LAMA Fall 2019 Winners & Selections
Best Narrative Short
Best Documentary Short
“ Normal: The Documentary “
Dir. by Tari Wariebi
1st Place Winners
“ Stucco “
Dir. by Janina Gavankar & Russo Schelling
J is trying and failing to move forward as the scars of old relationships keep her trapped inside her new home. While hanging a piece of art, she knocks a hole in her wall that reveals what might be a hidden room. Her mind races to think what could be on the other side as she continues to unravel.
Audience Award
“ Normal: The Documentary “
Dir. by Tari Wariebi
Normal is a short documentary, that follows Garren, a 23 year old, black male who has set out to redefine what it means to be “Normal” in this society, as we reexamine his neighborhood in South Central LA, where various pre-existing conditions prevent young men from having control over their fate.
Ultimately, the goal of this film is to form a collective point of view on how young black men can transform their life by following what they deem to be true to themselves, despite what society and social infrastructure are telling them to be.
Best Documentary Feature
Best Animation
Best International Film
“ Talk “
Dir. by Boulanger Romuald
“ Latteship “
Dir. by Hsing-Fang Tsai & Daishi Takishima
“ Crazy Tiger “
Dir. by Kaname Onoyama
Latteship is a 3D animated short created by Flora Hsing-Fang Tsai and Daishi Takishima. The animation story follows Sigri and Kona, two otters who have opposite personalities. They must learn to accept each other to cooperate in order to run a small but popular coffee truck - Sigri Coffee. The story’s theme comes from an African proverb “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Beautiful but dangerous, the Danjiri Festival in Osaka is one of the biggest traditional cart-pulling festivals in Japan. Go Takashiro is a renowned dancer who since childhood dedicated all of his energy for the festival and danced for the last time in 2017.
In a Los Angeles radio station. The host of an emblematic night talk show (William Baldwin) gives advice to live callers.
One call will destroy his career, his family, his life ...
Best Experimental
Best Student Film
“ Cyrano aux tranchées “
Dir. by DOSSETTO Edouard
“ Neon Rabbits “
Dir. by Kenny Sheard
Verdun, 1917. In the night between the bombings, four Poilus heard a character fall from the Moon; an encounter of their reality with the historical fiction: Cyrano de Bergerac. Based on the play by Joseph Suberville, a young gunner poet, written in 1918, and performed at the Théâtre des Armées a century ago.
A Soldier returns home from overseas to piece together his estranged sister's brutal attack. He's forced back into the life he abandoned a decade ago in the lurid, and occult world of Miami's nightlife, as he tracks down those responsible.
Best Music Video
Best Script
“ The Real Thing “
by Matthew Papadopoulos
“ Close Your Eyes “
Dir. by Alexander Soloviev
A virgin college student creates his virtual perfect girlfriend… then falls for her real-life lookalike who is anything but perfect.
We shot this music video on the frozen lake Baikal in Russia. Why did we go there? The budget was tiny and we had a chance to rent some lighting equipment in Moscow or to go somewhere having nothing. Ofcourse we chose to travel to Baikal and capture this extraordinary place in a very unique state when the lake is frozen and you are littarely standing on 1 meter of ice and there is a kilometer of water under you. Amazing feeling which is hard to describe. The weather was changing every 5 minutes, directing us to what has to be shot. It was a lot of of fun just to allow the nature lead you and we are very thankful to everything what we had experienced there. The song is in Russian, it is about love, passion, freedom. I hope that the language barrier will not affect the viewing.
Best Director
“ Crazy Tiger “
Dir. by Kaname Onoyama
Best Actor
William Baldwin
“ Talk ”
Best Actress
Janina Gavankar
“ Stucco ”
Best Cinematography
Quyen Tran
“Stucco”
Best Costume Design
“ Cyrano aux Tranchées “
Dir. by Dossetto Edouard
Best Original Score
Justin D. Wright
“Latteship”
Best Production Design
“ Cyrano aux Tranchées “
Dir. by Dossetto Edouard
Official Selections, Category “Best” and Honorable Mention Winners
“ Judge Me ”
Dir. by Anatoliy Kim
“ Long Distance ”
Dir. by David Thompson
“ Road Kill ”
Dir. by Tyrone Trullinger
“ The Nun’s Kaddish ”
Dir. by Luis ismael
“ The O List ”
Dir. by Linda Barsi
“ Weep Not ”
Dir. by Lenore Thomas Douglas
“ Baltimore ”
by Tony Bryan
“ Foreverly ”
by Ray O’Conor
“ Lajjawati ”
by Sumathy Ram & Charles Leopardo
“ Mama ”
by Efrat Dor
“ To Hell And Back ”
by Agnese Pagliarani
“ Twilight Sleep ”
by Alan Lambert
Category Winners
Honorable Mention
Stage IV:
Living With Cancer
“C.T.R.L”
Dir. by Mariana Conde & Mariana Conde
“Caught Inside”
Dir. by Dwight Thompson
“Chuck Ransom”
Dir. by Arian Harandi
“Daddy Come Home”
Dir. by Mendel Katz & Yisrael Dubov
“FELONY”
Dir. by Thanos Kermitsis
“Jaysin Voxx 'Hands on Me'”
Dir. by Carlos Hurtado
“Mateo”
Dir. by Nancy C. Mejia
“The Courier”
Dir. by J.Mackye Gruber
“The Equation of Life”
Dir. by Gerry Orz
“The Stop”
Dir. by Marc Ruiz
“Two and a Quarter Minutes”
Dir. by Joshua Ovalle
Official Selections
