Season 19 Announcements

Winners, Honorable Mentions, Finalists, Official Selections Below!

Visit the Ring of Honor or laurels and to order awards.

Visit the INFLUX Magazine Awards Announcement here!

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DIAMOND AWARDS

Best Feature Film: Anna Key, Dir. by Amanda Megan
Best Short: Mad Scientists: A.I. Maxima – Dir. by Antonia Tong
Best Documentary Feature: Direct & Reflect – Dir. by Miki Holiday, Kal-El Billy Holiday, Kareem Dula Dixon, Troy L. Mitchell, Yolanda Nollie
Best Documentary Short: The HoodTrophy Bino Story: Breaking the Generational Curse – Dir. by Sam “Gebar” Gebremiche
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Mercy – written by Joe Boi
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Sight Specific – Peter Hardy

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Best Feature: Thirst Trap – Dir. by Chantal Massuh-Fox
Best Short: Clean – Dir. by Ryan Kenton
Best Documentary Feature: Plastica – Dir. by Damian Becerra, Luis David Camacho
Best Documentary Short: Look Out Below – Dir. by Michael Dispenza
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Angels, Demons, and a Court-Martial – written by Chris Kreger
Best Screenplay (Short-Form):  The Last Romance – written by Elizabeth Faulkner

AWARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Best Feature: The Diamond Couple – Dir. by Sonja Milka Bertucci
Best Short: A Texas Trilogy – Dir. by Robert Marshall Tartell
Best Documentary Feature: Foxtrot: Operation Reunification – Dir. by Roberto Sierra Oregel
Best Documentary Short: College in Prison: Life with the Possibility of Transformation – Dir. by Jennifer Molina
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Angst – written by Jeff Kimball
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): It’s the Same – written by Bryan Huynh

ADDITIONAL AWARDS

Actor in a Lead Role:
Heroes of Halyard – Adam Davenport

Actress in a Lead Role: Mercy: Veil of Shadows – Emma Burke

Animated Short:
Area 52 – Dir. by Emily Dubovi

Cinematography:
All That Glitters is Not Marigold

Credit Sequence
Big Trip – Dir. by Jared Berger

Cultural Impact:  
Direct & Reflect – Dir. by Miki Holiday, Kal-El Billy Holiday, Kareem Dula Dixon, Troy L. Mitchell, Yolanda Nollie

Director: Anna Key – Dir. by Amanda Megan

Experimental Movie:
A Look Ahead – Dir. by Caleb Jarvis

Faith Based Movie:
Found Film – Dir. by Kyle Brooks

First-Time Filmmaker: 
Finding Happy – Dir. by Maria Bertrand

International Film:
How to (not) Live a Legacy? – Dir. by Jane Hwang

Micro Short:
Late Sleeper – Dir. by Peter Morris Hardy

Music Video:
Coyote: “Pocho” feat. Mc Magic – Dir. by Justin Marmorstein

Score:
All That Glitters is Not Marigold

Sound Design:
Last Year’s Tomorrow – Beth Hubbard 

Trailer: 
The Fostered – Dir. by Gunnar E Garrett Jr., Ritchie Greer

Youth Movie:
Guiding Light – Dir. by India Anne Mitchell

Long-Form Screenplay Finalists
Let the Boy Sing – written by Gunnar Garrett
Made in Philadelphia – written by Matthew Clark
Rainbeaux’s End – written by Elizabeth Faulkner
Shooting Star Pilot: Star Seeds – written by TJ Morehouse
The Fifth Ring AKA Vagabond Samurai – written by Arken Wheeler
The Hot Mess – written by Bruce Hickey
Whisper Willow – written by Daniel Edwin Doble

Short-Form Screenplay Finalists
Bagel Dog – written by Tracy L. Swanson
If You Show Me Yours I’ll Show You Mine – written by Riya Agarwal
I’m Not Special – Jeff Kimball
Mississippi, 1958 – written by Michael J. Dunker
Tracy H. Rombosi’s Garden – written by James Shanklin
Wingz – written by Kenge B

Screenplay Honorable Mentions
Big City Nights: Cisero Murphy Saga – written by Tyriek A. Murphy
Sally and Glen at the Palace – written by Peter Morris Hardy
The Adventures of Paleta Man – written by Paul Ramirez, Matthew Ramirez
The Artist’s Son – written by Jack Amsler
The Styrofoam Shaman – written by Christopher Manydeeds

Film Honorable Mentions
(Honorable Mentions include movies from the categories of feature film, short film, documentary feature, and documentary short. These are movies that each deserve recognition).

Amongst the Stars – Dir. by Ben Smlatic
An Exam’s Journey – Dir. by Carl Bengtsson
Barrier – Dir. by Maqbool Ahmad Durrani
Canary Trap – Dir. by Shana L Darabie
Carbon Men Salvation: The Senator’s Dilemma – Dir. by Roger James Kuhns
Dark & Darker, for Goths, by Goths – Dir. by Richard Tucci
Dreamer – Dir. by Reign Burton
Heaven – Dir. by Masha Shalagina
It’s the Gravy – Dir. by Cherie Belle Kerr
Last Lap – Dir. by Andrew Yardy
Legacy of Sins – Dir. by PakShing Chow
Love Gov 3: The Metaverse of Madness
Man in the Red Jacket – Dir. by Iman Bahrehbakhsh
Overexposed – Dir. by Michele Love Santoro
PJ – Dir. by Patrick Kevin Gamble, Ricky Gamble
Probe – Dir. by Dameon Victorian
The Curtain – Dir. by Leslie-Ann Coles
Timeless Classics: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Monologue – Dir. by Craig Railsback
Where is Diana – Dir. by Samy Chaffaï

Official Selections

OUR AWARDS:

Best-in-Show is the top of the heap according to our judges! Only one winner here.
Diamond Awards are for the tops in any of the categories – these are the crème de la crème.
The Awards of Excellence is awarded to top notch creative minds for their grand accomplishments in any category.
The Awards of Achievement are bestowed to the great minds who have gone above and beyond showing great worth and promise!
The Legacy Award is not always given, but when it is, we believe that this is for a filmmaker, screenwriter or creative artist who has produced a creative legacy, one that will be remembered and lead to great things!

Want to submit a movie or screenplay? Check out the Submissions page for more info!

The following awards are open for consideration:

Feature Film (Narrative, Longer than 40 minutes)
Short Film (Narrative, 40 minutes or less)
Screenplay (Long Form, over 40 pages)
Screenplay (Short Form, under 40 pages)
Documentary Feature
Documentary Short
Animated Feature
Animated Short
Music Video
Movie Trailer
Micro Short (Narrative Movies under 5 minutes)
Leading Actor
Leading Actress
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actress
Faith based movie
Educational or Training
Experimental
Cultural
Web Series 
YouTube Creators
Gamer Videos
Youth (17 and under)
Best Editing
Best Score
Best Cinematography
Best Credit Sequence
Best Sound Design
Best Adaptation

Winners, Honorable Mentions, Official Selections Below!

Visit the Ring of Honor for laurels and to order awards.

Visit the INFLUX Magazine Awards Announcement here!

It may take a few days for FilmFreeway to update selections.

DIAMOND AWARDS

Best Feature Film: unDefiled, dir. by Matthew McCaulley
Best Short: Nocturne, dir. by Alysha Haran
Best Documentary Feature: Grant Sheehan: Light, Ghosts & Dreams, dir. by Robin Greenberg
Best Documentary Short: Planet Ocean Blues, dir. by Michael Buckley
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): #instaboys, by Matthew Rodney Chess
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): The Black Cross, by Korea Black and Gianna Rose

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Best Feature: See Me Once More, My Dear Kid, dir. by Bihong Sha
Best Short: The Painter, dir. by Jahanshah Vafaeisefat
Best Documentary Feature: The Race of Our Lives, dir. by Roy Medawar
Best Documentary Short: Ñunuyachiy: Breastfeeding with Affection and Care, dir. by Jose Miguel Soriano and Ricardo Macian
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Code 10, by Matthew Margo
Best Screenplay (Short-Form):  Girls Like Me, by Bruce Hickey

AWARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Best Feature: 12th of April, dir. by Antonello Deidda
Best Short: Moonlight Dancer, dir. by Dun-Ru Chiang
Best Documentary Feature: Vaklush, dir. by Nikolay Vladimirov Vasilev
Best Documentary Short: Wild Mustangs of the Sagebrush, dir. by Mary Piller
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Prince of Chicago, by Bruce Hickey
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Rough Cut, by Matthew Margo

ADDITIONAL AWARDS

Actor in a Lead Role:
The Painter, Raymond J. Barry

Actress in a Lead Role:
Missing (Desparaecida), Mariana Sanjuan

Animated Feature
With You, dir. by Evan Doll

Animated Short:
The Donut Mob, dir. by Stephen Bushnik

Cinematography:
The Nightmare Eater, dir. by Ruei-Ci Jhou

Cultural Impact:
The Enigmatic Power of a Bitch, dir. by Sharon Cleveland Blount

Director:
Ellie, dir. by Vinny O’Brien

Editing:
Over Coffee, dir. by Ger Skinder

Educational:
BirdBrains, Inc., dir. by Kayla Farber

Experimental Movie:
Spells Before Destiny, dir. by Akisai M.

Faith Based Movie:
The Best Gifts, dir. by CarrieAnn Lee

Family Film:
Cookie and Caramel, dir. by Sunghwan Lee

First-Time Filmmaker: 
Group, by William R.A. Rush

Gamer Video
How Am I Here, dir. by Mey Seifan, Tanween Collective, and Slowfuture

International Film:
Die in Seoul, dir. by Choi Hancho

Micro Short:
New Me, dir. by Chico Bennett

Music Video:
Dirty Freaken Joe – Sci-Fi Sam, dir. by Timothy A Bennett

Score:
Missing, dir. by Julian Scherle

Sound Design:
The Devil’s Entrance, dir. by Tom Michaels

Screenplay Adaptation:
The Twelve Brothers, by Jacqueline A. Blackwell and Rachael N. Blackwell

Trailer: 
Kill Two Birds, dir. by Marjoe Aguiling

Web Series: 
Cinching Saddles, dir. by Kevin Sengara and Aman Pannu

Youth Movie:
Vampire Sandwich, dir. by Ethan Wahamaki

YouTube Creation:
Prophecy Till the End of Time – Tui Bei Tu, dir. by Shihyun Wang

HONORABLE MENTION AWARDS

Long-Form Screenplay Honorable Mention
Aiden, by Michelle Cherland
Agency, by Helen Sun and Laura Malatos
Lucid Dreams, by Benjamin G Neuber
Sacred Sun, by Michael Louis Gould
The Colour of the Horse, dir. by Kristina Schippling
The Seduction of Ruby Jewel, by Donna Loehrer
This Thing of Ours, by Ben Monaco
The Warden, by Korea Black and Gianna Rose
Two Kinds of People, by Thomas Pace

Short-Form Screenplay Honorable Mention
Shut In, by Michael Morales
What Would Lombardi Say, by Patrick Cottington

Honorable Mention Movies
Clout Chaser, dir. by Lubomir Atan
DHĪ(ਧੀ): Daughter Bound by Society, dir. by Achint Singh
Jinn Chapter 1, dir. by Hamid Baig
Masquerade, dir. by Gina Salatino and Lucy Corey
Opaque Buckets, dir. by Hayden Bone
Odd/Even, dir. by Ya-Ting “Itchy” Yang
Shadows, dir. by Tom Lovegrin
Survival of the Sexiest, dir. by Sam Stewart
The Necklace, dir. by Kyle Gaunt
Wherever You Are, I Know You’re Dancing, dir. by Olga Hajnosz

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

#instaboys

12th of April

Agency

Aiden

Aria’s Sadness

Assassination of President Duke

Behind the Mystery of the Manor

Beyond Addicted

BirdBrains, Inc.

