blaine
Best Theme from a Home Grown Feature
“The Hospital Room”
Composers: Alan Parness & Larry Weissblum
Performed by: The Stonebridge Jammers
Best Orchestration from an Animation
“Never Give Up“
Composed, orchestrated and conducted by: Sandrine Rudaz
Performed by: Seattle Studio Musicians
Best Musical Score from a Short
“Circus Fantasy”
Composer: Kevin Stahl
Conducted by: Kevin Stahl
Best Musical Score from a Feature
“Fox Medicine”
Composer : Josh Coffey and Otto Sharp
Performed by: Josh Coffey, Otto Sharp, Stephen Montgomery
Home Grown Alternative Rock
“How the Hell am I Getting Home?”
Performed by: Milan & The Sour Goat
Best Ballad From a Short
“Wild One” (The Ballad of Brando)
Composer: Philip Curcuru
Performed by: The Atomik Age Project
Best Pop Song
“Far Away Places”
Composer: Toni Cornell
Performed by: Toni Cornell
Best Orchestration From An Animated Short
“Skip Rescues Pip”
Composer: Cristina “Trinity” Vélez-Justo
Best Musical form a Home Grown Student Film – Elementary School
“MP News Theme”
Composer: Robert Shiffman
Best Home Grown Pop Duet
“Theme from That’s Life”
2019 Screenplay Winner
The Garden State Film Festival Screenplay Competition was instituted to recognize the importance of the writer as the foundation for a really great film. Our goal is to shine a spotlight on this year’s winning screenplay, host a live stage reading by professional actors.
2019 WINNER IS:
A Brooklyn Christmas
by: Drew Henriksen
GSFF is happy to announce Drew Henriksen as the 2019 GSFF Screenplay Competition with “A Brooklyn Christmas”.
Drew who is an accomplished writer of both novels, as well as award winning short films. He has supplemented his income by supervising a lab, teaching high school, as well as showing off his black belt in martial arts as a stunt work and fight coordinator in several films.
“A Brooklyn Christmas” is set on Christmas Eve when suave wise guy, Tony C., loses his life saving a young boy from being hit by a truck. He finds himself before Saint Peter who has taken the form of a dentist. In the heavenly office, we meet Horatio, a bungling apprentice angel. After his judgment, Tony and Horatio are sent back down to Brooklyn to help guide a young fireman Jerry, through the season after losing his beloved wife.
What happens next ..well join us for the screenplay reading on Saturday March 30th at 12:00noon in the Oval Room 2nd Fl. Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel to find out!
The Screenplay Reading is FREE with the suggested donation of the purchase of a screening block ticket $15 to be used over the GSFF weekend.
The Garden State Screenwriting Competition is proud to announce a partnership with InkTip, where writers connect with industry professionals every day.
A prize package of one (1) InkTip Script Listing and one (1) InkTip Magazine listing for your grand prize winner of the Donna Rothstein Screenwriting Award and a prize package of one (1) InkTip Script Listing for your top five (5) finalists to assist in providing them exposure for their scripts. InkTip Script Listings provide writers with the opportunity to get their scripts read by InkTip’s extensive network of producers, reps, manager, agents, and other qualified industry professionals.
This event is sponsored in part by:
2019 Film Winners
Narrative Feature
“Burning Kentucky”
Bethany Brooke Anderson, Ben Fuqua, Elsa Ramo and Ryan Lacen, Producers
Bethany Brooke Anderson, Director
International Narrative Feature
“The Bird Catcher”
Lisa Black and Leon Clarence, Producers
Ross Clarke, Director
M. Carroll Raver Award for Cinematography
John Christian Rosenlund
“The Bird Catcher”
Horror Feature
“Clinton Road”
Steve Stanulis, Richard Grieco and Noel Ashman, Producers
Steve Stanulis and Richard Grieco, Directors
Narrative Short
“Missed”
Niels Neeskens and Fokke Baarssen, Producers
Fokke Baarssen, Director
Science Fiction Short
“The Beacon”
Chris Staehler, Christopher P. Purdy and Thomas Haley-Hermiz, Producers
Chris Staehler, Director
Lou Costello Award for Comedy Short
“Swung”
Keith Armonaitis and Fokke Baarssen, Producers
Fokke Baarssen, Director
International Narrative Short
“Are You Volleyball?”
