FilmYour film's Jilted, so what? There's a NEW Film Fest for it.By Jocelyn MarquisFriday, April 29, 2005Actress and filmmaker Mellini Kantayya brings to Tribeca the Jilted Film Festival, wherein films thwarted by other fests, (such as the Tribeca Film Festival, just around the corner,) are given consideration by merit of their demerit, or rejection by larger and traditionally more commercially oriented fests. The festival of shorts, held at Sugar’s bar screening room at 311 Church Street, and in collaboration with Dahlia’s Flix and Mix (a weekly screening of local shorts) featured pieces ranging in tome and style from comedic to contemplative, one thing they all had in common was a dark undertone, a piercing glace into the underbelly of the social order. James Monohan’s Warnings From Above, the protagonist tries to deny the advisions of his Guardian Angel, but finds out the hard way that the guy was right, but, whoops – too late! Scott Bennett’s anime, One Hog Too Many, parodies Hollywood’s’ parody of itself: the summer blockbuster and the inevitable follow up sequels. The story involves a film about Noah’s Arc, purportedly “the best movie ever made”, a tea bag, (don’t ask), and, you may have guessed: “one hog too many”. Other films included: Michael Sellers Kid Avenger, about misanthropy and misguidance among prepubescent boys, Seagan Ngai’s Greens, about a young woman’s’ fierce repulsion to the plant kingdom, and two films by Lars Fuchs: First Person Plural and Jersey City Tango. In all fairness the jury on the competition gave the filmmakers a chance to throw their own tomatoes and screened their own shorts. Competition awards included the “We Can Still be Friends” award, “It’s Not You It’s Us” award and finally the “We Are Just in Different Places Right Now” award. Filmmakers took home a self help book and $25 in singles to spend at the strip club of your’ choice. Mel has a good sense of humor. She also says she’ll be doing this again next year, so bring out that tired old movie you thought no one would want to screen and, you know, submit! Contact Mellini Kantayya, festival curator through her production company at Brooklyn Tree Dahlia’s Flix and Mix goes down every Tuesday PM at Sugar  
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