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I must say I love movies as much as I do video games. But just like my games, the movie has to reach out and scream “WATCH ME OR THE KITTEN GETS IT!” for me to drive across town to watch it.

During Comic Con 2008, many games and comics were featured. And who wouldn’t want to attend a special preview of today’s most talented directors and animators create independent film masterpieces. The Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival consisted of movies that fell into seven categories: action/adventure, animation, comics-oriented, documentary, humor/parody, horror and science fiction/fantasy. On July 27, 2008, the top films in each category were announced and awarded. This year’s Comic-Con International: Independent Film Festival are:

• Citizen for best Action/Adventure film. Citizen is a futuristic story of a young teenager escaping his country during winter. While on his journey he finds himself being chased by hunters through the wilderness and begins recalling all the events leading up to his wanting to escape.
• La Lune for best Anime film. La Lune is a film based on a couple who discover the moon for the first time and a young woman’s desire to obtain the moon that leads the couple into discovering a world they have never known as well as themselves.
• The Crusaders #357: Experiment in Evil! for best comic-oriented film. According to the video a would-be superhero Connie Ferranti, under the guise of Furie, joins a team superheroes to fight against a menacing billionaire trying to fulfill an ancient prophecy as well as the darkness within themselves. When I first watched this video I had to laugh because it appeared campy, but the story that underline the video kept me wanting to know what was going to happen in a flashy comic-style trailer. See for yourself.


• Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown was selected as best documentary that looked at the lives and work of Cthulhu mythos. The documentary featured interviews and comments by top horror writers and filmmakers that includes Guillermo Del Toro, Neil Gaiman, John Carpenter, Peter Straub, Stuart Gordon, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Robert M. Price, Andrew Migliore, and S. T. Joshi.


• The Insane was selected for best Horror/Suspense film that kind of takes on a Punisher meets Resident Evil twist telling the story of a cop out to seek vengeance for the murder of his wife and unborn child armed with only a crowbar and wits he takes to the city streets to fight hideous beings. Must warn you that even though I haven’t seen a rating for this film, it does contain some action violence.


• The Auburn Hills Breakdown won best Humor/Parody film. The film follows the story of a chainsaw wielding son of a cannibal struggling to keep his family together after being forced to hide out in the home of a lonely yuppie couple. Cannibals and Yuppies, that’s funny by itself if you ask me.
• Operation: Fish won best Science Fiction/Fantasy and was chosen as the Judges Choice Award. A stop-motion short film for children ages 8 to 11, the trailer alone is ultra cute as it follows a secret agent dispatched to rescue a child’s goldfish after it was abducted by a criminal mastermind. The film is only 11 minutes long, but it took director/animator Jeff Riley and a group of animation artists in Portland to create using a variety of mixed-media.

Site [Comic-Con International] CCI:Film Festival [Winning Films]

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