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GRANT RECIPIENTS: EVA SAKS |
Eva
Saks directed, co-shot and co-edited FAMILY
VALUES, which won a Student Academy Award;
screenings/awards include Sundance, Tribeca
(Special Jury Mention), Clermont (Honorable
Mention), St. Louis (Best Short Doc),
Magnolia (Best Short Doc), Planet Out (Grand
Prize), Copenhagen GL (Short Film Jury
Prize), Cinequest, Nashville, Rhode Island,
WYBE-TV Finishing Funds Award, New York
State Council on the Arts grant. Released
May 2003 on New Video's “BEST OF THE FULL
FRAME DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL” DVD.
Broadcasts include WYBE-TV (Philly), KTEH
(Ca.), Image Union (Chicago).
A native New Yorker, Eva is currently
finishing her New York trilogy, consisting
of three 35mm narrative shorts: CONFECTION,
COLORFORMS, and DATE (in progress).
CONFECTION and COLORFORMS received the
Warner Bros. Pictures Production Fund Award
and they are finished. CONFECTION festivals
include Tribeca, Clermont-Ferrand, LA Shorts
Fest, Dublin (Best Performance by a Young
Actress to Blaire Restaneo), Nashville,
Seattle International, Rhode Island, Long
Island (Opening Night), Director’s View
(Opening Night), Sarasota Comedy, Palm
Beach, Stony Brook, Toronto Sprockets,
Carrousel de Rimouski (Montreal); also
screening in France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark,
Mexico, Uruguay and Africa. COLORFORMS
festivals include LA Shorts Fest, Rhode
Island (Opening Night), Long Island (Opening
Night), Montreal World (representing the
US), Lunafest, Sarasota Comedy, Seattle
Childish Film Fest, etc.
Eva’s first film CUSTODY won Best Short
Film-Video at the L. I. Film Expo and an
award in the SMPTE Student Film Festival Her
NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK won Best Short Romantic
Comedy at the L.I. Film Fest and a SMPTE
Honorable Mention. Eva is a graduate of Yale
(Theater Directing), Yale Law School, and an
MFA thesis candidate at NYU. Eva’s TWIN SET
won awards in the SMPTE Student Film
Festival, the UNC Film Festival and NYU’s
First Run Festival. Screenings include LA
Shorts Fest, IFP’s “Buzz Cuts," Seattle,
Rhode Island, etc. It has been telecast on
Video 1 on KTEH (Ca.) and Image Union in
Chicago. Eva just finished a
mini-documentary on film called A PIZZA MAN
and is writing a feature script. Further
information can be found at
www.EvaSaksMovies.com.
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