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NEWS — Updated June 26th, 2006

Thanks!!!
Thanks to all of the sponsors, participants, volunteers, and especially the filmmakers for making our 3rd annual Hot Shops Film Festival a great success. 390 people attended the Awards Ceremony on March 12th to hear who would take home the tropheys. We have posted the winners on our home page. Saddlecreek will be posting their music video winners very soon.
CONGRATULATIONS to all of the winners of our 3rd Annual Hot Shops Film Festival! It couldn't have been a festival without the films now, could it. Your check is in the mail! List below are all of the entries that placed in all three of our competitions...a minimum of 50 points must have been scored in order to be eligible for prizes. We'll be posting more info as soon as we can. If you haven't already, please subscribe to the newsletter.
Saddlecreek Music Video Competition
Film Maker Place Music Video
Jaime O’Bradovich 1st Kiss the Wake
Luke Rustermier 2nd Kiss the Wake
Michael McClendon 3rd Kiss the Wake
Rudolf Buitendach 1st Leave it All
Kameron Bayne 2nd Leave it All
Jacob Fennell 3rd Leave it All
Hot Shops Film Festival
Film Maker Level Category Place Job Description
Tim Guthrie Amateur Animation 1st Recalling Trinity
Tim Guthrie Amateur Animation 2nd A War Dream
Amanda R Smith College Animation 1st Buzz Kill
Chad Brocker College Animation 2nd Kitchen Rumble
Matthew Glebe/Micheal Glebe College Animation 3rd The Forgotten Path
Amber Baesler Middle School Animation 1st Driving Me Crazy
Daniel Grzeskowiak Amateur Comedy 1st The Day Dreamer
Randy Porter Amateur Comedy 2nd Aisle Be Seeing You
Jake Fyfe Amateur Comedy 3rd Visionary Film Genius of the Week
Andrew Bouska College Comedy 1st The Mystery of the Vanishing Lamp
Darren Brandl College Comedy 2nd Homecooked
John Dechert /Carl Vieland College Comedy 3rd The Nigel Fitzsimmons Show
Josh Buda /Niel Griess High School Comedy 1st There’s a Snake in My Boots
Austin Lucas High School Comedy 2nd Theft 101
Kate Miller Middle School Comedy 1st School Night Live
Chuck Amoura Amateur Documentary 1st Wild Jordan
David M. Sutera Amateur Documentary 2nd Caniglias, The Original
Jessica Y. Ritchie Amateur Documentary 3rd The Good News Chaplians
Luiz Valle College Documentary 1st Volunteers Intervening for Equity
John Campbell College Documentary 2nd Troy Hair God
Adam Wiltgen College Documentary 3rd Thaw in the Winter of Man
Blake Simpson High School Documentary 1st Rock Island Railroad/The Last days of Fairbury
Jacob Buckingham High School Documentary 2nd Healthier Choices in School Vending Machines
KMBC-Monarch Broadcasting Club High School Documentary 3rd Learen Zu Hassen Propaganda in Nazi Germany
Aaron Zavitz Amateur Drama 1st i.d.
Matt Curtis Amateur Drama 2nd The Regular
Erica Tremblay Amateur Drama 3rd A Perfect Gentleman
Tom Sanchez College Drama 1st Ventana (Window)
Jody Hansen College Drama 2nd Happenchance
Karina Becker College Drama 3rd Nameless
Carissa Hawley High School Drama 1st Martyr’s Legacy
Alec Fairbanks High School Drama 2nd Inner Conflict
Mike Mc Naly High School Drama 3rd Two Sisters
Brandon Hill (tie) Amateur Music Video 1st Daydream
Erica Tremblay (tie) Amateur Music Video 1st In The Attic
Chuck Amouro Amateur Music Video 2nd Buffalo Run
Brian Allen Amateur Music Video 3rd Met a Girl Like You Once
David Pleiss College Music Video 1st Downtown
Westside Middle School Legacie Middle School Music Video 1st Living the Dream
Anthony Fankhauser Amateur Sci-Fi / Horror 1st Some Kind of Intervention
Robert J Vranes Amateur Sci-Fi / Horror 2nd Shadow Board
Bryant Mccain Amateur Sci-Fi / Horror 3rd Mirror Mirror The Legend of Bloody Mary
Vincent Brown College Sci-Fi / Horror 1st Movie Night
Adam Wiltgen College Sci-Fi / Horror 2nd In the Dying Light of a setting sun
Film WARp Competition
Film Maker Level Place
Aaron Zavitz Film Warp 1st



Hot Shops Reporter
If you would like to read a copy of the Hot Shops Reporter, please click on the PDF links below:

Volume 3, Issue 4 - 02.22.06 - OFFICIAL PROGRAM (~650kb)
Volume 3, Issue 3 - 10.24.05 - Red Eye Theater | Film Warp | Music
Volume 3, Issue 2 - 08.05.05 - Saddle Creek | New Director
Volume 3, issue 1 - 05.05.05 - Film Education | Workshops

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