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AIM Awards Best Director Final Nominations

Amerigo
24-12-2003, 21:19
Here's the scoop, the nominations are in, for best director, in the Amerigan International Movie Awards (thread). However we need to cut down the nominations to 5... Vote for the movies you like best below... 4 movies with the least votes are cut from the nominations list. Since there are not enough poll options for all movies, please vote via post.

Here are the nominees so far, please vote for 5 of your favorites.
Detailed descriptions of the movies are at the end of this post.

Best Director:
===Massen Baler (Partisan)
===Jan Wilhelm - The Ninth Arm
===Carmela Dupont (Guy Domville)
===Takeshi Kaga (for Lyong-ti)
===Rolf Balcos (Dream Within)
===Gurzik Merilka, (Nuke the Cops!);
===Itasae Murritko, (Revenge of the Killer Sopranos);
===Serina Buskinat, (Cathletics)
===Jonias Jones (Truth.)


Arranged by order of release:
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Movie Title: The Dream Within

Movie Genre: Action/Drama/Horror/Sci Fi/Fantasy

Movie Plot Summary:
In humanity, there are a few random members of society who have access to a new "world" all together when they go to sleep at night. They inhabit this world, and when they fall asleep in it, they awaken in the real world. However, when an evil man (Sid Kusky) discovers a way to force himself into the Realm, he begins killing people there. These murders have a horrifying result - Anyone killed in the "dream world" dies in real life as well. After his girlfriend (Anette Boosalis) mysteriously dies, a young police officer (Star - Dagr Ateunde) pays a visit to his grandmother (Alia Oleveda) who used to talk of such a place when he was younger. She tells him what she knows, but mysteriously dies the same way the next morning. Enraged, he enlists the help of an ageless physic (Trinity Cambronne) who transports him to and from the dream realm while watching over his body. In the dream world, he meets up with a girl from a far away place (Macie Hammet) who is after the same things he is, answers and vengeance. Eventually they learn that not only has the evil man been killing people in the dream world, he has been turning them into his army of dreams, attacking people from the real world in their minds with them. With the help of another freedom fighter (Leif Gadalavarov), he and the girl fight the army of dreams, but the third member of their group betrays them in real life. The evil man, who turns out to be the police chief, slaughters the physic as well as the hero's phyiscal body in the real world. With time running out, the hero kills the traitor and then makes his way towards the evil man, and in a huge climatic battle, he kills the evil man while avoiding temptation to give in to the army of darkness and kill the girl instead. Relieved, he accepts his fate in the dream world, shaping it however he likes it, but the girl says she must leave. Soon after, she returns with a horrified look on her face...the army of dreams has moved on to the real world...and left it in ruins!

Cast: Name - Popularity Level out of 20 - Brief Bio - Age
Dagr Ateunde - 19 - Popular Action star but does other intelligent movies - 25
Sid Kusky - 15 - Once the hottest thing around, he often plays a sophisticated older man - 58
Trinity Cambronne - 17 - An upcoming teen star, Trinity does a lot of horror - 18
Macie Hammet - 18 - A model turned singer turned actress, her looks are only rivaled by her abilities - 26
Alia Oleveda - 7 - Type-casted for always being the "best friend" in movies when she was younger, hasn't had a part in a while- 73
Anette Boosalis - 14 - A good blonde actress, although she often plays the "ditz" in her roles - 23
Leif Gadalavarov - 2 - In only his second movie, good looking Leif has quite a talent for action - 20

Budget*: 18.15 Million USD

Producer(s): Monarch Productions Limited

Special Effects: The visual effects of the army of dreams were all made my highly advanced holograms so that the actors could really interact with them. Many other special effects were used, but most are taken for granted in the Empire nowadays with the introduction of holographic novels.

Director
Rolf Balcos - Famous director with a list of works too long for any post. Him and his brother Liger Balcos are the most famous movie directors of the present time.

Running Time 3 hours

Rating/Content
Brief nudity - When the girl returns battered and bloody, her thong panties are showing along with her left nipple. For effect of course...
Strong Language - The hero, the evil man, and the traitor continuously spout off. Only 10 f---'s...but 45 others...
Strong Violence - The whole movie is violent, with murders and the war with the army of dreams
Gore - Blood is everywhere as well as guts, brains, and mutilitated humans. (Thing some Resident Evil, some Starship Troopers...different styles)
Sexual Content - The hero and the girl have sex, and while no crotch or anything is shown so that it wouldn't get a dreaded X rating, the implications are huge
Pervasive Language - Some jokes are made at the beginning but this fades as the plot becomes more serious
Disturbing Themes - disgusting murders, dream killings, dream zombies, real world-dream realm connections

Hype Labled as one of the best non-holographic interactive movies in the last decade. Non-holographic interactive movies are a dying art in Steel Butterfly.