Bonnie

Bravely Chasing Beyond Sight ~ Sincere Vows

Breastfeeding with Affection and Care

Cave of Reckoning

Cinching Saddles

Clout Chaser

Code 10

Cookie and Caramel

Crashendo

Dark Alley

Daughter Bound by Society

Dear

Deception

Destiny -from the musical “This is Love”-

Die in Seoul

Dirty Freaken Joe – Sci-Fi Sam

Ellie

Empire of Sin

Enforcer of the Month

Fighters of no return

Finding Community

Free Lunch

Gaza Crisis 2023 – According to Nostradamus

Girls Like Me

Grant Sheehan: Light, Ghosts & Dreams

Group

Handsome Actor

Hikikomori

Holy Rollin’

Hong Kong – Final Days of Freedom

Hope

How am I Here?!

I Drum To A Different Puzzle

Jinn Chapter 1

Kill Two Birds

Late Night Edit

Lucid Dreams

Manufacturing Madness

Masquerade [Official Lyric Video]

Maybe This Time

Miracle At Manchester

Missing

Missing

MLFY

Moonlight Dancer

Morto-Vivo

Nathan

New Me

Newman’s Block

Nocturne

Odd/Even

Of the Comics – The Pilot: Being a Comedian

Older Self

On The Endless

One Is Too Many

One Second at a Time: Battling the Monster of Addiction

Opaque Buckets

Out the Womb Blue

Over Coffee

painted hopeful

paper

Planet Ocean Blues

Priced Out Of Paradise

Prince of Chicago

Prince of Peace

Prince of Peace

Prophecy till the end of time – Tui Bei Tu

Purple Sky – from the musical “This is Love”-

Rough Cut

Rudy Where Are You?

Sacred Sun

See Me Once More, My Dear Kid

Shadows

Shut In

Soul-Mates

Sow Don’t Sing – This Old Winner

Spells Before Destiny – from the musical “This is Love”-

Survival of the Sexiest

Text And Send

The Best Gifts

The Black Cross

The Colour of the Horse

The Devil’s Entrance

The Diamond

The Dog and The Duck

The Donut Mob

The Eastern Madonna Jinggu Chen

The Enigmatic Power Of A Bitch

The Matt Chat

The Necklace

The Nightmare Eater

The Painter

The Race of Our Lives

The Screecher

The Seduction of Ruby Jewel

The Twelve Brothers

The Ultimate Sacrifice

The Warden

This Thing Of Ours

Time X Loop V3

Two Kinds of People

unDEFILED

Vaklush

Vampire Sandwich

Walking with Savta

What Would Lombardi Say

Wherever you are, I know you are dancing

Wild Mustangs of the Sagebrush

With You

Youngbloods

Check out the Announcement on INFLUX Magazine!

DIAMOND AWARDS

Best Feature Film: Sword and Sorrow, Dir. Emad Rahmani, Mehrdad Mehrabi
Best Short: Personalized Futures, Dir. Max Delfino
Best Documentary Feature: Hometown Legends, Dir. Kolby Akamu Moser, Nainoa Langer
Best Documentary Short: GOAL: Same Game. New Players., Dir. Karen Arango
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Moksha, Written by Saurin Lakhia
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): The 22, Written by Amanda Gecewicz

Diamond Award Winners will receive a free lifetime membership to our new partner, the Independent Filmmakers Guild of America – You will receive a separate email regarding this in the next few days.

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Best Feature: Kanne Kalaimaane (Apple of Mye Eye, My Dearest), Dir. Seenu Ramasamy Ramakrishnan
Best Short: Five Questions, Dir. David Arrow
Best Documentary Feature: Becoming Tigers – A Water Polo Journey, Dir. Tony Melanson
Best Documentary Short: Mountains, Dir. Alex Knopf
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Familiar Realm, Written by Jose Montalvo
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Off the Path, Written by Richard Redlo

AWARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Best Feature: Troubleshooter, Dir. King Jeff
Best Short: Family Gone, Brian Stamper
Best Documentary Feature: Great White Encounters, Dir. Jason Perryman
Best Documentary Short: Aris Demetrios: Sculpture From The Heart, Dir. Josh Aronson
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): As Scared of You, Written by Jesse Dorian
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): My Dad F*cks, Written by Julia Linger

ADDITIONAL AWARDS

Actor in a Lead Role:
Sana, Sana; Andrew Galindo

Actress in a Lead Role:
Five Questions, Amber Paul

Animated Short:
In Love, Dir. Damien Bastelica

Cinematography:
Pete’s Peak, Dir. Trevor James

Credit Sequence:
KAD (Korean Adoptee), Katharin Mraz

Cultural Impact:
Ukraine, Ukraine (Half the World Away); Dir. Christine E. Whitten

Director:
The Last Target, Matthew Kui

Editing:
Vax, Dir. Barak Shpiez

Educational:
Healthy Hero, Dir. Satchin Panda

Ensemble Cast:
What Found Me In The Woods On a Night Like Tonight, Dir. Kelton Walsh White

Experimental Movie:
Mallard Ballet, Dir. Mary Piller

Faith Based Movie:
Decamp, Dir. Faye Viviana

Family Film:
The Note, Dir. Daniel Vidal Perez

First-Time Filmmaker:
Bare Luxuries, Dir. Armando Smith

International Film:
Forgotten Neighbours – A History Lesson, Dir. Andrzej Dudziński

Micro Short:
Bird’s Eye View, Dir. Yue Yang

Music Video:
Synthetic Me, Dir. Susan Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia

Score:
Omnitask, Dir. Mark Renken

Produced Screenplay:
Three A.M., Dir. Karen Trachtenberg

Sound Design: 
Folsom, Dir. Marlonino Banut

Trailer: 
Deforestation, Dir. Kyle Zanika

Web Series: 
Inland Empire, Dir. Renee J. Vaca

Youth Movie:
Bee the Solution, Dir. Charlotte Quintanar

YouTube Creation:
Decode the Mystery – A YouTuber Turned Filmmaker, Dir. Shihyun Wang

Screenplay (Long-Form) Finalists:

• Bounce, Written by Chris Manydeeds
• Dead Tooth, Written by Mitchell Jay Sulkess
• Flight Risk, Written by J.D. Brookshire
• Hazel the Viking, Written by Jim Norman
• Heroes, Just for One Day (Breaking Thick Ice), Written by Salvatore Riggio
• Hope and Faith – An Obsession of the Heart Part Two, Written by Adam Poulos
• Love, Beer, and Children; Written by James Bock
• Morituriosis, Written by Jesse Dorian
• On That Beach, Written by Felicity Fair Thompson
• The Garden of Earthly Delights, Written by Steven Howard
• The Pickleball Killer, Written by Jim Carroll

Screenplay (Short-Form) Finalists:

• A New Believer / Refound Faith, Written by Ellie Mae Louise Smith
• Applause, Written by Kat Sparks
• Asherah’s Colors II, Written by Gary Mazeffa
• Dinner with Dante, Written by Katherine Diane Schimmel
• Do Unto Others, Written by Joseph Michael Leone
• In Between, Written by Ryan Chong-Chun Huang
• The Leading Star, Written by Sophia Chou, Todd Lien

Short Honorable Mention:

• American Dream, Dir. Wayne Knight
• Big Momma Earth, Dir. Santiago Calogero
• Crickets, Dir. Macie Rose O’Neil
• Deserted, Dir. Gabrielle Thomas
• HoneyPill, Dir. Christopher Saucedo-Sandoval
• Rare Land, Dir. Ethimis Hatzis
• Talk Back, Dir. Alec Cohen
• Tattoo, Dir. Liam Andrew Karp
• The Sacred Bees, Dir. Kay Qiao
• Use Your Intuition, Dir. Orlando A. Joubert A., Jr.
• Who Knows, Dir. Brandon Rozo
• Wolves, Dir. Elias Garza

Documentary Feature Honorable Mention:

• Don’t Turn Your Back on Friday Night, Dir. Mike Schmiedeler, Michael O’Brien
• Hollywood’s Pastor: The H.K. Rasbach Story, Dir. Darryl M. Haase
• Invisible Corps, Dir. Chris Schueler
• Julian: A Jiu Jitsu Story, Dir. Max A. Bloom
• Palm Springs Air Museum “Women in Aviation,” Dir. Phillip Large
• The Quilt: A Living History of African American Music, Dir. Julya Jara

Documentary Short Honorable Mention:

• Bruce’s Beach: A Catalyst for Reparations? Dir. Swika Sampat
• Chistina Zenato and the Reef Shark Connection, Dir. Jason Perryman
• Dysability, Shihyun Wang

You can also see the announcement of winners in INFLUX Magazine!

Click on the Award Categories Below to See the Winners!

All winners and Finalists are posted here. While we can’t give everyone awards, being an Official Selection is a great achievement, worthy of recognition and we congratulate each and every filmmaker and screenwriter!

Diamond Award Winners, Award of Excellence Winners, Award of Achievement Winners, and Additional Categories can click on the “8×10” printable certificate and download the image.

