RADIATION
Directed by SUKI HAWLEY & MICHAEL GALINSKY - 95mins - Feature - 35mm
winner: Grand Chameleon Award

HABIT
Directed by LARRY FESSENDEN - 112mins - Feature - 35mm
winner: Audience Award, Best Editing & Best Actor

CLOUDS
Directed by DON THOMPSON - 103mins - Feature - 35mm
winner: Best New Director

WRESTLING WITHALLIGATORS
Directed by LAURIE WELTZ - 87mins - Feature - 35mm

FRANKY GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
Directed by BRENDAN KELLY 12mins - Short - 35mm
So you think you can't make it in Hollywood? Ask Franky, a French bulldog with a cool attitude. Brendan Kelly chronicles Franky's trip from New Jersey to Hollywood stardom.
winner: Audience Award

WHAT'S IN HEIDI'S HEAD: FEET
Directed by GREG HARRISON 3mins - Experimental - Beta
Feet is an entertaining journey through an amazing mixed media world.

LAST SPLIT SECOND
Directed by JUDITH DOYLE - 7mins - Documentary - 16mm (Canada)
Adapted from an account by Toronto artist Andy Patton, a car crash is replayed as a victim's narration shifts from disbelief to pain.
winner: Best Documentary

UTOPIA
Directed by BRADLEY RAPPA - 4mins - Experimental - 16mm
Utopia is an experimental animation that utilizes layers of traditionally painted cells, rotoscoping, Xerox copies and double exposure, representing a female artist who possesses power and existence.

THEOLOGIC
Directed by BRUNO DERLIN - 16mins - Short - DV (out of competition)
Sitting at his computer, in a dimly lit room, THEO tries to conjure up a story to get his bored characters in motion, but his attempts are contrived, if not entirely futile. Theo's creations are aware that their story isn't going anywhere, thus they materialize before him and challenge him to a showdown with his own imagination, spirituality, and logic.

LA MIA MANO DESTRA ("MY RIGHT HAND")
Directed by CHANTAL UGHI - 7mins - Short - 35mm
At the beginning it was like a game. To improve yourself. And also you discovered a lot of things. The secrets of adults.
winner: Best Short

DIGITAL GREMLIN FOR WINDOWS
Directed by CHRIS CLEMENTS - 4mins - Experimental - 16mm
What exactly does it take to make a computer work? Digital Gremlin answers the complexities of the computer world.

THE GODS OF TIME SQUARE
Directed by RICHARD SANDLER - 90mins - Documentary - Beta
The Gods of Times Square is a documentary about a rich culture of religionists (myself included) who are drawn to the electric buzz of this fabled human meeting ground. There, at the "crossroads of the world", amidst it's cathedral-like spires, we arrive to profess the creeds of wildly differing varieties of personal religious experience.

A WAITER TOMORROW
Directed by MICHAEL KANG - 12mins - Short - Beta
Two waiters go John Woo ballistic on their rude and racist clientele in this Hong Kong style action flick.

MAGIC MUSIC FROM THE TELHARMONIUM
Directed by REYNOLD WEIDENAAR - 29mins - Documentary - Beta
The Telharmonium was a 200-ton behemoth that created numerous musical timbres and could flood rooms with sounds. Filmmaker Reynold Weidenaar shows us what the first music synthesizer was like.

CRAZYHEADS
Directed by ROBERTO LOPEZ - 12mins - Short - Beta
A woman is anxiously waiting for her boyfriend who has just been release from jail. The games they use to play acting out what they would do to other people soon becomes a reality, and could end up becoming a situation of life and death.

WHAT'S IN HEIDI'S HEAD: BUGS
Directed by GREG HARRISON - 2mins - Experimental - Beta
Bugs is an entertaining journey through an amazing mixed media world.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
Directed by DAVID KAPLAN - 13mins - Experimental - 35mm
It's not just Grandma's old house when riding hood wanders the forest in this expressionistic version of the childhood tale. Watch out for the big bad wolf.
winner: Best Cinematography

THE BEES
Directed by CAROL ANN MACAHILIG - 28mins - Short - 16mm
A sculptor and her model enact a ritual of pain and desire, along an insatiable drive towards dissolution.

