5th Annual Teen Filmmaker Festival

2008 Award Winners

• Best Film: The Next LeBron by Chris Jarvis
• Best Animation: Only in Dreams by Kevin McGraw
• Best Technical Merit: In a Middle of a Room by Jonathan Brandt
• Best Documentary: Illegal Education by Brian Ward
• Best Short Film: Legend of the M&M by Kelsey Sims
• Best Experimental Film: Weightless by Michael Bruny

Finalists

• We Speak Life by Zachary
• Lilly Reverse Reading-Ralph Paffenbarger
• Amazing Adventure of Mr. Blob-Jordan Bradford
• Mmmm...Chunky Pineapple 2: Sweet Revenge-Philip Maxwell and Zach Terry (Judge's Choice and People's Choice)
• The Cycle-James E. Dean-Howell
• Blur Ball-Shelby Curwen-Garber
• Brother Henry-Lydia King
• 11 Seconds from a Coma-Brandon Suhr
• Heinz Commercial #2-Michael A. Watts
• Good Morning Baltimore-Luke DeBoer
• Blob and Friends-Kenny Seiling and the M.A.A. Film Class

Judges

• Dave Jaconette, WKZO’s “Man at the Movies”
• James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette film critic
• Rebekah Farrugia
• Jennifer Machiorlatti

Sponsors

• Kalamazoo Public Library 
• Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 
• Community Access Center 
• Goodrich Quality Theatres
• Jones Soda 
• Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs