TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS
We asked you, our audience, to vote for the most compelling, entertaining, thought-provoking, and innovative films or filmmakers in each category of competition in The FreeStyle Life Film Exhibition. The results are in, and The FreeStyle Life Audience Award Winners have been chosen for Best Narrative Feature Film, Best Documentary Feature Film, Best Short Film, and Best Student Film. All Filmmakers are also eligible for THE GOLDEN SWAN AWARD for Outstanding Filmmaking which will be announced Thursday, April 5.
FEATURE FILM COMPETITION: OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
THE BAD INTENTIONS
Feature Film Competition
Director Rosario García-Montero, Peru, 2011, 107 min
A solitary Peruvian girl with a vivid imagination becomes convinced that she will have to die the day her brother is born.
COMBAT GIRLS
Feature Film Competition
Director David Wnendt, Germany, 2011, 103 min
The worlds of a Nazi gang member and a young Afghan boy collide, changing their lives forever.
I HATE TOM PETTY
Feature Film Competition
Director Ila Duncan, USA, 2011, 103 min
A struggling musician looks to the career of Tom Petty for inspiration as he tries to achieve commercial success while at the same time maintaining his artistic integrity.
LUPO DELLA NOTTE (NIGHT WOLF)
Feature Film Competition
Directors Giovanni Ficetola & Mateo Fontana, Italy, 2011, 67 min
Modern gladiators fight for money, fame and glory in an underground world of shadows and blood, sweat and flesh, ambition and cruelty.
MARATHON
Feature Film Competition
Director Biju Viswanath, USA, 2010, 90 min
The true story of two poets, young and old who survive devastating illness through love, courage and endurance.
A STONE’S THROW AWAY
Feature Film Competition
Director Sebastian Hiriart, Mexico, 2010, 97 min
Guided by his dreams, a Mexican shepherd will undertake a trip that takes him across hundreds of miles into the United States.
DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION: OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
ELECTRONIC AWAKENING
Documentary Film Competition
Director Andrew Johner, Brazil/USA, 2011, 90 min
Andrew Johner lifts the veil on an underground spiritual movement that has developed within electronic music cultures worldwide.
FIRE BURN BABYLON
Documentary Film Competition
Director Sarita Siegel, UK, 2010, 53 min
Three Rastafarian friends reinvent themselves in London when a volcano destroys their island home.
TANGO YOUR LIFE
Documentary Film Competition
Director Chan Park, USA/Argentina, 2011, 63 min
In Argentina, tango is more than steps or fancy movements. To the residents of Buenos Aires, tango is life danced on the floor.
SHORT FILM COMPETITION: OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
THE BALLAD OF SANDEEP
Short Film Competition
Director Derek Frey, USA, 2011, 28 min
Where the dirt meets the pavement, where the sub-continent meets the Delaware Valley, one song rings out clearly: The Ballad of Sandeep, anthem of clowns, slaves, and heroes.
BATHING AND THE SINGLE GIRL
Short Film Competition
Director Christine Elise McCarthy, USA, 2010, 11 min
A raw and irreverent comedic look at the unspoken horrors of dating - and bathing with - younger men.
BEFORE THE LAW WITHOUT LAW
Short Film Competition
Director Fernando Baños Fidalgo, Spain, 2011, 10 min
The nature of what is called past is chaotic, heterodox and scattered. It can only be determined by decisions made in the present.
CIVIL
Short Film Competition
Director Weston Middleton, USA, 2011, 15 min
The Year is 1865. War rages on the battlefields and in the hearts of men. For one Confederate soldier, his loyalty is tested. For God. For Country. Forever.
LIVE OUTSIDE THE BOX
Short Film Competition
Director Shu-Hsuan Lin, Taiwan/USA, 2011, 5 min
Simon is a workaholic without any social contact. Gradually, his world becomes smaller and smaller until there is nothing left but work.
MUGS
Short Film Competition
Director Ronnie Cramer, USA, 2010, 5 min
One hundred of your favorite celebrity mug shots morph from one to the next.
NEXT LEVEL
Short Film Competition
Director Anton Sokolov, Russian Federation/Ukraine, 2011, 6 min
In Moscow in the not too distant future, Anton hears a voice in his head warning him of a vast conspiracy and offering him a way out.
REFLECTOR
Short Film Competition
Director Dave Hill, USA, 2011, 53 min
In 1977, 2 young missionaries in the deserts of South West Africa take a weekend off to do a little amateur astronomy. Things don't go quite as planned.
WAR STORY
Short Film Competition
Director Davood Moradian, Iran, 2011, 20 min
A jug of water sits in the center of a minefield.Two thirsty soldiers stand on opposite sides, knowing one must kill the other to survive.
STUDENT FILM COMPETITION: OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
K.O.
Student Competition
Director Dan Basone, USA, 2011, 16 min
A boxing story about an injured young man will need a lot more than training to overcome his fears.
THE RECORD
Student Competition
Director Takeya Aso, USA, 2010, 16 min
A group of college students help their friend investigate the mysterious death of her grandfather. What they find is more than a mystery...
WHAT LEVEL?
Student Competition
Director Lindsey Manning, Australia, 2011, 5 min
An examination of the human condition of addictions, what is normal, what is not, and who makes that determination.
ABOUT THE FREESTYLE LIFE FILM EXHIBITION
The FreeStyle Life Film Exhibition is the premier online independent film exhibition that features first rate feature films, documentaries, and short films by filmmakers from across the globe. The FreeStyle Life strives to take high quality indie filmmakers above ground by providing them an authentic artists platform to showcase their work to an international community.
Selections include both emerging artists and world renowned filmmakers. The competition showcases some of the most compelling, groundbreaking and thought provoking film, documentary, and music video content from around the world.
MUSIC
ARTISTS
HOME
FILM
PROGRAMMING
TRAILERS
STORE
SUPPORT
TRIBE
EXHIBITION
Loading
