"What comes to mind when I think of the Angel Film Awards 
Monaco Film Festival, the Great camaraderie, boundless enthusiasm,
old world elegance and yes, Peace. We have the two founders,
Rosana Golden and Dean Bentley, to thank for their vision.  
By the end of  this whirlwind adventure we were a family. 
It was beyond my expectations and a great honor to be president
of the jury and mistress of ceremonies of this unique festival.
I will never forget  it."

Love to all,
Diane Louise Salinger
Hollywood, Los Angeles

Happy New Year Dean and Rosana!

Thank you so much for your email. The Angel Awards/ Monaco Int'l film festival. Please let me tell you what a FANTASTIC time I had attending such a lovely, inspiring event! I know it had to be a MONUMENTAL effort to co-ordinate everyone and everything, but it was a FANTASTIC experience for all of us who attended, and a fabulous opportunity to screen such amazing movies!!
I know you had professional photographers to document the occasion, and I want you to know I personally took some photos that I would be happy to share with you if you so desire--perhaps I took some photos that you might not have expected. By the by, the two of you look fabulous and you both flattered me with some images including you both and myself. (You two look best!) Please advise me as regards photos--it was a pleasure to take them!
I shall return to Europe beginning January 21, 2008 and would be delighted if I could call you and /or meet up with you should you be available.
Again, it was a total delight to meet you both and all those amazing filmmakers...we all appreciate your joint efforts to bring their films to the world. I hope to see you next year! May love and peace grace you in the year 2008!

All the best,
Suzanna Toso
Los Angeles, California

Dear Rosana and Dean,

Congratulations. This film festival is a celebration of your very important idea that non-violent films can also promote peace and understanding among people without being preachy and boring. The films you have selected this year did bring both the audience and us, members of the Jury to tears.
They were touching, sensitive and entertaining at the same time.This was my first time on your Jury and I hope you'll invite me again to your elegant yet very humanistic and intellectually stimulating film festival.

Professor Karl Bardosh
New York University
Kanbar Institute of Film and Television

Dear Rosana & Dean,

One of the best parts of the festival was finally having the chance to meet you both. The positive energy you put into the festival with all of your hard work and preparation was what powered it. I know it is our shared hopes and prayers for peace that are the energy that was felt at the festival.

I respect you both and love you dearly. I feel I now have a wonderful new brother and sister!

WO AI NI!! (As in the film! Or in Japanese, Ai shite iru. I love you!)

Kei

We really see these honors at the Angel Film Awards as the launching pad for our next efforts in sharing “Jun-Ai” with more people.

Keiko Kobayashi Producer/Writer/Actress Jun-Ai /Japan/China

Dear Rosanna and Dean

Wonderful Festival

Many many thanks for a wonderful three days of the Angel Film Awards!  The films were all great in their different ways and all captured nuances of what the Angel Film Awards are all about.  I very much enjoyed meeting the film makers and the actors—the Japanese contingent were all so charming and decorative!  A real joy to be with them.

It is terrific to see how well your Festival is evolving—each year it gets better and better!  There is such a happy atmosphere of joy and kindness and appreciation of each other.

Many congratulations and again many thanks for the happiness you have given all of us.  The Angel Film Awards are a great way to start the season of peace!

Affectionately

Kristi Prenn/Monaco

New York City, 11 December, 2007

Hello beautiful ROSANA,

it was such a joy to be at your festival!!! I loved every minute of it, it was smart, elegant, spritual...
I am looking into the VARIETY issue...
I will get back to u on that as well.
I would love to keep in touch and if I can help something with the festival let me know, I would be honored...

Please give my regards to Dean as well...

much love,

ZOI FLOROSZ/ BUDAPEST/NEW YORK

Rosana and Dean,

Congratulations on another great year with the Festival!

"Beat the Drum" is being distributed worldwide by MGM and was release this month on DVD in the U.S. by The Weinstein Company/Genius Products and on Showtime.

Please say hello and good wishes to everyone in Monaco!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,

David & Sandy McBrayer
Writer & Producer
"Beat the Drum"

(Beat The Drum, winner of Best Film & Best Director Angel Film Awards)

Hi Dean and Rosana,

I also enjoyed myself very much, and enjoyed meeting you, and participating in the festival.

I appreciate all of your hard work, commitment and dedication that you devoted to the festival.

Peace and Blessings,

Khashyar Darvich
Director "Dalai Lama Renaissance"

Hi Rosana and Dean,

I want to again thank you for the wonderful films, talented filmmakers, great audiences, and much valued awards that I experienced during the Angel Film Awards Monaco International Film Festival. I look forward to repeating this great experience at the festival in the future.

Many thanks again for the one-of-a-kind experience that is the festival.

Peace and all good things,

Dennis Aig, Prof. Montana University

Dear Rosana,

Thank you very very much for organising the Festival, I had a fantastic time and saw some great films in beautiful surroundings.

Ben Burt
Head Of Production
Thema Production
London England.

Kind Regards and once again thank you very much.

Dear Rosana,

Thank you for everything. Lucinda and I had a ball!

Thanks again.

