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Si Tú No Estas
(If You’re Gone) Ganó en Savannah:
mejor película del año, mejor director (Noe Santillan),
mejor guión, mejor actor (Bruno Bichir) y mejor
música. Participan también
Verónica Toussaint e Ivan Arriaga. Submitted by Danielle Koch on
Fri, The tenth annual “Purple Violets,” written and
directed by Ed Burns and starring Best Documentary Feature was a
tie between “The Singing Revolution” and “The First Saturday in May.” John
and Maureen Castle Tusty directed “The Singing
Revolution,” which documents thousands of Estonians who used song as a form
of protest to end Soviet occupation. The songs the people in the film wrote
anchored “The First Saturday in May,”
directed by brothers John and Brad Hennegan,
follows the path of six horses on their way to competing in the Many other awards included cash
and equipment prizes. John Arlotto, director of
“Deface,” won the Best Editing Award, which includes Avid Media Composer. In
accepting his award, Arlotto said that before hand
he had been thinking how fun it would be to call his editor and tell him.
Then he remembered that he was the editor. ‘’Si Tú No Estás,’‘ directed by Noé Santillán-López, a 2007
graduate of the film and television department, won both the Best Student
Cinematography Award and the first ever Savannah Film Commission Award. The
cinematography award comes with the use of a Panavision
camera package worth $60,000. With the camera package, Santillán-López
plans to filma feature version of his film. “The longer version tells the
story of how the death of this woman not only affects her husband and her
son, but also the lives ofmany people in her
family. It is about how this family searches and ultimately finds love and
redemption,” said Santillán-López. Winning the camera package was not
the only prize for Santillán-López.As a SCAD graduate, he said hewas very
excited to return to “When it became real and we
were announced as the winners, I felt so relieved that about a year and a
half of our hard work was finally paying off. I am not obsessed with the
awards, but I am obsessed about people loving our film and finding a
connection to it. Their applause on Saturday night was my award,” said Santillán-López. Other Awards Best Animation “Shut-eye Hotel”
(2007): Bill Plympton, director; Best Documentary (co-winners)
“The First Saturday in May” (2006): Best Narrative Short “All
Saints Day” (2006): Will Frears, director; Brooke
Berman, writer; Caleb Harper Omens, Amy Hobby, Russ Stratton, producers Best Narrative Feature “Purple
Violets” (2007): Edward Burns, director/writer/producer; Margot Bridger,
producer Best Director Michelle Steffes, “Driftwood” (2006): Michelle Steffes, Diane Passage Jury Award “The
Singing Revolution” (2006): James Tusty, Maureen
Castle Tusty, directors/producers; Mike Majoros, producer Best SCAD Student Competition
Award “Push” (2006): Stephen Stanley, director/writer; Sara Holman, Best Student Cinematography
Award “Si Tú No Estas” (2007): Noe Santillian-Lopez, director/writer/producer; Cayman Eby, Claudio Vizcarra,
producers Best Editing Award “Deface”
(2007): John Arlotto, director/writer; Roman Wyden,
producer HBO Films Student Competition
Award 2007 First place—“Deacon’s Mondays” (2007): Destin Cretton,
Lowell Frank, directors/writers/producers; HBO Films Producer Award 2007
“The First Saturday in May” (2006): Josh Hennegan,
Brad Hennegan, directors/producers |