And The Winners Are….

The 43rd Annual ASIFA-East Animated Film Festival Awards were held this evening.   Congratulations to all the winners!!!  Expect more posts in the following days documenting the evening but for now, without further adieu, here are the winners!!!

BEST IN SHOW

John and Joe
StoryCorps/Rauch Brothers

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

1st Place
Taxonomy
Karen Aqua – Director

2nd Place
Two
Steven Subotnick – Director

3rd Place
Old Man
Leah Shore – Director

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

1st Place

the light that died in my arms
Alan Foreman – Director

2nd Place
(Baby) It’s You!
David Cowles, Jeremy Galante, Brad Pattullo – Directors

3rd Place
Le Soleil Chante (The Sun Sings)
Delphine Burrus – Director

INDEPENDENT FILMS

1st Place
Turning A Corner
David B. Levy – Director

2nd Place
Dr. Breakfast
Stephen Neary – Director

3rd Place
The First Time Cee-Cee Did Acid
Twins are Weird
Noelle Melody – Director
Joy Vaccese – Producer

Excellence in Animation
More Than Winning
Nick Fox-Gieg – Director
Susan Murray – Animator

Excellence in Design
The Girl and the Fox
Base14/Tyler J. Kupferer – Director

Excellence in Design
Orbis Park
Andrew Kaiko

Excellence in Soundtrack
Car Crash Opera
Skip Battaglia – Director
Jairo Duarte-Lopez, Michaela Eremiasova – Composers

Excellence in Writing
Wolf Dog Tales
Bernadine Santistevan – Director

COMMISSIONED OVER 2 MINUTES

1st Place
Miss Devine
StoryCorps/Rauch Brothers

2nd Place
Don’t Let The Pigeon Stay Up Late
Mo Willems Studio/Weston Woods
Pete List – Director

3rd Place
I Can Be President
Michael Sporn Animation, Inc.
Michael Sporn – Director

Excellence in Education
Journey of a Water Molecule
The Knowledge Project/PS69x
Jose Maldonado, MB Hunnewell – Directors

Excellence in Writing
A History of Animation
Morgan Miller – Director
Morgan Miller, Josh Kleefeld – Writers

COMMISSIONED UNDER 2 MINUTES

1st Place
Head Start ‘Window of Opportunity”
Curious Pictures/Matt Smithson – Director

2nd Place
Country Buildin’
Paganomation
David Pagano – Director

3rd Place
Person Pinball
Aaron Hughes – Director

Excellence in Animation
Red Brick Saga: Pirates of the Caribbean
Paganomation
David Pagano – Director
Jeff Wallenhorst, Sarah Wickliffe, Mick Bouschor, Erin Natal – Animators

STUDENT FILMS

1st Place
Apt. 5A
Leonardo De Luzio

2nd Place (tie)
Test Train
Brandon Denmark

2nd Place (tie)
Cowboy, Clone, Dust
Matt Christensen

Honorable Mention
Reddish Brown and Blueish Green
Samantha Gurry