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April 28, 2008 - The jury of the NYC Downtown Shorts Festival awarded THE OTHER WOMAN its highest honor, “Best of the Festival,”. Over 1,000 shorts films from all over the world were submitted to the festival’s programmers, who chose close to 200 to screen at the DUO Theater’s “Audience Choice” Screenings in August. The 27 top vote-getters went on to screen at the weeklong festival in April 2008, where a jury voted on the festival’s best films.

THE WINNERS
Best of Festival: The Other Woman, by Ravenal & Södersten
Best Drama: Undocumented, directed by Joel Rodriguez
Best Comedy: The Accidental Activist, directed by Andrew Hunt
Best Animation: Life in Transition, directed by John R. Dilworth
Best Documentary: Two Dollar Dance, directed by Yolanda Pividal
Audience Choice: The Wednesdays, directed by Colin Ferguson

Encore screenings of winning films: June 19, 20, 21.

Swedish films win at Sundance and Tribeca

Mikael Södersten has worked on 15 films as Senior Script Development Advisor to the Swedish Film Institute. Two won the top prizes at Tribeca and Sundance: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, directed by Tomas Alfredson - Best Narrative Feature at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and KING OF PING PONG, directed by Jens Jonsson - World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

The documentary PRIZE OF THE POLE, directed by Staffan Julén, on which Södersten consulted closely, recently won both 2008 Best Expedition Film at the Explorer’s Club in New York and the Amnesty Award at the Copenhagen Dox Festival.

Wilderness Films Productions

The Initiation a feature film inspired by a true story, is now in development with SFI support.

Debbi (2:30 min), an experimental short film about the perversion of power, was completed in 2007.

The Other Woman has had over a dozen screenings internationally, including the Avignon Film Festival in France, the Befilm Underground Film Festival, and New Filmmakers in New York. It premiered at a special screening at the National Arts Club on March 6, 2007.

White Man’s Blues a short film that comments slyly on the Swedish male mind, has screened at the Fort Lauderdale Int'l Film Festival, the Queens Int'l Film Festival, and the New Filmmakers Best Short Films Series.