14th ANNUAL FIRSTGLANCE FILM FEST PHILADELPHIA
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Philadelphia’s Independent Film Festival since 1996 is proud to announce these amazing indie films and directors to be presented at our 14th annual event on October 13-16 2011.
After pre-screening and watching a record number of entries for this event, we congratulate the filmmakers below.
All Official Selections receive an award presented at the conclusion of each screening program. All films are in competition for the Best of the Fest Grand Prize, voted on by the audience and this years winner will take home over 15,000 in prizes and an opportunity for a RED CARPET Premiere in Las Vegas on the STRIP (Valued at over $25,000) That's a Grand Prize valued at over $40,000
In addition to the list of official Selections, we'll be offering additional short films the opportunity to be part of our online contest to win over $2500.00 in great prizes.
Features
Calendar Girl – John Guarnere Jr
Boy Wonder – Michael Morrissey
Falling Overnight – Conrad Jackson
You'll Know My Name – Joe Raffa
Feature Docs
Meet Me on South Street – George Manney
More to Live For – Noah Hutton
The Story – Nick Ernst
Shorts
Air We Breathe – Andrew Ari Clibanoff
Flagpole – Matt Kazman
Shelter – Robert Kolodny
The Maiden & the Princess – Ali Scher
Controlled Burn – Dan Van Wert
Smoke & Mirrors – Theresa Wu
The Interview – Michelle Steffes
Connect to – Wonder Russell
The Kook – Nat Livingston Johnson
Chord – Ryan Atimoyoo
Love, Processed - Clementine Cayrol
Shorts 2
Bip Bip- Phillipe Gregoire
Ring Theory – Joseph Campo
The Wallet – Sebastian Stenhoj
Mini Docs
Burma: An Indictment – Jeremy Taylor
Twins – Dean Hamer
Student Shorts
Luz – David Liz
Wild West of Broad – Ian Rose
Animation
Little Hero -
Gus – Andrew Martin
Friday Night Tights (3D) – Joonki Park
Web Series
Ruby Skye P.I.: The Spam Scam – Kelly Harms
Mary's Journal – Nyle Cavazos Garcia
Music Videos
Bad Days – Marc Ruiz
Burning Witches – Jennifer Barbaro
Take Your Medicine – Nader Husseini
(Projects in RED were "Shot In Philly" or have a Philadelphia connection)
SHORT ONLINE CONTEST INVITED FILMS
We are inviting over 40 short films to take part in our 7th Short Online Contest. This year’s online winner will take home over 2500.00 in prizes and a spot in our FirstGlance Hollywood 12 event in April 2012
Our last event brought in over 8000 viewers
The Short Online Contest will begin Mid September and run 6 weeks
27- Neil Forbes
A Lost Love Story- Meg Pinsonneault
A Musing- David Spies
A Turn of the Blinds- Mary Beth Rim
Alien Roadkill- Ram Devineni
Alone- Ethan Seneker
Brain Juice- Jacqueline Chong
Bread & Kisses- Katherine Fitzgerald
Breaking Roses- Michael Mayhall
Buon Giorno Sayonara- Karen Hope
Challenging Impossibility- Sanjay Rawal
Chapel Song- Matthew Mills
Choose- Robbie Bryan
Conscientious Objector-J.W. Cortes
DHS: Give Us Back Our Children-
DILLI- Sushmit Ghosh
Eatala: A Life in Klezmer- Debora Kodish
Escape Of The Gingerbread Man!!! – Tod Polson
Exorcists Local 667 - Todd Faulkner
Fireworks- Michael Mayer
Folie Imposée- Louis Mansfield
Grace in Sara- Ming Lo
Heart of a Doll- Ash Mayfair
I Do- Jaime Lee
It's What's For Dinner- Chris Anderson
Karl Dahl & the Golden Cube- Chris Olsen
K.O.- Dan Basone
Kings of Bushwick- Angelo Lopez
Lukos- Michael Williams
McCracken Live- Brian Beacock
Mikel's Faith- Alexander Etseyatse
Nancy, Sid and Sergio- Craig Pickles
No Way Jose- Jim Ed Wills
Old Oak- Kevin M. Jones
Portrait of Leonore- Peter Jin
Purgatory- James Lark
Ration- Michael Robayo
Reco- Kyle Mallory
Ride With A Girl- Allen Saulnier
SMOKED: the web series- John Bruno
Sonny Mails a Letter- Miles Kalbach
SPLIT DECISION: THE BOBBY CZYZ STORY- Ken Barbet
STILL- Eri Yokoyama
The Birds Upstairs- Christopher Jarvis
The Dragon Wall- Mark Freeman
The Girl and the Fox- Tyler Kupferer
The Lone Warrior- Stephen Griffin
The Rudolf- Lance Armstrong
The Unvarnished Boy- Justin Carless
Three Actresses Walk Into A Bathroom... -Jade Justad
Tsuyako – Miyazaki Mitsuyo
We Own This City- Marc Ruiz
What's Up?- Kim Sheridan