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YFEN
Annual Film Contest
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2005 Film Contest Winners
142 young filmmakers from around the country submitted extraordinary films in response to the query, Does Free Speech Matter?
1st Place: Riley Harmon, "Carbon Nation" (click here to visit Riley's website)
2nd Place: Robert Hornung, "Today"
3rd Place: Cameron Loftus, "Freedom in a Word, in a Line, in a Poem for America"
(click a film title for streaming video; right-click to download)
Semi-Finalists
Jonathan Marlow, The Right to Sing, documentary
Clifford Seth Parker, Outspoken, experimental
Gabriel Rhenals, Does Free Speech Matter?, narrative fiction
Anson Poe, The Senior Video, documentary
Mia Johnson, Speak Up! It's Your Right, documentary
Casey Lyle Warren, Never Be Silenced, experimental
Shan Liljestrand, Freedom of Speech, documentary
Keely Ernst, FRE*#DOM @f SP^*CH, experimental
Judges
Paola di Florio, an independent filmmaker based in Los Angeles, set up her own production banner Counterpoint Films in 1996. She recently produced the TV series Directors on Directors (featuring unique portraits of Hollywood's most celebrated auteurs, including Sydney Pollack, Robert Altman, Michael Mann, and others) for Telepiu/Canal Plus and directed and produced her first feature-length documentary Speaking in Strings. It premiered in competition at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and picked up several other festival awards, including the Jury Prize at the 1999 Newport Film Festival and Best Documentary at Paramount Studio's WIN Femme Film Festival. All of which culminated in an Academy Award nomination in 2000. Speaking in Strings was theatrically released in 22 cities and aired nationally on HBO..
Joseph Holliday is one of the founding members of The Static Consciousness Film Group, one of the leading surrealist art groups in Los Angeles. Joe was also one of the winners of last years YFEN Film Contest. He is currently working on his first feature length film.
Sarah Kernochan's first film Marjoe won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1973. She has written many films including Nine and ½ Weeks, Dancers, Impromptu, Sommersby, What Lies Beneath. In 2000 she wrote and directed the feature All I Wanna Do starring Kirsten Dunst, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Lynn Redgrave. In 2002 she won the Best Documentary Short Subject Oscar for her film Thoth, about a street musician intent on bringing all humanity together through the performance of a one-man opera. Ms. Kernochan is married to writer/director James Lapine. They have a daughter, Phoebe.
Daniel Polin is the president of Great Projects Film Company and executive producer of Media Matters, an ongoing magazine series for PBS that examines the news media. He produced Resistance, a documentary about armed Jewish partisans who fought the Nazis that premiered on PBS in April, 2002.
Alex Rivera, director of such films as The Sixth Section, Papapapa, and Why Cybraceros? Is a Sundance Fellow, Rockefeller Fellow, and recipient of a Silver Hugo. His work addresses concerns of the Latino community and has been screened at The Guggenheim, Lincoln Center, PBS, Telluride, on European cable Planete, and other international venues.
Dread Scott is a multidisciplinary artist who first received attention in 1989 when his art became the center of controversy over its use of the American flag. He has recently been exhibited at the Whitney and the Brooklyn museums. He has been awarded a Mid Atlantic/NEA Regional Fellowship in Photography, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture and a Creative Capital Grant. Recently, as an extension of his art, he helped produce video public service announcements against police brutality which aired on MTV and BET.
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