HawkMedia Studios’ Eaten by the Sea and Winter Shadows on New Snow and Wind in the Old Oak Tree were just awarded QUARTER-FINALIST status at the WideScreen Film and Music Video Festival in Toronto, Canada.

Eaten by the Sea

An experimental music film produced by HawkMedia Studios. The song, EATEN BY THE SEA, is performed by Trevor Tanner, the former lead singer of The Bolshoi, a British chart band. He is also one of the greatest guitar lords on the planet. Check out that ten-string guitar. He's a great artist. The film acts out the meaning of the song.

Winter Shadows on New Snow and Wind in the Old Oak Tree

An abstract experimental time-lapse film that compresses 12 hours into 3 minutes. It uses special effects to enhance the viewing experience. It is all about the mood.

About the filmmaker

James W. Hawk was born in New Eagle, Pennsylvania, and grew up in East Cleveland, Ohio. He is of German, Irish, Scottish, and Native American (Seneca) descent. He is a descendant of Degory Priest of the Mayflower. He attended Ohio University in Architecture and completed his higher education at Cleveland State University as a Mechanical Engineer. He pursued a career in industrial sales and marketing with a Fortune 500 company, which resulted in relocations to Rochester, New York, South Bend, Indiana, and New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Raymond Foery, Professor Emeritus - Quinnipiac University Film, Television, and Media Arts, said about Hawk’s work: "A truly imaginative filmmaker with a highly sophisticated sense of cinematic acuity. Jim has been remarkably active in various genres. As a director of narrative fiction, he has shown a sure hand with actors and a sophisticated appreciation of mise-en-scene. As a creator of animated visual motifs, Jim has displayed a mastery of the latest techniques and a sophisticated sense of composition complemented by a rich appreciation of theatrical style. Each of his projects also reveals the mind of an artist grappling with the eternal philosophical dilemmas of our existence on this planet, as well as some speculation about those other planets out there. In short, Jim’s work forces us to think as well as to look." Jan Harlan (executive producer for Stanley Kubrick & Steven Spielberg) gave Hawk's work high marks. F. Miguel Valenti assessed it as better than much of what is released these days. One of Hawk’s films was exhibited at an art exhibition in Rome, Italy. Two of his films were award winners, two were finalists, four were semi-finalists, and two were quarter-finalists at film festivals worldwide. He has had films screened at 65 film festivals/venues worldwide, with 114 films being official selections.