Aaron Yonda
From Blame Society Productions
Aaron Yonda's interest in filmmaking began when he started making his own public access television show, The Splu Urtaf Show, with Benson Gardner in the early 1990s. The Splu Urtaf Show was voted Madison's favorite local TV Show in 2001 by the Isthmus Readers' Poll.
His short film, The Life and Death of a Pumpkin swept the Chicago Horror Film Festival awards recently, receiving "Best Short Film" and "Best Concept." Yonda's shorts have screened at festivals worldwide including the Just for Laughs Comedia Festival, and the Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto. He received the "Funniest of the Fest" award for Down Home Cookin', at the Hi Mom! Film Fest in Carrboro, North Carolina in 2005. Over ten of his short films have screened at the Wisconsin Film Festival; In 2004, Yonda and Matt Sloan received a Kodak Opportunity Award film stock grant for their film Death.
