RESFEST Announces 2005 Audience Choice and Jury Awards

(New York, NY December 14th, 2005) -- RESFEST has presented Audience Choice Awards for shorts and music videos since 1999; this year, and for the first time ever, organizers introduced the inaugural Jury Awards for the categories of Short Film, Music Video, and Design Film. The awards presentation and celebration took place last night at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles following the RES Monthly Screening Series that featured two new works from RESFEST alum Michel Gondry.

“I’m thrilled that, with the addition of our Jury Awards, even more of the innovative filmmakers at RESFEST will be recognized for their outstanding art,” said Jonathan Wells, RESFEST Festival Director. “Significantly, our awards recognize not only short filmmaking, but the emerging field of design films and the artistry of music video, whereas most music video awards tend to celebrate the musician.”

Up-and-coming director Talmage Cooley attended the awards event and took home two RESFEST prizes for his short documentary Dimmer, which has also been shortlisted for a 2005 Academy Award® nomination. The film, produced by Jack Spade, follows a group of blind teenage hoodlums in Buffalo, New York. Cooley is now working on a feature film.

AUDIENCE WINNER: BEST SHORT
DIMMER directed by Talmage Cooley

JURY WINNERS: SHORTS
Jury Prize Best Short: RAFTMAN’S RAZOR directed by Keith Bearden

Special Jury Award (Tie):
DIMMER directed by Talmage Cooley
CITY PARADISE directed by Gaelle Denis

AUDIENCE WINNER: BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Carpark North “Human” directed by Martin de Thurah

JURY WINNERS: MUSIC VIDEOS
Jury Prize Best Music Video:
The Chemical Brothers “Galvanize” directed by Adam Smith
Special Jury Award:
Dizzee Rascal “Dream” directed by Dougal Wilson
Honorable Mention:
Shakedown “Love Game” directed by Wilfrid Brimo

JURY WINNERS: DESIGN FILMS
Jury Prize Best Design Film (Tie):
PERFECT directed by Sally Arthur
DANCING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE directed by Zeitguised

JURORS: Doug Pray, filmmaker (SCRATCH, HYPE!); Tommy Pallotta (producer of Richard Linklater’s Waking Life and the forthcoming A Scanner Darkly); David Chow (set designer/previz for MINORITY REPORT, PANIC ROOM, HULK); Barbara London (Associate Curator, Department of Film and Media, MOMA, New York); Steve Gottlieb (journalist, Video Static); Holly Willis (journalist; curator, lecturer, USC School of Fine Arts) Michael Worthington (Design Program Faculty, CalArts); Mathew Cullen (Co-Founder/Creative Director, Motion Theory); Alexei Tylevich (Co-Founder/Creative Director, Logan)

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