daVinci Days-- Corvallis Oregon's 3-day festival celebrating art, science and technology

Corvallis Oregon's 3-day festival celebrating art, science & technology

Get an eyeful of independent film at the da Vinci Film Festival

2007 da Vinci Film Festival Awards

Best of Category Winners: Shorts

Animation		Perpetuum Mobile
Comedy		Moviebonics
Documentary		The Rest of My Life: Stories of Trauma Survivors
Drama		The Tube with the Hat (Lampa cu Caciula)
Experimental		Startle Pattern
Musical Form		Gone (Bill Madden)
Young Filmmaker		Pieces

Best of Category Winners: Feature Length

Documentary		Millions
Narrative		The Mini

Special Category Awards

da Vinci Spirit Award		Reptile Day
Audience Favorite - Short Film		Everybody Promenade
Fast Film Project Winner		Fall from Grace

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Best of Category Winners: Shorts

Animation

Perpetuum Mobile directed by Enrique Garcia (Spain)

An Alchemist obsessed with discovering the secrets of perpetual motion will change the life of Leo, a sensitive and curious young Italian boy, forever.

Comedy

Moviebonics directed by Donald Unverrich & Lance Miller (USA)
A married couple has become so enamored with the movies that they only speak to each other in famous film quotations.

Documentry

The Rest of My Life: Stories of Trauma Survivors directed by Gabriel Ledger (USA)
Two trauma survivors tell their stories in this short documentary film, created by the doctor who treated them in the Emergency Room and filmed by an Academy Award-nominated cinematographer.

Drama

The Tube with the Hat (Lampa cu Caciula) directed by Radu Jude (Romania)
A short Romanian road movie about a father-and-son relationship and the importance of the small things in life.

Experimental

Startle Pattern directed by Eric Patrick (USA)
The moving image, a puppet's form tattered and decayed, hinting at the Protagonist's delicate relationship with reality, voyeurism, the director and the apparatus. A farewell card to the film medium.

Musical Form

Gone (Bill Madden) directed by Andrew Watson (USA)
Bill Madden brings the worlds of film and music together with a metaphorical environmental warning alert.

Young Filmmaker

Pieces directed by Christopher Jarvis (USA)
A young man who feels stuck in a routine of loneliness and locked doors seeks guidance, and is given the chance to play chess with a surprising opponent.

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Best of Category Winners: Feature Length

Documentary

Millions directed by Paul La Blanc (USA)
For many Americans, winning the lottery is the ultimate dream come true. Millions follows six big-money lottery winners to show just how dramatically the experience can affect ordinary people.

Narrative

The Mini directed by Ron Beck (USA)
A futon salesman runs a mini-marathon and becomes a legend in the bedding business.

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Special Category Awards

da Vinci Spirit Award
This award goes to the film that most represents the concept of da Vinci Days either in subject matter or how the film was made.

Reptile Day directed by Tom Hickmore (UK)
What really happened on "Reptile Day"? A stranger searches for answers from the one man who might know the truth.

Audience Favorite
Among the shorts, the audience favorite:

Everybody Promenade directed by LeAnn Erickson (USA)
The Farmall Promenade is an eight-member square dance team that uses tractors in their dance.

Fast Film Project Award
Chosen by the audience, the best of the fast films produced during the festival weekend:

Fall from Grace directed by Team Fall from Grace (USA)

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