The top audience choice winner of the festival, with an amazing 66% of the vote for his block was:

Luke Matheny for his film GOD OF LOVE

Congrats!  And thanks to all who voted!!

A big thank you to our TischAsia Faculty Festival Judges:  Michael Burke, Pennie du Pont, Gillian Gordon, Katherine Lindberg, Allan Nichols, Jennifer Ruff, M.J. Siegel, and  Carlos Siguion-Reyna.  The 2010 TischAsia Craft Winners are:

Nestor Almendros Award for Excellence in Cinematography
Alexa Caravia for RARE FISH

Carl Lerner Award for Film with Social Significance
Wai Ha Ng for MAY

Achievement in Experimental Form
Frank Rinaldi for LOWBASIC

Faculty Commendations in Directing
Melanie Schiele for DELILAH, BEFORE
Putnam Trumbull for CONNECTIONS INTERNATIONAL
Eric Elofson for MASTER OF HIS DOMAIN

Producing
Stephanie Bousley for CONNECTIONS INTERNATIONAL
Gerald “JC” Crump for RARE FISH
Eugene Koh for TELEGLOBAL DREAMIN’

Screenwriting
Putnam Trumbull for CONNECTIONS INTERNATIONAL
Eric Flanagan for TELEGLOBAL DREAMIN’
Eric Elofson for MASTER OF HIS DOMAIN

Editing
Uta Arning for THE PERFECT WOMAN
Ashish Ghadiali for MASTER OF HIS DOMAIN
Sangchul Lee for RARE FISH

Cinematography
Han West for TELEGLOBAL DREAMIN’
Melanie Schiele for THE PERFECT WOMAN
Eugene Koh for THE SUN RISING

Location Sound Recording
Sangchul Lee for SIREN
Warren Tessler for LOWBASIC
Rene Pannevis for RARE FISH

Sound Design
Greg Curda and Frank Rinaldi for LOWBASIC

Original Score
Jan Giese for THE PERFECT WOMAN
Drew Silverstein for RARE FISH
Sleepies (J. Intrator, T. Seely, M. Tremblay) for LOWBASIC

Art Direction
Uta Arning for THE PERFECT WOMAN
Putnam Trumbull for CONNECTIONS INTERNATIONAL
Frank Rinaldi & Laetitia Gangotena for THE SUN RISING

Acting
Ribud Suryadi for RARE FISH
Inna Shmakova and Gagan Pardeep for CONNECTIONS INTERNATIONAL
Oliver Mangham for MASTER OF HIS DOMAIN

GRADUATE WINNERS

Luke Matheny
GOD OF LOVE
1^st Prize Graduate Wasserman / King Winner  $10,000

Etienne Kallos
EERSGEBORENE (FIRSTBORN)
2^nd Prize Graduate Wasserman / King Winner  $7000

Sara Colangelo
LITTLE ACCIDENTS
3^rd Prize Graduate Wasserman / King Winner  $5000

Etienne Kallos
EERSGEBORENE (FIRSTBORN)
Graduate Wasserman Award for Directing  $2000

Luke Matheny
GOD OF LOVE
Graduate King Award for Screenwriting  $3000

UNDERGRADUATE WINNERS

Felix Thompson
BEDFORD PARK BOULEVARD
1^st Prize Undergraduate Wasserman / King Winner  $10,000

Jaraad Virani
PARADISE REGAINED
2^nd Prize Undergraduate Wasserman / King Winner  $7000

Patrick Murphy
ANIMAL DRILL
3^rd Prize Undergraduate Wasserman / King Winner  $5000

S. Vollie Osborn
MONSTERS DOWN THE HALL
Undergraduate Wasserman Award for Directing  $2000

Felix Thompson
BEDFORD PARK BOULEVARD
Undergraduate King Award for Screenwriting  $3000

TISCHASIA WINNER

Basil Mironer
RARE FISH
First Prize TischAsia Winner  $7000

Here are the Graduate & Undergraduate Wasserman Finalists, as well as TischAsia Festival Finalists:

