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Announcing Audience Awards 2019 Music Shorts Film Festival Winners!
Audience Awards announces the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners of our 2019 Music Shorts Film Festival! What a thrill it was to receive so many fabulous films! Films that get to the heart of music and show the power music has to change lives. Doorways - 1st Place Music...
Top 10 Up-and-coming LGBTQ Filmmakers to Keep Your Eye On
Audience Awards has chosen the Top Ten Up-and-coming LGBTQ Filmmakers from our extensive film library for you to keep an eye on. Become engaged, inspired, and support their projects. Ivan Olita Ivan Olita submitted his film Muxes to our LGBTQ Shorts Film Festival in...
5 Audience Awards Montana Filmmakers To Watch
Audience Awards has identified five up-and-coming Montana filmmakers from our community that are making a difference in Montana's film industry. Check them out and support their projects. Lynn-Wood Fields Lynn-Wood Fields caught our attention when she submitted her...
One Woman Brings Pie, One Offers Whiskey: See Who Wins in Pie Noon.
It's Bible-thumper vs. the Pie Harlots in this fun showdown. It's 1909, and a new brothel has come to Minneapolis. But they moved across the street from one righteous mama -- Bible-thumping righteous, not surfer-dude righteous. It all begins one blessed evening when...
The Faces and Figures Behind Sexual Reassignment Surgery
“Every person has a different meaning of what it means to be a woman. What it means to be a man.” What is the goal of life? Is it to sacrifice your happiness in order to fit into the straight and narrow of society? Or is it to be yourself and be happy? In The Cost of...
Peaceful Creation: The Hammer and the Axe
“The punch and the drift have to come before you make the hammer and the axe." It begins with a spark, the fingers that poke through Tim Jorgensen’s hobo gloves adding kindling to an established bed of coals. The smoke is readily funneled through an opening in the...
Bruise Ballet: A Bee Becomes a Butterfly
The story of 2 tough females: a coach and her star wrestler. Bruise Ballet opens with a series of shouted instruction in Polish with subtitles: “Execution! Hit her! Yes! Yes! Move around! Break the clinch.” The first shot pans to a middle-aged woman against a fence,...
One Word—Cocktender.
Why, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Gin, is my personal Cat Griz Competiton favorite. There have been many exceptional films made for the Cat vs Griz Film Competition, but none of them had me going like Rachel Steven’s Introducing Montgomery, or How I Learned...
Hans Glasmann Achieves Magic in ‘Mischief’
Stop-trick technology makes for a fun, quirky film Georges Méliès, known for the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, was a Parisian illusionist and filmmaker who invented the “stop-trick” technique, in which filming stops, an object is slightly shifted or added and then the...