THE
9th URBANWORLD FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2005 WINNERS
Winners Celebrated at Festival’s Closing
Awards Brunch on June 26
 (New York, NY)—The 9th Annual Urbanworld
Film Festival today announced the winners for feature, documentary,
short film, screenplay and music video categories. The
five day festival was held June 22-26 in New York City; wrapping
up on Sunday, June 26 with a closing awards brunch to congratulate
the competition’s winners. Urbanworld, which screened 71
films this year, is the largest internationally competitive festival
dedicated to the exhibition of independent cinema by and about
people of color.
The 9th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival winners are:
Best Feature Film
The Hero
Directed By Zeze Gamboa, Written By Carla Baptista, & Produced
By Fernando Vendrell
Best Documentary Film (Feature Length)
Through The Fire
Directed By Jonathan Hock, Produced
By Diane Houslin & Phillip
Aromando
Best Short Documentary Film
Foster Stories
Directed By Sasha Isaac-Young, Produced
By Chen-Hsi Wong & Jacqueline
Schaeffer
Best Short Film
The Other American Dream
Written & Directed By Enrique
Arroyo
Best Music Video
Keep On Moving
Written & Directed By Len Peterson, Produced By Brenden
Sawatsky & Len Peterson
Best Screenplay
Holy Shyster
Written By Andre Wiggins
Audience Award Winner
Constellation
Written & Directed By Jordan Walker-Pearlman, Produced By
Shannon Murphy, Jordan Walker-Pearlman, Nancy Archuleta, Gabe
Nieto, Morris Ruskin, Kristi Gamble, & Peter Kleidman
“The 2005 Urbanworld winners keenly display the quality
and breadth of the submissions we received this year,” said
Stacy Spikes, Founder & Chairman of Urbanworld. “With
the ongoing support of both the creative community and our sponsors,
we are thrilled to congratulate these talented individuals who
continually inspire us through their outstanding work.”
Highlights of The 9th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival include
the opening night premiere of Roll Bounce (starring
Bow Wow, Chi McBride, Meagan Good and directed by Malcolm Lee)
and the closing night screening of Hustle & Flow (starring
Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson and produced by John Singleton),
as well as special screenings of RIZE (directed by David
LaChapelle) and Animal (starring Ving Rhames).
About Urbanworld:
Urbanworld was launched in August 1997 with 35 films by founder
Stacy Spikes, a former Miramax executive. HBO continues
its support at the 2005 festival as the Founding Sponsor and
MTV2 returns as an Official Sponsor. Principal sponsors
include NBC4, blackplanet.com, MiGente.com, and Westin New York. Benefactors
include DGA New York, Kodak, Loews, Magic Johnson Theaters, and
Tribeca Film Center.
The advisory board includes Debbie Allen, Charles Burnett, Michelle
Byrd, Julie Dash, Kenneth “Babyface” and Tracey Edmonds,
Giancarlo Esposito, Carl Franklin, Danny Glover, Samuel L. Jackson
and LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Rosie Perez, John Pierson, Wesley
Snipes, Nick Wechsler, and Laura Ziskin. Spikes serves as Chairman
Emeritus. Gabrielle Glore and Maria Weaver-Watson are executive
producers.
For more information, please visit http://www.urbanworld.org.
CONTACT:
Ebony Shears or Dana Baxter
DIME Media Inc. for Urbanworld
212-460-0516 ES tel
212-460-0526 DB tel
ebony@dime-media.com
dana@dime-media.com
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