Award Winners

Beginning in darkness and with what looks to be a dead badger, you know “Nighthawk” is going to be dark in every way when the first spoken line is, “Get the shovel.”

Karlis Vitols’ “Minotaur” is a brightly hued piece in which a small Minotaur tries to find playmates in the infinite labyrinth while his father Minotaur is at work.

Winner of film festivals across Europe, “Nocturne (Nachtstück)” is a short film about the concealed nocturnal engagements of the darker creatures of the forest.

In this reimagining of a Melville classic, “Bartleby” features an unassuming Wall Street lawyer who finds himself beset by a new employee. Bartleby refuses to work–in an ongoing act of passive refusal, he simply ‘prefers not to.’