DIAMOND AWARDS

Best in Show: Fantasy of Companionship Between Human and Inanimate / Dir. Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan
Best Feature Film: Dying to Sleep / Dir. Paris Dylan
Best Short: Stars of Gold / Dir. Michelle Wolett
Best Documentary Feature: From Food to Freedom / Dir. Nelson Campbell
Best Documentary Short: Free to Run / Dir. Carrie Highman, Tim Highman
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): The Merchant by Jesse Mattson, Bobby Davison
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Neath Port Talbot by Jesse Mattson

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Best Feature: Tinaash / Dir. Boudy Sfeir
Best Short: Tristan’s Plight / Dir. Curtis K Case
Best Documentary Feature: Shiran Ebadi: Until We Are Free / Dir. Dawn Gifford Engle
Best Documentary Short: The Halls of Power / Dir. Janay Joseph, Graciel Quezada, Bianca Vucetich
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Soul Survivors – An Obsession of the Heart Part One by Adam Poulos
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Pietra Fredda by Matthew Nicholson

AWARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Best Feature: Adalynn / Dir. Jake Byrd
Best Short: Vietnamese Coffee / Dir. Joseph Stanley Francis
Best Documentary Feature: I am, I Stay, I Smile / Dir. Montse Bertran Arqué
Best Documentary Short: Interim / Dir. Heath Yorke Bannard
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Once Upon Another Life by Carol Capomaccio
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Pripyat by Alicia Hayes

ADDITIONAL AWARDS

Best Actor in a Lead Role: Timmy Walczak / One Man Picture Show or The Modern Tragedy of Creation

Best Actress in a Lead Role: Paige Laree Poucel / Routine

Best Ensemble Cast: Chateau Laurier Season 2 / Dir. James Stewart

Best International Film: Teleportation / Dir. Susan Mey Lee Lim

Best Animated Short: Fantasy of Companionship Between Human and Inanimate / Dir. Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan

Best Music Video: The Cows Come Home / Dir. Haley Ahern

Best Micro Short: The Liberty Bell Museum / Dir. Carter Stoudt

Best Web Series: Sex Change / Dir. Timothy O’Shea

Best Youth Movie: No Time to Explain / Dir. Oscar Myles

Best First-Time Filmmaker: Misophonia / Dir. Angel Alvarez

Best Editing: Embers of Awakening: From Firestorms to Climate Healing / Dir. Phyllis Ann Rosenfield

Best Score: Down and Out in Vampire Hills / Dir. Craig Railsback

Best Sound Design: Chateau Laurier Season 2 / Dir. James Stewart

Best Cinematography: Voler – Love, Loss and Moving On / Dir. Mrunal Mestri

Best Experimental Movie: Somnia Corvus / Dir. Stevie Alexandria Maxwell, Paul Van Beaumont

Best Trailer: Staycation / Dir. Russell Emanuel

Best YouTube Creation: Queen Elizabeth / Dir. Shihyun Wang

Screenplay (Long-Form) Finalists:

Christmas Latte by Miriam E. Bavly
Da Fast Lane by Raymond Williams Williams, David Vernon
Horace Bell by Steven Wayne Knight, Elizabeth Baldwin Knight
Love in Italy by Sena Tunali
Single at Christmas by Joseph Anthony Francis

Screenplay (Short-Form) Finalists:

Biters and Bleeders by Charlie Carson Monroe
GeoAnthem by John Martins III
It’s All Good… Not by Lawrence Whitener
Kim-Ly and the Bottled Up Emotions by Anh Le
The Light of Hassia by Dr Angelina Yue

Feature Honorable Mention:

One Man Picture Show or The Modern Tragedy of Creation / Dir. Timmy Walczak
Todd / Dir. Aaron Warren

Short Honorable Mention:

7 Years / Dir. Andrew Sindt
Ashes / Dir. Cagan Kayi
Disconnected / Dir. Dave Shecter, Earl Gray
Fig Jam / Dir. Frank J. Avella
Forgetting Chloe / Dir. Maiqi Zuo
Grave Talk / Dir. Andrew Huggins
Made in China / Dir.  Stacy Singh
Panah / Dir. Fatemeh Ghadirinezhadian
The One Hundred / Dir. Shihyun Wang
tRuth / Dir. Sylvie Zaidman, Nic Shake

Documentary Feature Honorable Mention:

A Wolf in the Asylum / James Lilly
Science for Hire / Dir. Gary Null

Documentary Short Honorable Mention:

Living the Hospitality Lifestyle / Dir. Fabio Ciccarelli
When the Dust Clears / Leo Kang, Sam Lam

Screenplay Honorable Mention:

Bug Soup by Richard Scott Pool
Forever After by Emil Faithe
Night Terrors by Kenneth Hicks, Anne Rothman-Hicks
No Address by Julia Verdin, James Papa
Runaway Ship by Theodore Carl Soderberg
Six Impossible Things by Amanda Nitsa Oz
Soul Work by Dan Roentsch
The Tale of Jean Pierrer by Dijon Marquise McIntyre
The Trap by Nate Scott Plotkin, Nick Ford
The War on Christmas by Karl Larsson

DIAMOND AWARDS

Best Feature:  Inochi-Tendenko (Life for Tomorrow)
Best Short: Everything I Could
Best Documentary Feature:  2005 Nights and Days
Best Documentary Short: Saving Robin Williams: As Told in His Own Words
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Mutiny in the Dugout, Rod Kent
Best Screenplay (Short-Form):  Vinyl Taped Mary Jane, Angel Hilson

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Best Feature: Third Act
Best Short:  Love Me, Then Die!
Best Documentary Feature:  Freshwater
Best Documentary Short:  Behind the Loom
Best Screenplay (Long-Form):  Dyscendant, Christopher Goodenough
Best Screenplay (Short-Form):  A Merry Scary Holiday Card, Eric Faulkner

AWARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Best Feature: Shadow of the Night
Best Short:  Pieces of Life
Best Documentary Feature:  Send Proof
Best Documentary Short:  Digital Champions Leading the Fight Against FGM in Tanzania
Best Screenplay (Long-Form):  Don’t Change Your Husband, John McCloskey
Best Screenplay (Short-Form):  After the Fall, Keith Houk

CATEGORY AWARDS

Listed Alphabetically by Category

Best Actor in a Lead Role:  Ben Cable, Everything I Could

Best Actress in a Lead Role:  Mayella Lloclla, A Stranger at the Funeral

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:  Ana Maria Estrada, A Stranger at the Funeral

Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Gianfranco Mejia, A Stranger at the Funeral

Best Adaptation:  The Last Act, Jenn Whittaker

Best Animated Short:  12 & 1/2 Cents

Best Cinematography:  Freshwater

Best Director:  The Last Hope: A Star Wars Fan Film, Ezequiel Martinez, Jr.

Best Editing:  Freshwater

Best Experimental Movie: Manjista

Best Faith Based Movie:  GodChaserz The Documentary

Best First-Time Filmmaker:  Third Act – Doug Montoya

Best International Movie:  Mom’s War Time Stories

Best Micro Short:  The Harmony of Opposites

Best Music Video:  Psychotic Domain

Best Score:  Third Act

Best Sound Design:  Tea Leaf

Best Web Series:  WIC 300

Best Youth Movie:  Wave Rider

FINALISTS

Best Long-Form Screenplay Finalists:

Amy and Angel, Julia Verdin and Deedee Benkovich
First Comes Death, Christopher Goodenough
Forces of Decadence, Phillip Hollins
Iggy, Taylor Pike
The Abyss and the Shore, Daniel E. Garcia

Best Short-Form Screenplay Finalists:

Not So Different, Soda S. Persi
Sleeps Like the Dead, Peter Hardy
The Elderly Influencer, Eric Faulkner
The Third Wheel, Nicholas William Tell
What’s the Worst that can Happen? Joseph Michael Leone

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS LISTED A-Z

12 & 1/2 cents
2005 Nights and Days
A Merry Scary Holiday Card
A Stranger at the Funeral
Above Ground
After the Fall
Amy and Angel
Bad Love Tigers
Behind The Loom
Beyond The Mountain – Darkness Rises
Birthday Boy
Blackballed
Bound
Broducers
Constant
Daphne M.
Digital Champions Leading the Fight Against FGM in Tanzania
Don’t Change Your Husband
Dresses
Dyscendant
Everything I Could
Finding Inner Hero
First Comes Death
Forces of Decadence
Freshwater
GodChaserz The Documentary
Goodbye Rosaline
Hey Hun
I Dream a World
I Drum to a Different Puzzle
Iggy
Inochi-Tendenko – Life For Tomorrow
London Gangstah
Love at First Christmas
Love Me, Then Die!
Low Fidelity
Manjista
Marceline Day Documentary
Mom’s war time stories
Mutiny In The Dugout
Nesselrode
Not So Different
OMA
Parker Williams is Fucking Crazy
Pieces of Life
Pillow Fight
Positronic
Psychotic Domain
Roarnaissance
Saving Robin Williams – As Told in His Own Words
Send Proof
Shadow of the Night- SFA
Sleeps Like the Dead
Tantalizing Tales of Terror to Terrorize
Tea Leaf
Teacups are Smiling
The Abyss and The Shore
The Elderly Influencer
The Girl With The Screwdrivers
The Gunslinger’s Legacy
The Harmony of Opposites
The Jewish Jail Lady and The Holy Thief
The Last Act
The Lastt Hope: A Star Wars Fan Film
The MixTape
The Third Wheel
The Woods
Third Act
Vinyl Taped Mary Jane
Wave Rider
What’s the Worst that Can Happen?
WIC 300
Zombie Resurrection

DIAMOND AWARDS

Best in Show: Lolo
Best Feature: Lolo
Best Short: The Last Bullet
Best Documentary Feature: The Five Priests
Best Documentary Short: A Second Chance
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Bloodlines: The Magadishu Diaries (19921993) by Eddie Clay Thompkins III
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Hard as it Gets by Darren Haskins

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Best Feature: The Chimera Effect
Best Short: The Witch’s Bargain
Best Documentary Feature: Fighting for Daybreak
Best Documentary Short: The Pigeon Lady
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): End of Days by Danny Alex
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Yesterday Never Ended by Bryan Huynh

AWARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Best Feature:  America v2.1: The Sad Demise & Eventual Extinction of the American Negro
Best Short: The God Can
Best Documentary Feature: Carlos: Being of Light
Best Documentary Short:  Omicron According to Nostradamus
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Redemption by Joshua Allen
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Land of Rainbow by Mahmoud Salimi

CATEGORY AWARDS

Listed Alphabetically by Category

Best Actor in a Lead Role: A Good Guy, Michael Callaghan

Best Actress in a Lead Role: Lolo, Blanca Isabella

Best Actor in a Supporting Role: The 2:11 Home, Michael Gannt

Best Actress in a Supporting Role: The 2:11 Home, Sharonne Lanier

Best Adaptation: Night, Mother

Best Animated Short: Blind Date

Best Cinematography: Bloody Romeo

Best Cultural Impact Movie: The Fellowship of the Springs

Best Credit Sequence: Bloody Romeo

Best Director: The Witch’s Bargain, Corey Tran

Best Editing: Bloody Romeo

Best Experimental Movie: Another Beautiful Day

Best Faith Based Movie: The 2:11 Home

Best First-Time Filmmaker: Courage, Nourah Al Hasawi

Best International Movie: Gift

Best Micro Short: Giselle

Best Music Video: Lovely

Best Score: Compassion

Best Screenplay (produced): Lolo by Chris Banda

Best Sound Design: Another Beautiful Day

Best Trailer: The Chimera Effect

Best Web Series: Unapologetic

Best Youth Movie: A Second Chance

Best YouTube Creators Movie: Movie Lines with Skye

FINALISTS

Best Long-Form Screenplay Finalists:

A Reason to Be by Norman McCombs

Akition T-4 by John Martins III

Children of a Fatherless Child by Robert J. Morgalo

Don’t Forget Me by Danny Alex

Mac + Beth by Jaime Kawamoto

Mortal Path Series: Bound by Blood by Dakota Banks

Mutiny in the Dugout by Rod Kent

Obadiah by Tony Schweikle

Oh Shit, is This a Love Story, by Matthew Perez

Best Short-Form Screenplay Finalists:

I Dream Analyze Genie by David Creighton

Food, USA by Jesse Mattson and Sam Mattson

Mister Magenta by George Washington Orange III

Ren-Fair by Jesse Mattson and Sam Mattson

The Feed by Mila Golubov

The Out-Fit by Jessica Rookeward

DIAMOND AWARDS

Best in Show: STAND UP! Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
Best Feature: Girl Next
Best Short: Haaman
Best Documentary Feature: They Survived Together
Best Documentary Short: Desiderata
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Secret Library, Laurel King
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Say It, Jaimy Gardner

