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A3F 2006 Results

TOP 20 OVERALL FILMS
DIB Pictures, For Love, For What
Production Thugs, House Call
Big Shot Studios, House of Blu
Flicks of Fury, Millenium
Dynamicfilm + Never Average, Damn Shame
Black Sheep Productions, Prosthetic Medic
HBD Productions, So Good
Matter of Chance Productions, Rendezvous
Fountain Film Productions, Disillusion
Random Villains / Green With Envy, Twenty Keys
Irish Productions, agape
Ugly Baby Studios, Double Vision
Victory Angel Films, Infection
TJ Weekly, Unison
Thirty-Seven Films, Face-Changing
One Shot Pictures, The Chase
Paperplay Productions, Splashdown
Finis Productions, Running Thoughts
Xtreme Films, Reflections
Purple Monkey Dishwashers, The 7 Minute Job

AUDIENCE TOP 3
Fountain Film Productions, Disillusion
HBD Productions, So Good
Dynamicfilm + Never Average, Damn Shame
TOP 3 STORY
Production Thugs, House Call
DIB Pictures, For Love, For What
Fountain Film Productions, Disillusion (tie)
Black Sheep Productions, Prosthetic Medic (tie)

TOP 3 CINEMA
Big Shot Studios, House of Blue
Dynamicfilm + Never Average, Damn Shame
DIB Pictures, For Love, For What

TOP 3 ACTING
Black Sheep Productions, Prosthetic Medic
DIB Pictures, For Love, For What
Big Shot Studios, House Call

TOP USE OF GUIDELINES
OneShot Pictures, Best Use of Line of Dialogue
Big Shot Studios, Best Use of Prop
Black Sheep Productions, Best Use of Theme

A3F OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES
Aaron Burckle Damn Shame
Hannah Webb Disillusion
Madison Riley Infection


HONORABLE MENTIONS
Esperanza Productions
The Terror Studios
Miner's Cabin
Five Stars
Karma Productions
Football Bat
Raimundo Studios
Jazz Hands Productions
Out of Thin Air
Defiled Schism
Istillhavemyambilicalcord
Team J
D.Mon/Big Brain
Dense Minds Productions
Monte V Productions
New Team of Evil
Our Time
Z3

PHXSUN 9
AZONICS
Third Bedroom Studio
Set In Stone Productions
Manboobs
Chuck Norris has a Blackbelt
Wooden Weasel Productions
And Productions
The Cool Ethans
TM Films
Melted Clock Productions / Braintree Motion Arts
Sadball Entertainment
Ajax Entertainment
Seatofourpants Productions
Cereus Productions
Amplitudes
A Greater Mind Productions
Jimmy's Image


A3F 2006 Judges

Katherine Atwell Herbert. Ms. Herbert brings real-life experience in the film industry to the her position as Director of the Scottsdale Community College Motion Picture/Television Program. After working in theater for five years and as a newspaper film critic and feature writer for three, she obtained an agent from her first script and promptly relocated to Los Angeles. Working as a script analyst led her to positions as Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Motion Pictures for DeLaurentiis Entertainment, to work on feature and television film productions, to Director of Development for Debin-DeVore Productions at MGM Television, to selling her own work, and finally to writing the book Writing Scripts Hollywood Will Love. She has read thousands of scripts for such companies as Fox Broadcasting, Showtime, Lightstorm, MGM, Turner Movies and others. Since her first book was published, she also has written Selling Scripts To Hollywood.

Dr. Martin Etchart. Marty is an award winning screenwriter who recently published his first novel The Good Oak. He received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Arizona State University and went on to get his Ph.D. He currently teaches film and creative writing at Phoenix College and is teaching a special workshop geared towards the 48 Hour Filmmaker for 2006 A3F participants.

Daniel Watts. Award-winning filmmaker, curator and program director for undergroundfilm.org (a Sponsor of this year's A3F). Watts directs and produces web-based digital films through his company, Dadawa Films, and writes extensively about online film. His recent work includes collaborations with Creative Time and performance artist Kim Sooja. Watts is based in San Francisco.

David Tell. Editor and publisher of The Midtown Messenger (News for Phoenix's Historic Neighborhoods and A3F Sponsor) since he founded it in 2001, Tell has been engaged in print journalism for over 20 years. In his career, he has led editorial and design teams on daily and weekly newspapers, and has launched and managed custom and trade magazines targeted at executive and consumer audiences and focusing on healthcare, information technology, telecommunications, personal finance, charitable giving and education. As part of his newspaper career, Tell has been writing film reviews since 1990, is a member of the Phoenix Film Critics Society, supports local independent filmmaking efforts and has written a WGA-registered screenplay adapted from a novella by the late Richard McKenna ("The Sand Pebbles" author). He invites inquiries about producing a film using his script, an occult-action-adventure-fantasy called "The Thirst."

Jae Staats. In 1998, Staats left his position as assistant video coordinator for the Phoenix Suns and started his own digital video business, BallBoy Productions. Now a leader in the valley's video industry, BBP's clients include the Suns, Clorox, National Kidney Foundation, Children's Museum of Phoenix, and St. John's University among others. Staats created his first short film The Steamer Cleaner in 2001 with his brother Kai, the other half of the Staats Bros. Film duo. Their latest short film Stalked! was an immediate success and has enjoyed a Top 10 run on Ifilm.com for nearly a year while playing at various film festivals across the country. The A3F marks Staats' first venture into hosting a film festival but he is excited at making this 2nd annual event even bigger and better!

Kai Staats. Kai Staats is the co-founder and CEO of Colorado-based Terra Soft Solutions, developer of world-renowned Yellow Dog Linux for PowerPC computers. With a degree in Industrial Design from the College of Architecture & Environmental Design, Arizona State University, Kai's background in video acquisition, editing, and rendering begins with Legomation and claymation shortfilms in the late '70s and '80s, professional video production for Colorado clients in the '90s, and now supercomputing clusters used by NASA image processing facilities, film special effects firms, and shortfilm directing and set design with his brother Jae through Staats Bros. Film.
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