Kind Regards.

Anne Kenyon
Australia

December 6, 2007

My Dearest Beloved Rosana and Dean:
My whole day was honoring the Glory of You Two with the Angels in Monaco. I am with you in SPIRIT, hopefully next year in person.

Many, many blessings on this year's festval. May all the deepest desires of your heart be fulfilled each passing moment until eternity for the GREATNESS within both of you exhibited on earth.

Lovingly,

Margaret Clare

Dear Rosana,
thanks for a great festival and a spectacular venue to meet other film makers. The programme was very thoughtfully put together and represented many different types of projects from an international market.
The Angel awards are establishing themselves as a major event in the festival calendar, what a great way to end the year.

Ben Burt
Head Of Production
Thema Production

Dear Rosana & Dean,

Thank you for all arangement and cooperation at Monaco.
Both JUN-AI and CINDERELLA FORMULA staff team are really happy for the result.
Especially, I really thank you for the prize(Best Producer Award) for Keiko Kobayashi.
I was really glad that people loved two films I have produced.

Best regards,
Kazu

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KAZUHIKO TANAKA
President&Producer
PLANET FIVE Co.,Ltd
TOKYO

Dear Rosana,

First of all, I'd like to congratulate the successful ending of the film festival.
We had a fabulous time in Monaco invited as official guests of festival,
and also everybody involved in CINDERELLA FORMULA (also in Japan) was more than surprised by the big award-winning.

Best Regards

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Booster Project Inc.
Akira Shimada
Tokyo, JAPAN

Hello Rosana and Dean,

I had an absolutely wonderful time at the film fest last week. You guys are fabulous!
Thanks for treating me so royally. Hopefully I'll run into you again soon.

Love and peace,
Sarah

Dear Rosana,
Alexandrine and I just arrived at home, near Geneva, and we want to thank you for that wonderful moment spent with you and that so-called family. I'm really happy that I Finally could come to the festival to meet you and we appreciate the kindness of everyone - you, Dean... - I really like that and, for sure, it's a better experience to live than if it was iCannes Festival !!!!! We really loved every moment we spent with you and the ambiance - day and night - (that's the new number one, instead of night and day ?!) was unforgettable. I really hope we'll make it next year, just to see you again, and Dean too !

I take the advantage of this mail to wish you a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year with all the happyness and success you deserve.

Truely yours,
Carole Gay and Alexandrine Pellier

Dear Rosana,

It is so encouraging to see how much effort you two are giving into these transparent and evolving processes and how successful this is in the end.
Winning people for good purposes is a great thing to do.

Next year we will try to see as many as possible of the movies.
Take care and hope to see you again soon.

Best wishes for a relaxing weekend,
saluti a Dean!

Susanne, Italy/Germany

Rosana & Dean,

I just wanted to follow up with you guys. Last Stop for Paul has played at more than 70 film festivals to date and won a major award at over 30 of them. However, the best time I've had at any of the festivals was at the Angel Film Awards Monaco! I wish I was going to be there with you guys again, it was really a great time! You guys did a great job!

Neil Mandt Director 'Last Stop For Paul'
Hollywood, Los Angeles

Dear Rosana,
We love you very much, very much, very much...

Kindest regards
GENO and MARADIA TSAAVA Film Director, Producer, Painter-Designer
Georgia, Russia

To Rosana & Dean

The 2007 Angel Film Awards - International Monaco Film Festival was canvas oil painted in it’s every moment as if having a fantastic time and meeting amazing people could be rehearsed and we could simply lose our memories towards a reinactment of every given moment and gain a collective harmony. The suspension of disparate nonlinear memories happened because from the general audience, to the sponsors, the talent and the organizers, we all believed in the utopia that it is possible to turn the page from a barbaric world of today and turn it into a civil world and we all believed we were creating this microcosm of energy and intention through our power of symbiosis and in bringing the message of peace into the world and a collective capacity of applying it into reality.The moments felt they were reoccurring at times because there was so much harmony.

Films like "The Music In Me", showed how a simple dance teacher can be the alchemist to the destroyed lives of handicapped teenagers and their families to a better good, while films like "Jun Ai" and "Dalai Lama Renaissance" showed the importance of stopping wars and creating a better world through tolerance and organization.

The dynamics of the group was so richly orchestrated by Rosana Golden and Dean Bentley that it feels though pictures and collective memories-interesting enough always the same for different people-that we were being observed and conducted from the outside this year, as if a ghastly world coexisted amongst us, and the group was truly being guided by the peace angels and we, all attendants, were their role models.

We were thrown into a magnetoscope of energy this festival was all about escaping under lustuous visions of chandeliers, crystals, velvet, champagne and the blossoming of a fairy tale land, even for the residents, into a collective experience, and then its’ nostalgia and dreams of a unique reality, only in knowing deep in our hearts that this hyperreality, this suspense in an elated manner, the celluloid dreams: the films; can reach millions in the modern times and we have a volcanic power to change and speak straight to the roots of this planet.

Ana Bielschowsky
Film Producer & (2007 Angel Film Awards, Jury Member)
New York, NY