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Best Feature: The Dunes
Best Short: The Empty Chair
Best Documentary Feature: Transcend: A Boogie Frantick Story
Best Documentary Short: Spear Avenue
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): The Phantom Council, Joseph Leone
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Cold Service, Peter Strupp

AWARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Best Feature: The Chosen Path
Best Short: Incognito
Best Documentary Feature: The Cost of Denial
Best Documentary Short: An Afternoon at Denny Moe’s
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Ballad of the Blood Moon Queen, Lawrence DeGala
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Term Paper, Peter Hardy

CATEGORY AWARDS

Listed Alphabetically by Category

Best Actor in a Lead Role: Martin Copping, The Dunes

Best Actress in a Lead Role: Patricia McCormack, Myrtle

Best Animated Short: Stereotype

Best Cinematography: Les Nortes

Best Cultural Impact Movie: Spear Avenue

Best Director: Timo Jacobs | STAND UP! Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places

Best Editing: Myrtle

Best Experimental Movie: 2 Feet

Best Faith Based Movie: Faith Interrupted

Best First-Time Filmmaker: Growing Peace in the Middle East, Steven Hoffen

Best International Movie: Soft Rain

Best Micro Short: Torn

Best Music Video: Boy Scientist

Best Score: The Chosen Path

Best Sound Design: Boy Scientist 

Best Trailer: Providence

Best Web Series: The Anomalous

Best Youth Movie: Hand Me Down

Best YouTube Creators Movie: The Package

FINALISTS

Best Feature Film Finalists:

Cold Service
The Anorak
Wish You Were Here

Best Short Film Finalists:

Dreams to Reality
Elza
Mama’s Boy
Myrtle
Parked
Spear Avenue
The Dark Valley
Vande Maatam

Best Documentary Feature Finalists:

In Their Honour
Film-Wen
Lost in Berlin

Best Documentary Short Finalists:

Matrilineal Societies and “Male Only” Clubs
The Reality of Abandoned Dogs in South Korea
As Organism (Episode 1)

Best Screenplay (Long-Form) Finalists:

A Relative Unknown, Lynne Logan
I Hate Cindy Lovelet, Paul Anthony Surdi
Lost in Control, Maria Massei-Rosato
Lusitania, Christopher Saunders
Out of my Comfort Zone, Ivy Vale and Rick Reil
The Grizzly, Sid Kramer

Best Screenplay (Short-Form) Finalists:

A Package of Dreams, Bradley M. Look
Daddy Diaper Diaries, Bruce Chapnick
Moments, Robert Bowers
The Dying Lesson, Michael Miles
Yachatz, Dawna Sirard

DIAMOND AWARDS

Best in Show: Love is not Love
Best Feature Film: Your Musical is Cancelled: The Musical!
Best Short: Brother Troll
Best Documentary Feature: Lens Flares: Trauma in Journalism
Best Documentary Short: SPARK: A Systemic Racism Story
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Leaf Blower Armageddon, Hal LaCroix
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): The Magician’s Assistant, Caledonia Hanson

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Best Feature: Guerrero Dos Tuloy Ang Laban (The Fight Continues)
Best Short: Not Your Average Bear
Best Documentary Feature: Alzheimer
Best Documentary Short: Too Good to be Forgotten
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): I Don’t Know, Arthur Tiersky
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Lone, Bill Redding

AWARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Best Feature: I Married my Mother
Best Short: The Feeding
Best Documentary Feature: Open Field
Best Documentary Short: Undue
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): The Night Witches, Steven Prowse
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Evening of the Evil Eye, Angel Connell

ADDITIONAL AWARDS

Best Actor in a Lead Role: Jared Root, Forever Four

Best Actress in a Lead Role: Alejandra Gollas, Love is not Love

Best Supporting Actor: Russell Simpson, Love is not Love

Best Supporting Actress: Tonya Cornelisse, Love is not Love

Best Adaptation: Ex-Con

Best Animated Short: Synth Rebirth

Best Music Video: Unholy Roller

Best Micro Short: Fireside Classics

Best Faith Based Movie: Deep Inside

Best Cultural Impact Movie: Naturally

Best Web Series: Placebo

Best Youth Movie: Crisis in the City by the Bay

Best First-Time Filmmaker: The Greek Accusative

Best Editing: Love is not Love

Best Score: Lens Flares: Trauma in Journalism

Best Sound Design: Deep Inside

Best Cinematography: The Feeding

Best Experimental Movie: Family, Friends, Love and Aftershock

Best Credit Sequence: A Score in Vinyl

FINALISTS

The following ‘Primary Categories’ were narrowed down to finalists as follows; the award winners were then chosen from there:

Best Feature Finalist:

• Original Gangster
• The Colour of Spring
• Deep Inside

Best Short Finalists:

• A Matter of War
• Happy Rolls
• Letting Go
• My Love, Our Love
• This Thing of Ours
• Thoughts and Prayers
• Virtuouso
• Ain’t that a Kick in the Head
• Brightside
• Dead or Die
• How to Fall in Love in a Brothel
• RAW

Best Documentary Feature Finalists:

• Columbus in Cuba
• Last Chance Solo: A Death Valley Adventure
• The DS King
• Last Call for Tomorrow
• Backstreet to the American Dream
• Children of Disease

Best Documentary Short Finalists:

• Lady Anne
• Ride the Point

Best Screenplay (Long-Form) Finalists:

• Closure, Edson McClellan
• Duty, Anthony Ford
• Eke’Bolos, Stephen Settle
• How I Ruined my Best Friend’s Wedding, Nick Kempton
• Lovers, Liars, and Angeles, Peter Sawczynec
• Pass Me Over, Amanda Lamarr
• Resisters, Cecil Brewer
• Retirement Road Trip, Joe Leone
• Templin Highway, William Prosser
• The Adventures of Willow and Oliver, Rain Story
• The Death of Jeremy, David A. Seader
• The Embalmer, Duncan Campbell

Best Screenplay (Short-Form) Finalists:

• All the Time in the World, Nick Kempton
• Over and Out, Callie LeClaire
• Clay, Danny Irizarry
• New Moon 5280, Dean Harakas
• Vulpecula, Ashwin Shrindhar

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS A-Z

1969 And Almost Free

2019/2020

A Matter Of War

A Score in the Vinyl

Broken Arrow

Above the borders

Above The Horizon

Ada

Adam Troy featuring Seven the General – We have ups and downs

After This

Ain’t That a Kick in the Head

All the Time in the World

Alzheimer

Amidst my Own

Amy From Outer Space

Ashes to Ashes

Backstreet to the American Dream (English Animation)

Beach Baby

Because I Want To

Behind The Wall

Berlin Loop: Stresow Station

Better Days The Movie

Black Mold

Bouncy House

Breakfast In Saigon

BRICKBAT

Brightside

Brother Troll

Call Me Thor

Calling Cards

Children of Disease

Choices

Chupacabra (The Beginning)

CLAY

Closure

Columbus in Cuba

Come On, Harleen (Trailer 1)

Creating Beauty

Crisis In The City By The Bay

Dala

Dare To Love

DEAD OR DIE

Death Cross of the Inca

Deep Inside

Delightful

Dimitri & The Scarecrow – Little Raven’s Lullaby (Official Music Video)

Discarded

Don Milagro

Duty

EKE’BOLOS

Evening of the Evil Eye

Ex-Con

Faith, Hoop, & Charity

Family, friends, love and aftershock

Fireside Classics

Fireside Classics

Fist of the Dragon Tiger

Flaws of an Everlasting Memory

Fleedom

Flophouse

For Money Or Love

Forever Four

Forever Four

Guerrero Dos Tuloy Ang Laban (The Fight Continues)

Guns & God: “Lines in the Sand”

Happy Rolls

He Too

Heathcliff

Heaven Schmevin

Hell’s Belle

Hiding in plain sight

Hiding in plain sight

How I Ruined My Best Friend’s Wedding

How to Fall in Love in a Brothel

Hysteresis

I Care, But I’m Done Trying

I Don’t Know

I MARRIED MY MOTHER

I Need Hope

If it isn’t Love

Illuminated

I’m in Love

Imposter Syndrome

Kill Button

Lady Anne

Lakes

Lanier

Last Call

Last Call for Tomorrow

Last Chance Solo: A Death Valley Adventure

Leaf Blower Armageddon

Lens Flares: Trauma in Journalism

Letting Go

Like Water

Lone

Love is not Love

Love Letter

Lovers, Liars & Angels

Magdalena

Manasanamaha

Mia

Modoru

My love, our love

Myrtle

NATURALLY

New Moon 5280

Not Your Average Bear

Open Field

Original Gangster

Out of Chaos, An Artist’s Journey

Over and Out

Pass Me Over

PING!: “Oh, Theo!”

Placebo

Poker

Q-Ville

RAW

Reaper Mom

Red Steel Dawn – Music Video

Resisters

Retirement Road Trip

Revenge Status

Riddim

Ride the Point

Roon Staal – Dreamer

Scoot

shadowland

Shadows Over Sulphur Falls

Silver Flask

Something Scary

SPARK: A Systemic Racism Story

Stick To Manual

STRANGE BREATHIN

Sugar

Sweetie Pie

Synth Rebirth

Taiwan- my home

Templin Highway

The Adventures of Willow & Oliver

The Colour of Spring

The Dance

The Death of Jeremy

The Devil and the Angel

The Dinner

The DS King

The Embalmer

The Feeding

The Fourth Force

The Greek Accusative

The Lies We Tell Ourselves

The Magician’s Assistant

The Man on the Bus

The Master

The Mentor

The Night Witches

The Offline Experiment

THE ONIKUMA

The Overpass

The Postcard

The Spring Break Haunting

The Stain

The View From My Heart (pdf)

The Walk

Therapy Dogs

This Thing of Ours

Thoughts and Prayers

Time

Too Good to be Forgotten

Tree o’ mine

Tuck n Celia

Undue

UNHOLY ROLLER

Vik

Vincent and Paul: Unspoken Brotherhood

Virtuoso

Vulpecula

Warball

WOLVES

Your Musical is Cancelled: The Musical!

