2009 AOF Official Nominees in the Category of Film

Best Editing - Feature
1. Poker Run
2. Deadland
3. Charlie Valentine
4. Acts of Violence
5. Eyeborgs

Best Editing - Short
1. Volvo
2. The Silence
3. Hunger
4. Charlie Thistle
5. Solitarius

Best Score Feature
1. In the Eyes of a Killer
2. Victory Day
3. Charlie Valentine
4. Disarmed
5. King of Sorrow

Best Score Short
1. Purge
2. Le Derriere
3. The Ballad of Angel of Face
4. Style Over Substance
No. 4 – Pieces of a Man
5. Death’s Door

Best Soundtrack Feature
1. Poker Run
2. The Other Side of Paradise
3. Lily
4. Solid Country Gold
5. VICKtory to the Underdog

Best Soundtrack Short
1. Pelo Ouvido
2. Leto
3. Another New Bike
4. Arranged: The Musical
5. On the Table

Best Documentary Cinematography
1. Autism: Made in the USA
2. The Klara Wizel Story
3. Soldiers of Peace
4. Along Came Kinky…
Texas Jewboy for Governor
5. Tira Bakal

Best Cinematography Feature
1. Charlie Valentine
2. Gangster Exchange
3. PRE
4. Lily
5. Bronx Paradise

Best Cinematography Short
1. Stranglehold
2. aQua ad lavandum – in brevi
3. The Devil’s Matchmaker
4. Interpretation
5. For Us

Best Title Sequence
1. Good Deeds
2. iMurders
3. Project 7
4. The Condom Killer
5. Under the Influence

Best Visual Effects Feature
1. Golden Blade III –
Return of the Monkey’s Uncle
2. Outrage
3. Text
4. Angel - Dust
5. Eyeborgs

Best Special Effects Feature
1. Sphere of the Lycanthrope
2. Sawblade
3. Disarmed
4. Charlie Valentine
5. It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To

Best Special Effects Short
1. Heroic Bloodshed
2. Burden
3. Enigma
4. Mansfield Path
5. Spaceman on Earth

Best Visual Effects Short
1. The Seer
2. Enigma
3. aQua ad lavandum – in brevi
4. Burden
5. For Us

Best Art Direction - Feature
1. King of Sorrow
2. Golden Blade III –
Return of the Monkey’s Uncle
3. PRE
4. Poker Run
5. Deadland

Best Art Direction – Short
1. Hunger
2. Liminal
3. Charlie Thistle
4. Spaceman on Earth
5. Chambers Street

Best Costumes - Feature
1. Acts of Violence
2. Sphere of the Lycanthrope
3. Spook
4. Charlie Valentine
5. Gangster Exchange

Best Costumes - Short
1. Hunger
2. Afro Samurai: Flesh and Bone
3. Mansfield Path
4. The Ballad of Angel Face
5. Enigma

Best Sound Design – Feature
1. Lily
2. Acts of Violence
3. In the Eyes of a Killer
4. Deadland
5. Dogs of Chinatown

Best Sound Design - Short
1. The Condom Killer
2. The Silence
3. Enigma
4. Wanted
5. Burden

Best Action Sequence Feature
1. Bronx Paradise
2. Disarmed
3. Outrage
4. Acts of Violence
5. Jamie and Eddie: Souls of Strife

Best Action Sequence Short
1. Action on Film Submission
2. Annulment
3. Heroic Bloodshed
4. Precious Cargo
5. Another New Bike

Best Action Sequence Martial Arts Feature
1. Legendary
2. Golden Blade III –
Return of the Monkey’s Uncle
3. MMA Street Fighter - One Percent Full
4. Disarmed
5. Acts of Violence

Best Action Sequence Martial Arts Short
1. Five Minutes Flat
2. On the Edge
3. Project 7
4. Wanted
5. The Interview

Breakout Action Star – Male – Feature
1. Disarmed – A.J. Draven
2. Charlie Valentine – Michael Weatherly
3. Acts of Violence – Il Lim
4. MMA Street Fighter - One Percent Full –
Burton Richardson
5. Dogs of Chinatown – Eric Jacobus

