Rosebud Film & Video Festival - 1992 Nominees & Winners

In 1991 Rosebud Nominees were selected by categories

1991 Best of Show

Walk In
Art/Experimental
Jim Lantz, Middletown, VA

This film was produced for the Independent Feature Film Market to entice future investors and distributors into the project. A story of responsibility, deception, and the chaos that hovers at the edge of order, Walk In attempts to blend style and suspense to create a story on the anniversary of a double murder that forced the closing of an elementary school in rural Virginia.

1991 Rosebud Winners

Animated History of Alexandria
Animation
Brain McCall, Alexandria Virginia

The history as told by historians and testimonials of interested people. Then rendered in clay and animated.

Asylum
Documentary, feature length
Sarah Patton and Sarah Mondale, Glen Echo, MD

"Asylum" is a one-hour documentary that tells the story of society's struggle to find a humane and effective means f caring for the mentally ill. The film features rare archival footage and interviews from St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC, the national mental

Ashpet: An American Cinderella
Narrative Feature
Tom & Mimi Davenport, Delaplane, VA

Set in the rural South in the early years of WWII, ASHPET is a humorously touching version of Cinderella, the world's most popular folktale. A resourceful and beautiful girl (Ashpet) is the lackey in the messy parvenu household of her weak stepmother and slothful, mean stepsisters. On the day of the Victory Dance, Ashpet is sent to the conjure-woman "Dark Sally" to fetch "love sachets" for her boy-crazy stepsisters. Sally reveals the secrets of Ashpet's heritage "your real name is "Lily" and arranges for the newly confident girl to "sparkle like a lightening bug" at the dance.. Eventually, the step-family gets its comeuppance and the independent Ashpet gets her man and the house, too. ASHPET provides an entertaining way for children to explore proper values, self-esteem, and sibling rivalry.institution for over 130years

Bearing Witness: Homemade Tapes From The Environmental Front
Documentary Short
Karen Hirsch , Washington, DC

They could be called "America's Scariest Home Videos." These home movies of the destruction of the planet. From midnight accidents at chemical plants shot by a Texan housewife to images of dolphins drowned by tuna fishermen shot by an undercover activist, we see people using video in their fight to save the environment.

Stone Cold Hustler
Music Video
Jesse E. Vaughan, Jr., Washington, DC

"Stone Cold Hustler" is an anti-drug music video produced to encourage area youth to stop the violence and drug use in our communities. Premiered nationally on YO MTV Raps, BET, Fresh Groove, WETA TV 26 and WUSA TV 9.

Sonny and Cornblatt
Narrative Short
Tom Brandau, Kathi Ash and Kerry Collagan, Hamilton, MD

Sonny Jackson and Harry Cornblatt are two old men who don't like one another. When Harry's wife dies, Sonny tries to befriend Harry. But Harry is far from cooperative, and what ensues is a sensitive, and sometimes combative, story of one man's struggle to convince another that life is precious.

1991 Rosebud Nominees

Category: ANIMATION

Animated History of Alexandria
Brain McCall, Alexandria Virginia

The history as told by historians and testimonials of interested people. Then rendered in clay and animated.

Eternal Bliss
Sara L. Cushing , Washington, DC

Opening with red landscape, adrift with what is described as "trouble on the horizon" we are witness to transformations of sushi to pellets, which fall into an unseen water source. The simplistic, often child like, characters cavort around a mystical adobe house. As one cycle opens to another, with literary reference to "exchanging old dreams for new," the solitary red "fish" continues its periodic glide bys. Finally, as fireworks and magic carpets yield to fields of pimento shapes and, once again, to the adobe house, the red "fish" enters to produce an unexpected finale.

Release 1.0
Dov Jacobson Washington, DC

(Information not available)

Category: Documentary, Feature Length

Asylum
Sarah Patton and Sarah Mondale, Glen Echo, MD

Freedom Bags
Stanley Nelson/E.C. Lewis, Washington, DC

The story of African-American women who migrated to Washington DC area during the years of 1900-1940 to work as domestic servants.

Two Dollars and a Dream
Stanley Nelson, Washington, DC

Story of the world's first self-made millionairess - a Black woman.

Southwest Remembered: A Story of Urban Renewal
Dolores Smith/Lamont Productions, Inc., Washington, DC

Southwest Remembered: A Story of Urban Renewal is a55- minute film that looks at community values and change in a Washington, DC neighborhood that was "urban renewed" in the 1950's. The Southwest story was repeated in over 800 American cities between 1950 and the early 1970's.

Come Brother We Go To America
Gary Keith Griffin, Washington,

A documentary about two generations of artist and their struggle for freedom of expression in a communist society as well as a capitalistic society.

