2011 YoungCuts Film Festival Award Winners and Nominees

2011 YoungCuts Film Festival Award Winners and Nominees

Every year, the YoungCuts Film Festival staff review the work of more than 5, 000 filmmakers and watch more than 1, 000 films to pick our Top 100. From our Top 100, we pick our list of Top 10 films to honour with an award.

From Left to Right: Jay Moulton (YoungCuts Chairman), Karl Kimmel (A Noble Cause),
Anthony Boulay (Fokker), Colin Racicot, (L'Invité), A. J. Korkadakis (Haleiya)

The following are the Award nominees and winners from the 2011 YoungCuts Film Festival:

TextbookVideos.com Award for Best Teen Film:

Untermensch (Subhuman) by Michael Aloyan (USA)

Onion Skin by Joseph Procopio (Canada)

The 36 by Nic Weinfield (USA)

Claret by Izzy Traub (Canada)

MeJohn by Philip Bernardino-Gomez (USA)

Oasis HD Award for Best Documentary:

Finding Fathers by France Costrel (USA/France)

Common Ground by Holly Fifer (Australia)

MeJohn by Philip Bernardino-Gomez (USA)

Patrick the Artist by Aidan Jeans (Canada)

Our Subject is Hair by Vincent Toi (QC)

Virgin Radio 96 Award for Best Music Video:

Haleiya by A.J. Korkidakis (QC)

Waterton Lakes – Dreamer by Kevin Caners (Canada)
Wrecking Ball by Guy Verge Wallace (Australia)
Break of Reality - Spectrum of the Sky by S. V. Broadbent and Tami Tamar Sasson (USA)

Tribute.ca Best Animated Film:
Le Fokker by Anthony Boulay (QC)
The Girl and the Fox by Tyler Kupferer (USA)
The History of Denim by Drew Roper (UK)
Icare et le Géant by Simon Leclerc (QC)
Insecurity by Mallory Mahar (USA)

En Primeur Award for Best Cast:
Something Wrong by Michael Donaghy (UK)
Finding Soil by Tavarius Eberhart (USA)
Lumiere dans la nuit by Pierre-Luc Lafontaine (QC)
Bust by Daniel Daigle (QC)
Daddy's Little Girl by Shawn Gerrard (Canada)

MyFilmmaker.com Award for Best International Film:
Halbschlaf (A Light Sleep) by Johannes Hartman (Switzerland)
Castoffs by Nathan Campbell (Australia)
Common Ground by Holly Fifer (Australia)
La Combi Borracha (Drunken Bus) by Luis David Rojas (Mexico)

YoungCuts.com Award for Best Editor:
Diaspora by Aadhi Vive (Canada)
Halbschlaf (A Light Sleep) by Johannes Hartman (Switzerland)
En Route by Colin Levy (USA/Canada)
Blacksmith by Francis Martineau (QC)

YoungCuts Award for Best Quebec Film:
L'Invité by Colin Racicot (QC)
Le Fokker by Anthony Boulay (QC)
Bust by Daniel Daigle (QC)
Disconnected by Alberto D'Onofrio (QC)
Blacksmith by Francis Martineau (QC)

MyFilmmaker.com Award for Best Canadian Film:
A Noble Cause by Karl Kimmel (Canada)
L'Invité by Colin Racicot (QC)
Bust by Daniel Daigle (QC)
Diaspora by Aadhi Vive (Canada)

Tribute Magazine Award for Best Director:
En Route by Colin Levy (USA/Canada)
Halbschlaf (A Light Sleep) by Johannes Hartman (Switzerland)
L'Invité by Colin Racicot (QC)
Dead Grass, Dry Roots by Gabe Hohreiter (USA)
A Noble Cause by Karl Kimmel (Canada)

Oasis HD Grand Prix Award for Best Film:
Dead Grass, Dry Roots directed by Gabe Hohreiter, produced by John Negropontes (USA)
Halbschlaf (A Light Sleep) by Johannes Hartman (Switzerland)
L'Invité by Colin Racicot (QC)
A Noble Cause by Karl Kimmel (Canada)
En Route by Colin Levy (USA/Canada)

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners and thanks for their passion for filmmaking and their great films!

2011 YoungCuts Film Festival Presents Oasis HD Best Film Award to Dead Grass, Dry Roots

2011 YoungCuts Film Festival Presents Oasis HD Best Film Award to Dead Grass, Dry Roots

The YoungCuts Film Festival celebrated ten years of presenting "Great Short Films by the World's Best Young Filmmakers" on the weekend. The Festival presented its' Top 100 films over 9 screenings at Cinema Guzzo Spheretech in St-Laurent on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The screenings included one presented as part of les journées de la culture attended by 250 enthusiastic high school students and a screening of the best young Quebec filmmakers sponsored by Canadian Heritage.

