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Congratulations!

The winners of the first annual O-36 Awards were announced Sunday during an awards ceremony at the Loews Cineplex at Universal City Walk. Several student teams were recognized, and one professional team—Weekend Warrior Film—made a clean sweep of all of the awards in the professional category.

Professional and student videos were judged separately, and the winners were determined by the highest point total in each category. Winners in the craft categories as well as the top categories--Best in Show, Best Use of Genre, Best Use of Given Prop, and Best Use of Given Dialogue—received prizes from several of the O-36 Sponsors.

Here is the list of our O-36 Winners:

Professional Category:

Best in Show:
Team #3: Weekend Warrior Film, for their video, “Dangerous Desires”; Genre: Film Noir. Team members: Randy Baker, Susan Janis-Mashayekhi, Holly Roark, Jimmy Huckaby, Iris Pearson, Silas Najar Brown, Peter Breidemier, and Tyme.

Weekend Warrior Film also won Best Use of Genre, Best Use of Given Prop, Best Use of Given Dialogue, Best Direction, Best Scripting, Best Camera work, Best Lighting, Best Sound/Music, Best Editing and Best Acting (for Silas Brown).

Student Category:

Best in Show:
Team #23: Team Matt, for their video, “Crooks”; Genre: Real TV. Team members: Matthew Anlonetari, David Lewondowski, Matt Books, Lee Shapiro, Lauren Fitton, Steve Wise, Andrew Ladner, Sean Gill, Ryan Webbes, and Gian Lanzafane

Team Matt also won Best Use of Genre, Best Use of Given Dialogue, Best Directing, and Best Acting (for Lee Shapiro).

Best Use of Prop:
Team #21, Challengers, for their video “Der Frosch”; Genre: Silent Film. Team members: Megan Estes, Richard Melendez, Dustin Carpenter and Josh Irwin.

Best Camera Work:
Team #13 M.A.J.I.C./Out of Time Productions, for their video, “La Rana”; Genre: Sci-Fi. Team members: Jaclyn Fisher, Mario Hernandez, Chris Garofalo, Israel Rodriguez and Alexis Tippin.

M.A.J.I.C./Out of Time Productions also won Best Editing in the student category.

Best Scriptwriting:
Team #24: Demented Penguin Entertainment, for their video, “The Gunslinger of Bumblescoot”; Genre: Western. Team members: Stephen Krstulich, Shane Rhodes, Mike Maloney, Ben Conrad, Sean Graham, Drew Matthews, Rob Conrad, Chelsea Rhodes, Mark Rhodes, Tiffany Kasky, T.J. Woolard, and Daryll Pickett.

Demented Penguin Entertainment also won Best Audio/Music in the student category.

Best Lighting:
Team #22, The Wingmen, for their video, “Back and Forth”; Genre: Suspense. Team members: Rick Ramsey, Andrew Campbell, Jason Steele, Will Cobble, Shaun Trout, Ithiell Yisreal, Matthew Carman, Chris Moore, Camron Micheal, Michael Lee Ponton, Duy Ha, Rebecca Montalvo, Sean O’Donnel, Jon Joy, Wayne Lemont, Nick Smith, and Matthew Wermes.

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