(Iran)
Nima Rabiei, Producer
Mohammad Bakhshi, Director
International Comedy Short
“Kapital”
(Russia)
Ivan Perekatov and Natalia Bannikova, Producers
Ivan Perekatov, Director
Emanuel “Manny” Berlingo Award for Best Feature Length Documentary
“Funny You Never Knew”
Andrew Hunt, Producer/Director
Short Documentary
“One Less Flight”
Jennifer Hahn and Alan Goldsher, Producer
Jennifer Hahn, Director
International Short Documentary
“Portrait of the Milliner as yer man himself”
(Ireland/Canada)
Godfrey Jordan, Producer/Director
Animated Short
“Two Balloons”
Mark C. Smith, Producer/Director
Teresa Drilling, Naomi Fish, Wendy Fuller, Beth Gavigan, Javan Ivey,
Misha Klein, Sihanouk Mariona, Vanessa Pridgen, Bartiek Prusiewicz
and Suzanne Twining, Animators
Commercial
“Art of Play”
Dan Buck and Dave Buck, Producers
Homer Liwag, Director
Web Series/New Media
“Hooked”
Brittany Portman, Producer
Anthony Patellis, Director
Music Video
“Waiting Tables”
Sakinah Iman, Producer
Evan Seplow and Sakinah Iman, Directors
Trailer
“Shady Glen”
Ron Harner, Director
Feature – College
“Olympia”
(DePaul University)
Elliott Lonsdale, Lucy Lola Manda and Gregory Dixon, Producers
Gregory Dixon, Director
Narrative Short – College
“The Chrysalis”
(Quinnipiac University)
Matt Kravitsky, Richard Olsen and Ross Cohen, Producers
Matt Kravitsky, Director
Documentary Short – College
“Reberth”
(Rowen University)
Montana Marose, Peter Chamalian and Tyler Kubicz, Producers
Peter Chamalian, Director
International Narrative Short – College
“Toward the Sun”
(London School of Film)
Rosa Santis, Producer
Monica Santis, Director
Narrative Short – High School
“Grab Him by the-”
(Interlochen Arts Academy, MI)
Lane McKenna, Director
Documentary Short – High School
“Inclusion on the Air”
(Mamaroneck High School, NY)
Eli Canter, Director
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
“The Incoherents”
Alex Emanuel, Jared Barel, Jeff Auer and Jordan Barel, Producers
Jared Barel, Director
Home Grown Documentary Feature
“Roadie My Documentary”
TJ Hoffmann, Producer
Andy Strohl, Director
Home Grown Short
“Scar”
Alison Hale, Jo Sanford, David Ramirez and Spencer Bacon, Producers
Alison Hale, Director
Home Grown Comedy Short
“Masters”
Mark Ward and Shannon Meehan, Producers
Mark Ward, Director
Home Grown Documentary Short
“First Steps”
Lou Marillier, Chloe Mamelok and Sara Obeidat, Producers
Lou Marillier and Chloe Mamelok, Directors
Home Grown Music Video
“Everybody Said”
Brian Ostering, Producer
Amanda Duncan, Director
Home Grown Commercial
Nike Spec Commercial “Can’t Catch the Dark”– 126 (38)
Jordan Hidalgo, Director
Home Grown Student Short – College
“Catalina”
(Montclair)
Afrotwin Productions and Paola Ossa, Producers
Poala Ossa, Director
Home Grown Student Documentary Short – High School
“Sonic Highways Middletown”
(Middletown South High School)
Keeley Giblin, Jolene Gianone and Toria Pater, Directors
Home Grown Student Short – High School
“Tillie”
(Fieldston)
Olivia Anton, Writer/Director
Home Grown Student Short – High School Honorable Mention
“The Art of Observation”
(Howell High School)
Annie Fleisch, Director
Home Grown Student PSA – High School
“Are you Enough”(Communications High School)
Summer Ward, Director
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