After the last screening, the Festival presented awards in eleven different categories:

TextbookVideos.com Award for Best Teen Film to Untermensch (Subhuman) by Michael Aloyan (USA)

Oasis HD Award for Best Documentary to Finding Fathers by France Costrel (USA/France)

Virgin Radio 96 Award for Best Music Video to Haleiya by A.J. Korkidakis (QC)

Tribute.ca Best Animated Film to Le Fokker by Anthony Boulay (QC)

En Primeur Award for Best Cast to Something Wrong by Michael Donaghy (UK)

MyFilmmaker.com Award for Best International Film to Halbschlaf (A Light Sleep) by Johannes Hartman (Switzerland)

YoungCuts.com Award for Best Editor to Diaspora by Aadhi Vive (Canada)

YoungCuts Award for Best Quebec Film to L'Invité by Colin Racicot (QC)

MyFilmmaker.com Award for Best Canadian Film to A Noble Cause by Karl Kimmel (Canada)

Tribute Magazine Award for Best Director to En Route by Colin Levy (USA/Canada)

Oasis HD Grand Prix Award for Best Film to Dead Grass, Dry Roots directed by Gabe Hohreiter, produced by John Negropontes (USA)

The full list of our Winners and Nominees can be found on the YoungCuts web-site.

Montreal Gazette columnist Bill Brownstein praised many of these films in his Friday column:

The YoungCuts Film Festival would not be possible without the generous support of its sponsors, especially our presenting sponsor Oasis HD.

Our other sponsors include Canadian Heritage, Tribute Magazine, En Primeur and Tribute.ca, Jarislowsky Fraser limited, Virgin Radio 96, 24 Heures and the Montreal Mirror, TextbookVideos.com, MyFilmmaker.com, Sixforces, the City of Montreal and the Bureau du cinéma et de la télévision de Montréal.

We are pleased to team with charity Leave Out Violence to raise money and provide opportunities to encourage young people to choose art instead of violence as a way of expressing themselves.

With our 10th Anniversary Festival in the books, the YoungCuts Film Festival will now begin preparing for our 2012 edition. Every year we evaluate the work of more than 5000 young filmmakers and watch more than 1000 films to pick our Top 100.

About the YoungCuts Film Festival 

Founded in 2001, the YoungCuts Film Festival’s goal is to advance the careers of up-and-coming filmmakers. This international festival selects the best independent short films produced by young people 25 and under.
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 Source : Jay Moulton, Chairman, YoungCuts Film Festival
 Information: Michael Ryan, Festival Director, YoungCuts Film Festival, 514-285-4591, mike@youngcuts.com

2011 YoungCuts Film Festival Selection: Twilite – Fire

2011 YoungCuts Film Festival Selection
Twilite – Fire


The YoungCuts Film Festival is pleased to announce that it has selected Marcin Mikulski's short film Twilite – Fire as one of our Top 100 International Short Films for 2011. The film is also shortlisted for consideration as Best Music Video.

Twilite – Fire

Marcin Mikulski

Directed and Written by Marcin Mikulski

This music video is the first film that we have ever played from Poland.

It's a sharp little narrative about the permanence of the past.

It manages to comment on memory, the past and the environment without using a speck of dialogue (beyond the lyrics of the song).

*****

The Barren Landscape of Regret

Runtime: 2 min: 34 sec

Completion: September 2010

County of Origin: Poland

*****

Digging a Hole Big Enough to Bury the Past

Synopsis: The main character wants to change his life so he packs all his stuff and begins his travels.

Précis: Le personnage principal veut changer sa vie pour qu'il l'emballage de tout son matériel et de commencer son voyage.

*****

Filling the Hole

Director's Statement: The main character wants to change his life. So he packs all his stuff in a big sailor bag and begins to travel. When he finally find his destination, he digs a hole and throws all his things in the hole. He leaves, but his personal things don't let him get very far. It's complicated, You just have to see it ;-)

Parole du Réalisateur: Le personage principal veut changer sa vie. Alors, il l'emballage de tout son matériel dans un sac marin grand et commencer à Voyage. Quand il trouve enfin sa destination, il creuse un trou et de jeter toutes ses croit le trou. Nous s'en va mais sa persone les choses ne veulent pas le laisser aller très loin. C'est compliqué, Il suffit de voir ;-)

*****

Free of the Past

Filmmaker Age: 25

Maciej Twardowski

Cinematography and Post Production by: Maciej Twardowski

*****

The Past Returns

The 2011 YoungCuts Film Festival begins on Friday, September 30th at Guzzo Spheretech. The Animation and Music Screening is Saturday, October 1st at 5PM and concludes with a presentation of an award for Best Animated Film and Best Music Video.

