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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.
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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.
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