UNDERGRADUATE FINALISTS

Michael Healey    THE PRUNE

Patrick Murphy   ANIMAL DRILL

Bree Newsome   WAKE

S. Vollie Osborn   MONSTERS DOWN THE HALL

Felix Thompson   BEDFORD PARK BOULEVARD

Jaraad Virani   PARADISE REGAINED

GRADUATE FINALISTS

Sara Colangelo   LITTLE ACCIDENTS

Daniel Garcia   TRIPOLI, QUIET

Etienne Kallos   EERSGEBORENE (FIRSTBORN)

Luke Matheny   GOD OF LOVE

Visra Vichit-Vadakan   IN SPACE

TISCH ASIA FINALISTS

Uta Arning   THE PERFECT WOMAN

Eric Flanagan   TELEGLOBAL DREAMIN’

Basil Mironer   RARE FISH (IKAN LANKGA)

Achievement in Documentary Form

•Allan Jeffries for Leaving the Yard

Achievement in Experimental Form
•Greg Luna for MWM (Married White Male)

Carl Lerner Award for Film with Social Significance

•Gabrielle Nadig for Tindewoks

Nestor Almendros Award for Cinematography

•Carole McClintock for Monsters Down the Hall

Faculty Commendations for Cinematography

•Bernard Hunt for Momma Would Be Proud, The Noble Savage

•Matthew Troy for Respiracion, When the Dogs Cried Out

Faculty Commendations for Directing

•Dylan Tuccillo for Omie Wise

•John Lamensdorf for Only Criminals

•Brandon Roots for Respiracion

•Alexander Schepsman for Stroll

•Erica Tachoir for Too Sunny for Santa

Faculty Commendation for Editing

•Paul Penczner for Bedford Park Boulevard, Too Sunny for Santa, Sex & German Grammar

Faculty Commendation for Production Design

•Charlotte Royer for Gidéon Vérité, Tindewoks, Bedford Park Boulevard, Pose, Respiracion

Faculty Commendation for Sound Design

•Robin Arnott for Bedford Park Boulevard, The Noble Savage, Monsters Down the Hall

Art Direction

•Emmeline E Wilkes Dupois for Monsters Down the Hall

•Kyle O’Tain for Omie Wise

•Nikki Hill for This is Life

•Katie Montgomery for Wake

Cinematography

•Matt Mitchell, Ivaylo Getov for Pose

•Antonio Cisneros for Tindewoks

Editing

•Dale Arroyo for Animal Drill

•James Codoyannis for MWM (Married White Male)

•Jaraad Virani for Paradise Regained

Original Score

•Ben Crippen Taylor for Omie Wise

•Jonathan McDevitt for Opening Night of the Living Dead

•Siddhartha Barnhoorn for Paradise Regained

•Steven Gutheinz for The Prune

Producing

•Jaraad Virani, Brandon Robinson, Natalie Sakai for Paradise Regained

•Matt Anderson for Resolve

•Valerie Champagne & Bree Newsome for Wake

•Andrew D. Corkin for When the Dogs Cried Out

Screenwriting

•Felix Thompson for Bedford Park Boulevard

•Dylan Tuccillo for Omie Wise

•Courtney Hope for Sex & German Grammar

•Aaron Jackson for When the Dogs Cried Out

Sound Design

•Jesse Peterson for Animal Drill

•Brandon Roots for Respiracion

Ensemble Acting Awards

•Animal Drill:  Obatala Mawusi, Floyd Marshall Jr., Antoine Harris and Robert Pavinelli

•Respiraçion:  Yvette Yates, Eddie Martinez, Robert Renderos

•When the Dogs Cried Out:  Roshelle Pattison, Ian Temple, Ellen Warner

Individual Acting Awards

•Joshua Rivera for Bedford Park Boulevard

•Michael Barra  for Mr. Zamboni

•Bill Cobbs for Stroll

•Christine Toy Johnson for This is Life

•Sahr Ali for Wake

Congratulations to our audience choice winners last night.  Check back later today for the overall festival audience choice winner, the film that received the highest percentage of votes…

