Sunday,
February 20 at 1:00pm
NextFrame:
UFVA’s Touring Festival of International Student Film + Video
2004-2005 Awards Program
 NextFrame
features animation, experimental, documentary, and narrative
work. The festival offers low entry fees and few restrictions
-- such as length and format -- in order to encourage the most
diverse entries possible. Unlike a traditional festival, the
NextFrame award-winning films embark on a yearlong international
tour. The chosen films screen in dozens of cities throughout
the United States and around the globe.
The
goal as a festival is to connect student filmmakers and provide
much-deserved screening opportunities. Visiting university campuses,
museums, and media arts centers, NextFrame offers audiences
a glimpse of the promising next generation of filmmaking.
1st
Place
Narrative
Never
Even
dir.
Jan Schomburg, Germany, Academy of Media Arts, 2004, video,
10 mins, color, German w/ English subtitles
One
morning Max awakes to find himself in a strange world where
time runs in the opposite direction.
2nd
Place
Narrative
What
Grown-Ups Know
dir.
Jonathan Wald, USA, University of California Los Angeles, video,
30 mins, color
Forced
into life on the run with his ailing mum, teenage Roy seeks
relief by seducing the lonely manager of a desolate trailer
park.
1st
Place
Documentary
Going
Nodal: The Hodge Experience
dir.
Sara Kaye Larson, USA , Wayne State University, 2004, video,
35 mins, color
A
raw autobiographical documentary, composed entirely of home
movie footage, tells the story of a young woman's diagnosis
and treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
2nd
Place Documentary
Vetool
dir.
Vachan Sharma, USA, University of Southern California, 2004,
video,
26
mins, color
A
Kuwaiti film student and an American Gulf War veteran-turned-ceramicist
struggle to understand the wounds of war.
1st
Place
Animation
Aki
dir.
Frieda Van Raevels, Belgium, RITS, 2004, video, 5 mins, color
A
meeting between two people in ancient Japan evokes a contemplative
mood.
2nd
Place
Animation
Somebody
Exceptional
dir.
Xavier Marquis, UK, University of the West of England, 2004,
video,
2.5
mins, color
A
grumpy "somebody" complains about the crowd.
1st
Place Experimental
Nogo
dir.
Christoph Stampler, Germany, Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg,
2004, video, 3 mins, color
Our
daily domestic failures create the symphony of life.
2nd
Place Experimental
1.35
dir.
Milan Balog, Slovak Republic, Filmová
a televízna fakulta Vysokej školy múzických umení,
2004, video, 8 mins, color, Slovak w/ English subtitles
A
dying Czechoslovakian refugee keeps in contact with his beloved
by sending her photocopies of his private life.
Writing
Award + Director's Choice Award
Miracle
dir.
Georges Homsy, Lebanon, St Joseph University, 2004, video, 25
mins, color, English and Arabic w/ English subtitles
In
the lobby of the American Embassy in Cyprus, a young Lebanese
man is asked to interpret for other hopeful visa applicants.
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