Zero Stars

DIAMOND AWARDS

Best in Show: Collision (Mehdi Avaz)
Best Feature Film: Depth of Pyaar (Mukesh Asopa)
Best Short: Spark (Charles Benevento, Matthew Colglazier)
Best Documentary Feature: The Hidden Map (Ani Hovannisian)
Best Documentary Short: Claire (Nick Reed, Ryan Azevedo)
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Coop (Joe Leone)
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Last Thursday (Kevin Machate)

 AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Best Feature: The Council (JayTee Thompson)
Best Short: The McHenry Trial – Don’t Judge a Kid by Their Hoodie (Ken Sagoes)
Best Documentary Short: What if (Noah Berlow)
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Seraphim’s Miracle (Jeremy Storey)
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Bronko and Dorothy (John T. Frederick)

 AWARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Best Feature: John, 316 (Jarvis Greiner)
Best Short: January 14^th (La’Chris Jordan)
Best Documentary Feature: The One and Only Jewish Miss America (David Arond)
Best Documentary Short: Land of the Sweets: The Burlesque Nutcracker (Deirdre Allen Timmons)
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Local Curse (Bryan Bakker)
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Paddy’s Tonsorial Emporium (Ronald Milburn)

 ADDITIONAL AWARDS

Best Actor in a Lead Role: The Deft (Dawson Ehlke)

Best Actress in a Lead Role: Lost and Found (Dezmyre Volmeus)

Best Supporting Actor: Lost and Found (Chidi Ajufo)

Best Supporting Actress: Tina (Dianna Renee)

Best Animated Short: Spark (Charles Benevento, Matthew Colglazier)

Best Music Video: Red Omen (Ed Roman)

Best Micro Short: Ecclesiastes (Lola Rùi)

Best Faith Based Movie: Blanche (Twila LaBar)

Best Educational/Training Movie: The Modern Makers (Julia Griffey)

Best Cultural Impact Movie: Another Yesterday (Steven Heil)

Best Web Series: Auto Boss (Kylie Hitchcock)

Best Youth Movie: Left Behind (Maggie Ding)

Best First-Time Filmmaker: Paese Che Vai – When in Rome (Luca Padrini)

Best Editing: CrossTown (After the Glow)

Best Score: Matryoshka (Silvio Buchmeier)

Best Cinematography: Collision

Best Adaptation: Tina (Shihyun Wang)

Best Experimental Movie: ‘Berta Boys (Kyle Terrence)

Best Trailer: The Equilibrist with the Star (Davide Campagna)

FINALISTS

Best Feature Finalist:

In Love with Ally Barker (Chris and Robert Smellin)
Another Yesterday (Steven Heil)
Pendulum (Amir Ganjavie)
What the Birds Want (Sudha Radhika)
Lost and Found (Dezmyre Volmeus)

Best Short Finalists:

John Van Hamersveld Crazy World Ain’t it
Fran
Irritable Heart
Matryoshka

Best Documentary Feature Finalists:

Counter Histories: Rock Hill
When Winter Becomes Summer
Put Your Hand on the Line
The New Abolitionists
Brokelahoma
Pipetown, USA

Best Documentary Short Finalists:

Swipe Left: The Age of Disposable Relationships
Fight for the Bight
Green up! Revisiting Classics
Farestart: Perspective
Everything is Sound
In the Same Direction: Jeff Pifher & Socrates’ Trial

Best Screenplay (Long-Form) Finalists:

At the Mercy of Faith (Samuel Taylor)
Death with Dice (Dean Harakas)
The Real Thing (Matthew Papadopoulos)
Face Painters (Giovanni Sanseviero)

Best Screenplay (Short-Form) Finalists:

Roadrunner (Josh Madden)
The Cry of the Red Cardinal (Cassandra Phillips)
A Vacation (McCaleb Burnett)
Reaper Mom (Ben Yates)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS A-Z

2:59

A Blue Dwarf’s Tale

A Girl Called Johnnie

A Great Body of Salt

A Holiday Sensation

A NEED FOR SOMETHING NEW

A Vacation

Allured II

Alternate Ground

Amazingly Amy

American Breakdown

American Mascot

Amicus

Angel in Disguise

Another Plan From Outer Space

Another Yesterday

Apocalyptic Life

At a Crossroads

At the Mercy of Faith

Ausencia

Auto Boss – 2 episodes

Away With My Heart

Back in The NO

Barry & Harry The Movie

Benny B

‘Berta Boys

Birds of a Feather

Black Lives Matter

Black Star Rising

Blanche

Boondax

Bottled Up

Break The Chains

Brokelahoma

BRONKO AND DOROTHY

Brook Farm

CAN YOU SEE ME?

Canes Creek

Cat Scratch Fever (The Cat Video)

Cherry Swamp Road

Claire

Collision

Come Away with Me

Community Resources

COOP

Counter Histories: Rock Hill

Covid Rockin’

COVID-19 THE APOCALYPSE

Cracked Mirrors

CrossTown (after the Glow)

Curb Service

DAYVISION Films Presents: FOCUS

Dear Black Son

Death Whispers

Death With Dice

DEPTH OF PYAAR

Diagnosing Healthcare

DIRE CONSEQUENCES

Don’t Breathe

Don’t You Know Who I Am?

Dreams of Petaluma

Duplicate Parallels

Earth Defence Force

Ecclesiastes

Edge of the Woods

Ei8hty-Ei8ht

Elvis & Jesse

Energy

Escape: Heart Conditions

Everything Is Sound

Face Painters

Fall of Grace

Fall of Men

Fame Fatale

FARESTART : Perspective

Fight For The Bight

Finney’s Wake

Forever After

Fran

Frank

Get Together !

GREEN UP! Revisiting Classics

Have You Seen The Bears?

Heard

HEROE

Hiding in the Spotlight

High Striker

how we fight

Identity

If the streets are my home

In Love with Ally Barker

In the Land of Angels

In the Same Direction: Jeff Pifher & Socrates’ Trial

Infinite Jest

Innocent One

Irritable Heart

It Means

January 14th

John Van Hamersveld CRAZY WORLD AIN’T IT

John, 316

Kumiho: Legend of the Jades

Land of the Sweets: The Burlesque Nutcracker

Last Hope

Last Thursday

Left Behind

Light

Like Daughter, Like Mother

Little Things Mean a Lot

Living in the past

Local Curse (NEW TITLE: The Legend of Tom Zombie)

Los Angeles film project 2

Losing Addison

Lost and Found

Love Life

LURE

Made In America

Married and Loving It!

Mars is Ours

Matryoshka

Mot – King of the Hill

Nepenthe

NORTHLAND (7)

On a Strange Day

On Top of the World

One Last For My Heart

One Way Out

Optimism

Oscar’s Will

Paddy’s Tonsorial Emporium

Paese Che Vai – When In Rome

PanoptiCo

Pendulum

Perfect World

Pink Boa

Pipetown, USA

Prathibimbam (Reflection)

Prayer

Promises

Put Your Hand on the Line

Reaper Mom

Red

Red Omen – Ed Roman

Reefer

Remembering Private Quagliano

Review

Rio San Pedro

Road Trippy

Roadrunner

Rosa

SaaSy

Screw The Cow

SECTION C4

Senseless Confidential

Seraphim’s Miracle

Series Overview: The Peaceful Revolution

Sideshow Artist Profile : Matthew Black

Silent Oppressors

Song For Me

Songs that Never End

Soul Passage

Southern Salvation

Spark

Speak The Speech

Studying Stone

Sweet Sunshine

Swipe Left: The Age of Disposable Relationships

Sycamore

The Anthony Show

The Council

The Cry of the Red Cardinal

The Dalai Lama: Scientist

The Deft

The Dental Plan (Vimeo Link WJ)

The Devil’s Hour

The Equilibrist with the star

The Free Agent Fan

The Grave

The Hidden Map

The Importance of Proper Lawn Maintenance

The Last Regret

The Loser’s Club

The McHenry Trial – Don’t Judge a Kid by Their Hoodie

The Modern Makers

The New Abolitionists

The One and Only Jewish Miss America

The Pewter Bros.

The Processed

The Quarantine Rag

The Real Thing

The Second Coming of John Cooper

The Show Can’t Go On!

The Tree Movie

This webtoon-like web drama. (very very very season3)

Tina

To Verdict

Touch Gloves

TRAILER: CrossTown (after the Glow)

Train to Bibury

Uber Thoughts

Unlucky Number 7

Versailles, Florida

Virus – Death Valley

WADAYAZE

Walks Among Us

What If…

WHAT THE BIRDS WANT TO SAY

WHEN 2 WRONGS

When Winter Bocomes Summer

Who Won the War

Wildflowers

Windblown

Without Grace

Women

Woodpusher

WRONG ANSWER

YARD SALE

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

You’re the Kinda Guy

Zader Law

Season 10, 2014

Audience Choice Awards: Shadow

1. Award for Achievement in International Filmmaking
Time to Kill, Directed by Justin Rettke

2. Screenplay Short-Form Finalists
Le Coeur Malchanceux | Charlie Leitner | Short Form

3. Award for Achievement in Micro-Short, Youth Movement, Animation or Music Video
The Champion, Directed by Jaclyn Noel

4. Award for Achievement in Student Filmmaking
Ghost Light, Directed by PJ Germain

5. Screenplay Long-Form Finalist
Letters to Linn | Andrew Trainor | Long Form

6. Award for Achievement in Local Filmmaking
Restoration of Paradise, Directed by Russell Emanuel

7. Award for achievement in Documentary Filmmaking
Breaking the Spectrum, Directed by Alex Lancial

8. Award for Achievement in Cinematography
Basil Mironer, Seahorses(May be here, Director Jason Kartalian

9. Award for Achievement in Short Filmmaking
The Hideout, Directed by Daniel Wahlen

10. Achievement in Acting – Actor
Ian Hutton, Seahorses

11. Achievement in Acting – Actress
Constance Brenneman, The Toy Soldiers

12. Award for Achievement in Feature Filmmaking
The Backseat, Directed by Ryan O’Leary

13. Award for Achivement in Directing presented by Birns and Sawyer
Chris Reese, The Conversation

14.Golden Ticket (Best-in-the-Fest, Jury Prize) presented by Acura
Seahorses, Directed by Jason Kartalian

Screenplay Finalists 

There are individual awards for both Long Form and Short Form Screenplays.