3:30 pm Audience Choice Winner
CENTRAL PARK by Suzannah Herbert

5:30 pm Audience Choice Winner
SEASONS OF LOVE by Grettel Batoon

7:30 pm Audience Choice Winner
MONSTERS DOWN THE HALL by S. Vollie Osborn

9:30 pm– Audience Choice Winner
STROLL by Alexander Schepsman

Adam Balsano Award for Video with Social Significance

•Tati Barrantes for Tiempo Al Tiempo

Carl Lerner Award for Film with Social Significance

•Chloé Zhao for Daughters

Nestor Almendros Award for Outstanding Cinematography

•Kristina Nikolova for Harrow Island

Faculty Commendations for Comedy

•Susan Hippen for Me, Myself & Your Husband

•Anderson Franklin for Reborn!

•Benjamin Rodriguez for Wanna Be

Faculty Commendation for Original Score

•Sasha  Gordon for Manhattan Melody

Faculty Commendations for Cinematography

•Matthew Mendelson for Daughters, Housewarming, Simple Pleasures

•Rob Hauer for Little Accidents, Manhattan Melody

•Kristina Nikolova for Slim and Lena, Harrow Island

Faculty Commendations for Producing

•Kiara C. Jones for Act of Bravery, Amazon Women

•Edward McDonald for Jackson Parish, Thinly Veiled

•Mollye Asher for Klaudia, Tapeworms

Art Direction

•Casey Smith for God of Love

•Bradley Schmidt for Little Accidents

•Julie Buck and David Meyer for Slim and Lena

•Tilly Grimes for When’s Lunch

Cinematography

•Bobby Webster for God of Love

•Soopum Sohn for Make Yourself at Home (Fetish)

•Daniel Garcia for Tripoli, Quiet

•Lee Phalen for Waiting for the Blackout

Editing

•Etienne Kallos for Eersgeborene (Firstborn)

•Yared Zeleke for Housewarming

•Joey Kuhn for Thinly Veiled

•Daniel Garcia and Rania Attieh for Tripoli, Quiet

Original Score

•Perry Blackshear for Act of Bravery

•Owen Hsi-wen Wang for Daughters

Producing

•Chloé Zhao and Edward McDonald for Daughters

•Etienne Kallos for Eersgeborene (Firstborn)

•Gigi Dement, Stefanie Walmsley, Ryan Silbert for God of Love

•Sharon Barnes for Little Accidents

•Joshua Hume, Luke Matheny, Gigi Dement and Stefanie Walmsley for Manhattan Melody

Screenwriting

•Luke Matheny for God of Love

•Edward McDonald and Joshua Howes for Jackson Parish

•Josef Wladyka for Klaudia

•Daniel Garcia and Rania Attieh for Tripoli, Quiet

Sound Design

•Etienne Kallos for Eersgeborene (Firstborn)

•Arjun Sheth for God of Love

•Yared Zeleke for Housewarming

•Alan Blanco for Jackson Parish

•Colen C. Wiley for Quietly

•Matthew Mendelson for Simple Pleasures

Acting Ensemble Awards

•Cuts:  Duane Burress Jr., Jacinto Taras Riddick and Zora Howard

•Eersgeborene (Firstborn):  Hennie Janse van Resnberg, Antoinette Kellermann, Hennie Lambrechts,Thoko •Ntshinga,Paul Luckoffs and Heinz Guder

•Harrow Island:  Michael Medeiros, Chad Hoeppner, Bo Corre and Gerry Bamman

•Tripoli, QuietDaniel Arzrouni, Walid Al-Ayoubi,Theodor Hakim, Nadima Attieh and Talaat Attieh

Acting Individual Awards

•Yongkiat Pattaphongse for In Space

•James Holloway for Jackson Parish

•Amanda Fulks for Little Accidents

•Francesca Choy-Key for Magic Pants Inc.

