Festivals and Awards:

2003 Cairo International Film Festival (Egypt) - Official Selection

Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival - WINNER - Best Feature Film under $500,000 and nominated for Best Director & Best Score

2003 Fort MyersBeach Film Festival - WINNER - Audience Award for Best Feature, Special Recognition as a Gala film

2003 Palm Beach International Film Festival - Official Selection

2003 New York Independent Film and Video Festival - WINNER - Best Dark Comedy Feature

2003 Had To Be MadeFilm Festival - WINNER - Best Feature

2002 Palm Springs Festival of Festivals - Official Selection

2002 California Independent Film Festival - WINNER- Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress

2002 Hollywood Film Festival - Official Selection

Susan Blakely wins Best Actress, S. Greg Gardner Wins Best Actor, and Rolf Schrader wins Best Director - Lifetime Achievement Award to Martin Landau LIVERMORE, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- "Hungry Hearts," a dark comedy about four zany Beverly Hills women who kidnap a gourmet chef for a wild and mysterious weekend, swept all four major categories at the 4th Annual California Film Festival's "SlateAwards," including Best Picture, Best Actress, Susan Blakely, Best Actor, S. Greg Gardner, Best Director, Rolf Schrader. Academy-Award-winning actor Martin Landau was honored for his Lifetime Achievement.

Accepting the award for Best Picture were writer-producers Glenn Benest and Timothy Wurtz, producers Gaynelle Sloman, Lisa London, Catherine Stroud and Hagai Shaham. Mr. Landau presented the Best Actress, Best Actor awards to Blakely and Gardner, saying that he continues to support film festivals all over the world as the best way today for filmmakers to get their work seen. "It was a labor of love," said Benest. "We had a lot of adversity that fortunately turned to our advantage in that we lost our director, leading man and line producer shortly before we started shooting and ended up with far better people." "This means so much to me because everyone on the cast and crew of an independent film is there for the love of their craft and it makes us all proud," said Blakely, Golden Globe winner for Best Actress for her role in "Rich Man, Poor Man." Said Gardner, "To be handed the first award you've ever won from Martin Landau, how cool is that? I will never forget this." "Hungry Hearts" producers have not yet set a distribution deal. The award-winning film now moves on this week to Palm Springs' Festival of Festivals and will be screened, Friday, November 8 at 8:00 p.m., p.s.t. "Hungry Hearts" will be screened at several other film festivals including TheNew York Independent Film Festival in February 2003. For further information, please contact: Glenn Benest of Hungry Hearts Productions, +1-323-912-9195; or Stephen Jaffe of Jaffe & Co., Inc., +1-310-275-7327, for Hungry Hearts Productions.