JURY BEST OF SHOW: NO HARBOR (14min) Ian Fowler (Drama). Fowler tells this modern-day dramatic tale of a woman dealing (or not?) with Stockholm Syndrome from her point of view -- and it’s all the more effective because of it. Watch carefully how Fowler builds clues gradually (such as the kind of car the husband drives) until the truth about this woman’s life reaches an unexpected, impulsive climax. Ian Fowler is a Portland filmmaker. Ian Fowler resides in Portland. Click2View Video

JURY HONORABLE MENTION: FIGHT: ARENA OF GAMERS (11min) Chris Nguyen (Documentary). This documentary on the Portland gaming community, the present-day fighting-game scene, will hook you right from the start. If you’re like most of us at OpenLens and know nothing about this ever-growing subculture (video gaming sales out gross movie box office receipts almost every year), this film’s easy to follow graphics and cinematic design, along with interviews and clips from actual competitions, take you directly into to the what and how: players getting beyond “mashing;” players fine tuning their timing, and players training for competitions.  It’s all about the do or die attitude of  “anything to get the edge on your opponent.”  Chris Nguyen resides in Portland. Click2View Video.

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE: LAZSLO LASSU (4min) Ben Popp (Experimental Animation). Words aren’t adequate to describe this affecting imaginary tale of love and loss made poignant through Popp’s simple style of integrating animation with music. More than moving, it’ll stir a sense of longing. Ben Popp resides in Portland. Click2View Video.

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD: SUDDEN DEATH (14 min) Al Kline (Comedy). Writer/director Al Kline apologizes to Ingmar Bergman right up front in this spoof of Bergman’s 1957 masterpiece The Seventh Seal. His movie turns that film’s famous scene, where a knight of the Middle Ages plays chess with death, on its head. Here, henpecked husband, Sherman, plays basketball with a be-robed death – a death who calls Sherman “piggy” and talks of eating veggies and salads while knocking off great jump shots.  In a nice touch, it’s in English with Swedish subtitles. Click2View online production stills.

SPECIAL SCREENWRITING AWARD: "The Makers" by Brian Leonard. An old android and an anti-robot politician are trapped in a storage room with no hope of rescue. With only hours left to live, the two strangers form an unlikely friendship as they wait for their inevitable ends. Click2View Kickstarter Video

The annual OpenLens Festival added a short narrative film scriptwriting competition this year sponsored by Rubicon Film Productions Ltd., a Eugene based company. Submitted scripts of 15 pages or were were accepted. This opportunity was open to both those Oregon filmmakers entering the OpenLens film competition and screenwriters whose scripts have not yet been produced.