Breakout Action Star – Male – Short
1. Five Minutes Flat – David Lavallee Jr.
2. The Interview – Tomm Voss
3. Project 7 – Marc David
4. Afro Samurai: Flesh and Bone –
Percy “Spitfire” Brown
5. Heroic Bloodshed – Michael Dufays

Breakout Action Star – Female - Feature
1. Eve: Beauty and the Blade –Ia Villatuya
2. Angel - Dust – Andy Deal
3. It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To – Adrienne Fischer
4. Golden Blade III –
Return of the Monkey’s Uncle – Megan Becker
5. Golden Blade III –
Return of the Monkey’s Uncle – Christy Blankenship

Breakout Action Star – Female - Short
1. Wanted – Casey Hudecki
2. Issa – Somayh Moz
3. The Favor – Ciani Palencia
4. Layla – Ursula Taherian
5. The Astray – Michelle Graci

Male Action Performer of the Year
1. Interpretation – Ian Bohen
2. Man of Blood – Bren Foster
3. Wanted – Simon Fon
4. Man of Blood – Richard Norton
5. Acts of Violence – Il Lim

Female Action Performer of the Year
1. Seasons Beatings – Sunny Smith
2. The Favor – Ciani Palencia
3. Heart Shot Grand Prix – Ashley Rossetti
4. The Favor – Aoui Ma
5. Wanted – Casey Hudecki

Best Fight Choreography - Feature
1. Rules
2. Dogs of Chinatown
3. MMA Street Fighter - One Percent Full
4. Acts of Violence
5. Disarmed

Best Fight Choreography – Short
1. Interpretation
2. Project 7
3. On the Edge
4. Wanted
5. Five Minutes Flat

Action Film of the Year - Feature
1. Charlie Valentine
2. Acts of Violence
3. Disarmed
4. Deadland
5. Dogs of Chinatown

Best Action Short of the Year
1. Precious Cargo
2. Sexual Tension:
The Super Adventures of Steve and Stephen
3. On the Edge
4. Run 2
5. Wanted

Best Actor-Short
1. Wilcox Sex Therapy – David Brainard
2. Dark Readings – Ford Austin
3. Help – Val Lauren
4. Safe Haven – Richard Caines
5. The Astray – James Arlen

Best Actress-Short
1. Psycho Killer Attack – Mallory Carrick
2. Purge – Danielle Hagan
3. The Astray – Michelle Graci
4. Layla – Ursula Taherian
5. Open Your Eyes – Traci Dinwiddie

Best Actor - Feature
1. Bronx Paradise – Wayne Gurman
2. Charlie Valentine – Raymand J. Barry
3. King of Sorrow – Kim Coates
4. In the Eyes of a Killer – Louis Mandylor
5. Acts of Violence – Il Lim

Best Actress Feature
1. The Path of Torment – Dona Elis
2. Suicide is Easy – Rachel Wagner
3. Acts of Violence – Leelee Sobieski
4. Speed Dating – Emma Choy
5. King of Sorrow – Lara Daans

Best Supporting Actor - Feature
1. Acts of Violence – Ron Perlman
2. Deadland – Brian Tee
3. In the Eyes of a Killer – Costas Mandylor
4. The Other Side of Paradise – Frank Mosley
5. Solid Country Gold – Matthew Hagan

Best Supporting Actor - Short
1. Krantz – Will Greenberg
2. Russel Fish:
The Sausage and Eggs Incident – Eddie Ruiz
3. Gideon Falls – Mark Dacascos
4. Clones Gone Wild – Philip Boyd
5. Gary Blaze:
The Devil Wears Product – Sasha Appler

Best Supporting Actress – Feature
1. Chasing the Green – Heather McComb
2. The Other Side of Paradise – Susanna Gibb
3. Poker Run – Debra Hopkins
4. Falling Down – Navah Raphael
5. The Consultants – Robin Campbell

Best Supporting Actress – short
1. Charlie Thistle – Leslie Stevens
2. Manscaping – Diane Chambers
3. Open Your Eyes – Suzy Nakamura
4. Chambers Street – Jennifer Marks
5. The Seer – Linda Purl

Outstanding Cast Performance
1. Slinging Mud
2. Solid Country Gold
3. PRE
4. Speed Dating
5. Manscaping

