THE ENVELOPE PLEASE........AND THE WINNERS ARE....
Festival organizers Johnny Blakeborough and Matthew Letttington, Best Writing and People's Choice winner for 'Eyewitness Accounts' Graham Stark of LoadingReady.Run.com, Best Technical and Best Film Award winner for 'Sticks & Stones' de Villiers van Zyl, VISFF volunteer Tami lyn Joseph.
Front Row:
Winner Best Student Film for 'Bad Brownie' Chad Schroter-Gillespie, Nanaimo Arts Council President Rosina Solylo, winner of Best Performance for 'Brownie Points' Nicole Nattrass, winner People's Choice for 'Eyewitness Accounts' Paul Saunders of LoadingReadyRun.com.
The third-annual Vancouver Island Short Film Festival was a huge success, with two amazing crowds enjoying twenty-one incredible short films over two nights.
“It was a spectacular night,” said Johnny Blakeborough, festival co-organizer. “We expected a good turnout in our third year, but things went even better than we hoped. We had almost 500 people turn out to the Malaspina Theatre, we put on a great show and got a great response from the crowd. This was the best festival we have done”
Awards were given out in seven categories at the end of the second evening.
de Villiers van Zyl won the Best Film prize for his short ‘Sticks & Stones,’ a compelling documentary about a homeless man living in
Graham Stark and Kathleen de Veere won the Best Writing Award for their short comedy ‘Eyewitness Accounts,’ which shows an event at a shopping mall from many perspectives. Stark is the creative force behind LoadingReadyRun.com, a Victoria based website that films and posts a new movie once a week every week and has done so for the past 4 years. Last year, they also won the Best Writing award. In 2006 they won Best Writing, Best Performance and the People’s Choice Award.
Local Actress Niccole Nattrass won the Best Performance Award this year for her very funny role in ‘Brownie Points,’ a dialogue originally written for the stage about the world’s oldest living brownie.
The Best Original Music award went to Simon Berman for the movie ‘Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat,’ a psychedelic, experimental film that started off the show.
This year a new category was created to help foster local filmmakers - Best Student Film. Chad Schroter-Gillespie won the award for his black and white experimental film ‘Bad Brownie’.
The Festival took place on January 18th and 19th at the Malaspina University-College Theatre.
The Vancouver Island Short Film Festival is a Nanaimo Arts Council event. For more information, please visit the website www.visff.com or contact admin@visff.com or 729-3947.
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