Any Additional comments

Rating - R...nothing more...nothing less...

Although it may be pulled off shelves at some international places.
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Movie Title: Revenge of the Killer Sopranos
Movie Genre: B-movie spoof comedy
Movie Summary: A bunch of opera singers and Mariah Carey clones, angry at not getting their 50% pay rise and their Evian mineral water in the backstage area, take revenge by using their vocal 'talents' to wreak havoc on Las Vegas by breaking wine glasses and windows everywhere, with the police hot on their tail. Their chauffeurs are involved in the obligatory high-speed cop chases.
Budget: 31m kaks (US$14.7m)
Special effects: This is a B-movie spoof, therefore very few.
Director: Itasae Murritiko. A student of film studies and music at Farela University, she was a singer and pianist well-known in Kaze Progressa before her attempts to become popular in other nations foundered on the strength of support for Mariah-esque window-shattering singers. (Itasae was an alto reknowned in Kaze Progressa for her deep, sultry voice.) This is her directorial debut, a satirical attack on this dichtomy that higher is better.
Running Time: 74:23. Short and sweet, so more screenings for me.
Rating: G (no, not the highest note sung in the film, though not a bad guess. That would be F#.)
Hype: It's scary... even with your eyes closed.
Additional comments: Features different voices for the singing and the acting in all but one of the female leads - Kata Macaga, scarily-high lead singer for Monaa, also an actress.

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Movie Title*: Ninth Arm
Movie Genre*: Psychadelic Action/Romance
Movie Summary*: Defying rational description, Ninth Arm is an unusual film. Fast paced and revolving around two weddings, a trio of teenagers coming of age, the demolition of a major international conspiracy based out of Iesus Christi, neutralizing an alien invasion, blowing things up, flashback scenes from the Amerigan and Allanean Wars by a pair of veterans, and some psychadelic dream sequences and transitions garuanteed to leave the audience feeling stoned. One wedding involves a simple couple of man and woman, and the other regards the wedding of two men and five women in a traditional Tahar Joblissan group marriage. The background music features several of the most popular Tahar Joblissan groups of the day, and the soundtrack was carefully designed and integrated into the film brilliantly by artistic composing and directing genius Jan Wilhelm.
Cast: Nearly the entire membership of the Taharasopolissa Metropolitan Opera Company, the Taharasopolissa Grinlow Martial Arts Competitive Club, and the Taharasopolissa Shakespearean Productions Company were involved in the production, along with star martial arts demonstrator Ming Sun III, action heroine Mack Zahn, porn star Lovitt Blue, and some lesser known acting talent.
Producer(s): LensEye productions, a major theater organization in Tahar Joblis, and one of few regularly involved in collaborating with foreign film companies.
Special Effects: At times it is difficult to tell what was filmed straight up and what was edited in; the editing team of LensEye productions appears to have no life whatsoever, and their daring cameramen, crews, and cast were willing to take great risks with an apparently unlimited budget.
Director: Jan Wilhelm, an experienced director of traditional space opera films and music videos, now beginning to branch out into other genres.
Running Time: 110 minutes brief edition - full version, probably only released on DVD release in Amerigo after the theater run rather than in movie theaters, runs all the way out to 170 minutes of film. (In Tahar Joblissan theaters, the full version was shown with the addition of a ten minute intermission.)
Rating/Content Frequent nudity, mature sexual content, and frequent action-style violence - not particularly gruesome in nature, but definitively present - mark this as a film for mature audiences.
Hype:

"After the film, you will not want to leave your seat," said director and composer Jan Wilhelm. "Subliminal messages? What are you talking about? It's a work... of art. Unusual, mind-altering art, yes, but that's simply because it was well done."