Best Director-Short
1. Chambers Street – Andrew Swan
2. Russel Fish: The Sausage and Eggs Incident – Terence Heuston
3. Interpretation – Lin Oeding
4. The Interview – Giovanni Zelko
5. Hunger – Chad Jackson

Best Director – Feature
1. Deadland – Damon O’Steen
2. Eyeborgs – Richard Clabaugh
3. Rounds – Mark Atienza
4. PRE – Steven Tanenbaum
5. Bronx Paradise – William Lappe

Best Picture
1. Deadland
2. Charlie Valentine
3. Eyeborgs
4. King of Sorrow
5. Solid Country Gold

Best Short
1. Charlie Thistle
2. Slim and Lena
3. How to Marry a Mink
4. The Seer
5. Liminal

Best Animation
1. The Missing Sock
2. Magnum Farce: A Shot in the Park
3. Sebastian’s Voodoo
4. Gideon the Great: The Flying Ace
5. Skylight (09-2088)

Best Experimental Project
1. Translucitum
2. Shut Eye
3. Spaceman on Earth
4. Habits
5. The Purple Zone

Best Produced Screenplay - Feature
1. Falling Down
2. Under the Influence
3. PRE
4. Rounds
5. Speed Dating

Best Produced Screenplay – Short
1. Death in Charge
2. The Devil’s Matchmaker
3. Krantz
4. Potluck
5. Sweet Seduction

Best Comedy Scene
1. Slinging Mud
2. PRE
3. Little Boba
4. Sexual Tension:
The Super Adventures of Steve and Stephen
5. Manscaping

Best Comedy – Feature
1. The Consultants
2. Solid Country Gold
3. Golden Blade III –
Return of the Monkey’s Uncle
4. Speed Dating
5. Under the Influence

Best Comedy – Short
1. Sexual Tension:
The Super Adventures of Steve and Stephen
2. Spy for Love
3. The Devil’s Matchmaker
4. Arranged: The Musical
5. Russel Fish: The Sausage and Eggs Incident

Best Spoof
1. Gary Blaze
2. Sexual Tension:
The Super Adventures of Steve Stephen
3. Hollywood Folklore: Mick Donald
4. Magnum Farce: A Shot in the Park
5. Penthouse One

Best Documentary
1. Moon Rising
2. House of Numbers
3. Creator of God
4. VICKtory to the Underdog
5. Making a Killing:
The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging

Best Documentary Political
1. Soldiers of Peace
2. American Politics All You Can Eat
3. Along Came Kinky…Texas Jewboy for Governor
4. Which Way to the War?
5. Breaking News Breaking Down

Best Sports Documentary
1. Every Second Counts
2. Comrades
3. Armed For the Challenge
4. Legendary
5. In the Ring of Fire

Best Documentary Short
1. Breaking News Breaking Down
2. Tira Bakal
3. Armed for the Challenge
4. India
5. Ken: Story of Western Drifter

Best Drama Feature
1. The Other Side of Paradise
2. In The Eyes Of A Killer
3. Lily
4. PRE
5. Finding Red Cloud
6. Acts of Violence

Best Drama Short
1. Crescendo
2. Solitarius
3. Purge
4. Leto
5. Stranglehold

Best Horror Short Film
1. Followed
2. Carnage on Graves Farm
3. Dead Exit
4. Hunger
5. Excursions

Best Horror Film - Feature
1. It’s My Party and I’ll Die if I Want To
2. Sphere of the Lycanthrope
3. Text
4. Sawblade
5. Dark Spirits

Best Music Video
1. Secret
2. Ignis Fatuus
3. Until the Sun
4. Blackheart
5. Things People Say

Best Foreign Film – Feature
1. The Map Reader
2. Victory Day
3. Speed Dating
4. Gangster Exchange
5. Jamie and Eddie: Souls of Strife

Best Foreign Film – Short
1. Pelo Ouvido
2. The Last One
3. Crescendo
4. aQua ad lavandum – in brevi
5. Holy Water

Best Student Film
1. First Kill
2. The Birthday Kidnapping
3. Sweet Seduction
4. Precious Cargo
5. Safe Haven