FISHING FOR BRAD
Directed by NICOLE KOSCHMANN - 6mins - Experimental - 35mm
Fishing for Brad is a provocative look into human sexuality by juxtaposing two seemly-unrelated images.

DEUS EX MACHINATION - ELEMENTAL MAN
Directed by CHRIS BORKOWSKI - 3mins/1min - Experimental - Beta
-Deus Ex Machination (God from an evil plan) is data engine that explores the mass media spectacle that is unfolding on the worldwide web. Elements from Internet sites have been appropriated and then re-animated, re-colorized, and distorted into a dystopic media circus.
-Elemental Man reflects modern man's need and desire to break down complex
meanings into small coded icons and symbols.

LUCIA
Directed by LORIN RUTTENBERG 16mins - Short - 35mm
When a young Mexican man returns home from rehab, he is the attraction of a sixteen-year-old girl. Looking for new direction in life, he finds it in Lucia.

RED WHITE BLUE NOVEMBER
Directed by SAIDAH SAID - 28mins - Documentary - Beta
Mountains of gold paper boats. Ringing bells in a shaman's trance. A father's prayer. Theses are elements that make November a poignant month for Ge Thao and his wife Pamoua, a Hmong couple in Fresno California. The story of the Thaos intimately details the trauma of escape and dislocation that many Hmong families have experienced.

BIG TIME OPERATOR
Directed by DAVID SCHMIDLAPP - 40mins - Short - 35mm
In this fractured tale an aging man, the big time operator, hatches one last moneymaking scheme. He aims his marketing strategy at the most vincible of consumer groups, the children of the world.
winner: Audience Award

RATS!
Directed by PHIL SENEKER - 11mins - Short - 16mm
As Murray tries to remodel his daughter's basement, he's swept up in a one on many battle of wit against Whisker. He confides in a quirky exterminator who gives him important advice that is destined for the toilet.

DIDACTIC ENCOUNTER
Directed by ALEXANDRA BRODSKY 16mins - Short - 35mm
Didactic Encounter is a tender look at first dates. It ventures to deeper levels by asking the question "Who are you".
winner: Best Sceenplay & Best Actress

IMMACULATE CONFECTION
Directed by PATRICIA DINER - 16mins - Short - 16mm
A cleaning lady collects a very special wardrobe for herself in her spare time. She meets a man who is eager to be part of her fantasy life. Their first date ends in a calamity when she agrees to model her clothes for him.

A MATTER OF LIFE AND BREATH
Directed by ELI KABILLO - 60mins - Documentary - Beta
"Matter of Life and Breath" explores the rebirthing movement and it's charismatic founder and leader Leonard Orr. Started in 1974, rebirthing has an international following with centers all over the world. This procedure, involving prolonged connective breathing is a variation of Prana Yama Yoga and is claimed by Orr and the rebirthers, to return a person to their birth stage.
winner: Audience Award

MONACO
Directed by HILLARY OLSEN - 16mins - Short - Beta
Monaco tells a nostalgic story of one marriage from the perspective of a woman. Tracing the influential stages of life.

HOTEL BELGRAD
Directed by ANDREA STAKA - 13mins - Short - 35mm (croatian w/english subtitles)
Mara & Igor are both from Sarajevo, but Mara now lives in Switzerland. They spend a few hours together in a small hotel in Belgrade. Caught between their past and an uncertain future, they only have the present moment.
winner: Best Director

THE GOTHIC LINE
Directed by ARI TAUB - 55mins - FEATURE - Beta
Set deep in the forest of Northern Italy 1944, the allied forces are pushing the German forces back to Austria. Drunken supply Sgt. Malone and his band of misfits must deliver ammo to front line to halt the German attack.

DEALER'S CHOICE
Directed by RENA GLICKMAN - 10mins - Documentary - Beta
A City Arts follows a young artist as she prepares for the opening of her one-person show at the Holly Solomon Gallery in Soho, New York.

MINDLESS BOB
Directed by ERIC RADOMSKI - 4mins - Experimental - Beta
Mindless Bob cleverly uses multiple layers of illustration to create a character caught up in the circumstances of his own world.
winner: Best Experimental