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Movie Title: Cathletics
Movie Genre: Computer animation comedy
Movie Summary (and cast): Lou (Jerizae Meritan) is a cute tabby cat - with attitude. After being abused by her owners Rallit (Weran Ovejin) and Arilae (Fentae Wizito), she is determined to show her strength of character and muscle by entering Kaze Progressa's Cathletics - the nationwide sports contest for cats. Aided and abetted by her friend, older Japanese bobtail Etti (Fentae Burzek), she seeks respect. Little does she know that her owners' dog - vicious Rottweiler Ratta (Brizkil Nurvaiy) - has hatched a plot to wreck the games, and has attracted gullible poodle Moof (Uria Rawilen) to help out...
Producers: K-Films
Director: Serina Buskinat. Has directed several cute animations already, this is her first international release.
Running time: 81:18.
Budget: 156m kaks (US$68m)
Rating: PG (mild violence and swearing)
Hype: (35 seconds of advertising required):

[Lou wandering around in her house]
Meet Lou. Seems like an ordinary tabby.
[Lou bursts into a sprint]
But she's faster...
[Lou lifts tiny dumb-bells with her paws]
...stronger...
[Lou jumps at Arilae's dress, scratching it]
...and angrier.
[Camera jumps to the home of the Cathletics, Quarua Island Furry Stadium. Cartoony music plays]
Where better to go for Lou?
[Music stops abruptly. Camera jumps to Ratta at the entrance, growling at Lou.]
Maybe quite a lot of places.
[Music starts again. Camera jumps back to Lou in training]
Starring Jerizae Meritan...
[Camera jumps to Etti helping Lou out]
...and Fentae Burzek...
[Title of film appears in shot of stadium]
Cathletics. Puffing and purring to a cinema near you.

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Movie Title*: Partisan
Movie Genre*: War
Movie Summary*: A movie that is shot about the Amerigan War, about one man who must fight the invaders to protect his homeland. Although his not even a man in his country, he is a slave. He must fight his so called liberators. Facing impossible odds. No hope for victory. Until the Iesus Christi forces withdraw. Then he must face the horrors left over. He must navigate the destruction and fend off scavengers and looters. He finally manages to create a home for himself and makes friends with otehr survivors. When the famine sets in, he is slain by his best friend for food. A highly dramatic and touching ending.
Cast: Antonio Banaderaz (a well known actor who played in such movies as The Twelfth Warriot, The Children of the Moon and The Attack of the Man Eating Zombie Aliens from Pluto
Budget*: 75 million USD
Producer(s): Amerigan International
Special Effects: Top of the line. Explosions, weapon fire, all brilliantly forced with the top of the line computer animation.
Director: Massen Baler
Running Time 2h 44 m.
Rating/Content R
Viloence and Gore
Disturbing Themes
Strong Language

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Movie Title: Lyong-ti
Movie Genre: Epic Action-Adventure
Movie Summary: Lyong-ti tells the story of the semi-mythic hero Lyong-ti, who rose from being the fifth son of a rice farmer to become ruler of a vast empire spanning the whole of the present-day Lyong Penninsula region. The movie follows Lyong-ti, through both his battles (filmed on a massive and spectacular scale), and his deep but ill-fated love, finally ending in an allusion to his ?ascension to Heaven? (according to traditional Spyran animism, Lyong-ti is said to have risen to become ruler of Heaven Depending on how seriously this scene is taken, and the religious background of the audience, this may cause some controversy).
Cast: Ieyaren Strain-Takai, Mei Furitaka, Venton Teshigawa. (The first two actors are young and talented, popular for at least one successful film each, though these films did not undergo international release. Teshigawa also has some fame, for his starring role in the drama film Red Falcon , and for his numerous stage roles as a Shakespearian actor.
Budget: 220 million dollars
Producers: Spyran Ministry of Knowledge (numerous propaganda, documentary, and cultural works); Spring Blossom Studios (Red Falcon, Ogawa, Hunt for Blue Dragon).
Special Effects: Due to the epic nature of the film, a large number of effects were used, including advanced pyrotechnics and maximum-realism CG effects, as well as a huge cast of extras employing intricately detailed costumes and props. Particularly notable is the high degree of realism in terms of blood and wounds in the large battle scenes.
Director: Takeshi Kaga (a talented director, very famous within Spyr, and holding some international fame for his work on such films as Ogawa and The Emperor?s Concubine.
Running Time: 205 minutes.
Rating/Content:
Violence
Language (to avoid difficulties with foul language, all profanities in the film, which occur several times, are given in the ancient language of Spyr. Thus, though their role is clear, their meaning is not.)
Mild Sexual Content

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Movie Title: Truth.
Movie Genre: Drama
Movie Summary: Davis Harp is a 58 year old man who once had it all. Or so he thought. In his mind, he was the CEO of a multimillion dollar corporation, but in reality he was the manager of an electronics store. In his mind, his house was the biggest house in the best neighborhood in the city, but in reality, it was a run-down apartment in the worst part of town. In his mind, he had the newest and fastest car on the market, but in reality, he drove an old used station wagon. And he has lived like this, until one day a customer comes in complaining about his old, broken down TV, which happens to be the same one Davis owns. After developing a friendship with this man, Davis crashes hard into reality and self-realization, and recognizes that what he originally thought was not what is true.
Cast:
William Dennis - arguably the most popular Kingsforder actor, Dennis is on his third Mighty Rock movie, starring in Foundation and Fight Song. He is 60 years old.

