1984, Humboldt int’l film festival
Crew Members
Coordinators: Michael Brown, Suzanne Newman-Dockter
Technical Direction: Holly Thomas
Technical Crew: Hillary Whitaker Mark Hopkins
Graphic Design: Suzanne Newman-Dockter, Doug Laursen
Advertising and Publicity: Doris McCarthy, Michael Ross, Karla Knorr, Logan Herbert, Braden Aro
House Management: Joel Shaw
Festival Host: John Burns, Joel Shaw
Faculty Advisor: John Heckel
Judges
Edmund Penney
Writer-director Edmund Penney has garnered over fifty international film awards and honors. His filmmaking range is diverse, going from ten-second commercials to feature-length theatrical and documentary films including his work on Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (as one of five writers) and his own documentary production Walls of Fire (featuring Mexico’s revolutionary artists Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueriros) which won a Golden Globe, Hollywood Press Award, and an Oscar nomination as well.
Mercedes Alberti
As co-producer, script supervisor, and casting director, Miss Alberti works behind the scenes with husband Edmund Penny on his productions as well as productions for Epcot/Disney. The former Miss South America also teaches drama at the Cub Theatre in Hollywood, presenting original plays.
Don Lloyd
This makes Don’s fourth visit to Humboldt County. His past workshops on sound, composing, and in filmmaking have been of immense value to many Humboldt State University film students. Having been Chair of the Film Program at the San Francisco Art Institute and on the Board of Directors of Canyon Cinema Co-Op, plus his own numerous prize-winning films, make Don an extremely qualified judge of American independent films.
Guest Artist
Jeremy Paul Kagen
Beginning as one of the first interns at the American Film Institute, Mr. Kagen’s career as a director includes such feature films as The Chosen, starring Rod Steiger and Robby Benson (which won the 1981 Montreal Grand Prize), The Sting II, The Big Fix, and Heros, starring Henry Winkler and Sally Field. Other credits include Movie of the Week, My Dad Lives In A Downtown Hotel, which won an Emmy nomination and No More Mondays, an animated experimental film.
FESTIVAL FINALIST
Liveline – Ellen Woodbury
Dreaming – Jeffery H. Stroud
Machine Story – Doug Miller
In the Nuclear Shadow: What the Children Tell Us? – Vivienne Verdon-Roe, Eric Thierman & Ian Thierman
The Rolling Stones – Karl Kogstad
The Humane Society – Gabrielle Liuzzi
Along the Way – Michael Wallin
Sewing Woman – Arthur Dong
Hand and Face – Sal Giammono
Sold America – Richard S. Boehm
Waiting for the Big One – Joshua Stein
X-ray – John Foster
Redux – Rupert A. Nadeau
Yours for the Taking – Karen Aqua & Jeanee Redmond
Place for Emergence – Paul Brekke
Herman and Luigi – Erich Seilbert
Quest – Saul and Elaine Bass
My Second Wife – Douglas Sandberg
What About the Russians? – Vivienne Verdon-Roe, Eric Thiermann and Ian Thiermann
Olympics/Los Angeles 1984 – Geoffrey Schroder
A Second Chance – Daniel Sarokin
The Big Red Auk – James Irwin
In the House of Nathaniel Beck – Thierry Varrier
Wing Haven: A Gift to the City – George H. Van Allen
Happy Hour – Brett Koth
IRT #2 – Allison Reuling
View from the Underground – Richard Sabatte
The Place Beneath – Guy Guillet
Cocaine Blues: The Myth and Reality – Malcolm Barbour and John Langeley
A Curtain of White – Christine Loizeau
The Pact – Randi D. Colgert
Somethings Happened Here – Jason Matlin
The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough – Peter Rose
Coup D’Oeil – David Lewison
Godzilla Meets Mona Lisa – Ralph Arlyck
Cabium – Michael Emery
My Place – Tony Shiff
Starlore – Faith Hubley
Epilogue – Victor David Fridman
Industrial Park – Chel White
Witness – Deirdre Fishel
Half Moon Bay – Jason Matlin
A Rose for Emily – Lyndon Chubbuck
Follies: An Introduction to Don Quixote – Michael Long
Jude – Drew Klausner
Gotcha Covered – Russell Mills
Cotton Candy and Elephant Stuff – Jan Krawitz and Thomas Ott
Bronze – Rayond DiCarlo
Speaking of Harvey – Erik Friedel
Java Junkie – Tom Schiller
Ichthyophagous – Fran Shamburg, Mike Barth, Holly Thomas, & Jack Lucido
Want – Brian Davis
A Year in the Making Gary Hutzel/Tom Matthens