Best Female Filmmaker – Feature
1. Which Way to the War? – Sue Useem
2. My McDiet – Julie Dove
3. In the Eyes of a Killer – Mamie Jean
4. Comrades – Poppy Simpson
5. A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square – Carolyn Coal

Best Female Filmmaker – Short
1. Open Your Eyes – Susan Cohen
2. Death in Charge – Devi Snively
3. On the Table – Madelaine Hill
4. Layla – Lydia Martinelli
5. Manscaping – Shanra Kehl

Best Science Fiction
1. Project 7
2. Burden
3. Enigma
4. Outrage
5. Ascension

Best Political Statement Movie
1. American Dream
2. Spook
3. Victory Day
4. Which Way to the War?
5. The Man Left Behind

Best Guerilla Film - Feature
1. Suicide is Easy
2. Bronx Paradise
3. It’s My Party and I’ll Die if I Want To
4. Falling Down
5. Path of Torment

Best Guerilla Film – Short
1. The Lottery: Welcome to Dreadville
2. Annulment
3. Psycho Killer Attack
4. Cherry Poppin’
5. The Mel Bourne Ultimatum

Best LGBT Project
1. Sexual Tension: The Super Adventures of Steve and Stephen
2. Gary Blaze: The Devil Wears Product
3. A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square
4. Dance, Dance Baby!
5. Liminal

Best Villan Short
1. Issa – Sadiq Abu
2. The Interview – Harry Lennix
3. The Astray – John Fava
4. Sexual Tension: The Super Adventures of Steve and Stephen – Frank Medina
5. Layla – Morocco Omari

Best Villian Feature
1. Gangster Exchange – Zeljko Kekojevic
2. Outrage – Michael Madsen
3. Poker Run – Robert Thorne
4. Bronx Paradise – Ralph Squillante
5. Charlie Valentine – James Russo

Best Western
1. Dead Bones
2. The Silence
3. The Man and His Gun
4. The Tombstone Killer
5. Trip Aces

Best Composition
1. Tink!
2. Potluck
3. Arranged: The Musical
4. Want
5. Secret

Best Social Commentary Award
1. Life’s Blood
2. Poppies
3. Breaking News Breaking Down
4. Butterflies
5. VICKtory to the Underdog

The Sirocco Award
1. Skylight (WAB #09-2081)
2. One Nothing
3. Solitarius
4. Charlie Thistle
5. Reach

AOF 2009 Alan J Bailey Excellence Awards:
1. Excellence in Social Commentary The Klara Wizel Story
2. Excellence in Directing Michael O'Connor - Finding Red Cloud
3. Excellence in Action / Drama Feature Category - Acts of Violence
4. Excellence in Screen Writing - Listen To Your Heart - Kent Moran
5. Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking - India - Ron Shaw
American Dumpling – Eileen Nelson
6. Excellence in Filmmaking - Short Category - Lavinia's Heist - Don Goodman
7. Excellence in Political Commentary - American Politics All You Can Eat -
Jordi Ortega


WAB BEST PERFORMANCE IN AN ACTING ROLE - MALE
1. MARC WASSERMAN – FALLING DOWN
2. PRESTON PRATT III - SLIM AND LENA
3. NOBUYA SHIMAMOTO - GANGSTER EXCHANGE
4. LOUIS MANDYLOR - IN THE EYES OF A KILLER
5. ADRIAN PAUL - EYEBORGS

WAB BEST PERFORMANCE IN AN ACTING ROLE - FEMALE
1. CRESCENDO - JULIE GAUVAIN
2. HUNTER’S MOON - TRINE CHRISTENSEN
3. LIMINAL - ALEJANDRA GOLLAS
4. KRANTZ - NATALIE URQUHART
5. DEATH IN CHARGE - KARINA BENEDICT

WAB BEST DIRECTOR FEATURE OR SHORT
1. MARK SANDERS – MAN DOWN
2. MEREDITH ROSE - THE GOLDEN RULE
3. LIN OEDING - INTERPRETATION
4. SAMUEL BENAVIDES – MANSFIELD PATH
5. MAMIE JEAN – IN THE EYES OF A KILLER

WAB BEST IN SHOW
1. SLIM AND LENA
2. SOLID COUNTRY GOLD
3. CHARLIE THISTLE
4. SKYLIGHT
5. IN THE EYES OF A KILLER