The Cinema City panel of judges is proud to announce the December 2009 Festival Winners. “Our judges, all professionals within the industry, read and review all of our festival entries. We are looking for projects that entertain, inspire, shock and invoke humor, raw emotion as well as contained good storytelling.”
Ofer Pedut was honored for his Best Short Film, “Dimensional Meltdown”. Ofer was born in Haifa, Israel and attended a school called, “Minshar for Art" in Tel-Aviv. Ofer likes making movies and watching sci-fi action and futuristic movies. He edits his films in a “clippie” style. His hobbies are Electronic Music, 60's Rock Music, Football - AC Milan, Aliens UFO's, Space and Physics, Robots and fantastic Machines. Ofer has lived in South America, Sweden and currently lives in Tel Aviv.
About “Dimensional Meltdown” Sometime in the near future. In three parallel universes, the girlfriend dies in each one, the guys can’t take the loss. With unsecured technology that accidentally makes its way into the wide public, they decide to go for a ride to another parallel universe - our universe, in which the girl is still alive. Pedut did it as a final movie for his first year in film school. It took two and half days to shoot, and month to edit.
Daniel D. Molinoff was presented the Gold Award for Best Screenplay “Bakker’s Dozen”. Molinoff has a B.A. from Colgate University, an M.S. in journalism from UCLA and a J.D. from Hofstra Law School. A former Madison Avenue copywriter, his articles, short stories and poetry have appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines, literary reviews and anthologies nationwide. Recently his screenplays have won awards at the Moondance International Film Festival and the Los Angeles Reel Film Festival. Molinoff is married and the father of three children. He lives in Larchmont, New York where he is a trial lawyer.
About “Bakker’s Dozen”. The story centers around an orphaned 12 year old boy and his 8 year old sister who are scheduled to inherit a series of famous paintings, titled “Bakkers Dozen”. The paintings, done by their late grandfather is key to the plot; survival attempts on their lives by an ex Baltimore Police Detective and the Art Curator of the Baltimore Museum.
Janyce Lapore won Best Screenplay for “Ten Minutes to Paradise”. Lapore was nominated for “The Arthur Rosenfeld Award for Excellence in Writing and the Ability to Tell an Outstanding Story” at the 2008 Action on Film International Film Festival in Los Angeles. In addition she won the Hollywood Scriptwriting Award for the “Written Word”. She is also an Broadway playwright published in English, German and Dutch. As a new screenwriter, her scripts “Screaming My Heart Out, Poppytown and 10 Minutes From Paradise”, have all won major film festival awards.
About “Ten Minutes From Paradise”: 3 friends live a desperate existence in New York City until they stumble across a glimmer of hope that ends in an explosive life or death situation which catapults this wild and touching trio into an unexpected paradise. Billy, Jerry and Sherry leave Cleveland, Ohio to "score big" in New York City. Billy and Sherry are lovers, and Jerry, their lifelong friend, is gay.
Nicole Yuhas won Best Television Pilot for “Dig It Live”. Yuhas grew up in upstate New York and trained as an actor at The Groundlings Theater before working at Jersey Films. She joined the UCLA Extension Television and Film Writing Certificate program. She began to shape her life experiences into uniquely evocative film and television projects – often related to or inspired by music. Recently, she won several film festival awards for “Dig It Live,” a comedy series that goes behind-the-scenes at the New York TV studio that pioneered music television during the era of “sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll”
About “Dig It Live”: a story is about a rookie New York City Film crew who pioneers music TV a decade before MTV, drawing on the elements of what makes reality TV come alive.
“We are extremely pleased by the number of excellent submissions we’ve received since the launch of our online festival”.
Suzanne DeLaurentiis, co-founder of the Online Festival.
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