Title | Writer | Format

Brother Billy | Brian Hightman | Long Form

Hold My Hand | Michael Dotson | Short Form

Rock Tarpeian | Salvatore Bono | Long Form

Le Coeur Malchanceux | Charlie Leitner | Short Form

National Pastime | David Lieto | Short Form

Fast Money | Christian Robinson | Long Form

Daughter of a Son of a Sailor | Katie Waldron | Short Form

Headsman | Steven Langridge | Short Form

The Story of Sol | Craig Warren | Short Form

Zoe and the Zebra | Vicki Peterson | Long Form

FourPlay | John Harris | Long Form

Letters to Linn | Andrew Trainor | Long Form

A Clash Of Iron | Richard Reed | Long Form

Slave | Alejandro Sesma | Long Form

They Call ‘m the Hook! | Giovanni Sanseviero | Long Form

Penance | Annette Sanchez | Short Form

Double Mary | J.G. Wu | Short Form

Stages | Ron Podell | Long Form

Honorary Awards

Lifetime Special Achievement Awards

Margaret O’Brien

Randal Malone

2014 Official Selections (A-Z) 

Title | Director

A Good Book Has No Ending | Luke Graham

Ahora Si Llego! | Sanzi Desiderio

Among The Innocent | Louis Mansfield

Any Other Way Music Video | Dillon Garland

Anything Made of Paper | Brandon Ray, Pat Kondelis

Aquarium | Philippe Grégoire

Aria | Marvin Willis

Black Rock Creek | Malone Lumarda

Blind Silence | Isaiah Taylor

Breaking the Spectrum | Alex Lancial

Cassandra | Guy-Roger Duvert

Chelsea’s Light: A Brother’s Journey | Bruce Caulk

Complementary | Christopher Zappe

Dolls | Kelly Holmes

El Camino Real | David McClendon

Excess Baggage | Chantal Massuh-Fox

Fallen Sun | Ivan Andrijanic

Finding Neptune | Tosin Coker

Fit to Be Tied | Bobby Grubic

for the love of dogs | Tim O’Donnell

Freak | Joshua Cockfield

From the Heart of Brahma | Carl Off and Robert Douglas

Front | Kevin Wright

Ghost Light | PJ Germain

Give & Take | Scott Andrew Kurchak

God’s name in vain | Alli Sadegiani

Good Behavior | Clark Kohanek

Grave Shivers | Brent Sims

Hey Presto | Lara St John

Hjorleifur | Stephen Hunt

Human After All | Brian Cardona

Identity Confirmed | Brian Shackelford

Ijen | Markus Bruno

Inmotion | Simon Baucks

Innocent | Thomas Marchese

Kappa | Trevor Wilson

Le Prix D’Amour | G-Na casazza

Let It Go | Joe Lam

Life Under the Bridge | Andrew McGivern

Lost in Motion II | Ben Shirinian

Love Sick Lonnie | Chad Mathews

Lucid | Kevin Shah

Malum In Se | Roderick Morrison

Mecca II | Bryan Johnson

Mestizo | Talon Gonzalez

Mia | Emi Bell

Minimum Max | Joshua Ovalle

Moodar Koodam | Naveen Shaikdavood

Moving Out | Sean McCarthy

Mulligan’s Island | Jeffrey Palmer

Naked Zombie Girl | Rickey Bird, Jr.

Noble Fir | Christopher Graham and Joseph Arney

Nose Hair & Peanuts | Richard Diaz

Nothing in Los Angeles | Rob Herring

Oh! Stargazer | Jessica Poon

One Thing | Michael McCallum

Opacity | Nick Testa

Our Time Together | Mike Chuney

Pint | Nic Barker

Proof | Scott Strosahl

Rab da Vaasta | Chakravarty Devulapalli

Rain, Rain | Thomas Pace

Rains In LA | Liam Hooper

Recursion | Sam Buntrock

Restoration of Paradise | Russ Emanuel

Run Out | Andre Gaumond

Ryan Baxter: Reenactor | Brandon Haberman

Seahorses | Jason Kartalian

Sebastian | Vlad Marsavin

Shadow | Autumn McAlpin

Sins of the Father | Rachel Howard

Stan | Meirav Haber

Strange Thing | Alrik Bursell

Sugar | Jasmine Johnson

Supposed to Be First | Michelle Jackson

Terror Strikes | Chris Frint

The Adventures of Sheriff Kid McLain | Gui Pereira

The Backseat | Ryan O’Leary

The Champion | Jaclyn Noel

The Chemist | Jeff Toye

The Conversation | Chris Reese

The Hideout | Daniel Wahlen

The Long Night | Emma Penaz Eisner

The Routine | Brian Groh

The Strong People | Heather Hoglund and Matthew Lowe

The Toy Soldiers | Erik Peter Carlson

There Is No God And We All Die Alone | Harrison Givens

Time Goes On | Richard Poche

Time To Kill | Justin Rettke

Today’s Headline | Arem Kim

TSA America: Level Orange | Misha Collins

Tuck It Like A Man | Osvaldo Cueves

Une Balade à la Mer | Damien Stein

Wanderlust | Matt Ekberg, Mike Chaney, Simon Pax

Waterfall | Jeffrey Whitten

Witness Monitor | Edward Worthy

You and Me | Eric Tsang

Season 9, 2013

Directing
              – Akirah: The Day of Judgment
              – Bullified
              – Cough
              – Callous
              – Drain
              – The Favorite
              – Marry Me
              – Mourning Has Broken
              – Past God
              – Red Poppies [WINNER]
              – Young Stan

Cinematograhy
              – Bullified
              – Callous
              – Cough
              – Drain
              – Is this It?
              – Leederville
              – Liberator
              – Marry Me [WINNER]
              – Past God
              – Platypus the Musical

Achievement in Acting – Actress
              – Natalie Avital, Past God
              – Priscilla Barnes, 88 Miles to Moscow
              – Brynn Samms, 88 Miles to Moscow
              – Zulivet Diaz, Red Poppies
              – Nelcie Souffrant, Young Stan
              – Becca Ingram, The Favorite [WINNER]

Achievement in Acting – Actor
              – Joseph Hirsh, Way Too Many Problems [WINNER]
              – Nick McCallum, Past God
              – Chervine Namani, Red Poppies
              – Eason Shao, Marry Me
              – Corey McKernan, Leederville

Screenplay Short-Form Finalists
              – Bernie and Rebecca, John Harris
              – Cody’s 1st Time, Ryan fink
              – Escape Velocity, Cobey Cobb
              – Greal, Jay Sharron
              – High Contrast, Natalia Kochan
              – Lucky Jim, Steve Deery
              – Men of Color, Mike Kearby
              – Neverland Lost, Allison Pinkerton
              – The Last Flight of Whiskey One, Fernando Perez
              – Tina vs. the T-Rex, Cobey Cobb [WINNER]
              – Worn, Jeffrey Palmer

 Screenplay Long-Form Finalists
              – Dr. Justice, William Desborough
              – How to Become a Pearl, Lyvia A Martinez
              – Leave of Absence, Bill Redding
              – Narcosis, James Hsiao
              – Original Sin, Charles Laulette
              – Strange Spaces, Erick Castrillon
              – The Snakeman, Jeffrey Ryback
              – Two Dudes in Africa, David Bugay
              – Through Maria’s Eyes, Scott Walker [WINNER]

Golden Ticket (Best-in-the-Fest)
                – PAST GOD

Audience Choice
                – PHASE TWO
Feature Filmmaking
                – PAST GOD

Short Filmmaking
                – YOUNG STAN

Micro-Short, Youth Movement, Animation or Music Video
                – THE KING OF SILENCE

Documentary Filmmaking
               – DEAD MAN ROCKIN’

International Filmmaking
                – COUGH

Student Filmmaking
                – WAY TOO MANY PROBLEMS

Screenplay Short-Form Finalists
              – Bernie and Rebecca, John Harris
              – Cody’s 1st Time, Ryan fink
              – Escape Velocity, Cobey Cobb
              – Greal, Jay Sharron
              – High Contrast, Natalia Kochan
              – Lucky Jim, Steve Deery
              – Men of Color, Mike Kearby
              – Neverland Lost, Allison Pinkerton
              – The Last Flight of Whiskey One, Fernando Perez
              – Tina vs. the T-Rex, Cobey Cobb [WINNER]
              – Worn, Jeffrey Palmer

 Screenplay Long-Form Finalists
              – Dr. Justice, William Desborough
– How to Become a Pearl, Lyvia A Martinez
              – Leave of Absence, Bill Redding
              – Narcosis, James Hsiao
              – Original Sin, Charles Laulette
              – Strange Spaces, Erick Castrillon
              – The Snakeman, Jeffrey Ryback
              – Two Dudes in Africa, David Bugay
              – Through Maria’s Eyes, Scott Walker [WINNER]

All 2013 Movie Official Selections in A-Z Order

88 Miles to Moscow, Karen Glienke

AJAB, Terence Campbell

Akhirah: The Day of Judgement, Will Myrick

Attic, William Hellmuth

Awake, Connie Lisogar-Cocchia

Bang, David Wisehart

Beat For Me, Mikey Carr

Best of Both Worlds, Michael Dunker

Big In L.A., Norman Richard Jochen Cambridge

Broken Up, Ben Tolpin

Bullified, Steven Goldberg

Callous, J. Bradley Bruening

Carpool Bridge to Nowhere, Walter DuRant

Chinese Burns, Alan Ronald

Choosing Signs, Owen Dara, Honorable Mention (non-screening)

Clouds, Gilbert James

Cough, Jason Kempnich

Cupid, Emily Unruh

Daisy, Seri  DeYoung

Dance Before Sunset, Patricia  DiSalvo Viayra

Darkness Brings, Richard A. Jones

Dead Man Rockin’, Michael Monteleone

Dead Memories, Gene Aversa

Drain, Eric Otten

Duality, Andrew Tulloch

El Duelo, Jennifer Nicole Stang

Fallen Soldier, Bob Jones

Flight of The Fantasy, Anthony Pang

Fortune Cookie Prophecies, Henry Li

FrackNation, Phelim McAleer

Go Up, Roman Kayumov

Head On, Christine Irons

In Your Dreams, Jimmy  Barker

Is This It?, Graeme Noble

Journey to Mt. Fuji, Cris Ubermann

Karisma, Britne Goldstein

Le Temps De L’incertitude, Vivianne  Pereluter

Leavin’ Footprints, Kenneth Woodall

Leederville, Ruben Pracas

Les Perdue, Rick Fichter

Liberator, Aaron Pope

Lost Tales of a Senor, Matt Stanasolovich

Love and Disorder, Chris  Chandler

Love Letter, Nathan Satin Silver

Maid of Horror, Caitlin Koller

Manly Advice, Sharon Waich Botbol

Marry Me, Meng-Jo Chen

Monkeywrench, David Joshua Ford

Mother’s Milk, Edward Pionke

Mourning Has Broken, Brett  Butler

Moving On, Stephanie T. Keefer

No Pay Must Play, Edward Bottenheim

Overhill, Will Hutchinson

Past God, Nick McCallum

Phase Two, Jason Sanders

Pink Slip, Chantal Massuh

Platypus the Musical, Colin Duffy

Red Poppies, Yaitza Rivera

Retention, Richard Carlos

Riff Raf, Jeremy Weiss

Salvatore, William  Shermer, Honorable Mention (non-screening)

Shadows, Rocko Paolo

Silent Voices, J.R. Curry

Sour Milk, Tanner Boyajian

String, Lei Tao

Study, Paolo Benetazzo

Subway Silk, Jill Clark

Sunset of Khojir, Fathollah Amiri

Sweet Leaf, Julian Grant

Tamale Road, Marcos Villatoro

The Assistant, Dave Hill

The Aztec Box, Serge Bronstein

The Branch, Julietta Boscolo

The BS Club, David Beatty

The Dark Ages, Geoffroy  Faugerolas

The Favorite, Lyvia A Martinez

The Hit Girl, James Ward, Honorable Mention (non-screening)

The King of Silence, Leyla  Akdogan

The Morning After, Matt Evans

The Patriot Act, Kyle Einhorn, Honorable Mention (non-screening)

