The East Lansing Film Festival - ELFF

2nd Annual Autumn 2007 48/5 Film Competition Winners

This article was posted on Mon, Jan 21 2008

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Award Ceremony
When:

Sunday, December 2, 2007, 6pm

Where:

Scene Metrospace, 110 Charles Street, East Lansing, MI

We had an amazing turn out and enjoyed showcasing everyone’s films! The competition was extremely tight, but of the 10 teams the judges were eventually able to decide on the winners. Now onto the top films which will be shown as part of the 11th Annual East Lansing Film Festival…

FIRST PLACE:

Best. Little. Ever—“The Sharpening”
Producer: Jason Gabriel
Jason Gabriel, Aaron Ohrt, Brett Dryfus, Jamie Sherman, Ken Orlich, Nikki
Motson, Ryan Zernec, Joshua Shatizy, Antwaun Kent, Kristen Miller, Marian Cardelli,
Michael Anderson, Robin Olson, Gregoire Seyrig, Chris Capogan,
Michael Amman, Anessa Kent Johnson, Angelica Kent, David Anderson, Dominic
Cochran, Jonathan Cheeseman, Diana Oppenheim, David Barnes, Kate Russell,
Lindsay Palinsky, Nick Fugedi, Corey Kniahymdy, TJ Land, Gabe Francisco,
Banu Yorgun, Soner Yorgun, Julian Fierrez

SECOND PLACE:

HammerLab Productions—“Finders Keepers”
Producer: Bert Divietri
Bert Divietri, Jesse Gerrould, Carolyn Sauille, Jason Solgate, Ashley
Doffy, Jared Moyer, Andrew Marshall, Rodney Emerick.

THIRD PLACE:

ESP Productions—“Making 48”
Producer: Erroll Allmacher
David Parks, Rob Sumbler, Nickolas Buonodono, Caleb Hansen, Brandon
Johnson, Amanda Marston, Lisa Mattheis, Adam Hirzel, Tim Lowry, Greg
Adaline

HONORABLE MENTION:

Fight Song—“Trashed”
Producer: JM Barnett
Jeffrey Brown, Vanessa Cicos, Wes Forbes, Sandra Miska

Red Lion—“Desperate Measures”
Producer: Abby Tebeau

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR JUDGES:

Bob Albers - MSU professor, filmmaker
Bob Brown - director/producer, Purple Rose Films
Ed Cheeney - director/owner, Cheeney Media Concepts 2
Jim Jabarra - award-winning filmmaker, Green River Cafe owner
Peter Richards - artist, director of (SCENE) Metrospace

THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR PARTICIPATING!

Best Little Ever - Jason Gabriel
Blind Squirrel Productions - Paul Keehn
BrooksFilms - Brooks Alder
ESP Productions - Errol Allmacher
Fight Song - Jeffrey Brown
HammerLab Productions - Bert Divietri
Maniloff - Eric Maniloff
Reminiscent Studios - Timothy Howarth
Red Lion - Abby Tebeau
Tor2 - Andrew Johnston