2007 Charlotte Film Festival
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Congratulations to all 2007 Award Winners!!!

We thank all the filmmakers who submitted their film(s) to our second annual film festival. The competition was fierce, still, both our judges and our audience had to pick their favorites. And so they did. Below is a list of the chosen films.

Jury Award Winners: Blackbird | Mountain Top Removal | The Visitors | The 5:22
Audience Choice Award Winners: Body/Antibody | Come Walk In My Shoes | Harvest | The Little Gorilla


Audience Award Winners receive a one-year free subscription to "InfoSource Silver", a $720 value, courtesy of Baseline Studio Systems.

InfoSource Silver is a comprehensive online database for professionals working in feature film development, production, distribution, or artist representation. Maintained and updated by the same full time research staff as The Studio System, InfoSource Silver represents the most cost-effective film and representation data available in the market today.

Audience and Jury award winners also qualify to have their film play on the
Time Warner Cable
Charlotte Film Festival On-Demand Channel. The channel, as well as the winning films, will be available free of charge to TWC's digital cable subscribers.


Jury Award Winners

Indie Film Force Award
BLACK BIRD
(USA, 2007, 108 min.)

Director: Adam Rapp
Producer: Bruce Romans
Screenwriter: Adam Rapp
Blackbird unfolds in mid-1990s Manhattan. The picture dramatizes the ill-fated courtship between two melancholic heroin addicts - Gulf War veteran Bayliss and ex-stripper Froggy - as they fall in love and battle magnetizing addictions. The possibility of redemption waxes strong from time to time, with hope for some semblance of a “normal life” lingering quietly in the background, but Bayliss and Froggy never quite seem to find the strength and control to pull everything together. And in the end, they join one another on a downward spiral that leads inexorably toward mutual self-destruction.

Indie Truth Award
Mountain Top Removal
(USA, 2006, 56 min.)

Director: Michael Cusack O'Connell
Producer: Michael Cusack O'Connell

Across Southern Appalachia, mountaintop removal coal mining is leveling forests destroying communities and
threatening water supplies so that all of us can enjoy cheap electricity.

This compelling documentary film explores an issue we should all be concerned about. The film features interviews
with coal industry officials, citizen conservation groups, scientists, physicians and coal field activists including Larry
Gibson, Maria Gunnoe, Ed Wiley, Julia Bonds and Jeff Goodell, author of Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future.

Indie Spirit Award
The Visitors "Die Besucher"
(Germany, 2006, 39 min.)

Director: Ulrike Molsen
Producer: Ulrike Molsen
Screenwriter: Ulrike Molsen

While her boyfriend is away on business, a woman’s good intentions put her in danger when she hosts a couple in
trouble. Very quickly the visitors take control of the apartment, involving the woman in contradictory and dangerous lies pushing her to the edge of her sanity.

Indie Hope Award
The 5:22
(USA, 2006, 21 min.)

Director: Bernadette Demisay
Producer: Samantha Sanders
Screenwriter: Bernadette Demisay

Except for the occasional blind date set up for him by a female colleague at work, it suits shy mechanical engineer Walter Mason just fine to retreat to his apartment each evening to work on his book of Impossible Objects and listen to shortwave radio. But a chance event reveals something surprising about a woman in the brightly colored head scarves
he passes wordlessly getting off the train each night. When the woman disappears, he becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to her, only to find himself in a suddenly strange world in which all that is familiar turns against him and which his analytical mind is powerless to comprehend

Audience Choice Award Winners


Audience Award Winners receive a one-year free subscription to "InfoSource Silver", a $720 value, courtesy of Baseline Studio Systems.

InfoSource Silver is a comprehensive online database for professionals working in feature film development, production, distribution, or artist representation. Maintained and updated by the same full time research staff as The Studio System, InfoSource Silver represents the most cost-effective film and representation data available in the market today.


Vote Score: 4.6 (Max. 5.0)

Body/Antibody
(USA, 2006, 98 min.)

Screenwriter, Co-director, Co-Producer: Kerry Douglas Dye
Producer, Co-Director: Jordan Hoffman

Kip Polyard (Robert Gomes) suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and hasn't left his rent-controlled Manhattan apartment in 10 months. When the beautiful Celine moves in across the hall, Kip finally opens his door ... to romance. But when Celine's jealous ex-boyfriend shows up, Kip realizes that he's let in more than he bargained for. Body/Antibody is a dark comedy thriller that keeps audiences guessing until the very last scene .

Vote Score: 4.92 (Max. 5.0)

Come Walk In My Shoes
(USA, 2007, 60 min.)

Director: Robin Smith
Producer: Robin Smith
Screenwriter: Robin Smith

Civil rights pioneer John Lewis revisits the churches, parks and bridges where he played a pivotal role in the struggle for equality and voting rights in the segregated south.

Vote Score: 4.48 (Max. 5.0)

Harvest
(USA, 2006, 23 min.)

Director: R. Keith Harris
Producer: Tom Lambeth
Screenwriter: R. Keith Harris

A life of a simple farm hand takes a turn for the worst when an acquaintance returns home.

Vote Score: 4.24 (Max. 5.0)

The Little Gorilla
(USA, 2007, 12 min.)

Director: Harry Kellerman
Producer: Harry Kellerman
Screenwriter: Harry Kellerman
A boy must unleash his inner King Kong in order to conquer fear and climb a jungle gym looming in the shadows of Manhattan's skyscrapers.


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