Comedy/Parody: "The Maid You Want", Hand Maid May to Devo's "The Girl You Want", Rogue & Flexei Films
Action: "Breaking Me Down", Spriggan to Soil's "Breaking Me Down", Shaggy Productions
Drama: "Forsaken Son", EVA to System of a Down's "Chop Suey!", 9:18 Productions
Romance: "My Funny Valentine", Cowboy Bebop to Frank Sinatra's "My Funny Valentine", MindWarp Entertainment
Best of Show, Best Editing, Best Original Concept- "Alternate Reality", Boogiepop Phantom to Various audio, MindWarp Entertainment
Honorable Mention: "Elegy for the Ghosts", GitS to Moby's "Matrix Theme Song", Stefan Meyer (entry from Germany)
The contest actually went very well, IMO. The only real gripes I have about it were that the picture and sound quality wasn't nearly up to par with what I would have liked to have seen (the contest was run off a compiled VHS tape, and technical problems had required them to do like 3 or 4 D/A and A/D conversions, so all the entries no matter what the original source looked like ended up looking like 2nd gen or so VHS copies. It wasn't terrible, but when you've submitted a full DVD Quality file to the contest, it's a bit of a disappointment when it comes out looking like it did. They are aware of the problem, and have promised to have it a much higher quality next year (and probably not accept VHS submissions, as they were apparenlty what caused at least some of the problems).
The other nitpick was that the ballots were not handed out to people in the actual contest- they were just sitting out afterwards and you had to go out of your way to pick one up and vote. In addition to probably lowering the total number of people who actually voted on the results (all the awards were decided by audience vote), it would have been relatively easy for someone to have picked up more than one ballot and voted multiple times.
One very good thing I have to compliment them on were the little 'bumpers' they made for each category. A short clip from something appropriate to the category was shown to separate the categories. By far the funniest thing in the contest (unfortunately, given I had a video in Comedy
) was the 'Romance' category bumper. They had a clip from He-Man with Prince Adam and another male character riding on a horse (together) when they faded in the 'Romance' title. I think they left extra space before the first actual video for people to finish laughing- it was really funny.
Damn you Carlos!
