It was Easy Pickins for Will Hartman as his tale of two beleaguered house robbers snatched both the Palm de Grease and the Audience Award Saturday night at the Kiva Auditorium in Albuquerque. The movie also grabbed four other awards.

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 the best year yet at the Shootout and thanks to all the sponsors, partners, mentors, volunteers, staff and supporters who got us to the finish line.


The complete list of filmmakers for the 2007 Duke City Shootout

In no particular order:

• Maconie's List -- Lisa Marks, Marina del Rey, CA

• The Spider Experiment -- Scott and Paula Merrow, Albuquerque, NM

• So Five Minutes Ago  -- Dina Chapman, West Hollywood, CA

• Young Gun -- Jason Kendell, Spring Hill, FL

• The Pitch -- Richard Dargan, Albuquerque, NM

• The Dream Girl -- Joachim Jung, Los Angeles, CA

• Easy Pickins -- Will Hartman, Los Angeles, CA   (The Slamdance screenwriting contest winner)

Alternates included:

• Suburban Compulsion -- Marco Santiago, Phoenix, AZ

• Farewell My Lovely, Turkey Legs -- Ron Salzberg, Albuquerque, NM