On April 1, 1884, one of the country’s first central electric generating stations opened in the then Village of Newburgh, New York.
Thomas Alva Edison personally supervised the construction of the facility which was designed to produce power for incandescent lighting. The Village of Newburgh station provided a 1,600-light capacity. It still stands at 59-69 Montgomery Street.
From George Washington to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, writers to architects, poets to painters, inventors to actors, the first silver screen, down to the first box spring mattress all started here.
Edison illuminated that village and with that light helped launch us into a future of grand possibilities. We will continue to honor the new and visionary works of all those who pass through our halls and the change they inspire, not only within ourselves, but also throughout the world.
Robert Fontaine CEO ENE - “The CROSSROADS of the FUTURE.”
AWARD CATEGORIES
Best Narrative Feature
Best Narrative Short
Best Documentary
Best Documentary
Best Animation
Spotlight Award
The Illumination Award (Best Promising Student Filmmaker)
The Grind House Award (Best Otherworldly Feature)
The LUMINARY- lifetime achievement award
The Edison© or The Eddie© film award named after THOMAS ALVA EDISON the man who brought light to The City of Newburgh.
Carver
Drama
SYNOPSIS
Carver portrays toxic masculinity through the story of Ernesto, a man who at night dresses as Carver and patrols his neighborhood. One day, a mysterious girl asks him to hunt down the drug dealer who killed her brother. From then on, his life becomes more and more chaotic until it is impossible to distinguish between the real and the imaginary.
DIRECTOR - Evgeny Yablokov
Director Biography
Evgeny Yablokov was born in the Russian city of Ivanovo in 1988. After studying business at university, he moved to Moscow where he founded a company and achieved some success, but instead of continuing with business, he decided to change his life and moved to Madrid to study filmmaking. There, he began to feel lonely and misunderstood, removed from his new society. He channeled this feeling into writing Carver in an attempt to speak to the world through a man hiding behind a mask.
CREDITS
Evgeny Yablokov - Director
Evgeny Yablokov - Writer
Evgeny Yablokov - Producer
Project Type: Feature
Runtime: 1 hour 22 minutes
Completion Date: January 4, 2021
Country of Origin: Spain
Country of Filming: Spain
Language: Spanish
Film Color: Color
First-time Filmmaker: No
Student Project: No
“BEST ANIMATION”
painting by numbers
SYNOPSIS
When we look at great art, do we realize it is looking back? With eyes that see more clearly than we do?
In a mysterious gallery imbued with strange life, shadows of the past and unresolved futures collide when a child's vision peels away the layers of what we call 'reality'...join a journey through the masterpieces you thought you knew as their hidden souls are finally given a voice.
As layers of contemporary 'reality' are stripped away, art's unseen soul brings a challenge we can neither ignore nor escape. Or can we? Will their message be heard in time?
The door is open. The masters' works await us. Who will enter?
DIRECTOR - Radheya Jegatheva
Director Biography
Radheya Jegatheva is an Oscar qualified and AACTA nominated filmmaker based in Perth, Australia, and born in Johor, Malaysia to parents of South Korean, Japanese, Indian, and Malaysian ancestry. He is a Bachelor of Commerce and Arts graduate from Curtin University (2021) in Western Australia. Radheya's films have been selected to 27 Academy Award Qualifying Festivals. His 2019 film, The Quiet was Oscar qualified, and his 2017 film iRony was nominated for an Australian Academy of Cinema & TV Arts (AACTA) Award.
Radheya's films which collectively have more than 1,570 official selections and 540 awards worldwide have been played in all the world’s 7 continents including Antarctica at the Davis Research Station.
Director Statement
THE CREATION PROCESS:
Procreate on iPad was used to individually draw various elements of the paintings (new and old). The classical paintings had to be entirely digitally redrawn and repainted by me, from scratch using the originals as close references.
Adobe After Effects was used for compositing work and more digital animation. 2D digitally painted elements animated and positioned within a 3D environment.
Adobe Animate was used for some minor frame-by-frame elements.
Logic Pro X was used to create the soundtrack.
CREDITS
Radheya Jegatheva - Director / Writer / Editor
Matt Hearn - Producer
Jay Jay Jegathesan - Producer
Steeve Body - Music
Project Type: Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Short
Runtime: 4 minutes
Completion Date: January 3, 2021
Production Budget: 750 USD
Country of Origin: Australia
Country of Filming: Australia
Shooting Format: Digital
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Film Color: Color
First-time Filmmaker: No
Student Project: Yes
Dima punk
Documentary
SYNOPSIS
Once a punk... always a punk? Stof is a young punk from Casablanca. During the eight years that we followed him, he tried to set his Mohawk against all odds. He pays a heavy price for his independence when he finds himself arrested and imprisoned for eleven months. Will he remain “Dima Punk”, forever a punk?
DIRECTOR - Dominique Caubet
Director Biography
Dominique Caubet is Professor Emerita of Maghrebi Arabic at INALCO Paris. A sociolinguist specializing in Moroccan Arabic, she has written numerous books and articles on Morocco. Over the past ten years, she has worked on the underground music scene and cultural movement that developed between 2005 and 2007, a Moroccan movida called Nayda. She had a first experience as an author for the documentary Casanayda! directed by F. Benlyazid, A. Mettour, Sigma - Casablanca, 2007. Dima Punk is her first film as a filmmaker.
Director Statement
Years of immersion have won Stof’s and Orland’s confidence. Stof is a punker and Orland was his mentor, ten years ago. To film in their neighborhood, the camera gradually became habitual and therefore, invisible. The film is a portrait, but, at the same time, a rare narrative on the situation of popular Urban youths in Morocco with different tastes, who are left out of the system and left to themselves. “NEET” is the acronym given to the 2.7 million young people from age 15 to 29 in this case in Morocco -it stands for No Education, No Employment, No Training. Stof is one of them and he struggles to try and be himself and at the same time to fit in the margins of the system.