The Rise and Fall of Tom Finley and Sarah Wright, Michael Lavers

The Untitled Gorilla Commercial, Odin Ozdil

Unlaced, Patrick Ortman

Upside Down, Sharon Waich Botbol

Valley – Party In My Head, Daniel Blanco

Wannabe, Daniel Leeds

Way Too Many Problems, Anthony Lucido

Welcome Yankee, Benoit Desjardins

Who I Am, Dawn Young

Women At War: Forgotten Veterans of Desert Storm, Christie Davis

Words Apart, Po-Chin Chang

Young Stan, Joseph Schufreider

You’re More Interesting When You’re Dead, Jessica Nicholas

Season 8, 2012

THE GOLDEN TICKET (BEST-IN-THE-FEST)
The Paddy Lincoln Gang
AUDIENCE CHOICE
The Lackey
ACHIEVEMENT IN FEATURE FILMMAKING
186 Dollars to Freedom
ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT FILMMAKING
The Runner
ACHIEVEMENT IN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING
Capture
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Dad
ACHIEVEMENT IN MICRO-FILMMAKING (Includes Micro-Shorts, Youth, Music Videos, Mobile Media)
Brother
THE DAVID BEATTY AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LOCAL FILMMAKING
Shaun Piccinino, The Lackey

ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING
186 Dollars to Freedom 
The Lackey
The Paddy Lincoln Gang
Psychosis
Smuggled
Stela’s Kite
The Infliction

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Bully
186 Dollars to Freedom
Dad
Dorothy
Requiem for Emily
The Lackey 
The Paddy Lincoln Gang
The Runner

ACHIEVEMENT IN SCREENWRITING (PRODUCED)
Election Day
Le Tette di una Diciottenne
The English
The Paddy Lincoln Gang
Requiem for Emily 
The Runner
Sarra & Erich
Smuggled

ACHIEVEMENT IN ACTING – MALE
John Robinson (186 Dollars to Freedom)
Shaun Piccinino (The Lackey)
Stefano Ambrogi (Le Tette di una Diciottenne)
Dean Jagger (The Paddy Lincoln Gang) 
Cwangco Mayekiso (The Runner)
Ryan Wuestewald (Requiem for Emily)

ACHIEVEMENT IN ACTING – FEMALE
Amy Lawhorn (The Paddy Lincoln Gang)
Lexi Sakowitz (Election Day)
Saylor Curda (Stela’s Kite)
Denisse Bon (Smuggled)
Christina Brooks (Abigail)
Leslie Coplin (The Basement)

ACHIEVEMENT IN SCREENWRITING (Un-produced / Long-Form)

Bioterror Conspiracy, Louis Lio
Chasing Rabbits, Heather Kenihan
Gibran, Grace Shalhoub Yazbek
Identical Opposites, Kevin Howard
Ripple, Heather Faris Snuffed, Rob Paul
The Legend of McCoy Mountain & The Gold 45 Revolver, Elliot McGucken
The McSatans, James Tuverson
The Pitch, Stan Freeman
What Are Mothers For, Heidi Willis

ACHIEVEMENT IN SCREENWRITING (Un-produced / Short-Form)
Aduro Viscus, Jacob Schatz
Somewhere in the World, Tomas Nepomuceno
The Boy, Eric Hunsley
The Crib, Samuel Laskey 
The Face on the Wall, and the Chainsaw, Erin Sneath
The Next Ten Minutes, Ellen Raines
The Pink Line, Cara Marisa Deleon
This Modern Man is Beat, David Schroeder
Underwater, Lauren Hendler
Vindication Productions, Marrie Rhodes
Wisdom of the Ancients, Mark Perlic

All 2012 Movie Official Selections in A-Z Order

Title – Director

A Life On The Edge — Manfredi Mancuso

Aaron’s House — Special Screening

Abigail — Renata Green-Gaber

Angel’s Reach — Al Germani

Apocryphal — Non-Screening, Honorable Mention — Mexico

Au Fil du Banc — Alexandra Torterotot

Averageman — Steve Hanft

Babiole — Breeana Trachy

BE — Vlad Feier

Bolero — Non-Screening, Honorable Mention

Brother — Sari Rodrig

Bugbaby — Rebecca Lorenne

Bully — Vic Alarcon

Burn Spark — Maqui Gaona

Capture — Courtney Hood

Catch of the Day — Shot on iPhone — Jon Rubin

Cellular Circuitry — Benjamin Ridgway

Charlie — Brett Cramer

Children of the Air — Damian Horan

Choreography for Plastic Army Men — David Fain

186 Dollars to Freedom (City of Gardens) — Camilo Vila

Cody Fitz — Non-Screening, Honorable Mention

Dad — Michelle Bailey

Dawn — Joshua David Matthews

Dharavi Diary — Nawneet Ranjan

Doppelganger — Jennifer Razon

Dorothy — Eros Romero

Dream Chaser — Anthony Arendt

Election Day — Zach Wechter

Elegy for a Revolutionary — Paul van Zyl

Evolution — Georg Jungermann

Evy In The New Word — Non-Screening, Honorable Mention

Finessing the Wave — Mary Piller

Folklore — Justin Calen Chenn

Fools on the Hill — Jed Rigney

Forget About Me — Non-Screening, Honorable Mention

Frigid — Emily Fritze

Fuzz Track City — Steve Hicks

Hanging By A Thread — Chloe Cerami

Happily Never After — Non-Screening, Honorable Mention

Home Was the Sailor — Seana Kozar

I Am Still The Same (DC Cardwell Music Video) — David McGorlick

il Lucchetto — Ettore Nicoletti

Jake & Jasper: A Ferret Tale — Alison Parker

La femme — Sophie Olson — Theatrical Screening

le tette di una diciottenne — Luca Gennari

Liebe in der Kuche — Teresa Hayer

Maralinga Pieces — Jessie Boylan

Marathonman365 — Tom Coeman

Muscle Hawk’s ‘Electric Light’ — Jonathan Martin

Not Today — Jon Van Dyke

Odium — Neale Hemrajani

Past Due — Denise Plumb

Postmodern Times — Julia Frick

Profile — John Swansiger

Protest Contest — Non-Screening, Honorable Mention

Psychosis — Ian Christian Blanche Requiem for Emily — Yana Alliata di Montereale

Riding A Bike — Non-Screening, Honorable Mention

Sarra & Erich — Hilary Andrews

Scrap Metal — Anthony Straus

Serial Love: A Sociopath to My Heart — Non-Screening, Honorable Mention

Slagbrodre — Kristoffer Jorgensen

Smuggled — Ramon Hamilton

Sound of Silence — Kelsey Brewer

Stela’s Kite — Jared

The Basement — David LaRosa

The Boat — Somchay Phakonkham

The English — Deborah Tiso

The Eugenist — Non-Screening, Honorable Mention

The Game — Marcin Janiec

The Infliction — Matthan Harris

The Interview — Tyler Stockton

The Jockstrap Raiders — Mark Nelson

The Lackey — Shaun Piccinino — Theatrical Screening

The Legends of Nethiah — Russ Emanuel

The Lepidoctor — Jonathan Barenboim

The Miracles on Honey Bill Hill — Bob Pondillo

The One Nighter — Honorable Mention, non-screening

The Paddy Lincoln Gang — Ben Jagger

The Pride of Wall Street — Jeff Brotherton

The Runner — Parker Ellerman

The Shopgirl — Diana Ling

The Urge — Brian Barnes

The Winners — Levi Smith

This Ain’t California : Landon Michael — Tonia Pound

Tilting at Skyscrapers — Benjamin Pitts

Tumbleweed! — Jared Varava

Tuurngait — Paul Emile Boucher

Vicious Circle — Jae Il Son

War: God Save the Queen — Daniel Dalah

What’s Life Got To Do with It? — Noah Weisberg

Finalists Long-Form Screenplays (A-Z listing)

Title, Screenwriter

Bioterror Conspiracy, Louis Lio

Chasing Rabbits, Heather Kenihan

Gibran, Grace Shalhoub Yazbek

Identical Opposites, Kevin Howard

Ripple, Heather Faris

Snuffed, Rob Paul

The Legend of McCoy Mountain & The Gold 45 Revolver, Elliot McGucken

The McSatans, James Tuverson

The Pitch, Stan Freeman

What Are Mothers For, Heidi Willis

Finalists Short-Form Screenplays (A-Z listing)

Title, Screenwriter

Aduro Viscus, Jacob Schatz

Somewhere in the World, Tomas Nepomuceno

The Boy, Eric Hunsley

The Crib, Samuel Laskey

The Face on the Wall, and the Chainsaw, Erin Sneath

The Next Ten Minutes, Ellen Raines

The Pink Line, Cara Marisa Deleon

This Modern Man is Beat, David Schroeder

Underwater, Lauren Hendler

Vindication Productions, Marc Alexander

Wisdom of the Ancients, Mark Perlick

Season 7, 2011

Golden Ticket (Best-in-the-fest)
Frontman
Audience Choice
Misusing Irony
Feature Filmmaking
Frontman
Short Filmmaking
The Burying Beetle
Student Filmmaking
To Rest in Peace
International Filmmaking
The Foal
Documentary Filmmaking
The Table
Screenwriting 
(for produced movie)
Ivan’s House
Local Filmmaking
Alec Hiber (The School Day)
Micro-Short, Youth Movement, Animation or Music Video
Let Me In

CATEGORIES WITH FINALISTS *(Winners in bold)
Short-From Screenplay
– Cassandra’s Dreams
– Newly Renovated
– Psych 101
– Suleyman’s Travels
– Welcome to Chinatown
Long-Form Screenplay
– Five Hour Friends
– Insurgency
– Mercy Christmas
– The Day of the Game
– The Family Plot
– The Founder
Acting/Actor (Feature)
– Ross Marquand (A Lonely Place for Dying)
– Devin Ratray (True Bromance)
– David Hepple (Frontman)
– George McCluskey (Frontman)
– Brian Gartland (Antihero)
Acting/Actor (Short)
– Shane Johnson (Cage Shift)
– John Heard (Ivan’s House)
– Edward Furlong (License to Reproduce)
– William Valles (Fallout)
– Houston Graham (Gil’s Brother)
– Roger Christopher (Unsound)
Acting/Actress (Feature)
– Zara Phythian (The Hike)
– Kiki Kendrick (Frontman)
– Carrie Whitton (Frontman)
– Nicole Carter (Antihero)
Acting/Actress (Short)
– Olivia Quinn (The Foal)
– Michelle C. Bonilla (Slip Away)
– Elizabeth Holcomb (Through the Door)
– Carolyn Pool (Rotations of the Earth)
– Emily Sandack (American Sweetheart)
Directing
– Frontman
– True Bromance
– A Lonely Place for Dying
– The Hike
– Cage Shift
– Eugenio
– Orbit
– The Encounter
– Fallout
– Gil’s Brother
Cinematographraphy
– Source
– A Lonely Place for Dying
– Nowhere Road
– Earthship
– Cage Shift
– Rust
– Branches
– The EncounterZ Movie Listing

Official Movie Selections A-Z

1:03AM

4 Walls

5 Minutes Each

A House Full of Hats

A Lonely Place For Dying

Abduct Me!

Accumulated Body

Almost Runaways

Alone

American Sweetheart

Antihero

Beautiful World

Between Bars

Birdland

Blank Canvas

Blind Luck

Boom Boom

Branches

Breaking Through

Buford’s Beat

Cage Shift

Coming up For Air

Crave

Defying Deletion: The Fight

Over Iraq’s Nineveh Plains

dogfu**ers

Earthship

Eugenio

Factory in a Box

Fallout

First Date

Flying Trapeze

Frontman

Gil’s Brother

Hero

Hollywood to Dollywood

In Silence

In The Middle

Interpersonal Exopolitics

Ivan’s House

Klauss

Kosher Pig

LARPing

Last Men Riding

Lava

Lek’s Paradox

Lemonade

Let Me In

License to Reproduce

Light

Love at First

Misusing Irony

Mountain Man

My Friend Peter

No One Knows

Nobody But Her

Nowhere Road

Oliver’s Treasure

Only in Dreams

Orbit

Pack a Bag, Quick!