Category: NARRATIVE FEATURE

Ashpet: An American Cinderella ROSEBUD Winner
Tom & Mimi Davenport, Delaplane, VA

The Imagemaker
Hal and Marilyn Weiner, Washington, DC
(Information Not Available)

Bloody Magnums
Brian Armstrong and Walt O'Hara, Manassas, VA

Tura Satana kills Kate McCall to lure Dirty Jimmy back to Washington to avenge the death of her ex-lover whose head she carries around in a box. Jimmy teams up with Nick Reno to fight Satana's group of blood sucking zombies. Dirty Jimmy destroys Satana and her deadboys

Of Flesh And Blood
Jeff Mentges, Ashton, MD

Produced on a shoestring budget of $15,000 (virtually unthinkable when a million is considered "low budget"), this feature length picture is the first effort by young film maker Jeff Mentges. It has the look and feel of the exploitation films of the 50's and 60's. In an age of "high concept" and showcase fluff, this movie deserves attention for demonstrating that resourcefulness and determination can still make things possible in film.

Up From Slavery
Charles Dumas, Bethesda, MD

An biographical play based on the life of Booker T. Washington, famous African-American educator who began life as a slave.

Category: ART/EXPERIMENTAL

Walk In
Jim Lantz, Middletown, VA

This film was produced for the Independent Feature Film Market to entice future investors and distributors into the project. A story of responsibility, deception, and the chaos that hovers at the edge of order, Walk In attempts to blend style and suspense to create a story on the anniversary of a double murder that forced the closing of an elementary school in rural Virginia.

The House That Dripped Blood
Paul Bishow, Washington, DC

Shot in black and white and processed at home by producer/director Bishow. With clips from "Duck Soup", cut with scenes from the White House area

Clowning Around
Martin Barrett , Chevy Chase, MD

Two filmgoers attend a showing of a German art film called "The Clown Is Dead". When they laugh at the film's pretensions, an offended clown in the audience squirts them with a seltzer bottle

Artistic Interruptions
Andrea Bailey, Kensington, MD

"Artistic Interruptions" is a 3¨minute experimental video about a young girl frustrated with her loved one's artistic views.

Flying Horses
Virginia Quesada: VQ Productions, Washington, DC

Flying Horses is a video art/documentary about historic carousels. The carousel itself is a 3¨D mobile art form combining art, music & sculpture. The video medium has been used to capture and amplify the carousel's visual effects, its motion and its music. The treatment is both abstract and surreal, striving to crate the wonder of a carousel's gentle ride to nowhere.

Category: DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Bearing Witness: Homemade Tapes From The Environmental Front
Karen Hirsch , Washington, DC

Exposing Hidden Windows
D. Michael Cheers, Mitchellville, MD

"Exposing Hidden Windows" explores the trials, tribulations, and contributions African American photographers have made to society. Photographers worked on project "Songs of My People" released 1991

The Lunch Club
Mitchell J. Peyser & John F. Beaver, Washington, DC

A light-hearted documentary film in which first graders offer their insights about lunch and other subjects. Features an original soundtrack by Lisa Wolf.

Black Water
Charlotte Cerf & Allen Moore, White Hall, MD

For generations the people of Sao Braz, a traditional fishing village in northeastern Brazil, have lived and worked in harmony with the environment. Since 1971, however, pollution from a nearby paper mill has disrupted the fishing and threatened their way of life. This is the story of a community struggling to survive

Animated History of Alexandria
Brian McCall, Alexandria, Virginia

The history as told by historians and testimonials of interested people. Then rendered in clay and animated.

Category: MUSIC VIDEO

Stone Cold Hustler
Jesse E. Vaughan, Jr., Washington, DC

Won't You Dance With Me
Dara Padwo/Creative Strategies, Burtonsville, MD

Tiny Tim encounters a battered woman, played by Laugh-In veteran Judy Carne. The subject matter expands its focus to include the issue of domestic violence. Performing the title song in surrealistic concert hall filled with women and children, Tiny Tim exhorts victims of domestic violence to escape from their oppressive environments.

Hard Time
Steven D. Murphy, Bethesda, MD

Music video for the original song "Hardtime" performed by the band Bruno Loves Danger (and written by producer Steve Murphy). Shot on 16mm film and posted on Betacam.

Starting Tomorrow
John Collins, Kensington, MD

When one attempts to "turn over a new leaf" time is not necessarily on your side.

Rise Blackman Rise
Steve Harris & Jimmy Castor, Jr., Washington, DC

Howard University's Defiant Giants perform Rise Blackman Rise in DC and Japan. Intercut with TV images on issues of American Black struggles and successes.

Category: NARRATIVE SHORT

Sonny and Cornblatt ROSEBUD WINNER
Tom Brandau, Kathi Ash and Kerry Collagan, Hamilton, MD

When Innocent Is Guilty
Mr. Olaniyi Areke, Landover, MD

"When Innocent Is Guilty" is a surrealistic film that deals with how a man is convicted for a crime that he did not commit.

The Million Heirs
Pamela Kray, Washington, DC

The film was out-of-date donated stock, gave the film warm sepia and ice blue tones; and they induced the story: inheritance and legacy. One inherited a job; one the ability to be in two places at one time. Everyone left something behind.

Everyday
Sean Yates, Berwyn Heights MD

Semi-autobiographical examination of defining oneself through a job, the effects of the city, people's sheep-like behavior.

Sruti Bedham (Out of Time)
Ms. Sowbhagyalakshmi Vaidyanathan, Hyattsville, MD

"Sruti Bedham (Out of Time) chronicles the inner conflicts of a young Asian Indian man in America who struggles to determine his own individual values despite the pressures of American lifestyle