Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 5 - Festival Winners 2012

Best Feature:

1^st - Things I Don’t Understand Director - Director:  David Spaltro

2^nd - Maybe Tomorrow – Director: Michael Wolfe

Honorable Mention – Santiago - Director: Felix Martinez

Best First Time Director (Feature)

Angels Around Me – Director: Stephen “Stix” Josey

Best Short:

1^st – Organized Criminal – Director: George Santini

Honorable Mention – Nausea – Director: Jeff Curren

Best Local Feature:

1^st – Benny the Bum – Director: Paul and Dan Cantagallo

Honorable Mention – The Descending – Director: Kyle Thompson

Best Local Short:

1^st - Welcome Home – Director: Danny Donnelly

Best Sci-Fi Feature

1^st – Towers – Director: Jet Wintzer

Best Sci-Fi Short

1^st –Serum – Director: Chidi Ozeih

Best Comedy Feature:

1^st Trailer Park Jesus – Director: Sean Gerowin

Best Documentary Feature:

1^st - Contradictions of Fair Hope – Director: Epatha Merkerson

2^nd – The Revolutionary - Director: Lucy Ostrander, Irv Drasnin, Don Sellers
Honorable Mention- Bailout (US) - Director Sean Fahey

Best Documentary Short:

1^st – If I Make It, I Win – Director: Roberto Ferri

Best Social Documentary:

1^st It’s A Girl Thing – Director: Shannon Silva

Best Music Documentary:

1^st – Inside the Perfect Circle: The story of Joel Thome – Director: Chris Pepino

2^nd – Diary of a Decade – Director: Jason Orr

Best Foreign Documentary

1^st – In The Name of Our Mothers (Poland) – Director: Mary Skinner

Best Foreign Feature

1^st – Duck Hunter (Italy) – Director: Edgidio Veronesi

2^nd – Zima (Germany) – Katerina Stankovic

Best Foreign Short

1^st – Ausreichend (Germany) – Director: Isabel Prahl

2^nd  - Sea Pavillion (South Africa) – Director: Todd Somodevilla

Honorable Mention – Suddenly Zinal (Iran) – Director: Navid Azed

Best Animation

1^st – Landscape (France) – Director Anabela Costa

2^nd – The Game (Poland) – Director: Marcin Janiec

Honorable Mention – O-Bon (US) – Director: Robert Kauffman

Best Music Video

1^st - Magic Sounds of Arrows (Sweden) – Director: Oskar Gullstrand

2^nd – It's Over Now - KIN4LIFE (US) - Director: Dorian G. Stone

Thank you,

Benjamin F. Barnett

Festival Director

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We welcome you to Philadelphia and the 5th annual Philadelphia Independent Film Festival. Thank you for attending. We hope you like the show. Please use the comment cards and or just stop an usher with your opinion. Thank you to our sponsors: Filmmakers worldwide, Empowerment Group, Adobe, UArts, Philadelphia Distillery, Philadelphia Acting Studio, and Media Bureau Network. We'll see you in the theater's. Benjamin F. Barnett Festival Director Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 5

Festival Opening Night 2012

    * 2012 Festival Opening night screenings & events: $40.00 *

See 4 films while enjoying our sponsors Philadelphia Brewing Company, Philadelphia Distilling Company, Boyds Cardinal Hollow Winery,  and other treats at the fest lounge.

Festival screening update: Welcome to the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts as a sponsoring venue!

A quick note, we are excited to be working with PAFA and their film theater group. We will be screening both Friday and Sunday and have a bold mix of local and international films. Thank you to Paul Hamannaka and Judi Garst for the help and encouragement. We are looking forward to working with you both.

We have started to inform the film makers, the discussions have begun. #Pi5 #piff #uff

::::> We have started to inform the film makers, the discussions have begun. If you are interested in seeing a film screened at this years Philadelphia Independent Film Festival on June 20 - 24, 2012, now is the time to start posting up about it and passing on the Event invite link (Skip and go directly to the Event invite link below)! Thanks for the great discussions and feedback to date as usual. Thanks to this years #uff. Nothing like watching hundreds of movies from all over the globe. This is what it's all about and it's an exciting process. We are physically and literally on the move and it is an exciting time around here. Stop by on Monday or Tuesdays 11am-3pm and take part during our open #uff discussions. If you have a film in consideration still at this stage, walk it in and put it on. More soon - Benjamin F. Barnett Festival Director #Pi5 Let us know you want to attend the 5th Annual Philadelphia Independent Film Festival June 20 - 24, 2012.