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2017 FILM COMPETITION WINNERS

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Film Category
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The Genii's Film Competition Awards recognize film projects in five categories - Narrative Short - Drama, Narrative Short - Comedy, Documentary Short, Short Script - Drama, and Short Script - Comedy. Proceeds from the Genii Awards benefit AWM SoCal’s scholarship program and educational programs.
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Rules & Term

  • All entries must be either written, produced or directed by a woman, or have a strong female protagonist(s). Films that shine a light on women's issues are also welcome. 
  • All entries must be under 30 minutes long (30 pages or less for screenplay categories). 
  • ​All entries must be uploaded as digital submissions into FilmFreeway.

2017 Film Competition Award Honorees
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Alliance for Women in Media Southern California would like to extend our congratulations to the following 2017 Film Competition Awards Honorees:
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Best Narrative Short - Drama
First Chair
C DAVIE JANES, DIRECTOR 
First Chair - A teenage cellist, struggling against artistic roadblocks, ends up saving her high school music program in a big musical finale. 

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Best Narrative Short - Comedy & Best Short Script - Comedy
The Best and the Loneliest Days
QIANZHU LUO, WRITER/DIRECTOR 
The Best and the Loneliest Days - When Yang, a Chinese girl living in Los Angeles, has a dream in English, she needs to prove that she’s still a hundred percent Chinese. So she organizes a big Chinese New Year’s party, but things don’t end up the way she planned.

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Best Documentary - Short
My Name is Joan
MARGARET STAPOR COSTA, DIRECTOR 
"My Name is Joan" tells the story of Susan Drew, a woman who was born Joan Fagan to an unwed mother in the St. Patrick Mother and Baby Home in Dublin, Ireland in 1949. While the documentary chronicles Susan's journey to find her true identity, it also highlights the illegal exporting of children by the Catholic Church to families in other countries for profit while the Irish Government looked the other way. ​

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Best Short Script - Drama
Tectonics

GAYLA GOEHL, WRITER 
Tectonics - A rigid ex-convict and his estranged teenage daughter try and endure the aftershocks of their obliterated relationship and the magnitude of their emotional losses.

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