| Deadline to send all requested information to claim Cash Prize: March 3, 2016 |
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| Cash Prize Awarded |
Cash Prize Awarded |
| Loose Shorts $500.00 WINNER “The Eve”  – Luca Machnich (Italy) – AWARDS Loose Shorts Horror Cinematography Editing Direction Sound Editing Visual Special Effects |
Tight Shorts $500.00 WINNER “On Flying Water” – Dominique Monfery (France) –  AWARDS Tight Shorts Animated Original Score Original Concept Special Effects: Animation Viewer Impact: Entertainment Value |
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT"What appealed to me about WSTL is the catchy style of the website and the
ammount of awards that allow you to not be too restrictive as some festivals are and promote many new filmakers in different categories." THE EVE is a story that echoes the style of the great American thriller writer Robert Bloch (whose novel "Psycho" was filmed by Hitchcock) in its macabre irony, of Dino Buzzati, the most important Italian fantasy writer in its longing for the transcendent and the desperate waiting for an opportunity of redemption from a tragic life, and of the great American fantasy fiction writer Henry James in its interior monologues and in the psychological narration of the leading characters. Instead, it distances itself from a certain Italian film genre that was exploited until the end of the 19th century and whose formulas now appear repetitive. The film gives the opportunity to explore in an international film language the purity and fantasy of a child's world violated by the cynicism of the world of adults, and to narrate it through the dilated times of dream and imagination in the setting of a Christmas that has nothing joyful and mystical and where the waiting for another future, symbolized by the bell tower, is the leading character of the story. |
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT"I took care of
the awards submissions. i applied to some big festivals
recommended by our distributor. our film being so short yet very original in its concept and the approach of image/music, any festivals would not accept it but some give importance to small films that are different in some ways. i first applied to DOFFIF, and since we won best of show, when you invited us to apply to the WSTL, i decided to give it a chance. luckily, since we won again, and this time there is cash! :) which is the first time we win money for our film, because i don't consider the tiny box office earned with our week theatre release (because of lack of publicity, compare to our other Oscar contenders peers) money. so, thank you very much!! i had a lot of great feedbacks from the Academy. the only problem was that it was really short compare to the other films of this year's competition. we needed more time to conclude the end with the music, too, everyone told us this and i always felt this way, ever since i scored that last part. progressive color changes on sounds need to be at least 2-4 times longer than on visuals! interestingly, members (as we saw with the awards we had for concept, and shared wins on the film for both animation and music), thought of the music as a narration, a sort of music voice acting. some members thought that the animation was created on the music, given its perfect synchronization and storytelling. we were talking about developing this concept on a feature-lengh film, when we were working on it. i didn't tell my director Dominique yet, but i have some opportunities with producing the film. i hope all will work out, and that we will be back on a new adventure together!" |