George Blakenship - His first major role as Don Sans, the young customer who meets Davis Harp (Dennis), promises to be the start of a prominent career. He is 28 years old.

Budget: $20.4 million USD
Producer: Mighty Rock Productions
Special Effects: None
Director: Jonias Jones
Running Time: 3 hours, 2 minutes
Rating/Content: PG - 13
Adult Themes - This film is not meant for children, but does not have anything that's really, wrong in it.

Hype:
The following is a TV ad for the movie (I'd like to purchase 67 seconds of preview time, by the way):

(white screen)
(grey letters appear: )
"What's meant for a man who has deceived himself, is what is to come of the future,"
- Unknown
(quote disappears, next one appears shortly: )
"Ignorance is the night of mind, but a night without moon and star."
- Confucius
(quote disappears, next one appears shortly: )
"And Woe for those who do not know, for they have been betrayed by their most loyal companion, the mind."
- Dante Alegheri
(screen goes white. The following image appears: )

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Movie Title: Nuke the Cops!
Movie Genre: Action-adventure spoof
Movie Summary and cast: A freedom fighter from Jaurania known only as 'Escapa' (Nurak Turjill) arrives in Kaze Progressa. His aim is simple - to destroy as much of Kaza as he can. As the country's tough police zero in on him, he opts for desperate measures, and all hell breaks loose, culminating in a seven-minute chase between police cars, Escapa in a tank and his sidekick 'Stalina' (Runib Buntara) in a stolen police helicopter through Kaza, where cars are banned to civilians, forcing the chasers to use any route they can find around buildings...
Budget: 225m kaks (over $90m) - the most expensive film in Progressan history.
Producer: K-Films
Special Effects: 15m kaks were spent on explosions. Stalina's stunt double for the helicopter chase, Burlin Terail - a former air force pilot - is believed to be the first man in history to have executed a barrel roll in a helicopter, and he repeats this trick here.
Director: Gurzik Merilka. Director of several action flicks in Kaze Progressa, this is his first international release.
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Rating/Content: PG-13 (moderate language and violence)

Advertising: (25 seconds)

[Escapa spins aimlessly around a Kaza park in a stolen tank]
He's come to cause carnage...
[Escapa's tank slides into a tram, or so it seems. It just misses]
...but he wasn't even any good at that.
[Cop comes into scene, shoots guns at tank, barely scratches him. Escapa shoots tank gun at cop. Misses.]
Violence doesn't pay for the incompetent...
[Bomb from helicopter lands on copper]
...unless you... NUKE THE COPS!
[Ultra-fast techno-rock music plays as we watch a cop and Escapa run through Kaza's World Cup Hockey stadium, shooting and missing all the time]
The explosive action is coming to your cinema soon!

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Movie Title: Guy Domville
Movie Genre: Drama
Movie Summary: Movie adaptation of the Henry James play most notable for its controversial opening. Story of a man caught between religion and love.
Cast: Theophile Propertius, Shakespearean method actor-cum-indie superstar. Tania Kemal, ex-principal dancer of the Lillian Company making her film debut.
Budget: 700.000
Producer: Portagoose Productions, national film production company of the Republic of Portagoose. Green light came from Milton Van Allen, renowned producer who always holds artistic success over commercial success.
Special Effects: Period costumes
Director: Carmela Dupont. Critics did not know how to classify her movies at first, labeling them Sappho New Wave. In recent times her symbolic imagism has led to her being called the "Ingmar Bergman of Portagoose".
Running: 138 minutes
Rating/Content: Brief nudity and sexual content in a touching and artistic way. Unrated by the non-existent censors of Portagoose.
Hype: Carmela Dupont's newest film is destined to be a hit as the legendary director creates a unique conceit for the portrayal of the play once considered James' greatest failure. Portagoose's art and literary magazine Blast has declared it the best historic drama in the past decade.

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Amerigo
27-12-2003, 05:23
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