ANIMATION CATEGORY Best Animation - $250 - Best Music Video - $250 - Director’s Choice - INTERNATIONAL FILM CATEGORY Best Int’l Short - PUERTO RICO FILM CATEGORY - (All Puerto Rican Shorts and Feature Films in our Festival will be submitted free directly to our Sister Festival – ranked as one of the top 12 Film Festivals in the United States – Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival) 
2008 AWARD WINNERS
Shark Suit The Musical – Dir. Stephen Neary
Director’s Choice -
Once Upon a Christmas Village - Dir. Michael Attardi
MUSIC VIDEO CATEGORY
Gone (Bill Madden) – Dir. Andrew David Watson
Ode to Peace and Love - Dir. John Ponton
Audience Choice Award –
Revolution - Dir. Aled Ordu
Manon sur le bitumen (
Dir. Elizabeth Marre & Olivier Pont
Best Int’l Documentary -
Knowledge is the Beginning (
Dir. Paul Smaczny
Best Int’l Feature - $500 -
Blood Ties (
Best P.R. Student Film - $250 –
Secuestro – Dir. Carlos Gamarra
Best P.R. Short Film - $250 –
De Pura Cepa – Dir. Javier
Best P.R. Documentary - $500 –
The Borinqueneers – Dir. Noemi Figueroa Soulet
Best P.R. Feature - $500 –
Mi Verano con Amanda – Dir. Benjamin Lopez
STUDENT FILM CATEGORY
Best Student Film – $250 -
Light Years – Dir. Richard Martin
Director’s Choice –
24 Frames – Dir. Brad Pattullo
Audience Choice Award –
Chicken Man – Dir. Christopher Restrepo
SHORT FILM CATEGORY
Best Short Film - $500 -
Die Flugbegleiteren - Dir. Marcin Glowacki
Director’s Choice -
Beautiful Scenery in Guangxi - Dir. Wen Tian
Audience Choice Award -
Beautiful Scenery in Guangxi - Dir. Wen Tian
Best Documentary - $500 -
Strictly Background - Dir. Jason Connell
Director’s Choice - TIE - 2 Winners -
Feast of The Assumption - Dir. Marc Levitz
The Motivator - Dir. Dan Perez
Audience Choice Award Feature Doc -
Strictly Background - Dir. Jason Connell
Audience Choice Award Short Doc -
Any Given Morning - Dir. Laurel Hughes
SPANISH LANGUAGE FILM CATEGORY
Best Spanish Language Documentary - $250 -
When Clouds Clear (
Dir. Ann Slick & Danielle Bernstein
Best Spanish Language Feature - $500 -
Under The Snow (
Dir. Candela Figueira & Maitena Muruzabal
BEST OF THE FEST
Best Actor -
Joel Contreras (
Best Actress -
Laura De Pedro (
Director’s Choice -
One California Day - Dir. Mark Jeremies & Jason Baffa
Best Mockudrama & 2nd Place Audience Choice-
Long Pigs - Dir. Chris Powers & Nathan Hynes
Best Feature Film / Best of the Fest - $1000 -
The Flyboys – Dir. Rocco DeVilliers
Audience Choice Award –
Mi Verano con Amanda – Dir. Benjamin Lopez
SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Filmmaker Scholarship Award for a Student with natural talents. An eye for filmmaking, that with training and development we see as being able to go very far in this field. The scholarship is to be used for Classes or Equipment.
$500 - Christopher Restrepo - “Chicken Man”