ACTION/CUT AWARDS
PRIZES & JURIES


"Action/Cut: Top 10 Shorts Festivals in the World!" 
MovieMaker Magazine

JURIES:
As the Action/Cut Short Film Competition is industry driven and staffed, the Jury Selection Committees are composed of working professionals within the motion picture world including directors, producers, writers, agents, and film executives.

The five Judging Parameters this Competition will focus on:
- 1. Subject Originality: how original was your story idea? What the filmmaker brings to the story makes it original or not.

- 2. Content Realization: how well did you realize the telling of your story? Some folks start out with a cool idea but fail in telling it properly.

- 3. Visual Storytelling: how visual was your storytelling, how much of the “language of filmmaking” did you use: imaginative angles, focus-pulls, tracks, different focal lengths, zooms, handhelds, inventive cutting techniques etc…to tell your story visually and with style. 

- 4. Production Values: how good were your values from levels of acting ability, to crisp sound, to good lightning, 
to appropriate music, to efficient editing, to your imaginative titles? Never settle with any low quality of your production values.

- 5. Viewing Engagement of Work: regardless of all the above, how mesmerizing was your film to just watch, 
how engaging is it to an audience? Is it boring or a must-see? Just on an entertaining or interest value, is this a film 
an audience will enjoy? Does it engage?

The film industry association at Action/Cut is what separates this competition from all others, and why 
we pride ourselves by offering invaluable services of prizes providing Hollywood access with professional 
contacts and feedback, and to open career advisory and networking doors to the winners. 

AWARDS: 
The Action/Cut "GRAND PRIZE" Award (1) and the "BEST OF EACH CATEGORY" Awards (5).

The Juries may add additional SPECIAL AWARDS OF MERIT
in categories as they did for the previous Competitions including:
"Best Foreign Awards", "Special Jury Awards",
and "Most Promising Young Filmmakers 18 or under - Youth Awards."

ONE-OF-A-KIND PRIZE PACKAGES LISTED BELOW:  
OVER 100 PRIZES VALUED AT OVER $25,000 INCLUDING HOLLYWOOD CAREER ACCESS MEETINGS, 
CASH, AND MULTIPLE INDUSTRY SPONSORED PRIZES 
ACTION/CUT: MORE PRIZES THAN ANY OTHER SHORTS FESTIVAL OR COMPETITION IN THE WORLD!

PRIZES
ACTION/CUT GRAND PRIZE AWARD - ONE WINNER
AWARDED TO THE GRAND PRIZE AWARD WINNER

• Career Advisory Meeting with Director/Writer/Producer & Action/Cut Founder Guy Magar
• Meeting with Academy Award Nominee and British Academy Award Winner Production Designer Joe Alves (JAWS)
• Meeting with 4-time Emmy Award winner Director of Photography Geoff Schaaf
• Meeting with Production Supervisor (TITANIC) & USC instructor "Breaking into the Biz" & author "Hollywood Drive" Eve Honthaner
• Meeting with Hollywood Literary Agent Barry Perelman 
• Meeting with foreign sales agent/distributor and feature film producers at The Little Film Company
• Meeting with foreign sales distributor and feature film producers at Showcase Entertainment
• Meeting with top Animation Director and Visual Designer Pepe Valencia from Sony ImageWorks (Animation)
• Consultation meeting with Passion River (Allen Chou), Producer's Rep & Distribution Specialists in New Jersey

ACTION/CUT BEST OF EACH CATEGORY AWARD WINNERS
MULTIPLE PRIZES TO EACH BEST OF CATEGORY AWARD WINNERS

Career Access Meetings Prizes with Industry Players for Winning Directors and Industry Prizes from Sponsoring Companies

Keys to Prizes by Category:  (F) Fiction - (D) Documentary - (A) Animation - (S) Student Films - (M) Music Videos

• Career Advisory Meeting with Director/Writer/Producer & Action/Cut Founder Guy Magar (F-D-A-S-M)
• Meeting with foreign sales distributor and feature film producers at Showcase Entertainment (F-S)
• Meeting with foreign sales agent/distributor and feature film producers at The Little Film Company (F-S)
• Meeting with Hollywood Literary Agent Barry Perelman (F)
• Meeting with Academy Award Nominee and British Academy Award Winner Production Designer Joe Alves (JAWS) (F-A-S)
• Meeting with 4-time Emmy Award winner Director of Photography Geoff Schaaf (F-D-M)
• Meet: Production Supervisor (TITANIC) - USC instructor "Breaking into the Biz" - author "Hollywood Drive" Eve Honthaner (F-S)
• Meeting with top Animation Director and Visual Designer Pepe Valencia from Sony ImageWorks (A)
• Consultation meeting with Passion River, Producer's Rep & Distribution Specialists (F-D)
  
  Industry Prizes from Sponsoring Companies
  
• Free Movie Magic Budgeting or Scheduling Software from industry leader Entertainment Partners (F-S-M)
• Personal signed copy of Guy Magar's new Hollywood film memoir "Kiss Me Quick Before I Shoot" (F-D-A-S-M)
• Free Action/Cut Filmmaking Seminar 12-hour home film course & production reference library Deluxe DVD Collection (F-D-A-S-M)
• Signed copy of Eve Honthaner's invaluable A-Z filmmaking guide: "The Complete Film Production Handbook - Fourth Edition" (S) 
• Free admission to any 2-day Action/Cut Filmmaking Seminar nationwide of your choice (F-D-A-S-M)
• Free 1-year writers database membership to Script Pipeline, a screenplay analysis and resource hub for industry pros. (F-S)
• Gift Certificate of $25 for your choice of Focal Press Production Books (F-D-S)
• Free 1-year subscription to MovieMaker Magazine (F-D-A-S-M)
• Press Release DVD of winning films with publicity announcement to Hollywood Production Companies and Agents (F-D-A-S-M)

• Internet streaming of Best Category winning films with their award presentations to promote their work of excellence and their 
  respective filmmakers to a world audience (F-D-A-S-M)
  

ACTION/CUT BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM AWARD WINNER
“ROSEVELT'S AMERICA” Directed by Roger Weisberg & Tod Lending Palisades, NY	"We were grateful beyond measure to receive the Action/Cut Award for Best Documentary.   This accolade will help us generate interest in this moving story of a Liberian refugee's efforts to be reunited with his family.   It also provides a degree of affirmation that makes us want to continue making independent documentary films."