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Live from Angelus
2008 Grand Prize Winner
Live Action
On the Line
Reto Caffi
A department store security guard is racked with guilt after not helping a victim being attacked on the subway.
2008 Winners
Live Action
Small Change
Anna McGrath
A man struggles without his wife, a little girl loses a tooth, and a boy reacts the only way he knows how.
Live Action
In the Name of the Son
Harun Mehmedinovic
After escaping execution, Tarik, a Bosnian prisoner of war, immigrates to the United States looking to leave his past behind. Years later, the man who spared his life shows up on Tarik's doorstep asking for a favor.
Live Action
Deface
John Arlotto
When a North Korea man is pushed to the edge by his daughter’s senseless death, he risks his life to challenge the oppressive government, making his voice heard through an extreme and unusual action.
Documentary
As We Forgive
Laura Waters Hinson
Could you forgive a person who murdered your family? This is the question faced by the subjects of As We Forgive, a documentary about two Rwandan women coming face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. Struggling to live again as neighbors, these survivors and killers discover the power and the pain of radical reconciliation.
Animation
Sebastian's Voodoo
Joaquin Baldwin
A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.
Live Action
The Replacement Child
Justin Lerner
After spending a year in a juvenile center, Todd Turnbull returns to his backwoods hometown a repentant, deeply religious boy, but is soon confronted with a decision to either let his friend die, or break his oath of non-violence and take matters into his own hands.
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- Thank you to the Peter Glenville Foundation for their support of the Angelus Student Film Festival
In the Spotlight
Billboard promoting the 2008 Angelus Student Film Festival is displayed above Family Theater Productions on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
