2006, 39th annual humboldt int’l film festival
Thanks for all the hard work our festival screening class, faculty advisor and co-directors put in to make this year an incredible film experience. We also want to thank Matt McCormick, Vanessa Renwick and Melinda Stone for bringing their expertise and fantastic personalities to our little corner of the world as our festival judges, and guest filmmaker Chuck Hudina for enriching us with his own unique vision. Lastly, without our entrants this festival could not exist so thanks to everyone who entered.
film festival co-directors
Ivy Matheny
Ivy loves to geek out on alternative filmmaking techniques. She loves to explore cinematography through the use of 16mm-3Smm, and 3Smm- 16mm transfers via: duplikin, contact transfers, copy machines, slide making, animation stand work and more! There is nothing that Ivy finds more enjoyable than playing with film equipment.
Sean Wilson
Sean Wilson has been an enthusiastic fan/participant of the Humboldt International Short Film Festival for many years and found it to ‘be an inspiration in deciding to attend HSU for the pursuit of film making. “It has been an honor and privilege to be a part of the oldest student run film festival in the world.” He has enjoyed working in all genres of films while obtaining an education in the art of filmmaking, however, documentary filmmaking has captivated most of his attention. This summer, following his graduation, he and several other film students from HSU will be making a documentary film on firefighting in California. They will be following several crews that are stationed throughout the state. This is a project he has been planning for almost a decade since he first began training to become a firefighter himself.
Montel Vanderhorck III
Montel was drawn to film because of its story telling power. A theatre geek at heart, Montel enjoys working on film and video projects with groups of committed individuals who share his passion. He has recently finished working as editor on “Mercy Me”, a ten-minute experimental documentary, and is currently directing a silly puppet film. When he graduates in May he plans to continue working on as many films as possible.
film festival faculty advisor and outreach
mary cruse
FACULTY ADVISOR
Mary has worked for the festival for S years; as a Co-Director and then as the Faculty Advisor. She is currently teaching Art of Film and is the Faculty Advisor for the Humboldt International Short Film Festival. She is married with three beautiful dogs and four grandchildren. Mary is lovingly known as the Godmother of the Film Festival.
Viva Soffian
OUTREACH COORDINATOR
Viva likes to look at pictures, especially ones that move. The marriage of sight and sound is a concept she has recently become infatuated with since studying film production at HSU. After she graduates in May, Viva plans on finding some kind of balance, playing music and completing some films she has been working on.
film festival winners
Best Of The Fest:
The Legend Of Black Tom – Deron Albright
Best of the Festival is a category that is open to both digital and film submissions, it is an award that is given to the overall best submission and is not limited by length or category or format.
The Alice Guy Blache Award for Celebration of Film:
Rock/Hard Place – Roger Beebe
The Alice Guy Blache Award for Celebration of Film is given to a film that must have originated in film and be screened in film (not digital video). This award is for a film that showcases the beauty of film as a medium.
Best Narrative (film or dv):
Bartholomew’s Song – Lowell Frank & Destin Cretton
Best Animation (film or dv):
Communications Factory 6min – Jen Sachs
Best Experimental (film or dv):
Endless- Wenhua Shi
Best Documentary (film or dv):
Bone Mixers – Mike DeChant
Melinda Stone’s Juror’s Choice Award (film or dv):
Reveries from Cistae Memoria – Phil Hastings
Matt McCormic’s Juror’s Choice Award (film or dv):
The One and The Many – Andre Silva
Vanessa Renwick Juror’s Choice Award (film or dv):
Two Rivers – Kayle Carpenter
The Ledo Matteoli Award for Best Immigrant Story (film or dv):
Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night – Sonali Gulati
Robertisini Banana Slug Award for Surrealism (film or dv):
The Egg – Sam E. Stehr
The Jim Demulling Speak Out Award for Best Social Awareness Documentary (film or dv):
Generation War – Caitlin Lindsey
The Emerging Genre Award for Experimental Documentary (film or dv):
In Loving Memory – Robert Todd
HSU Women’s Resource Center Award for Dismantling Systems of Oppression (film or dv):
Scene Not Heard – Maori Karmael Holmes
Honorable Mention in Narrative (film or dv):
What’s Love Doing In The Mountains -Yunus FiratKuboa – Dave B
Honorable Mention in Animation (film or dv):
Damaged Goods – Don Best
Honorable Mention in Experimental (film or dv):
The Waiting Time – Sasha Waters
People’s Choice Picks: (film or dv)
Wet Shave by Boris Schaar-schmidt
Light Stains by Sandra Cheng
The Orb by Matthew T. Burns
Marshlands by Michel Sargent
Musak by M.R. Dhar
Betty Creek by Robbie Land
Afraid So by Jay Rosenbladt
Knowing Me, Knowing You by Christa Dickman
Rein Ne Va Plus by Andreas Schaap
The Big Ass World Of Science by Mike Wellins
Déjà Vu by Tony Gault
Pears by Heidi Saman
Skin Tone by Eric Gerber
Prickle Britches by Jill Johnston-Price
film festival judges
Chuck Hudina
Chuck Hudina is an artist and filmmaker involved in both experimental and documentary work. www.chuckhudina.com
Vanessa Renwick
Also hailing from Portland, Oregon is Festival Judge and cinematic rabble-rouser Vanessa Renwick. Right now she is working on two long documentaries (both of which have been in the works for seven years running), two short portrait series films, and a video installation. Her work roller-coasters from the “pretty silly” to the “super grim,” and she finds herself more attracted to the grim. http://www.odoka.org
Matt McCormick
Festival Judge Matt McCormick is an award-winning filmmaker and director from Portland, Oregon. He is also the founder of the video label Peripheral Produce and is the director of the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival. Matt’s films blur the lines between documentary and experimental practices. His films combine found and original sounds and images, to fashion abstract and witty observations of contemporary culture. http://www.rodeofilmco.com
Melinda Stone
Humboldt County native and Festival Judge Melinda Stone, Ph.D., is the director of film projects for the Center for Land Use Interpretation, an art research organization dedicated to finding the common ground in matters of land use. Recently she has been directing site-specific outdoor film screenings in which the featured attraction is the confluence of the surrounding landscape as it appears cinematically and in real time. She is currently a professor/ director of the film studies program at the University of San Francisco. http://www.sites.cca.edu/curatingarchive/archives/000135.html