The sixth annual Planet Ant Film & Video Festival has come to a close.
Thanks so much to everyone who participated.full schedule of what played and other details at http://planetant.bside.com/2008/schedule
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The 2008 Planet Ant Film & Video Festival Award Winners
Best of Festival
Moonboy
Dir: Adam Calfee
Best Comedy
MTV cribs - Arab-American Style
Dir: Mike Eshaq
Best Drama
Left/Right
Dir: Matthew Wolfe
Best Documentary
Flowers for Rwanda
Dir: David Munoz
Best Animation
Moonboy
Dir: Adam Calfee
Best Music Video
Ten Minute Turns "Long Night Drone"
Dir: Neil Forman
Audience Award
MTV cribs - Arab-American Style
Dir: Mike Eshaq
The 2008 Jury:
Larry Joe Campbell ("According to Jim", ABC)
Andy Cobb (www.youtube.com/AndyCobbonUTube)
Josh Funk ("Wild 'N Out" MTV)
Nyima Funk ("Wild 'N Out" MTV; Thank God You're Here NBC)
Charles Cerginski (Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker)
Nate DuFort (Associate Producer, Second City Chicago; Former Planet Ant Festival Director)
2007 FEATURES
Alleyball Trailer
Alleyball
Dir: Dan Consiglio
IL, 84 min
Stuart has a problem. His girlfriend wants to get married, move to Portland and get on with their lives. His buddies want him to hang around Chicago, drink beer and play wiffleball. He’s stuck somewhere in between. She’s given him two months to decide. This is day one.
SCREENING:
Friday, June 15th at 6pm
Last Stop For Paul
Dir: Neil Mandt
CA, 80 min
Two guys travel around the world in search of answers only to discover the world is full of wacky people and experiences.
SCREENING:
Thursday, June 14th at 10pm
OFFSHORE trailer *NEW*
Offshore
Dir: Diane Cheklich
MI, 90 min
A corporate tale of cowboys and Indians, where outsourced Americans wage war on their replacements.
SCREENING:
Friday, June 15th at 10pm
Prison Pups
Dir: Alice Bouvrie
MA, 58 min
In the loneliness of incarceration, four prison inmates gain confidence and experience love as they train puppies for the handicapped and hearing impaired.
SCREENING:
Friday, June 15th at 4pm
Renaissance Men
Dir: Kevin Leeser
MI, 82 min
The story of the Hanlon-Lees action theater, the stunt troupe who introduced theatrical jousting to audiences over 25 years ago.
SCREENING:
Saturday, June 16th at 4pm
Revolution ’67
Dir:Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno
NJ, 90 min
Anatomy of a Riot.
SCREENING:
Thursday, June 14th at 6pm
The Cycles of the Mental Machine
Dir: Jacqueline Caux
FRANCE, 57 min
This 57 minute-documentary film aims at telling about the social and musical destiny of Detroit, from Blues, to Gospel, to Rhythm and Blues, to Jazz, to techno. Within the maze of this city, which bares the marks of its different periods of peak, decline and rebirth… with “The Electrifying Mojo’s†itinerary, the passer, the brilliant unifier of all styles, the creator of techno philosophy and Mad Mike the legendary creator of the first independent label Underground resistance, and the brilliant DJ and producer Carl Craig.
SCREENING:
Saturday, June 16th at 12am