Los Angeles July 2008 Awards

Best Film Awards
Best Feature Film- Racing Daylight
Best Short Film – Fifth Street
Best Documentary – The Wonder Kids
Best Animation – Eagle Talon The Movie: The Chancellor Only Lives Twice
Best Cinematography – The Heart of Alaska
Best Original Screenplay – Dr. Andrea Levinson and Bud Dowdey for Death, Taxes... and Chocolate

Lifetime Achievement in Film & TV – Dick Van Dyke

Best Director Awards (USA)
Best Director of a Feature Film– Rosemary Edelman for Frankie D
Best Director of a Short Film- Cone Chamberlain for The Pikers
Best Director of a Documentary – Billy Burke for Under the Skin
Best Directorial Debut – Lana Parshina for Svetlana About Svetlana

Best Director Awards (International)
Best International Director of a Feature Film– Matthew Kloske for The Turn Card
Best International Director of a Short Film- Dale Stewart for Awakened
Best International Director of a Documentary –Avedis Ohanian for Husher (Memories)
Best Directorial Debut – Leanne Averbach for Teacups & Mink

Best Feature Film - Genre Awards
Best Feature Drama – Chekhov and Maria
Best Sci-Fi – Alien Grey: Zone-X
Best Feature Thriller – Battle of Souls
Best Feature Arthouse – Lime Salted Love
Best Western – Broken Fences
Best Feature Comedy –Death, Taxes... and Chocolate
Best Feature Action – Signals
Best Satire - Cold Steele

Best Short Film – Genre Awards
Best Short Drama – Cinders of My Soul
Best Short Sci-Fi– Fifth Street
Best Fantasy - Tenebrae
Best Short Thriller –Photograph
Best Short Art Film– Moving Stills
Best Short Comedy – Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time
Best Short Horror – The Aphrikan
Best Short Dark Comedy– The Rug
Best Short Experimental- Portrait of an Addict
Best Alternative – Thirteen or so Minutes…

Documentary Awards
Best Music Documentary – Black Metal Satanica
Best International Music Documentary – A Nashville State of Mind
Best Arts Documentary – The Survival of the Wildebeest
Best Political Documentary- Identity – The True Story of Juan Piras Peron
Best Social Documentary – Negative Split
Best Medical Documentary- Medicinal
Best Special Interest Documentary – Nina
Best Environmental Documentary - Drifters

Actor Awards (USA)
Best Actor – Todd Bridges in Frankie D
Best Actress – Melissa Leo in Racing Daylight
Best Supporting Actress – Catherine Trail in Death, Taxes... and Chocolate
Best Supporting Actor- Giancarlo Esposito in Racing Daylight

Best PR Campaign
Designed and executed by Andrea Levinson and Briege McGarrity of Independent Film Group for the film Death, Taxes... and Chocolate!

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