LAMA Winter 2015 Winners & Selections
Best Narrative Short
Best Narrative Feature
Best Documentary Short
“My African Home”
Dir. by Carley Andrews
1st Place Winners
“The Morning After”
Dir. by Shanra J. Kehl
“The Keeper Of The Past”
Dir. by Marco J. Riedl
The Morning After is a feature film that consists of 8 vignettes that are intercut throughout the film. The 8 vignettes are about when you wake up next to someone the next morning...
Accepting life as it comes...is a our decision to make!
Farmer Finn van Hagen begins a New Life and moves with his wife and his two children out to the country. He now lives on an old, idyllic farm...in the middle of nowhere...to his eyes, in a Perfect World.
One day a Stranger appears, out of the blue. He asks Finn strange questions and tries to draw a well-kept secret from his daughter Verlanda: The whereabouts of a music box, in which Finn's past lies hidden..a past, he has long forgotten...
Audience Award
“Last Writes”
Dir. by Pewee Piemonte
Carley Andrews first went to Africa as a volunteer and she found a place her heart for the children of this incredible land. After moving to Tanzania in 2007 she worked with local NGOs to understand the culture and the needs of the community. It was her desire help children and give them a voice when they could not speak for themselves. Through this she established Ujamaa Children's Home in Arusha, Tanzania. A unique orphanage where the kids live together as a family and grow up as brothers and sisters.
The journey introduces you to Ally and Halima, twins, but in a cruel twist of fate Ally has HIV and Halima does not. You meet the father who is suffering from AIDS and is unable to care for them and see them brought from the brink of death into a home that will provide them with a life and a future. Ema was left in a field when he was only a year old. Now he's 8 and thriving in his new home. Carley Andrews is a woman of great strength, integrity and ambition. Her goal is to provide these kids with the greatest opportunities in life and to continue to help more and more kids. My African Home is a story of love and hope.
Best Documentary Feature
Best Animation
Best International Film
“The Keeper Of The Past”
Dir. by Marco J. Riedl
“Sumer”
Dir. by Alvaro Garcia
“My Friend: Changing The Journey”
Dir. by Stacey M. Zipfel
For unknown reasons, the Earth's ionosphere has weakened dramatically during the course of the last century.
All animal and plant species perished decades ago. All that remains is one small group of humans who attempt to resist the hostility and hardness of the external environment from SUMER, the last hive city in the world.
A young boy, Hermes, lives alone close to the wall that delimits the city, an area that is highly guarded by the SSW (SUMER Security Watchers).
While observing the desert from the roof of a building, Hermes suddenly sees something that looks a lot like a blue feather floating in the air...
My Friend: Changing the Journey is a ground-breaking documentary that will take dog lovers on their own informative journey of awareness and hope as it weaves interviews from highly respected Oncologists, Veterinarians and Canine Care Professionals throughout three inspiring stories of dogs and their owners who are battling lymphoma and in some cases even beating the disease.
Accepting life as it comes...is a our decision to make!
Farmer Finn van Hagen begins a New Life and moves with his wife and his two children out to the country. He now lives on an old, idyllic farm...in the middle of nowhere...to his eyes, in a Perfect World.
One day a Stranger appears, out of the blue. He asks Finn strange questions and tries to draw a well-kept secret from his daughter Verlanda: The whereabouts of a music box, in which Finn's past lies hidden..a past, he has long forgotten...
Best Experimental
Best Student Film
“Awaken”
Dir. by Bruce Sze Han Chen
“Mara”
Dir. by Yi Zhong
Sophie wakes up from a dream that her mother, Diana, is in a prairie singing a beautiful song for her. She is in a huge, confined factory and there are a lot of sleeping workers. The sleeping workers are sleeping, but they are still working unceasingly. Sophie wants to search for her mother in the factory. However, they enter a trap planned by the ruler of factory, Derek. When she is almost caught, the captain of the guards, Robert, saves her. He gives Sophie Diana’s diary and tells her Diana died. After Sophie reads Diana’s diary, she decides to wake the sleeping workers and escape the factory like her mother did.
Mara, haunted by her past and mind, has secluded herself in a forest cabin. Until one day, she finds a teenage runaway...
Best Music Video
Best Script
“Corner Piece”
by Sakina Fakhri & Katherine Don
“Little Darling-The Secret City”
Dir. by Damian Smith
Nina and Arion are peons of the Bluestocking Party, a totalitarian regime that attempts to eliminate artistic endeavors in favor of homogeneous, efficient production. This regime employs a unique system of policing its constituents: Each time a crime is committed, the precise moment of the crime scene is corporealized into a JIGSAW PUZZLE. These puzzled snapshots are sent to headquarters to be assembled by the likes of Nina and Arion. On this day, Nina and Arion are engaged in their daily banter as they assemble the noir-like crime scene, in which--unbeknownst to Arion--Nina has played a rather pivotal part. Half of the film engages Nina and Arion's assembly of the puzzle, while the other half depicts the crime scene itself.
Set inside an automaton clock, Little Darling tells the story of the enduring love between the clock's two characters and their frustrations with being unable to embrace after the clock becomes old and broken. When the boy stumbles upon a method to free himself from the clock's mechanism, he must go on a dangerous adventure to save the one he loves...
Best Director
“The Keeper Of The Past”
Dir. by Marco J. Riedl
Best Actor
Michael Gross
“Our Father”
Best Actress
Luisa Wietzorek
“The Keeper Of The Past”
Best Cinematography
“Awaken”
Dir. by Bruce Sze Han Chen
Best Costume Design
“Awaken”
Dir. by Bruce Sze Han Chen
Best Editing
“The Keeper Of The Past”
Dir. by Marco J. Riedl
Best Original Score
“Awaken”
Dir. by Bruce Sze Han Chen
Best Production Design
“Awaken”
Dir. by Bruce Sze Han Chen
Official Selections, Category “Best” and Honorable Mention Winners
“Acollective-Breakapart”
Dir. by Noam Sharon & Tal Zagreba
“Depth Of A Dark Side”
Dir. by Thomas Worth
“Last Writes”
Dir. by Pewee Piemonte
“Our Father”
Dir. by Linda Palmer
“Split”
Dir. by Joe Lam
“The Gift”
Dir. by Caleb Price
“ Dreamwalkers”
by Michelle Daniel
“ Flora”
by Sasha Vukovic
“ The Bird Holder”
by Janifer Youmans
“ The Teacher - Marine”
by Jeffrey Ryback
Category Winners
Honorable Mention
Stage IV:
Living With Cancer
2015
Los Angeles
Movie Awards
“C.T.R.L”
Dir. by Mariana Conde & Mariana Conde
“Caught Inside”
Dir. by Dwight Thompson
“Chuck Ransom”
Dir. by Arian Harandi
“Daddy Come Home”
Dir. by Mendel Katz & Yisrael Dubov
“FELONY”
Dir. by Thanos Kermitsis
“Jaysin Voxx 'Hands on Me'”
Dir. by Carlos Hurtado
“Mateo”
Dir. by Nancy C. Mejia
“The Courier”
Dir. by J.Mackye Gruber
“The Equation of Life”
Dir. by Gerry Orz
“The Stop”
Dir. by Marc Ruiz
“Two and a Quarter Minutes”
Dir. by Joshua Ovalle
Official Selections