*****

The Band

Not so Easy to Turn Your Back on the Past

Oasis HD Grand Prix Screening (Best of the Fest) at the YoungCuts Film Festival

Oasis HD Screening
for the Tenth Anniversary YoungCuts Film Festival

Featuring the best films of the Festival by young filmmakers from Quebec, Canada, the United States, Switzerland and France.

Sunday, 2 October, 2011 9PM/21h dimanche, le 2 octobre, 2011

Guzzo Mega-Plex Sphèretech 14, 3500 Côte-Vertu, Ville Saint-Laurent, Québec, Canada.

15 Films, Approximately 107 Minutes

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2011 YCFF Tickets - Sunday 9PM

One Ticket $10.50 Two Tickets $21.00 Three Tickets $31.50 Four Tickets $42.00 Five Tickets $53.50 Six Tickets $63.00

13. Fokker, Le (QC) Anthony Boulay, Animation, 1:00

Synopsis: One quiet evening at the aircraft museum, a rambunctious little boy decides to steal a plane to go flying in the clouds.
Une soirée tranquille au musée de l'aviation, un petit garçon turbulent décide de voler un avion du musée d'aviation pour se promener dans les nuages.

2. Finding Soil (USA) Tavarius Eberhart, Drama, 7:30

Synopsis: Sometimes it's hard to grow without a strong foundation.
Parfois c'est dur à grandir sans une forte fondation.


3. Patrick the Artist (Canada) Aidan Jeans, Documentary, 4:30

4. Il Était Encore Un Fois (QC) Roxanne Baril-Monfette, Animation, 1:30

Synopsis: Mister Fox finally gets his cheese only to find that Mister Crow has encased it in a metal container!
Maître Renard, parvenant à obtenir son fromage tant désirée, ne se douta point que Maître Corbeau, cette fois-ci, le lui offrirait dans son emballage métallique.

5. Diaspora (Canada) Aadhi Vive, Drama, 6:30

Synopsis: Hard work, a good education and a big dream sound like the sure ingredients for success in starting a better life in a new country. But are they?


6. Insecurity (USA) Mallory Mahar, Animation, 1:00

7. En Route (Canada/USA) Colin Levy, Drama, 8:00

Synopsis: A slight deviation in course - a fortuitous decision in child's play - can spawn a ripple effect that will change the trajectory of your life.

8. Extraordinary Fight of Atticus Walker and the Monster in his Mind, The (USA) Michael Karman, Comedy,  13:00

Synopsis: You know that voice? The one that reminds you of your every insecurity? For Atticus Walker, this voice is 6 feet tall, obese, furry, and green.

9. Amis, Les (QC) Olivier Brisson, Animation, 2:00

Synopsis: Friendship.
De l'amitié.

10. Best Christmas Ever, The (USA) Kai Winikka, Comedy, 2:00

Synopsis: Santa Claus comes down a chimney but only two of the three children were good enough to receive presents - the latter gets a surprise.

11. Invité, L' (QC) Colin Racicot, Drama, 13:00

Synopsis: Antoine, a lonely fisherman, makes an unusual encounter while fishing on the frozen lake.
Antoine, un pêcheur solitaire, fait une rencontre inhabituelle en allant pêcher sur le lac gelé

12. Halbschlaf (Switzerland) Johannes Hartmann, Drama, 8:00

Synopsis: Confusion through dream and reality...
Une confusion du rêve et de réalité.

13. Collection of Walt, A (USA) Greg Yagolnitzer, Animation, 3:00

Synopsis: Walt struggles with everyday tasks.

14. Tempus Fugit (QC/France) Fred Grivois, Comedy, 11:30

Synopsis: We do not negotiate with terrorists. Unless there is money to be made...
On ne négocie pas avec les terroristes. Sauf s'il y a du blé en jeu…

15. Dead Grass, Dry Roots (USA) John Negropontes, Drama, 24:00

Synopsis: A peaceful cattle rancher must abandon his pacifist beliefs in order to save the life of a young man condemned to hang.



