The Jackson Hole Film Festival (June 5 – 9, 2008) in partnership with MovieHatch.com, announced the winners of its online short-film competition, Online 2 Onscreen, which offered filmmakers the opportunity to compete for a screening slot at this year’s festival. The winning films first captured the online audience votes to place them as one of the five finalists in their respective categories; and then were selected as the winning submission by the Jackson Hole Film Festival programmers and Lauren Williams, founder of MovieHatch, to screen at the 5th annual Jackson Hole Film Festival.

Online 2 Onscreen is an online short-film competition created by MovieHatch and the Jackson Hole Film Festival. The two joined forces this year to create another avenue for filmmakers to "break into the biz" and screen at the Jackson Hole Film Festival. Filmmakers with a short film of no more than ten minutes competed for a screening slot in this year’s Festival by presenting a concept in one of the three categories—live action, animation or documentary. The winners are:

Best in Animation Category: Attack of the Giant Vegetable Monsters

From Canada and directed by Ken Turner, Attack of the Giant Vegetable Monsters, explores the aftereffect of a comet and a thunderstorm that create a wave of giant vegetable monsters. People of a helpless city must flee, while a special government task force is called in to defend and put a stop to vegetable monsters’ rampaging destruction.

Best in Documentary Category: Sal Mosca: Unsung

If a piano plays in a room and no one hears it, did it really make music? In this intimate look into a master’s life, Sal Mosca: Un-Sung (USA) presents a portrait of man who chose to sacrifice fame for the purity of art. Director James Lester lets us peer into a hermit’s life where in a strange, dark world musical magic is made daily. Mosca played with greats such as Lee Konitz, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughn. He died after the film’s completion.

Best in Live Action Category: Voice Mail

In Voice Mail (USA), director Matthew Merkovich takes audiences on a 2-minute romp by exploring a real voicemail recounting a boy's evening with a beautiful girl. She invites him back to her apartment, they sit on the bed...and then there's a pause.

The Online 2 Onscreen competition winners will screen as a part of Shorts Program III on Saturday, June 7 in Studio 2 at 1:00 PM (MDT) and on Sunday, June 8 in Studio 4 at 4:00 PM (MDT). Jackson Hole Film Festival Pass Holders may attend the Shorts Program III with their pass, and passes are still available and can be purchased at www.jacksonholefilmfestival.org. Individual film tickets go on sale June 2, 2008.