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UNCG CAROLINA FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL WINNERS ANNOUNCED
 
GREENSBORO — The 17-minute documentary film "Last Request" by Tom Hodges of Los Angeles, CA, received the Kodak Best Cinematography Award during the 2001 Carolina Film and Video Festival, held March 14-17 at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Hodges' film about a victim forced to dig his own grave by his potential killer when the two oddly enough develop a strange sort of relationship, won the filmmaker $1,000 in Kodak film stock.
This year's first place and second place winners received $250 and $100 cash prizes. This year's category winners were:

Narrative Drama Category
1st Place  -  "Last Request" by Tom Hodges, Los Angeles;
2nd Place  -  "Tea With Grandma" by Jonathan Fahn, Los Angeles;

Narrative Comedy Category
1st Place - "Karl's in a Coma" by Karl Hirsch, Los Angeles;
2nd Place - "My Chorus" by Richard Doherty, University of Southern California, Los Angeles;

Documentary
1st Place - "When the Bough Breaks" by Jill Petzall, St. Louis, MI;
2nd Place - "Melvin", by Jim Sharkey, Asheboro;

Experimental/Animation
1st Place - "Triptych" by Robert Arnold of Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton;
2nd Place -  "Transit" by UNCG students Kris Saintsing of Thomasville; Jumanah Qubain, Raleigh; and Cory Schnaible of Dennisport, MA;

A new category added this year was the Festival Staff Award. The winners, who also received small cash prizes, were: "The Odyssey" by Mike Wilkins, a high school senior from Phoenix, AZ; and "2MT" by Ramsey Denison, Spokane, WA.

Those awarded Honor Mentions were: Ramsey Denison, Spokane, WA; Chiara Edmands, Los Angeles; Zsuzsanna Varga, Oakland, CA.; Judith LeBlanc and Noel Rabinovitz, New York City.

The festival, sponsored by the UNCG Department of Broadcasting and Cinema, is a showcase for independent film and video works by students and independent filmmakers from around the country. It has grown into a showcase for national and international students and artists and provides viewing experiences not available in local venues. Films of all genres were represented including animation, documentary, experimental and narrative. This year's festival directors were Chad Phillips and Chelsea Wayant.

Festival judges were Rothman, author of several books including the landmark study "Hitchcock-The Murderous Gaze" and "Documentary Film Classics". He is also editor of the "Studies in Film" series, published by Cambridge University Press. Other judges were Richard Brett, independent filmmaker, screenwriter and professor of film at St. Andrews College and Kitty Morgan, documentary filmmaker and distributor as well as a pioneer documentary independent.

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