Create a different page templates for event list for different pages

Hi i have already formated my list of events & everything is up & running thanks to Marcus’ help.
So here is what i want to achieve now 1 page which has all the events listed in a list format (5 events in one page),[done using event templates].
& 2nd a category specific home page(3 events in one page) of that category, shown in a pinterest kind of boxes, which is where i am facing difficulty. I created a page template & pasted the new format

<div id="primary" class="site-content">
		<div id="content" role="main">

			<?php $args = apply_filters('em_content_events_args', $args);

if( get_option('dbem_css_evlist') ) echo '<div class="css-events-list">';

$args['limit'] = 1;
$args['pagination'] = 1;

$args['format'] = '<li>

    <div class="img-holder">#_EVENTIMAGE</div>
    <div class="course-excerpt">
        <h1 itemprop="summary">#_EVENTLINK</h1>
    </div>
	<div class="date-box">
	 <time itemprop="startDate" datetime="#Y-#m-#d"></time>
        <span class="month">#M</span>
        <span class="date">#j</span>
        <span class="day">#D</span>
    </div>
</li>';
echo '<ul class="event-list">';
echo EM_Events::output( $args );
echo '</ul>';

if( get_option('dbem_css_evlist') ) echo "</div>";?>

		</div><!-- #content -->
	</div><!-- #primary -->

& it displays the boxes properly but it is not category specific i.e the shortcode [events_list category=”28″ limit=”1″ pagination=”1″] on the page with that page template doesn’t work, i see all the events from all the categories.

I hope i made sense.
How can i make it category specific?

http://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/