SYRACUSE, NY, October 31, 2001 -- Alvin Ecarma's "Lethal Force" and Eric Stanze's "Scrapbook" tied for both Best B-Movie and Best Director honors in the third annual B-Movie Film Festival Awards. The awards were originally voted on prior to the festival's anticipated premiere, which was scheduled for September 15-16 in Syracuse, NY, but was postponed and later cancelled following the events of September 11. The festival organizers decided it was appropriate to hold the announcement of the award winners in time for Halloween, keeping in the tradition of the holiday and its unique connection to B-Movies.
"Scrapbook," a grisly drama about a serial killer who forces his captive to keep a diary of her imprisonment, won two additional B-Movie Awards for Tommy Biondo's screenplay and for Biondo's performance as Best B-Movie Villain (Sadly, 26 year old Tommy Biondo died from injuries sustained while on a shoot in Minnesota only days after SCRAPBOOK completed post-production. He never saw the finished movie). "Lethal Force," an adventure flick which paid tribute to the martial arts and blaxploitation genres, picked up the awards for Best Cinematography and Best Action Sequence.
The acting awards were spread across four different films. Neil Maffin was cited as Best Actor for his role in "A Moment in Time" and Lorri Bagley won Best Actress for her performance in "Peroxide Passion." Mike Legge won Best Supporting Actor honors in the comedy "Curtains" and Paulina Galvez was named Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Tatawo," a Spanish drama that won the Best Foreign Film Award.
The Australian oceanographic journey "Aliens of the Sea" snagged the Best Documentary prize, while the reggae soundtrack for the Jamaican thriller "Third World Cop" captured the award for Best Musical Score. Other winning films included "Beware" for Best Editing, "Cremains" for Best Set Design, "Biohazardous" for Best Make-up, "Creatures of the Mist" for Best Special Effects, "Bucky McSnead" as Best Short Subject and "Ornaments" as Best Animated Short.
The B-Movie Film Festival was sponsored by Sub Rosa Studios of Syracuse, NY, and is scheduled to resume next year. For more information on the festival, visit the web site http://www.b-movie.com.

NOMINEES

Best B-Movie - Overall
Lethal Force
Ocean Park
Peroxide Passion
Scrapbook
Third World Cop

Best B-Movie - Foreign
Middlemen - Canada
Neophytes & Neon Lights - Australia
Tatawo - Spain
X - Japan
100% Arabica - France

Best B-Movie Director
Lethal Force - Alvin Ecarma
Third World Cop - Chris Browne
Ocean Park - David Warfield
Peroxide Passion - Monty Diamond
Scrapbook - Eric Stanze

Best B-Movie Writer (two movies tied for last spot)
Bang - King Jeff
Curtains - Mike Legge
Lethal Force - Alvin Ecarma
Scrapbook - Tommy Biondo
Ocean Park - David Warfield
The Evilmaker - John Bowker

Best B-Movie Actor
Lethal Force - Cash Flagg, Jr.
Ocean Park - Kenneth Hughes
Scrapbook - Tommy Biondo
A Moment in Time - Neil Maffin
Third World Cop - Paul Campbell

Best B-Movie Actress
A Moment in Time - Annika Petersen
Penis Envy - Regan D'Lyn
Peroxide Passion - Lorri Bagley
Scrapbook - Emily Haack
Tatawo - Mercedes Ortega

Best Supporting B-Movie Actor
Curtains - Mike Legge
Everything Moves Alone - Matt Ford
Lethal Force - Frank Pather
100% Arabica - Mohamed Camara
Ozark Savage - Elliot Gray

Best Support B-Movie Actress
Lethal Force - Patricia Williams
Tatawo - Paulina Galvez
Ozark Savage - Nina Mulvany
A Moment in Time - Annica Bevhed
Penis Envy - Charlottle Mangum

Best B-Movie Photography/Cinematograhy
Biohazardous
Cremains
Lethal Force
A Moment in Time
The Sandman (by David Teague)

Best B-Movie Set Design
Biohazardous
Cremains
Scrapbook
The Sandman (by David Teague)
A Moment in Time

Best B-Movie Editing
Bang
Lethal Force
Ozark Savage
Beware
Third World Cop

Best B-Movie Music
A Moment in Time
The American Astronaut
Cremains
Third World Cop
The Murder Men

Best B-Movie Make-up
Biohazardous
Cremains
Lethal Force
Scrapbook
The Damned

Best B-Movie Special Effects
Lethal Force
Ozark Savage
Creatures of the Mist
The Damned
Battlezone Mind

Best B-Movie Villian
Lethal Force - Cash Flagg, Jr.
Beware - Kevin Brennan
Biohazardous - The Zombies
Carnage Road - Max Cerchi
Scrapbook - Tommy Biondo

Best B-Movie Action Sequence
Beware
Biohazardous
Lethal Force
Ozark Savage
Third World Cop

B-Movie Merit Awards - An award to features that just missed out in many of the categories, despite the extreme talent behind them.
Beware
Biohazardous
Ozark Savage
100% Arabica
All in Theory
Bang
Battlezone Mind
Blood for the Muse
Carnage Road
Carnivore
Creatures of the Mist
Cremains
Curtains
Everything Moves Alone
Getting the Dirt on Trish
Machine Head
Middlemen
Miles from Nowhere
Moment in Time
Murder Men
Penis Envy
Psyche Blow
Road Kill
SF
Sorority House Vampires from Hell
Tatawo
Texas Night Train
The American Astronaut
The Anonymous Gamblers
The Damned
The Evilmaker
The Finger Lakes
The Monster Man
The Sandman
To Dance with Death
Track 16
Tumult
Vampire Night
Discharge NOW - documentary
Kumar Talkies - documentary

Best B-Movie Documentary
Aliens of the Sea
Freaks, Glam Gods & Rockstars
Mau Mau Sex Sex
The Last Stand
Too Much Brazil

Best B-Movie Short Subject
1061 Knapsack
Bucky McSnead
Generation Lost
Ghost Writers
Interview with the Red Shirts
Olympic Greasy Watermelon
Red Light City
Sway
Trade Day
Zero
Using Lilly

Best B-Movie Animated Short Subject
Shivalry
Tableau Vivante
Ornaments
Derf the Viking in "The Quest for Happy Hour"