2nd Place is the First Loser

Our 3-minute spoof of 12 Angry Men won second place in the Audience Choice awards, and received an honorable mention from the judges.

Audience Choice Winners:

#1 - Cassidy's Magic Show (an adorable piece starring a little 6 year-old girl named Cassidy that was a fantastic little actress and about as cute as a kid can be).
#2 - 12 Merciful Men (our film)
#3 - The Light in the Fire (a music-video styled piece about addiction with absolutely gorgeous cinematography and clean, sharply-paced editing to some good music)


Official Winners:

#1 $500 prize - Cassidy's Magic Show (see above)
#2 $200 prize - Spasigba (Three friends throw a birthday party for a Russian foreign exchange student. They try to make the party as Russian themed as possible, but end up just being insulting.)
#3 (tie) $50 prize - The Light in the Fire (see above)
#3 (tie) $50 prize - Loser (A husband and wife play board games. The husband wins every game, and is not a very gracious winner. His wife slaps him around until he apologizes and says he should have let her win like he usually does, which gets him slapped again.)
Honorable Mention - Reunion
Honorable Mention - Light the Tree
Honorable Mention - It Still Burns
Honorable Mention - 12 Merciful Men
Honorable Mention - The Runner
Honorable Mention - Street Saints


I wasn't surprised by the Audience Choice selections. Every member of the audience got to choose three films to vote for, and the three winners were the three I put on my ballot.

I was disappointed, though, that the other two audience choice selections made it into the judges' prize winners and we didn't.

Additional postings about this film on: January 20, January 19, January 15