MJF Year 1 Winning Films

First Mobile Jam Fest Grand Prize tuition winners and category winners announced
Mobile Jam Fest brought to you by Windows Live ended its inaugural year last evening with a bang. Visit http://mobilejamfest.spaces.live.com to find exclusive Lupe Fiasco concert/interview footage and photos of the night.

Over four weeks, thousands of people from around the world viewed and voted online and with their mobile phones for over 150 films from countries including Australia, Germany, Kenya, Brazil, Ireland, The United Kingdom, United States of America and Canada.

'Mobile Jam Fest's inaugural year has been an incredible success,' said Craig Goodwill, President of Culture Creatives and Company, MJF creator. 'What started as an idea to provide youth a platform for self-expression has turned into a global creative revolution.'

Grand Prize winners 14-17 and 18-24 share in $10,000 worth of tuition to any recognized University or College in the world. To view the films go to http://www.mobilejamfest.com. As the entries are online the locations and countries of the winners will be unknown until the winners contact MJF organizers.

The Grand Prize tuition winning films were both from Ontario, Canada:

• 14-17 age category – Unborn Child - Director: Elias Idrissa – Documentary - the film was created in memory of Jane Creba a young woman who was shot on Boxing Day 2005 in Toronto, Ontario.

• 18-24 age category - Bare it. - Director: Doug Campbell – Documentary - this honest and sincere documentary shows the pain that one suffers searching for their identity and how one can lose their way while seeking to find it.

Category winners (category winners receive Xbox 360 Entertainment Consoles – note only one Xbox will be awarded per filmmaker):

Drama

La Tentazione Dell' Uomo Malvagio In Nero - Dir: Brandon Szarabura

Documentary
Chinese Racism in Canada - Dir: Diana Birsan

Mobile Phone
There are times... - Dir: Tiffany Naval

Horror
Begets - Dir: Steve Chapple

Earth in Focus
Cynically Tested - Dir: Dan Speerin

Action
The 5th Rangers - Dir: Ian Purchase

Music Video (2 x 18-24 winners)
Room in Hell - Dir: Justin Turcotte
Freestylish (cellphone celebrity disaster mix) - Dir: John Watson
O Canada - Dir: Tom Bender - 14-17

Animation
CHARLIE ROUGHRIDER - Dir: Kathrin Julia Mueller

Comedy
Cynically Tested - Dir: Dan Speerin

Foreign Language
Cynically Tested - Dir: Dan Speerin

Experimental
Basement - Dir: Rae Kang

Stupid Stuff
A Battle For Honour And Humanity - Dir: Alexander Young - 14-17
Saving Private Ryan Spoof - Dir: Thomas Sutherland 18-24

MJF 2 will be expanding to include Fashion, Photography and Music. Information will be available on http://mobilejamfest.spaces.live.com in early 2007.

MJF would like to thank sponsors and partners including: Windows Live, Xbox, iCoke, MTV, Linking Media, National Film Board, Schools Without Borders, Jambo Mobile, Studentphones.com, REMG, Culture Creatives and Company, GoldFenix Communications, FUNDING Matters Inc, Henderson bas, ZIG, NOW magazines, Sound Dogs Toronto, Phat Gnat, Start your Station and Samsung.

Have wonderful holidays everyone and we will speak to you in the new year!