Need more than 6 Tickets? We suggest a 10 Ticket Bundle!

Ticket Bundle YCFF 2011 Sun. 9PM

Ten Tickets $70.00 Add DVD of Screening $85.00

Support the Festival! Buy a Pass!

YCFF 2011 Festival Pass

Festival Pass $50.00 Add DVD (Sunday 9PM) $65.00

Buy a DVD of the Screening:

2011 YCFF Screening DVD

Sunday 9PM Screening $15.00 Add Animation Screening $25.00 All 9 Screenings $95.00

For information about the screening or alternative ways to buy tickets, passes or screening DVDs contact us at the YoungCuts offices: Mike@YoungCuts.com 514.285.4591

MyFilmmaker.com Screening for the YoungCuts Film Festival

MyFilmmaker.com Screening
for the Tenth Anniversary YoungCuts Film Festival

Featuring films by young filmmakers from Quebec, Canada, the United States, Singapore, Israel, Mexico and Australia.

Sunday, 1 October, 2011 7PM/19h dimanche, le 1 octobre, 2011

Guzzo Mega-Plex Sphèretech 14, 3500 Côte-Vertu, Ville Saint-Laurent, Québec, Canada.

13 Films, Approximately 110 Minutes

Buy Tickets for the screening!

2011 YCFF Tickets - Sunday 7PM

One Ticket $10.50 Two Tickets $21.00 Three Tickets $31.50 Four Tickets $42.00 Five Tickets $53.50 Six Tickets $63.00

1. Hunger Pains (Canada) Oliver Lauder, Short, 1:00

2. Castoffs (Australia) Nathan Campbell, Short, 4:30  

Synopsis: A homeless robot wanders the city streets, ignored by others; lacking any purpose, he spends his time collecting the strange, glowing shards that accumulate in back alleys and laneways.


3. Common Ground (Australia) Hollie Fifer, Documentary, 14:00

4. Choking Hazard (Australia) Ella Macintyre, Short, 2:00

5. Sun and Moon, The (USA) J. J. Rubin, Short (Teen), 5:00

Synopsis: When Moses is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, his reaction is not like most.

6. Lemons and Lemonade (Canada) Milton Ng, Comedy, 6:30

Synopsis: An entrepreneurial eight year old with a lemonade monopoly finds that business sense only goes so far when it comes to selling himself to the girl next door.

7. Rusted Pyre (Canada/USA) Laurence Cohen, Drama, 13:30

Synopsis: Ginny and Sally venture out in the middle of Winter a ways out of town to endure a rite of passage in a secluded, abandoned old car.

8. Morning Mrs. Meth (Israel) Eli Arenson, Drama, 4:30

Synopsis: Fictional portrayal of a young Methamphetamine Abuser.

9. Summer & Its Rain (Singapore) Joshua Simon, Drama, 10:30

Synopsis: In a world that has lost its' color, a young woman uses music to restore vibrancy to her life.

10. Daddy's Little Girl (Canada) Shawn Gerrard, Drama, 14:00

Synopsis: 8 year-old Katie Halson struggles to keep the secrets of her white supremacist father as police investigators search their home.

11. 1000 Things (Canada) Bryce Bladon, Short, 3:30

Synopsis: When Chris and Carla find out their best friend Josh is about to die, they set out to help him complete his bucket list.


12. Récits d'Hyperinflation (QC) Karim Haroun and Julien Cadieux, Drama, 12:00

13. Combi Borracha, La (Mexico) Luis David Rojas, Drama/Comedy, 19:30

Synopsis: Alexis drives the 'Drunken Bus', a service that provides transportation for young inebriated party-goers, with the purpose of preventing them from driving under the influence, until he meets Miguel, the most obnoxious, perverted and hilarious drinker.


Need more than 6 Tickets? We suggest a 10 Ticket Bundle!

2011 YCFF Tickets - Sunday 7PM

One Ticket $10.50 Two Tickets $21.00 Three Tickets $31.50 Four Tickets $42.00 Five Tickets $53.50 Six Tickets $63.00

Support the Festival! Buy a Pass!

YCFF 2011 Festival Pass

Festival Pass $50.00 Add DVD (Sunday 7PM) $65.00

Buy a DVD of the Screening:

2011 YCFF Screening DVD

Sunday 7PM Screening $15.00 Add Best of Screening $25.00 All 9 Screenings $95.00

For information about the screening or alternative ways to buy tickets, passes or screening DVDs contact us at the YoungCuts offices: Mike@YoungCuts.com 514.285.4591