Congrats to the Winners at 7th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival!

The HollyShorts Best Overall Short Film prize, which wins a $10,000 in postproduction and finishing services package from Company 3, went to “Mrs. Peppercorn’s Magical Reading Room” by Mike Le Han.

The HollyShorts Best Director Award, which wins a $10,000 postproduction and finishing services package from Company 3, went to Christian Swegal, Director of “Stasis.”

Click here for Our Red Carpet Interviews at the 7th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival 

Here’s the list of winners from this year’s festival:

• Best Short Film Shot in Los Angeles-“John Doe”-Melissa Ciampa

• Best Student Short Film-“Goldenbox” by Matt MacDonald
• Showbiz Store and Café Future Filmmaker Award-Jacob Chase, “Patient Zero”
• Best Webisode- “CLUBSCENE: The Bartender” by Adriano Valentini
Best International- “ColourBleed” by Peter Szewczyk
• Best Family-“Me and The Chef”
• Best Horror- “Nowhere Road” by Benjamin Dynice
• Best Narrative- “Augenblicke” by Martin Bargiel
• Best Documentary-“The Vacuum Kid” by Katherine Mahalic
Best Cinematography-“Dissection of a Storm” by Julio Soto
• Best Drama-“Sold” by John Irwin
• Best Comedy-“Bear Force One” by Andy Mogren
• Best Editing and VFX-“Stasis” by Christian Swegal
• Best Actor-David Dastmalchian-“Double Black”
• Best Actress- Grace Huang “Blood Traffic”

• Best Animation-“Photographs” by Brendan Clogher

• Best Music/Sound-“Sugartown” by JT Mollner

• Honorable Mention-“5 Second Short Films”
• Honorable Mention-“Pillow Talk”
• Best Commercial-“Levi’s Post-Mortem” By Ezra Stanley
• Best Music Video-WhoMadeWho “Every Minute Alone” by William Stahl
• Best Director-Christian Swegal, Director of “Stasis”
• Best Short Film- “Mrs. Peppercorn’s Magical Reading Room” by Mike Le Han

Here are photos from the Red Carpet Opening Event

Red Carpet at 7th HollyShorts 2011 Film Festival, a set on Flickr.

Cupid and Eros, An Updated Treatment to our Favorite Mythological Gods of Love

Remember that phrase “Must See TV?” well, times have changed and you can watch video content on your TV – via the Interwebs. Well, at Mingle Media TV Network, we’re excited to say, we have “Must See WEB TV” shows from mysteries to love stories to celebrity interviews to live talk shows.

The show we’re highlighting today is Cupid and Eros, as in “The Further Adventures of,” yes, we’re talking about those mythological gods of love. The creator of this original web series, Avi Glijansky, did an awesome job in giving us more insight into the lead characters Cupid and Eros. On the web show page you get to see Cupid’s video blog updates and the Webcasts done by Eros which are just delish! There’s even a parody clip of American Idol – but with Pan, Isis and Loki as the judges, which is also integrated into the series which is now up to episode 5 (released today).

Cupid and Eros in Action

I don’t want to give anything else away – the Cupid and Eros episodes are about 4 minutes long so you could easily catch up on the series in no time! And get hooked on original programming like this on Mingle Media TV. You’ll be telling all your friends and starting a new trend… and supporting independent creators!!