Festivals / ***Awards ACADEMY AWARDS, Los Angeles, March 2000 One of 30 films to qualify for 2000 OSCAR nomination for Best Documentary Short SUNDANCE Film Festival: Official Selection. Park City, Utah January 1999. WORLD PREMIERE / In Competition SXSW (South by Southwest Film Conference): In Competition. Austin, Texas, March 1999 *** (AWARD: Best Documentary Short) OBERHAUSEN International Short Film Festival: In competition. Germany, April 1999 *** (AWARD: Audience Award) FLORIDA Film Festival: In Competition. USA, June 1999 *** (AWARD: Best Documentary Short) ONE REEL FILM FESTIVAL / BUMBERSHOOT, Seattle, September 1999 *** (AWARD: Best Film Award, $1000.00) HAMPTONS International Film Festival, New York, October 1999 *** (AWARD: Graduate Student Award $2500.00) INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION, Los Angeles, October 1999 *** (Nominee for 1999 David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award) LOS ANGELES Independent Film Festival Official Selection, USA, April 1999 MARYLAND Film Festival Official Selection, Baltimore, USA, April 1999 NEW FILMMAKERS SERIES at Anthology Film Archives New York, USA, April 1999 DOCKERS / IFP CLASSICALLY INDEPENDENT Film Festival New York, USA, May 1999 ATLANTA Film Festival In Competition, USA, June 1999 OCULARIS / IFP Film Series at PS1, New York, July 1999 EDINBURGH International Film Festival Scotland, UK, August 1999 BBC BRITISH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL London, England, Sept. 1999 DRAMA International Short Film Festival Greece, Sept. 1999 COLOGNE Short Cuts Film Festival Germany, Sept. 1999 CINEMATEXAS Film Festival Austin, Sept. 1999 "DOCTOBER" IDA Documentary Film Festival LA, October 1999 SILVERSAND Film Festival Hermosa Beach, California, October 1999 KUDZU Film Festival Athens, Georgia, October 1999 ST. LOUIS International Film Festival November, 1999 BILBAO Documentary and Short Film Festival Spain, November 1999 IFDA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands. December 1999