( 2011 | 35mm | color | Dolby SR*D EX | 15 min | short fiction ) / www.teardrop-film.info / facebook
SYNOPSIS:
One afternoon Dan is brutally jumped and accosted by a gang in his neighborhood. The leader of Dans crew demands that he murder his punisher and earn his official “membership” into the crew: a teardrop tattoo under his eye.
CAST
Neal Kodinsky | Damion Omar Lee | Connor J Smith | Julio Cesar Pérez | Neev Bar-David
Ron Braunstein | Glenn Fleary | Justin Harris | De-Anne Dawkins | Vito Baltrusaitis
CORE CREATIVES
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER Damian John Harper
CINEMATOGRAPHER Friede Clausz
SOUND DESIGNER Gregor Bonse
COMPOSER Tina Rupp
EDITOR Lena Hatebur
RECENT PRIZES
1. AUDIENCE AWARD – BEST SHORT FILM
14th Brooklyn Film Festival
2. JOHN MUIR AWARD
Yosemite International Film Awards
3. HONORABLE MENTION
Festival Int. de Cine, Puebla Mexico
4. SHORT FILM GOLD AWARD
Oregon Film Awards
5. PREMIO CECILIO PANIAGUA A LA MEJOR FOTOGRAFIÍA
10th Int. Short Film Festival “Almería en Corto”
6. BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
41. International Student Film Festival “Sehsüchte”
7. GOLD – BEST OF FEST
Wendland Shorts
8. AUDIENCE AWARD – BEST FILM
Und Bitte! Film Prize, Hannover
9. BEST FICTION
Film Leben Film Festival, Germany
10. BEST STUDENT FILM
UK Film Festival, London
11. HONORABLE MENTION
Interfilm, Berlin
12. BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
International Festival of Film Schools, Munich
FESTIVAL PARTICIPATION
1. 14th Brooklyn Film Festival
2. 35th Montreal One World Festival
3. Harlem International Film Festival
4. 10th Open St. Petersburg “BEGINNING”
5. Yosemeti Film Awards
6. 21st Message 2 Man St. Petersburg
7. 4th Annual American Artist Film Festival
8. Festival International de Cine, Puebla
9. 19th Raindance Independent Film Festival, London
10. 16th Festival de Cine International, Ourense
12. 45th Int. Hofer Filmtage, Germany
13. 24th Int. Exground Film Festival, Germany
14. Filmets Badalona, Spain
15. Oregon Film Awards 2011
16. 22nd Stockholm Int. Film Festival, Sweden
17. Around The World in 14 Films, Berlin Germany
18. 19th Plus Camerimage, Bydgoszcz Poland
19. 34th Rencontres Henri Langlois, Poitiers France
20. 10th Int. Short Film Festival “Almería en Corto”
21. Tirana Int. Film Festival, Tirana Albania
22. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken Germany
23. 22nd Annual Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose
24. Festival International du Film d’Aubagne, France
25. Landshuter Int. Short Film Festival, Germany
26. 6th NexT International Short and Medium Length Film Festival, Bucharest
27. European Film Festival of Lille, France
28. Tiburon International Film Festival, USA
29. 41st International Student Film Festival “Sehsüchte”, Babelsberg-Potsdam, Germany
30. 29th Busan International Short Film Festival
31. 21. International Film Festival Emden Norderny
32. Los Angeles Cine Gear Expo
33. Wendland Shorts, Germany
34. The Five Lakes Film Festival, Germany,
35. The Golden Lion Film Festival, Swaziland
36. Film Leben Film Festival, Germany
37. DC Short Film Festival, USA
38. Marabella International Film Festival, UK
39. Shnit Int. Short Film Festival, Germany
40. Und Bitte! Filmpreis, Hannover Germany
41. Red Rock Film Festival, USA
42. 12. Int. Student Film Festival Písek, Czech Republic
43. 28th Int. International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany
44. 32nd Munich Int. Festival of Film Schools, Germany
45. UK Film Festival, Great Britian
46. Bamberg Int. Short Film Festival, Germany
47. Wuerzberg Int. Short Film Festival, Germany