City Paper & Pittsburgh Filmmakers Announces Winners from 6th annual Film Kitchen Contest

Film Kitchen, the monthly showcase of regional independent film and video art, announces the winners from its annual contest: photo-romans held on Tuesday, June 10 at the Melwood Screening Room. While previous contests have included appliance films, coffee films, and music videos, this year organizers put a call out for local visual and sound artists to submit original three-minute-long photo roman videos. A photo-roman (pronounced: ro-MAHN) uses a series of still images accompanied by a technically sophisticated soundtrack.

The winners were chosen by a panel of judges and won cash prizes.

• First Place winner: "Oil Junkies" by Joe Hrena & Mook
• Second Place Winner: "Self-Portrait" by David Bernabo
• Third Place Winner: "Honey Honey" by Jessica Jade Jacob
• Audience Favorite: "Honey Honey" by Jessica Jade Jacob

Judges were Liz Richards, Teaching Artist at the Department of Cinema and Digital Arts, Point Park University, Kaoru Tohara, award-winning fine art photographer and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Sue Abramson, the Associate Professor of Photography at Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

Film Kitchen is co-sponsored by Pittsburgh Filmmakers, City Paper, WYEP-FM, Tandoor Indian Grill and DH Creative.