CDIA Alumni’s Film Wins Awards, Screens in 14 Festivals

Kim Romano’s film Muriel is doing wonderfully on all kinds of fronts. CDIA alumni Kim Romano’s film “Muriel” won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Short at the Wood’s Hole Film Festival on Saturday August 5, 2006.

Winner, BEST DOCUMENTARY Northampton Film Festival
Winner, BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY, Woods Hole Film Festival
Finalist, SF Shorts of San Francisco

Selected for the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.

The Boston Phoenix’s Gerald Peary writes: “Hollywood cliches apply: this is a laugh-out-loud documentary, with a showboating, charismatic lead character whose fall-down life is the stuff of great standup comedy. A splendid, crowd-pleasing first film from Kim Romano.”

Johnny Ray Huston, San Francisco Bay Guardian:
“Even better is Kim Romano’s Muriel, a profile of a 67-year-old woman in Key West who tosses off one-liners that Woody Allen would covet; Romano has a gift for funny and even poignant framing, and there are more vivid characters in her 19-minute movie than you’d find in a full day of Sundance drama features.”

The Keynoter, Key West, Judi Bradford:
“Kim Romano’s outrageous and poignant documentary short “Muriel” jammed the Tropic Cinema last week,
turning folks away who had not heeded the recommendation to reserve a ticket…