Over the weekend, as part of the Asian American International Film Festival, AAFilmLab announced the winners and presented awards for the 6th Annual 72 Hour Film Shootout.
If you're not familiar with the Shootout, basically, it's a nationwide competition where filmmaking teams have 72 hours to complete a five-minute short film based around a prescribed theme. This year's theme was was Time's Up.
Here are the competition's Top 10:
Top 10 1. Team HeadOn "Times [not] Up" 2. Color TV "Grace & the Staten Island Fairy" 3. Fish Grenade "25 Mins" 4. A Green Bowl "Just A Burger" 5. Vision "96-120" 6. Team Persimmon "Broken" 7. Barkada Inc. "Time Out" 8. The Sexiest One in the Bunch "A Date with Time " 9. imua! Theatre and Film Company "White Rabbit" 10. Fresh C Crew "Time After Time"
And here are the Shootout's award winners:
Best Actor Rain Noe "Grace & the Staten Island Fairy"
Best Actress Ginger Kroll "Broken"
Peer Choice Award Team HeadOn "Times [not] Up"
Peek Award Team HeadOn "Times [not] Up" Color TV "Grace & the Staten Island Fairy" Fish Grenade "25 Mins"
Student Filmmaker Award Team Fivelement "I'm Perfect"
Best Cinematography Fish Grenade "25 Mins" - WINNER Last Minute Films "An Untitled Project" Kevin Boston "The One" Wet Maynard "Season's End" AK9 Films "Now"
Best Story One Hundred Hand Clap "Is There Anything Else?" Fish Grenade "25 Mins" Color TV "Grace & the Staten Island Fairy" Barkada Inc. "Time Out" Team HeadOn "Times [not] Up" - WINNER
Most Original Use of Theme Fish Grenade "25 Mins" A Green Bowl "Just A Burger" - WINNER Vision "96-120" Fresh C Crew "Time After Time" Argosy "I Have A Rendezvous With Death"
Best Editing Vision "96-120" A Green Bowl "Just A Burger" Fish Grenade "25 Mins" Team HeadOn "Times [not] Up" - WINNER imua! Theatre & Film Company "White Rabbit"
Best Direction Color TV "Grace & the Staten Island Fairy" One Hundred Hand Clap "Is There Anything Else?" Fish Grenade "25 Mins" imua! Theatre & Film Company "White Rabbit" Team HeadOn "Times [not] Up" - WINNER
Congratulations to all the award winners -- especially grand prize winners TeamHeadOn for Time's [not] Up. Nice work. For the rest of you, there's always next year. To learn more about AAFilmLab's 72 Hour Film Shootout, visit the website here.