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| SAINT PETERSBURG, FL - 6/2/2003 - The third outing of Renegade Films' Saints & Sinners Film Festival at the State Theatre in St. Petersburg was home to record breaking crowds, multiple award winners, and celebrity guests. Tinker Wins Productions and Producers Andy Lalino and John Karliss were the big winners of the night when their film "Filthy" picked up 14 awards - a new festival record, including Best Sinner Film, Audience Choice Award, Best Director, and three acting awards. Other big winners of the night included "Super Jack" from Rice Power Productions and "Just Due" from JKR Productions with 8 wins each. Filmmaker Philip Cruz and his projects have now won a combined record 21 awards at the Florida based festival. "I'll Save You" was the big winner in the Saints category and picked up a total of three awards. The festival was the most competitive yet and judges were impressed with the increase of the quality of films. Judges included Peter D'Alessio (Yo Soy Irini Productions, Inc.), Jill Kantrowitz (Film/Television Executive), Mark Phillips (Producer/Director/Author) and Bob Ross (The Tampa Tribune).
For more on the Saints & Sinners III Film Festival including a complete list of winners, sponsors, and selections, click here. |
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| Saints & Sinners I - Our first festival. Rick sent this letter out to all involved in the event:
We here at Renegade Films want to give a special thanks to everyone who helped us put together this incredible Film Festival. It far exceeded our expectations and goes to show how strong the film community in central Florida really is. For those of you who couldn't make it out to the event, we had a line around the corner to get in when we opened the doors at 4pm. The first film went on to a packed house as every seat was taken on both floors and people stood in the aisles and sat on the stairs. The theater was filled to capacity the entire night with a great crowd who applauded and truly appreciated the films we brought them throughout the course of the show. We introduced each of the filmmakers and allowed them to introduce their works and they were warmly greeted by the crowd each time. Bob Ross of the Tampa Tribune, Steve Persall of the St. Pete Times and Peter D'Alessio of Yo Soy Irini were the judges. The overall winners they selected were: Saints ( Non Thriller / Horror ) Winner: Looking in the Fishbowl - Tribalfilm Entertainment Sinners ( Thriller / Horror ) Winner: Bleed - Icon Studios There were so many fine films shown as well as Trailers for upcoming Florida films. Our hats go off to each of the film companies who put so much hard work into these films and it was with great honor and appreciation that we brought them to the enthusiastic crowd last night. The crowd mingled and talked films all night and it was a great time. Thank you all. We hope that all of you that did attend enjoyed the show and we also hope this will be the first of many events such as this that we will bring to you again in the future. Thanks also go out to our sponsors and the media who covered the festival. They all were a big part of the event and helped us bring you the best Film festival experience we possibly could. Please be sure to look them up as they are all strong proponents of Independent films and wonderful people as well. Let's keep what we started here going and help build on this event to make the Florida Film scene the place to be. Thanks to all and we'll see you again real soon. More information on Saints & Sinners I will be published here soon, so stay tuned! |
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