Babelgum - The Winners

Babelgum Cannes Event

2008-05-24T22:00:33Z

Spike Lee announced the winners in each category and presented them with their well-deserved prizes of 20,000 euros. Watch the video of the awards ceremony presented by Chris & Chris.

The Pocket Crossborder

2008-03-03T06:14:14Z

Winner of the Spot/Advertising Award. An ad for the quick and easy and probably quite fun way of crossing a border – be a human cannonball. With the Pocket Crossborder, you can now live the American Dream.

Winner Profile: Ambroise Becchio

2008-05-23T13:02:01Z

The director of The Pocket Crossborder, Ambroise Becchio from France, gave us his reaction upon winning the Spot/Advertising Award in Cannes.

MOUTHFACE

2008-03-03T06:12:01Z

Winner of the Music Video Award. And what if you had three mouths instead of one? MOUTHFACE is a music video for Michael Fakesch (Funkstorung). Music = weird funky electronica. Video = web-cam style freaky self-portrait.

Winner Profile: Antonin de Bemels

2008-05-23T13:02:00Z

Antonin De Bemels from Belgium, the Music Video Award winner for “Mouthface”, chatted to us in Cannes about his work

GREATER -- defeating AIDS

2008-03-03T16:43:32Z

Winner of the Documentary Award. The defeat of AIDS in the Naguru and Kireka slums of Kampala (Uganda). This is billed as a non-documentary and watching the way it pulls together various stories about a group of Ugandan women who are HIV positive, we soon realise that we’re seeing life there in a way we might not in the mainstream.

Winner Profile: Emanuel Exitu

2008-05-23T13:02:01Z

Italy’s Emanuel Exitu, director of “GREATER – Defeating Aids” talked to us after picking up the Documentary Award from Spike Lee.

Quidam Dégomme (A sheep on a roof)

2008-03-03T06:17:40Z

Winner of the Animation Award. A man is confronted with the change of his day-to-day existence following the landing of a sheep on the roof of the house opposite. A surreal sequence of events unfolds, set to a foot-tapping soundtrack. The grey Paris metro takes on a whole new lease of life… but how does our main character react?

Winner Profile: Rémy Schaepman

2008-05-23T13:01:55Z

Rémy Schaepman (France) won the Animation Award for “Quidam Dégomme (A Sheep on a Roof)”. He talked to us about the art of animation.

Without Words

2008-03-03T06:15:17Z

Winner of the Social/Environment Award. We live in a world where technology has given us the tools to communicate but not the ability. Without Words is a very personal film about two close friends who have to pay a very high price for our failure as a society to connect.

Winner Profile: Brian Deane

2008-05-23T13:02:03Z

Brian Deane from Ireland won the Social/Environment Award for his film “Without Words”. He told us how it felt to be a winner!

Officer Down

2008-01-30T16:06:15Z

Winner of the Short Film Award. Once a practicing catholic, Vincent has become a vigilante cop in the NYPD who robs and kills drug dealers. When his son is almost killed in a hit and run, Vincent sets out to find the one responsible. As clues bring him closer to his mark, Vincent's tortured past comes back to haunt him and what should be nothing more than a routine dose of street justice, might not be quite that simple.

Winner Profile: Richard Recco

2008-05-23T13:02:00Z

Richard Recco (US) told us what it felt like picking up the Short Film Award for “Officer Down” and why he’s a fan of Babelgum.

SOTTO IL MIO GIARDINO (a.k.a. UNDER MY GARDEN)

2008-03-03T06:15:19Z

Winner of the Looking for Genius Award. Marco, a 10-year old boy who has a passion for insects, is convinced that his neighbour has killed his wife and has buried her under his garden, the evidence being a large ant-nest he has been carefully examining for a while. He decides to carry out some investigations but only reveals his thoughts to his little friend, Sara.

Winner Profile: Andrea Lodovichetti

2008-05-23T13:02:01Z

We talked to Andrea Lodovichetti (Italy) about what the Babelgum Online Film Festival meant to him – his short film “Sotto il mio giardino (Under my garden)” won the Looking for Genius Award.