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Best Feature - UK
At a school reunion dinner in a remote country mansion, a dozen people are offered the chance to collect a million pounds each if they can stay on the estate, cut off from the outside world, for 96 hours. With deaths, sexual intrigue, kidnapping, and spiraling levels of farce and confusion, the action barely pauses for breath as it heads towards its "Will they or won't they succeed" climax.
Best Documentary - UK
A journey over five days across Europe from London to Aushwitz, following a contemporary gypsy woman's compulsion to visit her roots and discover her historical past. A tragedy where 80% of Romany gypsies were murdered at the hands of the Nazis during World War 2.
Best Animation / CGI
250 words are not enough for description of life of Mr. Crowley.
Best Documentary - USA
Why does HIV/AIDS continue to have an iron grip on the African American
community?
The AIDS Chronicles - Here to Represent, reveals the social and cultural
impact of HIV/AIDS on urban African-Americans through the actions and
thoughts of those infected and affected by the epidemic.
Best Short - American
Returning home was the choice she made. Letting go was the choice she inspired.After getting sick, a young Native American woman, Willa, returns to her mother's home where they both must come to terms with her illness. Willa's mother, who had been a long time 'shut in', begins venturing outside with her camcorder, taping the sunrise and mountains, bringing the outside world in to the bed ridden Willa. Audiences catch a glimpse into the lives of two dynamic women, leading up to the moment where only one thing is for certain... change. Award winning screenwriter, Kalani Queypo, offers up a compelling directorial debut with this intimate short film.Gripping performances by Tantoo Cardinal (Dances With Wolves, Legends of the Fall) and Rulan Tangen (The New World) are beautifully complimented with rich visual images and an impressive original soundtrack.
Best Short - American
The future is about to collide with the past. Eric, a digital loving executive on a mansion hunting expedition finds himself crossing swords with his realtor, Max, an out of work toon rabbit. Like it or not, Max will make Eric see things through the eyes of an 'Animated American.'
Best Student
Another day Another life is a man's tryst with his destiny in these tumultuous economic times. For a young man, his job, his investments, his dwelling and most importantly his love is what keeps him going until the day he loses all of them. His rage to react and his yearning to salvage his love are so conflicted that he reacts in the most conventional fashion. But, what if that conflict itself rescues him from the brink of disaster?
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