Semmelweis
USA/Austria 2005/B&W/22 minutes
A Young Allies Production
Writer/Director: Jim Berry 
Producers: Fritz Michel and Sam Riegel
Executive Producers: Elfi von Dassanowsky and                   Robert von Dassanowsky                                                     Music by Franz Schubert and Gustav Mahler
Cast: Fritz Michel, Eden Riegel, Gerrit Vooren 

The Vienna General Hospital; 1849. One in three newmothers die from Childbed Fever within days of giving birth. Hospital Director Klein deems it, "The price God has put on the great gift of bearing a child." But Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, First Assistant of the ward, cannot believe it is so. Haunted by the screams of dying mothers, and fraught with nightmares, Semmelweis embarks on a forbidden quest to discover the cause and cure of the fever. What he finds, however, is a new way of thinking.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Script Award winner; New York First Run Film Festival 2002 (Awards in Cinematography, Sound, Editing and Carl Lerner Award for Best Film with Social Significance); Houston WorldFest 2002 (Bronze Remi Award); Official Selection of the 2001 EuroShorts Warsaw and 2002 Telluride IndieFest (Winner, Short Film Category), L.A. Shorts, Palm Springs, Atlanta, Ojai (Best Short Honorable Mention), Tahoe International, New Jersey State and Newport Film Festivals; the 2003 Sarasota, Fayetteville (Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film) and Durango Film Festivals; the 12th  Prix Leonardo, Parma, Italy (Certificate of Merit in Silver), St. Petersburg, Russia (Best Short Film), Festival of Nations, Ebensee, Austria (Bronze Award).
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Believe
USA/2003/Color/25 minutes 
A Sproutfilms Production                                                         Writer/Director: Lesley Ann Bird
Producers: Lesley Ann Bird, Robert von Dassanowsky
The Nightmare Stumbles Past
USA/2002/Animation/Color/15 minutes
An Igetdog Production                                                            Director: Roland Clements
Writer/Animation Artist: F. Dean Sneed  
Producer: Roland Clements
Executive Producer: Robert von Dassanowsky

Animation Prize and Festival Prize, 2004 2nd Annual UCCS Student Short Film Festival; Official Selection of the 2003 New York City Horror Film Festival; 2004 New Hampshire Film Expo; 20,000 Leagues Under The Industry Festival; Conestoga Short Film Festival (First Place, Horror Category); 2005 Ozark Foothills Film Fest.