ATLFF '16 Jury & Audience Award Winners Announced!
Congratulations to all of our Jury and Audience award-winning films from an incredible 2016 festival!
Photo: Border Union Photography
2016 Jury Award Winners
- Narrative Feature Jury Award - HUNKY DORY (directed by Michael Curtis Johnson)
- Documentary Feature Jury Award - DRIVING WITH SELVI (directed by Elisa Paloschi)
- Documentary Feature Special Jury Award - JUANICAS (directed by Karina Garcia Casanova)
- Narrative Short Jury Award - THUNDER ROAD (directed by Jim Cummings)
- Documentary Short Jury Award - KRAINA (directed by Christina Tynkevych)
- Animated Short Jury Award - SHELL ALL (directed by Zaven Najjar)
- Music Video Jury Award - "Dove" performed by Pillar Point (directed by Jacob Krupnick)
- Filmmaker-to-Watch Award - ZELOS (directed by Thoranna Sigurdardottir)
- New Mavericks Award (presented by SPANX & The Sara Blakely Foundation) - DRIVING WITH SELVI (directed by Elisa Paloschi)
- Southern Spotlight Award (presented by Cineverse) - QUE SERA (directed by Robyn Hicks)
- Seed&Spark Award (for Crowdfunded Films) - EAT WHITE DIRT (directed by Adam Forrester) and THE NEW ORLEANS SAZERAC (directed by James Martin)
2016 Audience Award Winners
- Audience Award Feature - THE FOUNDERS (directed by Charlene Fisk & Carrie Schrader)
- Audience Award Short - HOTEL CLERMONT (directed by Heather L. Hutson)
Music Videos + Pilots in 2016 ATLFF Lineup Announced
Check out the artists and directors officially selected to play in our 2016 music video and pilot presentations!
The 2016 schedule includes two presentation categories curated to contribute to the variety and excitement of our 40th anniversary: music videos and pilot webisodes.
Music videos will screen as a FREE Joystick Gamebar event followed by games, drinks, and Q&As with attending artists and filmmakers.
Pilots will precede the Analyze This: A Webseries Pilot Case Study panel during Tuesday's Creative Conference, where three webseries filmmakers will pitch their pilots to a panel of Adult Swim industry professionals.
MUSIC VIDEOS
The Less I Know the Better — Tame Impala
directed by CANADA, 5:42
Water N Liquor — Karmella Daniel
directed by Payne Lindsey, 3:22
Amadeus — Family & Friends
directed by Mike MacDonald, 3:30
Kandy Kangaroo — Q. Guyton
directed by Quentin Guyton, 4:43
Golden Goose — Sam Lucia
directed by Blake Davey, 3:28
King — Grades
directed by Taichi Kumura, 4:37
The Ground Walks — Modest Mouse
directed by Jorge Torres-Torres, 4:01
Going Nowhere — St. Beauty
produced by tre native and Directed by Lacey Duke, 3:46
Dove — Pillar Point
directed by Jacob Krupnick, 4:52
PILOTS
"The Brint KostOn Show"
written & directed by Brent Costin and BROCK SHANKS
USA, 2015, 7:50
"McTucky Fried High"
created & directed by Robert Carnilius, written by Lexington L. Lawson
USA, 2015, 4:17
"The Rub"
written & directed by Kenneth Beaumont & Jonathan Davenport
USA, 2015, 6:31
Look At Me Now: Catching Up With Petter Onstad Løkke
Our Music Video Jury Award Winner from 2014 talks with us about his submissions experience, the value of a music video background, and what he's working on now.
Petter Onstad Løkke produced "Deathcrush: Lesson #16 for Beatmaster V / Fun," an ATLFF '14 Official Selection that emerged victorious with the Jury Award. In 2015, his short film "Polaroid" screened in our Other Worlds shorts block. We caught up with him about his ATLFF submissions experience, his transition from music videos to short films, and his current projects.
"As a first time submitter from Europe, it's always difficult to know which festival we should use our submission money on. We chose ATLFF because of its great reputation. The submission process with both Deathcrush: Lesson #16 for Beatmaster V / Fun and Polaroid went quite smoothly. The first times I submitted via Withoutabox, but this time I'm using FilmFreeway, as I prefer the latter. All dates were held as promised and when accepted, the festival coordinated all the practical stuff really well. The digital solutions make the deliverance of the material easy.
