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starting with stop-motion Legos™ back in 1980-something, Adam has been drawing and animating ever since. He has worked on sets for live-action production, in multiple animation studios performing animation and motion graphics production, one video game company as a level designer, and one marketing agency as a multimedia consultant for pharma-client driven productions, sales pitches, and new business. Graduated Mason Gross School of Visual Arts (New Brunswick NJ, 1998), BFA Film/Video and School of Visual Arts (NYC, 2005) BFA Character Animation. He has been around the academic and professional environments of film and animation production for roughly 14 years and has been assisting and/or directing dozens of projects. Whether it for others or himself, Adam is a "creative" with a background allows him to be an artist as well as a detailed oriented professional. Film and animation festivals of his work have been screened in: The BeFilm Underground, Animation Block Party, Worldfest Houston, Red Stick International, Miami International, Red Bank International, Tel Aviv Animation Festival, ASIFA-East awards show, and Animayo.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

BeFilm 2010 winners and thoughts

This is the list of festival awards for 2010 BeFilm which again in the few days I did go was awessssOME:D

I only had the chance to go Friday 4/30 & Saturday 5/1. Of those two nights I have to pick a couple of favorites:

Friday 4/30:











FOUR: DIR Erin White

HBO "DEAL BREAKER": DIR Kelly Anne Burns
WHATEVER TURNS YOU ON: DIR Delcan Cassidy
LABYRINTH: DIR Patrick Jenkins


Saturday 5/1:

TOSHI: DIR Jon Gilbert
The INCIDENT AT TOWER 37: DIR Chris Perry

WINNERS IN THE NARRATIVE CATEGORY BE FILM 2010

First Place: Transit, Dir. Chris Roche (UK)

Second Place: The Six Dollar Fifty Man, Dir. Louis Sutherland /Mark Albiston (New Zealand)

Third Place: Freud’s Magic Powder, Dir. Edouard Getaz (Switzlerland)
Adelaide, Dir. Lilliana Greenfield-Sanders (USA)

WINNERS IN THE ANIMATION CATEGORY BE FILM 2010

First Place: The Cow That Wanted To Be A Hamburger, Dir. Bill Plympton (USA)

Second Place: The Incident At Tower 37, Dir. Chris Perry (USA)

Third Place: Labyrinth, Dir. Patrick Jenkins (Canada)

Honorable Mention: Variete, Dir. Roelof Van Den Bergh (Netherlands)

WINNERS IN THE SPEC CATEGORY BE FILM 2010

First Place: HBO “Deal Breaker”, Dir. Kelly Anne Burns (USA)
Second Place: Levi’s True Love, Dir. Ezra Stanley (USA)

WINNERS IN THE 3D CATEGORY BE FILM 2010

First Place: Train of Thought, Dir. Jeanne Guillot
Second Place: Plasticity, Dir. Ryan Suits

SPECIAL AUDIENCE AWARDS FOR BEST SEXY FILMS 2010

First Place: Lost Paradise, Dir. Oder Binnun/Mihal Brezi (France/Israel
Second Place: Las Pelotas, Dir.Chris Niemeyer (Argentina/Switzerland)
Four, Dir. Erin White (Australia)


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A very special thanks to Laurence Asseraf & Dimitris Athos, the festival curators and programmers, for bringing together another wonderful year of shorts that rock!!
I'll be there next year for sure:D