Just because some filmmakers were not honored at the gala awards ceremony Saturday night inside a Grand Californian Hotel ballroom, it does not mean the Anaheim International Film Festival was done dishing out trophies.
Due to “technical difficulties,” a list of audience favorites did not reach the Weekly's inbox until yesterday afternoon (though the fest says it originally went out Monday night).
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Whatevs.
And the envelopes for audience awards, please . . .
Directed by David Brooks; produced by Brooks, Zev Brooks and Cary Glieberman; and starring Brian Wimmer, Bart Johnson, Don Most, Michael Buster, Susanne Sutchy, Kenneth Brown and Jesse Bennett.
Directed by Kevin Tostado; produced by Tostado and Craig Bentley; narrated by Zachary Levi; and featuring appearances by Hank Azaria, Matt McNally and Phil Orbanes.
Directed by Mamoru Hosoda; produced by Takuya Ito, Yuichiro Saito, Nozomu Takahashi, Takashi Watanabe; and featuring the voices of Nanami Sakuraba, Ryonosuke Kamiki, Ayumu Saito, Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji and Takahiro Yokokawa.
Directed by Pierre Stefanos
Directed by Max Lang and Jacob Schuh; and featuring the voices of Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, John Hurt and Tom Wilkinson
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These films join the four others singled out by juries and presented awards at Saturday night's gala.
They were:
Directed by Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell; and produced by Morgan Bushe and Macdara Kelleher.
Directed by Jang Kun-jae; produced by Jang Kun-jae and Kim Woo-ri; and starring Seo Jun-yeong, Lee Min-ji, Kwon Hyeok-pung, Han Na, Choi Hyo-sang and Choi Hyeon-sook.
Directed by Luke Matheny
Directed by Andrew Ruhemann and Shaun Tan.
The feature film jurors were: Julie Davis, director of I Love You, Don't Touch Me!, Amy's Orgasm, All Over the Guy and Finding Bliss; and Christian Gaines, the American Film Institute's director of festivals from 2000-08 who is now developing festival strategy and alternative distribution for Withoutabox, a division of IMDb.com and Amazon.
Short film jurors were: Kimberly Browning, a film, television and new media/web entertainment producer and director who founded and directs Hollywood Shorts, a monthly industry screening series and presenter of the annual African American Shortsfest at the American Cinematheque each February; and Matt Spain, creative executive at Magnet Media Group, which finances and produces theatrical feature films in the $10 million-$40 million range.
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