HollyShorts Oscar-Winning Film Festival Closes With Awards Ceremony: Big Winners Among Ben Proudfoot, Victor Gabriel

Compton-based filmmaker Victor Gabriel is among a select group of filmmakers to win Oscar entry after winning the HollyShorts Film Festival.

Gabriel’s 13-minute film hallelujah It won the Grand Prix for Best Short Film at the festival’s awards ceremony on Saturday afternoon. HollyShorts Is An Oscar-worthy Festival, So Win It hallelujah immediately makes it eligible for Oscar consideration. Producer Duran Jones won the festival’s best producer award.

Two other winners have earned Oscars: Interview/SandstromDirector Seemab Gul won the Best Live Action Short Film award and scaleDirected by Joseph Pearce, it won the Best Animation award (scroll to see the full list of winners).

hallelujah A tragedy about losing someone to gun violence that had a ripple effect on various members of the family.

Gabriel told Deadline about the plot of his movie: “After an unexplained incident, two brothers have to get custody of their nieces and nephews.” “Your nephew is like a weird bookworm. He’s in Compton, California. Then they need to understand what it means to be a man and an adult and take responsibility for the things they don’t want to do.”

The director shot the movie close to home. Very close.

“I did this in my backyard, literally in my backyard,” Gabriel said. “Hello to Mrs. Lewis. My neighbor let us see her front yard. We were just great. I locked everyone in our garden and I made a movie and tried to tell a good story. I tried to tell a shocking story.”

Besides filmmaking, Gabriel holds a variety of roles and also works as a marriage and family therapist and at a treatment center for adolescents, Deadline said. “METRE [also] Facilitate a monthly Black Men’s Trauma Group at South Central.

According to him, the path to winning the Grand Prix at HollyShorts was not easy. Among other things, his car broke down last week.

“I travel for work, trying to lose a lot this year,” said Gabriel. “So it’s just a little celebration and people who respect my work, our work, that’s great. I’m grateful, man.”

Other major awards for HollyShorts include director (queen of basketballHis Oscar award in March was followed by a win for his latest short documentary. Mink! The film tells the story of Hawaiian Democrat Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color to be elected to the United States House of Representatives. While in Congress, Mink co-wrote the Title IX law outlawing gender-based discrimination in federally funded schools. Title IX became law in 1972.

Proudfoot named the HollyShorts award “very important because this is Title IX’s 50th anniversary and when did I do it. queen of basketballThat’s how I learned of Patsy Mink, the driving force behind the legislation that created the world. [The Queen of Basketball subject] Lucy Harris for playing basketball and many other sports. Our movie… follows the story of Patsy and where she came from, what she’s faced, the obstacles she’s overcome, and ultimately the law she wrote and defended, Title IX. This is very important and I think is another example of how Patsy’s legacy lives on. “

Proudfoot will shoot his movie overseas in the coming months and is expected to return to DC.

“We’re going to Japan for a screening at the US Embassy in October, it’s really exciting,” he said. We look forward to having more exhibits at The Hill in Washington and bringing people together to celebrate Patsy and what she stands for, as well as to celebrate the story of someone who showed us that change is possible.”

“We live in a time when you thought it was impossible, it’s like we’re going backwards. And Patsy’s life is a testament, and her story is a testament, and our movie tells the story of a particular moment in which she continues. And many of the rights we celebrate today are thanks to people like Patsy who are really pushing progress forward. And that’s the responsibility we have to continue the Patsy tradition.”

This is the full list of 18 winners^I Holly Short Film Festival:

Best Short Film Grand Prize: hallelujahVictor Gabriel

best live action: interview/sandstormsemab heart

best animation: scaleJoseph Pierce

best director: Charles the Second, star

best action: reactivate my heartKelsey Bollig

best thriller movie: wild beachRebecca Johnson and Kate Nash

best horror: MosharNuhas Humayun

best comedy: all i wantErin Lau

best drama: how i used to knowAnnie St. Peter

Best Documentary: Mink! I stand proud

The best of LGBTQIA+: North StarP.J. Palmer

best international: twisterAnna J Takayama

best science fiction: Los Angeles Waltzbraden burton

SAG Independent Winner: my jeromesalmon

Hawk Films Screenplay Award: Glass will find its limit! singer robin rose

Screenplay Compass Screenplay Award: in the tulip gardenAva Lalezarzade

Best Female Screenplay (Posted by BeCine): Last Ship Eastthe cyan of the nation

best tv: service problemErin Brown-Thomas

best television script: Forsyth Countyjames sasser

LatinX Award (submitted by Viacom International Studios): Goodgabriela ortega

Woman in Film Award: separately, together Olivia Han Zhou

The best midnight frenzy ever.: LocalTo be fried

best music video: consensualJeff Hilliard and Joey Danger

best web series: TaurusVince McMillan

best producer: hallelujahDuran Jones

best edit: Carmackay rowan

best visual effects: Black Dragon, Rồng đen

Best Costume Design: hotdogcarmen granelli

Social Impact Award: stranger at the doorJoshua Seftel

Best student movie.: visitabel tate

Kodak was filmed: North PoleMarija Apchevska

Kodak filmed on Super 8MM film: deer tree death trapJames P. Ganon

Kodak received an honorable mention for the film.: not the 80swallien marlin

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