Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Fort Worth’s Fearless Film Festival 3 announces winners

By Pegasus News wire

Fort Worth filmmaker Evan Odell has broken the hold of foreign films on Fearless Film Festival’s top honor with Pleasant Dreams, the 3F3 2009 Best of Show winning sci-fi take on living a dream directed by Lam Chui and written and produced by Odell.

Winners include Best Locally Produced Film Forgotten Frames 2.0, the sequel to Jeremy Snead’s Fearless Film Festival 2 winning entry in the same category; The Mirror, which won Best Animation and Best Youth film, by Rachel Racanelli, director; and Best Student Film Gillface, an unconventional love story from David McGinnis, director and student at The University of Texas at Arlington. A full list of winners is attached.

Though narratives were the trend among this year’s entries, films entered ran the gamut from sci-fi thrillers to historical drama, even a musical.

“This year’s field was quite impressive,” 3F3 organizer and filmmaker Melissa Kirkendall said. “The panel of judges had a tough time making the final selections.”

Jurors from the local film community screened entries and selected winners in 3F3, the film competition that makes moving pictures part of MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival.

Winning films in 3F3 will be screened free to the public from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 1:15 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 18-19 in the David L. Tandy Lecture Hall in the Fort Worth Central Library. 3F3 is presented as part of the "Off MAIN!" series of performances in venues both on and off Main Street--including the library, the Jubilee Theater, UT Arlington/Fort Worth Center, Circle Theater, Four Day Weekend Theater, McDavid Studio, and Bass Hall--during MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival.

Filmmakers’ panels, new this year to the Fearless Film series, survey legal frameworks for as well as resources available to Texas filmmakers in three sessions Saturday, April 18 in the downtown library’s Chappell Meeting Room.

Panels are:

3F3 is open to short films of up to 20 minutes and honors the best in categories ranging from documentary and narrative to experimental, animation, dance, music video and trailer as well as best of show. Winners are awarded cash and non-cash prizes including a coveted $5,000 rental credit with Panavision.

The film festival complements visual and performing arts showcased in MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival, now one of the nation’s top three fine arts fairs, and the short film focus was a natural, Kirkendall said.

“A short film festival works especially well for MAIN ST. because the public is able to see many films in a short period time, just as they can enjoy the work of many artists on the street. You can stop in at the library and see three completely different kinds of film, and it’s all part of a day at MAIN ST.,” Kirkendall said.

The film festival has an international appeal, and a foreign film won Best of Show in the Fearless Film Festival for each of the previous two years. Spanish filmmaker Ciro Altabas’ entry, Made in Japan, was named Best Foreign Film and Best of Show in 2008. Another Spanish filmmaker, Lucas Figueroa, took Best of Show honors for Boletos Por Favor in the premiere Fearless Film Festival in 2007.

Here's the complete list of winning entries, with run-times:

source: Fearless Film Festival 3

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