While winning the music video Jury Award was undoubtedly the most rewarding, I haven't been able to visit the festival yet. It's a shame, but hopefully more opporturnities will turn up as I'm submitting two short films this fall.
Making music videos is a great way to test visual and narrative ideas and concepts. We've worked with artists that've given us full creative freedom, which is important for me and the directors I work with. But while the creative process of making music videos has been rewarding, the lack of funding limits how much time I can spend doing that.
The most obvious, but also the most important, transition from music videos to short films is the narrative process. In music videos, you can disguise your story with visuals, rhythm and performance, as well as the song itself. When making short films, the overall process takes a lot more time in every stage of the project, especially in script development, the editing, and of course the sound design. The latter is obviously a big deal, since the sound designer can be so essential to the narrative. For instance, in Polaroid it really is our sound designer Inger Elise Holm who is the hidden star of the show, as she added crucial elements to the story.
Making music videos has definitely been important. Today's audience certainly has a lack of patience to be entertained, even in three minute long music videos. As filmmakers we must know how to hold the audience's attention constantly. Since this is even more difficult in short films, music videos are a great way to practice. It also is a great way to get to know different people and test relations with different directors.
In addition to Polaroid, I'm launching two more short films: Love Me More by Kristoffer Carlin and Taxfree by Christian K. Norvalls. Since completing the shorts, my focus has turned to developing feature films. Several very different and exciting projects are in the making and hopefully, some of them will be realized in the following years.
Together with several producers around Europe, we are working on developing relations and networks with an overall goal to do international productions. There are a lot of opportunities to fund films as long as you know how and where to look. This is my focus right now besides the film projects. I believe international co-productions will become even more important in the years to come."
We are now accepting submissions for the Music Video category, the Oscar-qualifying Narrative Short category, and all other categories for the 2016 Atlanta Film Festival. The Regular Deadline is September 18.
You are invited to the Green Room Purple Sparkle Carpet Event this Saturday Night!
You're invited to join us for the world premiere of The Green Room's music videos made during our summer camps! FREE and open to the public, the event begins Saturday, August 8th at 7 PM at The Woodruff Arts Center's Rich Theatre.
You're invited to join us for the world premiere of The Green Room's music videos made during our summer camps! FREE and open to the public, the event begins Saturday, August 8th at 7 PM at The Woodruff Arts Center's Rich Theatre.
We will premiere 13 music videos made this summer by youth from around Atlanta who worked at Georgia Tech School of Music, Camp Twin Lakes, and MASS Collective.
The Green Room is a program of the nonprofit, re:imagine/ATL.
The A3C Festival's Music Video Competition is brought to you by ATLFF!
This year's A3C Festival begins Wednesday, October 8th. As part of the film program, A3C has joined forces with ATLFF for a Music Video Competition taking place on Friday, October 10th at 1:00 PM.
The pilgrimage to Atlanta is approaching as hip hop artists make their way to our city for another year at A3C Hip Hop Festival. This year's festival begins Wednesday, October 8th, and features over 500 artists, producers, and panelists. The festival will run through the weekend and include concerts, panel discussion, art shows, workshops, and even a film festival.
A3C's Film Festival celebrates its 3rd year, showcasing documentaries, feature films, and music videos all about hip hop and its roots. Joining forces with the Atlanta Film Festival, they have compiled a collection of music videos by upcoming hip hop artists for your viewing pleasure. The Music Video Competition will take place at the Artist Center at the Crowne Plaza Midtown Atlanta Hotel, 590 W. Peachtree NW, on Friday, October 10th at 1 pm. Don't miss the chance to have your mind blown by some amazing music accompanied by stylish and flashy videos.
The film festival is available to attendees with All-Access and VIP passes. Make sure to get your tickets now at http://www.a3cfestival.com/attend.
37 filmmakers. One line each. One shot each. Watch this and Smile.
ALL THE TIME is collaborative art at its most powerful.
37 filmmakers. One line each. One shot each. ALL THE TIME is collaborative art at its most powerful. Lovett's experimental collaborations with filmmakers are nothing short of inspiring, gorgeous, and haunting. Watch and smile. People are getting together to make work like this.
