Amazon.com, American Express and the Tribeca Film Festival Announce Winner in Short-Film Competition; Amazon.com Customers Determined the Grand Prize Winner; Founding Partner American Express Provides $50,000 Grand Prize.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ), American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. and Tribeca Film Festival founders Robert De Niro Noun 1. Robert De Niro - United States film actor who frequently plays tough characters (born 1943) De Niro , Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff, today announced that Jon Lindgren is the grand-prize winning filmmaker of the Amazon Theater/Tribeca Film Festival Short-Film Competition for Rachel's Challenge. Lindgren will receive $50,000 to fund his next film project, to be awarded from American Express. Amazon.com and American Express are committed to enabling aspiring and working filmmakers to continue to develop and refine their craft and identify new opportunities and outlets to show their work. The five finalists and their families gathered at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. tonight for the film presentation and award ceremony. Film industry executives and celebrities including Tom Wolfe, Damon Dash Damon Dash, also known as "Dame Dash," (born May 3 1971 in Harlem, New York) is an African-American label executive; the former CEO and co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Kareem "Biggs" Burke. , Jeffrey Wright, Anthony Mackie, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, John Sykes For the politician, see . John Sykes (born July 29 1959 in Reading, Berkshire), is an English heavy metal/hard rock guitarist who has played with Streetfighter, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Badlands, Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Blue Murder, and his solo project John Sykes. , Susie Essman, Anna Deveare Smith, John Sloss, Jay Roach and Nick Callaway were among the guests celebrating the winning film. Jane Rosenthal, co-founder, Tribeca Productions and Film Festival along with Kathy Savitt, Amazon.com vice president of Strategic Communications, Content and Initiatives commended each filmmaker for their creativity, commitment to filmmaking film·mak·ing n. The making of movies. and for participating in the competition. John Hayes, chief marketing officer, American Express, presented the award. Lindgren created Rachel's Challenge, a seven minute short-film chronicling a behind-the-scenes battle of good vs. evil surrounding the Columbine High School Columbine High School is a secondary school in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado. The school is located at 6201 South Pierce Street, one mile west of the Littleton city limits and half a mile south of the Denver city/county line. shootings. Originally from Warren, Pennsylvania Warren is a city in Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 10,259 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Warren CountyGR6. , he is married with two children and currently living in Midland, Texas Midland is the county seat of Midland CountyGR6 located on the Southern Plains of the western area of the U.S. State of Texas. As of the 2006 U.S. Census estimate, the city had a total population of 102,073. . He is a small-business owner of an advertising agency and a video production company where he produces videos that serve as endowment campaigns for non-profit groups and moral educational products for schools. Lindgren found inspiration for his short film, Rachel's Challenge, in the opportunity to tell a real-life story demonstrating heroism, self-sacrifice, and endurance through hardship and unusual circumstances. More than 1,000 films and over 2 million minutes of film footage were initially submitted to The Tribeca Screening Room (www.amazon.com/screeningroom) for the Amazon Theater/Tribeca Film Festival Short-Film Competition, where millions of Amazon.com customers took part in a search for the next great short-film maker by viewing and rating randomly-selected films from April 18th through May 20th. At the end of May, the five finalist films with the highest ratings were featured on the Amazon.com welcome page over a period of four weeks. Again, Amazon.com customers rated the five finalists to determine the overall winner of the Amazon Theater/Tribeca Film Festival Short-Film Competition. Throughout the competition, celebrity jurors including Gwyneth Paltrow, Donald Sutherland, David Duchovny, Ice Cube, Marc Anthony For other people named "Marc Anthony" or "Mark Anthony", see . Marc Anthony (born September 16, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter popular in Latin America for his salsa music and salsa monga ballads. , Stanley Tucci, John Hamburg and Taylor Hackford, in addition to customers, were able to write and post their own reviews and commentary about the films, as well as read reviews from other customers and celebrities. Other finalist films included: Fragile, by David Cumbo: A brilliantly animated psychological journey of a young child coping with the death of his older sibling. Post Traumatic, by James Seale: An homage to the classic conspiracy thrillers of the 70's, a soldier returns home from the war in Iraq to find himself being followed by shadowy CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). types. Street Therapy, by Jason Rice: Gritty and personal, a homeless man offers his fellow NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City residents an outlet for their frustrations ... for a small fee of course. Misfortune Cookie, by Jack Paccione, Jr.: A suspenseful and thought-provoking tale of an arrogant man who receives an unwelcome message in his fortune cookie fortune cookie - (WAITS, via the Unix "fortune" program) A quotation, item of trivia, joke, or maxim selected at random from a collection (the "cookie file") and printed to the user's tty at login time or (less commonly) at logout time. There was a fortune program on TOPS-20. . Macromedia Flash is the exclusive video format for the Amazon Theater/Tribeca Film Festival Short-Film Competition. About Tribeca Film Festival The Tribeca Film Festival was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff to celebrate New York City as a major filmmaking capital. Tribeca Cinemas, located at 54 Varick Street, was acquired by the Festival founders in 2003 and serves as a year-round venue for the Festival and its related activities. The 2005 Festival, presented by American Express, took place from April 19th to May 1st in various locations throughout lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North . The 2005 Festival featured special events, outdoor concerts and screenings, a street fair, and panel discussions with noted filmmakers. About Amazon.com Amazon.com, Inc., (Nasdaq:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as beauty, health and personal care, jewelry and watches, gourmet food, sports and outdoors, apparel and accessories, books, music, DVDs, electronics and office, toys and baby, and home and garden. Amazon.com and its affiliates operate seven Web sites: www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.ca, and www.joyo.com. As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise. 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It also sponsored the Festival's Online Vote, where film fans are invited to choose their favorite film (the winning Film was shown at the Regal Cinemas 11, the Official Theater Exhibitor of the Tribeca Film Festival). American Express was also the Festival's Information Sponsor, helping to enhance the festival-goer experience by providing special opportunities and access to events. |
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