Palm de Grease (Best Picture) Easy Pickins   


Audience Award Easy Pickins


Best Actor Reuben Finkelstein for The Pitch


Best Actress Jean Effron for Easy Pickins


Best Cinematography Russell Griffith for Easy Pickins


Best Editing Ryan Denmark for The Pitch


Best Visual Effects Hari Ziznewski and the crew of So Five Minutes Ago


Best Art Direction Tomas Watson and Vidar Sanchez for Easy Pickins


Best Soundtrack/score  Mark Oates for Maconie's List


The Bohica  Cyndy Simons for So Five Minutes Ago


Volunteers of the Year Brad Stoddard, JD Bridges, Bryan Purvis, Lisa Anderson and Eric Whitmore of the Duke City post-production team.



Congratulations to all the filmmakers for making this a great year at the Shootout and thanks to all the sponsors, partners, mentors, volunteers, staff and supporters who participated and got the movies done! 




The complete list of filmmakers for the 2007 Duke City Shootout



In no particular order:

Maconie's List

      Writer/Director: Lisa Marks, Marina del Rey, CA

      Producer: Leslie Wolfman

The Spider Experiment

   Writers: Scott and Paula Merrow, Albuquerque, NM

   Producer: Kendall Anlian

So Five Minutes Ago

   Writer/Director: Dina Chapman, West Hollywood, CA

   Producer: Cyndy Simmons

Young Gun

   Writer/Director: Jason Kendell, Spring Hill, FL

   Producer: Darlene Hansen

The Pitch

   Writer/Director: Richard Dargan, Albuquerque, NM

   Producer: Jean Davis

The Dream Girl

   Writer/Director: Joachim Jung, Los Angeles, CA

   Producer: Eileen Street

Easy Pickins

      Writer/Director: Will Hartman, Los Angeles, CA   (The Slamdance screenwriting contest winner)

      Producer: Gavin Gillette

Alternates included:

      Suburban Compulsion -- Marco Santiago, Phoenix, AZ