•Peter Popjordanov for Tapeworms

•Melanie Delloye for The Coward with a Kiss

•Dana Ivgy for Waiting for the Blackout

Congratulations to our audience choice winners last night.  Check back daily for each screening block’s winner and on Monday, April 12 for the overall winner of the festival audience choice award.

3:30 pm Audience Choice Winner
MANHATTAN MELODY by Sasha Gordon

5:30 pm Audience Choice Winner
THINLY VEILED by Joey Kuhn

7:30 pm Audience Choice Winner
GOD OF LOVE by Luke Matheny

9:30 pm– Audience Choice Winner
ACT OF BRAVERY by Perry Blackshear

MAGIC PANTS INC

Francesca Choy-Key for Acting

SLIM AND LENA

Julie Buck and David Meyer for Art Direction

Kristina Nikolova for the Faculty Commendation for Cinematography

HARROW ISLAND

The Ensemble Cast for Acting:  Michael Medeiros, Chad Hoeppner, Bo Corre and Gerry Bamman

Kristina Nikolova for the Nestor Almendros Award for Outstanding Cinematography by a woman and the Faculty Commendation in Cinematography

MANHATTAN MELODY

Sasha Gordon for the Faculty Commendation in Original Score

Rob Hauer for the Faculty Commendation in Cinematography

Joshua Hume, Luke Matheny, Gigi Dement and Stefanie Walmsley for Producing

THE COWARD WITH A KISS

Melanie Delloye for ACTING

SIMPLE PLEASURES

Matthew Mendelson for SOUND DESIGN and for THE FACULTY COMMENDATION IN CINEMATOGRAPHY

THINLY VEILED

Joey Kuhn for EDITING

Edward McDonald for THE FACULTY COMMENDATION IN PRODUCING

AMAZON WOMEN

Kiara Jones for THE FACULTY COMMENDATION FOR PRODUCING

LITTLE ACCIDENTS

Amanda Fulks for Acting

Bradley Schmidt for Art Direction

Rob Hauer for The Faculty Commendation in Cinematography

Sharon Barnes for Producing

GOD OF LOVE

Casey Smith for Art Direction

Bobby Webster for Cinematography

Gigi Dement, Stefanie Walmsley, Ryan Silbert for Producing

Luke Matheny for Screenwriting

Arjun Sheth for Sound Design

TRIPOLI, QUIET

The Ensemble Cast for Acting:  Daniel Arzrouni, Walid Al-Ayoubi,Theodor Hakim, Nadima Attieh and Talaat Attieh

Daniel Garcia for Cinematography

Daniel Garcia & Rania Attieh for Screenwriting and Editing

IN SPACE

Yongkiat Pattaphongse for Acting

WHEN’S LUNCH

Tilly Grimes for ART DIRECTION

ME, MYSELF AND YOUR HUSBAND

Susan Hippen for THE FACULTY COMMENDATION IN COMEDY

REBORN!

Anderson Franklin for THE FACULTY COMMENDATION IN COMEDY

WANNA BE

Benjamin Rodriguez Jr. for THE FACULTY COMMENDATION IN COMEDY

For the film ACT OF BRAVERY

We would like to recognize

Perry Blackshear for ORIGINAL SCORE

Kiara Jones for THE FACULTY COMMENDATION IN PRODUCING

Congratulations to our audience choice winners last night.  Check back daily for each screening block’s winner and on Monday, April 12 for the overall winner of the festival audience choice award.

3:30 pm Audience Choice Winner

GIDEON VERITE by Raquel Cedar

5:30 pm Audience Choice Winner

DAUGHTER OF LILLITH by Manja Lyssy

7:30 pm Audience Choice Winner

WAKE by Bree Newsome

9:30 pm Audience Choice Winner

MWM (MARRIED WHITE MALE) by Greg Luna