2004 Festival Film Updates

Selected screening history of films from the 17th annual Columbia University Film Festival.

240 Monroe
Directed by Louise Bylicki
  • The Wild Rose Independent Film Festival, Best Student Film

Extreme Mom
Written and directed by Joyce Draganosky
  • Hamptons International Film Festival
  • IFP Market / IFP Buzz Cuts
  • Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
  • Foyle Film Festival, Ireland
  • RiverRun International Film Festival
  • Newport Beach International Film Festival
  • The Angelus Awards Competition, The Triumph Award

Family Portrait
Directed by Patricia Riggen
  • Sundance Film Festival, Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking Award
  • International Documentary Association, David L. Wolper Student Achievement Award
  • Los Angeles International Shorts Film Festival, Best Documentary Award
  • Telluride
  • IFP Market
  • Rhode Island International Film Festival
  • Urbanworld Film Festival
  • Aspen ShortsFest

Gay by Dawn
Written and directed by Jonathan London
  • Raetihi Film Festival, New Zealand
  • Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
  • Rhode Island International Film Festival
  • Breckenridge Festival of Film
  • Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival
  • Woodstock Film Festival
  • Hawaii International Film Festival
  • Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

God is Good
Directed by Caryn Waechter
  • China-American Film Festival, Top Prize
  • Newport Beach Film Festival
  • San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
  • IFP Buzz Cuts / IFP Market, Narrative Short Finalist
  • Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
  • Urbanworld Film Festival
  • Asian American International Film Festival
  • Park City Film Music Festival

Groomed
Written and directed by Joseph Raso
  • 3 Americas Film Festival, Quebec City, Canada
  • Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
  • Atlantic City Film Festival, Awarded Best Comedic Short
  • World of Comedy International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, Best Short Canadian Film
  • Smogdance Film Festival, Best Comedic Short
  • Toronto International Film Festival
  • Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
  • Palm Springs International Film Festival

The Hill
Written and directed by Deborah Chow
  • Toronto International Film Festival
  • Tribeca International Film Festival
  • Festival des films du Monde de Montréal
  • IFP Market / IFP Buzz Cuts
  • Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival
  • Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels
  • Hawaii International Film Festival
  • Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival

Junebug and Hurricane
Written and directed by James Ponsoldt
  • Tribeca International Film Festival
  • Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival
  • Nantucket Film Festival
  • Hamptons International Film Festival
  • Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland
  • Buenos Aires Student Film Festival
  • Seattle Film Festival
  • Aspen Short Film Festival

Kill or Be Killed
Written and directed by Joshua Sanchez
  • IFP Buzz Cuts
  • New York International Latino Film Festival
  • Frameline: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  • Inside Out: Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
  • Pink Filmdays Film Festival, Netherlands
  • Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Italy
  • Tallgrass Film Festival
  • Cinequest Online Film Festival

Loopy
Written and directed by Seth Michael Donsky
  • Savannah International Film Festival, 1st Runner Up, Best Student Short
  • Clermont-Ferrand
  • IFP Buzz Cuts
  • Palm Springs International Festival of Short Film
  • Cinequest Film Festival
  • Los Angeles International Short Film Fesival
  • Savannah International Film Festival
  • Philadelphia World Film Festival
  • Newport Beach International Film Festival
  • Film Fest New Haven

Nostradamus and Me
Written and directed by Eilis Kirwan
  • Galway Film Fleadh, Ireland, Best First Irish Short
  • Kerry Film Festival, Ireland, Best Director
  • Foyle Film Festival, Ireland
  • Tribeca International Film Festival
  • Newport Beach Film Festival
  • Britspotting Film Festival, Berlin

Queen of Beasts
Written and directed by Regina Robbins
  • Women in the Director's Chair Film Festival

Room for One
Written and directed by Ambika Samarthya
  • Indian Cinematic Arts, Metropolitan College of New York
  • Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival

Seibutsu (Still: Life)
Written and directed by Joe Turner Lin
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Student Academy Awards, National Finalist, Narrative Category
  • Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, 2nd Prize Best Short Film
  • Angeles Awards, Semi-finalist
  • Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
  • Breckenridge Festival of Film
  • Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
  • IFP Market / IFP Buzz Cuts
  • Tübingen International Short Film Festival, Germany

SHOOK
Written and directed by Melanie RW Oram
  • Showtime, Black Filmmaker Showcase, TV premiered February 2005
  • Juneteenth Film Festival, Best Film of the Festival, Best Student Filmmaker
  • Oakland International Film Festival
  • Palm Springs International Short Film Festival
  • Urbanworld Film Festival
  • Women in the Director's Chair Film Festival
  • Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival

Wrigley
Written and directed by Oliver Refson
  • Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
  • Woodstock Film Festival
  • Hamptons International Film Festival
  • Aspen Short Film Festival

Young Americans
Written and directed by Todd Smith
  • Hamptons International Film Festival, Graduate Student Award Winner
  • Malibu Film Festival
  • Woodstock Film Festival

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