Last weekend, the 2011 72 Hour Film Shootout held its annual award ceremony as part of the Asian American International Film Festival in New York, handing out prizes to the entries deemed the best of the best in the Asian American Film Lab's time-tested filmmaking competition, in which teams had 72 hours to write, shoot and edit a five-minute around a prescribed theme.
The Grand Prize Winner: Terra Cotta by Team Floating Heads. Check it out:
Funny. Team Floating Heads' film walked away with the top prize, along with Best Director (Yasmine Gomez) and Best Actress (Carla Ching). Here's the full list of this year's winners:
TOP 10
Team Floating Heads - Terra Cotta (Grand Prize Winner)
Team Blue Core - Subject 47 (1st Runner Up)
Team See Yoo Wu - The Assistant and Her Lovely Magician (2nd Runner Up)
Team Fish Grenade - Blue Monster
Team Lee Kim - A Letter From The Yearbook
Team Imua! Theater + Film Company - Dead End
Team Twelve One Studios - Truth*
Team KIS,S - Keen Study
Team MeetUp - The Mark
Team Soy Sauce Chicken - Sawaru
Best Actor: Tyler Ham Pong, Team Soy Sauce Chicken - Sawaru
Best Actress: Carla Ching, Team Floating Heads, Terra Cotta
Best Cinematography: Derek Shimoda, Team Fish Grenade - Blue Monster
Best Director: Yasmine Gomez, Team Floating Heads - Terra Cotta
Best Editing: Derek Shimoda, Team Fish Grenade - Blue Monster
Most Original: Team Urban Mystics - Boxes
2nd Chance Award: KS Stevens, Team KS Stevens Productions - Katie & Kaden
Supercapitalist Story Award: Team See Yoo Wu - The Assistant and Her Lovely Magician
Full disclosure: I was one of the judges in this year's competition. For more information about the 72 Hour Film Shootout, go here. To see more contest entries, they're being uploaded to 72 Hour Film Shootout website's YouTube channel here every day. Check 'em out.