2013 Board of Directors

PRESIDENT 

Michael Ketcher

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VICE PRESIDENT

Jennifer Salci

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THE JURY HAS RETURNED ... AND THE VERDICT IS IN ...

    No -- this isn't yet another article about the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case, but the recent verdict of another  jury:   the jury panel's selections from last month's St. Louis Filmmaker's Showcase.   Unlike the jury decisions in our legal system, there are no winners and losers at our local showcase:  EVERYONE IS A WINNER!

    Some films are singled out by the jury for special achievement, but everyone who takes part in the the Showcase is a winner.  You have your film screened on the big screen before an audience at the historic Tivoli theater,  You get to see what dozens of other local filmmakers, actors, and other local film pros are doing, whether it's documentaries, shorts, or features.  You get a chance to meet, mingle, and network with some of the best and brightest of our local film scene.

    On a hot, muggy Thursday night in mid-July, the free Stella Artois beer flowed freely at the traditional closing-night party in Blueberry Hill's famed Duck Room.  Film professionals and film lovers crammed into the basement party room to hear the names of the 19 award-winners and get a first-hand glimpse at the local line-up for this November's St. Louis International Film Festival.  

    The jury this year had five members.  It was headed by Andrew Wyatt, film critic for St. Louis Magazine's "Look/Listen Blog" and the Gateway Cinephile Web site; the other jury members were Mark Glass, film critic for St. Louis area Patch.com web sites; Michelle McCue, film critic for the We Are Movie Geeks web site; Bill Streeter, director of the documentary Brick by Chance and Fortune and creator of the vlog LoFi St. Louis; and Wyatt Weed, director of the narrative feature Shadowland. 

    Below are the line-ups for both the award-winners and the films invited to screen at the St. Louis International Film Festival.  We at MCA-I heartily congratulate all of the winners, but a special shout-out to one of our own:  MCA-I board member Denise Ward-Brown, whose film, Jim Crow to Barack Obama, won in the category, "Best Film More Than 20 Minutes."  Congratulations to Denise, and congratulations not only to those below, but to everyone who took part in the 2013 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase -- a great testimony to the professionalism and creativity that exist in our local film community.

Best Costumes

Dirigible Days (no one credited)

Best Makeup/Hairstyling

Little Man of Steel (Hillary Fenton)

Best Use of Music

Hotel (Chris Chartrand & Alex Nezam)

Best Sound

Traffic Cone (Milos Zivkovic)

Best Production Design/Art Direction

In Bloom (no one credited)

Best Special/Visual Effects

Little Man of Steel (John Michaels)

Best Editing

The 3 Day Rule (Nick Vitale)

Best Cinematography

Fishbone (Hannah Radcliff)

Best Screenplay

The 3 Day Rule (Anne Carmack)

Best Actor

Nick Glover in Alienated

Best Actress

Lyndsey Doolen in The 3 Day Rule

Best Direction

Fishbone (directed by Hannah Radcliff)

Best Experimental Film

Dream Travel/Travel Dream (directed by Van McElwee)

Best Animated Film

Traffic Cone (directed by Victor Ridaura)

Best Comedy

Little Man of Steel (directed by Larry Ziegelman)

Best Drama

The Rwanda Blend (directed by Sam Zvibleman)

Best Documentary

What Kind of Man (directed by Kamau Bilal)

Best Film Less Than 20 Minutes

Fishbone (directed by Hannah Radcliff)

Best Film More Than 20 Minutes

Jim Crow to Barack Obama (directed by Denise Ward-Brown)

* The 3-Day Rule - Anne Carmack 

* Alienated - Will Morris 

* Between Clenched Teeth - Peter Engelsmann 

* The Brooklyn Guys in All of the Dames - Frankie Chubb 

* Chocolate Coins - Jay Kanzler 

* The Come Up - Rotting Peaches Pictures 

* End of Line - Caitlin Zera 

* Fishbone - Hannah Radcliff 

* Go South for Animal Index: A Fable of Los Alamos - Chris King 

* Good Night Trina - Lynelle White 

* Hotel - Alex Nezam 

* Jim Crow to Barack Obama - Denise Ward-Brown 

* King of the Feeder Thieves - Sonja Ecton 

* Lake Windfall - Roger Vass Jr. 

* Little Man of Steel - Larry Ziegelman 

* Menstratia - Heidi Schlitt & Tamara Frank 

* newscaster/dragon/maggots - Chris Sagovac 

* The Painter - Nate Townsend 

* Penetrating Trauma - Igor Stevanovic 

* The Rwanda Blend - Sam Zvibleman 

* Something in the Water - Kathy Bratkowski 

* Sound of Nothing - Chris Grega 

* Sunday Sundaes - Shayna Cohen 

* Traffic Cone - Victor Ridaura 

* What Kind of Man - Kamau Bilal 

* X-Ray Man - Kerri Yost 

* The Yard - Gary Lobstein

    And if you want to see a complete list and description of all the films that screened at this year's St. Louis Filmmaker's Showcase, you can do so at http://cinemastlouis.org/st-louis-filmmakers-showcase

Cost:

The feature film, "Fatal Call," directed by Jack Snyder and produced by Srikant Chellappa, is now

available on Red Box and at online retailers.  This thriller was shot in Sauget IL and stars Kevin

Sorbo, (Hercules), Jason London (Dazed & Confused), Danielle Harris (Halloween), and Lochlyn Munro (Unforgiven).  MCA-I Board Members Mike Ketcher was an Associate Producer and actor in

the film; Lou Stemmler did the production still photography.

Mike Ketcher worked in the casting department for the NBC Television show, "The Voice," when they came to St. Louis in July.  Thousands of people crowded into Chaifetz Arena at St. Louis University to try out for a spot on Season 6 of the show.

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