CREDITS
Dominique Caubet - Director
Dominique Caubet - Writer
Christian Pfohl - Producer
Rita El Quessar - Producer
Reda Benjelloun - Producer
Project Type: Documentary
Runtime: 1 hour 2 minutes
Completion Date: March 31, 2019
Production Budget: 98,000 EUR
Country of Origin: France
Language: Arabic
Student Project: No
“BEST STUDENT FILM”
oscar
SYNOPSIS
Oscar, thirty years old, has made a path of transspecies: now he feels a dog in the body of a human being. Angela, her mother, is now determined to introduce him to her partner Gianmarco.
DIRECTOR - Riccardo Copreni
Director Biography
Riccardo Copreni was born in Monza in 1998. After studying at the scientific high school he began attending the Civica Scuola di Cinema, Luchino Visconti. During his academic years, he wrote as a film critic for Sentieridelcinema. it and Cinelapsus.com and was the animator of several film forums in Milan and in the province. In 2019 he co-founded the collective Studio Genesi for which he produces and directs several commercials. In 2020 began to work at Sky Italia. In 2020 he directed his first short film as an Oscar diploma film.
Director Statement
Oscar is the story of a woman who keeps a secret and this secret suffocates and locks her up.
We worked to build a world, a house that is a cave of Plato, a fake world, colorful and sweet that hides a secret that does not want to reveal itself. We looked for anesthetics patinated by classic American melodrama in which, however, the atmosphere seems infected.
Oscar is also the story of lonely characters, who seek affection and love, but who are not willing to accept and love themselves even in their secrets and in the shadows.
But Oscar is first and foremost the story of a mother-son relationship that slowly unfolds. A morbid relationship that reveals itself in its tenderness and alienation together. An extreme relationship that is a distorted mirror of more everyday dynamics.
We sought a narrative tone that was so a mixture of tenderness and madness, of beauty and ugliness, of elegance and kitsch, of realism and surrealism, of which the core is precisely the problem of a human relationship.
CREDITS
Riccardo Copreni - Director
Giammaria Lupo Cerutti - Writer
CivicaScuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti - Producer
Project Title (Original Language): Oscar
Project Type: Short
Genres: Drammatico, grottesco
Runtime: 18 minutes 38 seconds
Completion Date: September 30, 2020
Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Filming: Italy
Language: Italian
Shooting Format: Digital
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1
Film Color: Color
First-time Filmmaker: Yes
Student Project: Yes
Pub kid
Drama
SYNOPSIS
What happens when your local playground becomes your local pub? Pie-eyed parents, lairy locals, and awkward situations for a child in an adult world. Share a shandy with a pint-sized Pub Kid.
Director - Liam Young
Director Biography
Liam Young is a filmmaker based in the West Midlands.
Liam’s most recent film, Pub Kid, was commissioned by the BBC and appeared on BBC4 on 8th February 2021.
Other notable films are “The Ketchup Conspiracy” and “Car Boot Chris”, both of which were nominated for 4 Royal Television Society Awards and he won 1 in the Comedy & Entertainment category.
Director Statement
A film about child neglect, awkwardness, and escape.
Pub Kid was part of BBC New Creatives, funded by Arts Council England. It appeared on BBC4 in February 2021 and was featured on the BBC Website.
CREDITS
Liam Young - Director
Liam Young - Writer
Mollie Broomfield - Producer
Project Type: Short
Runtime: 3 minutes 18 seconds
Completion Date: November 1, 2020
Production Budget: 5,000 GBP
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Shooting Format: Alexa Mini ProRes 444 XQ 4K UHD
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Film Color: Color
First-time Filmmaker: No
Student Project: No
“Best spotlight Feature”
AFTER THE INCIDENT
SYNOPSIS
A child named Ruhollah has suffered an unfortunate event. He decides to turn his scar into stars by trying to achieve his goal.
DIRECTOR - Pouria Heidary Oureh
Director’s Biography
Pouria Heidary Oureh was born in 1984 in Tehran, Iran. From a young age, he was interested in visual and performing arts and storytelling, especially through drawings. He graduated from the SAE Institute of Digital Film in Dubai and advertising from EMU in North Cyprus and he is a member of the Cinema Producers Guild of Iran since 2018.
He has worked with several renowned Iranian directors in Iran as well as abroad in his home country before moving on to direct his own films. Since then he started to direct his own films. Pouria Heidary Oureh's debut feature film "Apricot Groves" became the most internationally appeared film in the history of Armenia cinema with more than 95 international festival selections and also been the most successful co-production of Iranian cinema. He is the owner of Three Gardens Film which has been produced several successful film projects and has been selected in A graded film festivals around the world such as Cannes, Venice, Berlinale, Toronto, Locarno, Cairo, Montreal, Sundance, AFI and... Three Gardens Film's short films "Gaze" "Exam" "The Role" have been qualified for Oscars. Three Gardens Film is also one of the best cinema technical support companies in the middle east. He co-produced films with Iran, Armenia, France, Czech Republic, Italy Serbia, Croatia, Poland, Chile, Finland & Qatar.
CREDITS
Pouria Heidary Oureh - Director
Pouria Heidary Oureh - Writer
Shahab Hosseini - Producer
Project Type: Documentary, Feature
Runtime: 1 hour 15 minutes
Completion Date: October 14, 2020
Country of Origin: Iran, Islamic Republic of
Country of Filming: Canada, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Language: Persian
Shooting Format: 4k
Film Color: Color
First-time Filmmaker: No
Student Project: No