Passage

Perception

Profile

Rotations of the Earth

Run, Drop, and Glide

Rust

Save The Last Chord

Serge Le Bonobo

She’s My Superman

Simone

Simoom – ‘Cutting Seams’

Sleep

Slip Away

Some Mistakes Were Made

Source

Stanley Pickle

Static

Stepping into the Stream (v.2)

Surf, Sand, and Silversides:

The California Grunion

Tainted Mattress

The Artist’s Passion

The Burying Beetle

The Dumpster

The Echo In My Mind

The Encounter (II)

The Foal

The Gay Who Wasn’t Gay Enough

The Green Family Elbow

The Hike

The Hindenburg_ Debate,

Diplomacy, Disaster

The House of Americans

The Key

The Landlady

The Reliever!

The School Day

The Table

Through the Door

To Rest in Peace

True Bromance

Truth Be Told

Turns

unsound

Vigilance

Wolfsbane

Non-Screening Honorable Mention Movies

Mack

Mistura – The Power of Food

The Story

April

Baby Ruth

Below New York

Cell/Phone

Folsom Prison Blues

From the Ground Up

Gift

Gold Star Children

I Shot Johnny Reb Down by the Creek Bed

Kopfkino

Paper Flower

Santiago

Smartie Pants

The Happy High Laughter Club

The Horror of Barnes Folly

Ties

Twisted Seduction

Two Bulls

Virtuoso: The Olga Samaroff Story

Wings Across the Channel: Catalina
Island’s Aviation HIstory: 1946-Present

Screenplay (Long-Form) – Finalists in Bold

Belzec: The Made Undead

Blood and Fire

Dirty Old Business

Five Hour Friends

Friends Academy

Insurgency

Lucky Star

Malice

Mercy Christmas

Midnight

Mother’s Day

San Francisco Yin Yang

Shark

Sunset Fire

Tales of the Arranged Marriage

The Big 4-Oh!

The Day Of The Game

The Family Plot

The Founder

The Last Chord

Short-Form Screenplay Title – Finalists in Bold

A Slightly Exaggerated Love Story

Aliens in a Diner

Cassandra’s Dreams

Dial H for Happiness

Newly Renovated

Palm Trees

Paper Cranes

Psych 101

Rideshare

Suleyman’s Travels

The Great Ghouldini

Uganda’s Red Artery

Welcome To Chinatown

Wrigley & King

Season 6, 2010

2010 Awards & Official Selections

Golden Ticket (Best-in-the-fest)
The Last 3 Minutes

Audience Choice
The Toy Soldier

Feature Filmmaking
A Marine Story

Short Filmmaking
The Love Permit

Student Filmmaking
Writer’s Block

International Filmmaking
Snapshots

Documentary Filmmaking
Beam Drop

Screenwriting 
(for produced movie)
The Love Permit

Local Filmmaking
David Beatty

CATEGORIES WITH FINALISTS

Short-From Screenplay
– The Miracles on Honey Bee Hill
– Goon
– Language of Love
– The Patsy
– Keemo the Archer

Long-Form Screenplay
– Heaven Sent
– Overdue
– Merlin
– The Guv’nor
– There are no Superheroes

Acting/Actor (Feature)
– Jeff Brotherton (Gary Has No Pants)
– Jesse James (Exodus Fall)
– Sheehan O’Heron (Pushin up Daisies)
– Ford Austin (Dahmer vs. Gacy)

Acting/Actor (Short)
– Micah Levin (Bomb)
– Tony Perez (Writer’s Block)
– Jeff Kongs (Misdirection)
– John Forest (Wanting Alex)
– Scott Key (The Love Permit)

Acting/Actress (Feature)
– Dreya Weber (A Marine Story)
– Paris Pickard (A Marine Story)
– Rosanna Arquette (Exodus Fall)
– Kristin Keating (Gary has no Pants)

Acting/Actress (Short)
– Katharine Brandt (Wanting Alex)
– Stephanie Keefer (One Dance)
– Meeghan Holaway (Two Boys)
– Elisabeth Hayward (The Next Mrs. Jacob Anderson)
– Maury Morgan (Clemency)

Directing
– A Marine Story
– Gary Has No Pants
– Misdirection
– The Last 3 Minutes
– La Toma
– Sea of Trees
– Superstitious
– Take my Wife
– Exodus Fall
– El Hecho Imposible

Cinematographraphy
– Misdirection
– Phoenix Down
– The Interview
– Intrinsic
– The Action Hero’s Guide to Saving Lives
– The Love Permit
– Asylum
– A Marine Story

Short-Form Screenplay Selections (Finalists in Red)
The Miracles on Honey Bee Hill

Goon

Language of Love

The Patsy

The Ladder,

Betserai,

Boccie,

Writer’s Block,

46 Burnham Street,

Keemo the Archer

The Curfew,

The Assistant,

Long-Form Screenplay Selections (Finalists in Bold)

Desert Eagle,

Dog S**t,

Heaven Sent

Joe

Merlin

Metro Boys,
Overdue

Pink Ladder,

SPIFF,

Still Life,

Tech Support,

The Brothers McDonagh,
The Guv’nor

The Helping Stone,

The Unwanted,

There are No Superheroes

Unraveling,

Feature Title

Dahmer vs. Gacy

A Marine Story

Exodus Fall

Gary Has No Pants

Pushin’ Up Daisies

Shaped
Short Film Title

7 O’clock

All Systems Go,

Neil Armstrong

Asylum

Balletomane

Beam Drop

Been A While

Bomb

Capitan

Captured Young American

Tourist: Spelling Bee of Death!

Carino

Carry On

Cereal Mascots: Tony

the Tiger

Chinese Antique

Chris Weisberg is Growing Bald

Clemency

Coffee Shop: A Musical

Continuity Problems

Crime Sweepers Revenge

of Broom Witch

Cup Size

Dark Chocolate

Death by Fungus

DemiUrge Emesis

Destination Day

Dilated

Disoriented

El Hecho Imposible

Father and Sister

Fentress

Fortitude

From the Second Chair

Go To Sleep

I Am Seminole

I’ll Call You

Initiative #435

Intrinsic

Karma

Keepers

La Toma

Let Me In

Lien on Me

Lovely Stalking You

Misdirection

Murphy’s Short’s

No One Belongs Here

More Than You

One Dance

One day

Our Secret

Over a Cup of Joe

Perfect Game

Phoenix Down

Ping

Prelude in E -Minor

Quarter ’til Two

Retracing Your Steps

Ronnie Gold’s Fight Team

Room Service

Said Black

Samba

Screw The Promise

Sea of Trees

She Always…

Snapshots

Sudden Death!

Sunset to Sunset

Superstitious?

Take My Wife

Takeout

The Action Hero’s Guide

To Saving Lives

The Drum

The Incredible Space

Adventures of V-33

The Interview

The Last 3 Minutes

The Loop

The Love Permit

The Next Mrs. Jacob Anderson

The Sierra

The Toy Soldier

Transparent Movement

Trevor & Heidi & Roger & Sam

Two Boys

Under The Hood

Undying Love

Wanting Alex

Writer’s Block

Honorable Mention

#54 Meets #47

Calling My Children

Gorilla Island

Home is Where You Find It

Kiss the Abyss

No Change

Pics

Royalty Free

Sierra Highway: A Skateboard

Retrospective

Skin Trade

Taylors Trophy

The Last Musketeer

The Shot

Trooper

Unconditionally

Underachievers – The Champions

of Mediocrity

Season 5, 2009

THE GOLDEN TICKET
(Best-in-the-Fest)
Presented by
The Shorebreak Hotel
Pissing Vocal Gold

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Presented by The OC Autohaus
Piper and Tupper: Hands Free — Born to Be Wild

BEST FEATURE FILM
The War Boys

BEST SHORT FILM
Old Dogs

BEST DIRECTOR
Jean-Marc Piche, Nothing Really Matters

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Sigs of the Time

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Presented by Glidecamdealer.com
The Last Hurrah

INTERNATIONAL FILM ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Denouement

ACTOR: Achievement in Acting, Feature Film
Yannick Bisson, Nothing Really Matters
Keith David, Beautiful Loser
Peter Gallagher, The War Boys
C. Thomas Howell, The Grind
Adam Lamberg, Beautiful Loser
Benjamin Walker, The War Boys, WINNER

ACTRESS: Achievement in Acting, Feature Film
Laura Breckenridge, Beautiful Loser
Pascale Bussieres, Nothing Really Matters
Kate Micucci, The Last Hurrah
Micaela Nevarez, The War Boys, WINNER
Sarah Scott, The Grind

ACTOR: Achievement in Acting, Short Film
Michael Billingsley, Schrodinger’s Cat
Antonio Del Prete, Inside
Rick Gomez, Pissing Vocal Gold, WINNER
John Saxon, Old Dogs
Michael Teh, Id
Sinqua Walls, The Second Half

ACTRESS: Achievement in Acting, Short Film
Rhea Akler, Undercurrent
Miranda Charney, Skylight (Dir. Tony West)
Danielle Hagan, Purge
Cassidy Lehrman, A New Color, WINNER
Leah Myette, Mistaken
Nessa Norich, Nel reinu
Tobi Tommaney, Throw Me Away

BEST STUDENT FILM
The Second Half

BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT FORM
One Child Born, Stuart Creque

BEST SCREENPLAY LONG FORM
Borderlands, Michael Schock

2009 Official Selections

Feature Film (Alpha Order)

All’s Faire in Love…

Beautiful Loser

Mind of the Demon, the Larry Linkogle Story (Doc)

NothingReally Matters

Signs of the Time (Doc)

Surviving The Grind (Doc)

The Grind

The Last Hurrah

The War Boys

Feature Film Honorable Mention

Crossed

Lost Dream

Lovers in a Dangerous Time

My Sweet Misery

Spoiler Alert

Short Film (Alpha Order)

9mm Brush

A Life Connected

A New Color

A Piece of My Heart

Act As If (Doc)

Afterglow

Another Day, Another Dime

BBW Origins

Blanco

Blood Shed (Canada)

Blue Light Bandits

Bodybagbaby

Boyer (Doc)

Bug Hutch (Canada)

Burden

Censored

Citizen Versus Kane (France)

Compact Only

Cost of Living

Couched

Culture Clash

Cupcake

D&T Agency

Deceit

Denouement (Australia)

Dreaming of Spring

Dunkball (Doc)

Electric Chainsaw Massacre

Extra•ordinary

FokkersMountain Path (Doc) (Australia)

FortBrother

Fruitless Efforts – Fruit of the Womb

Genie and the Shark

Gone Fishing (United Kingdom)

Grande Drip

Greed (Sweden)

Has-Been: The Ballad of Benjamin Beane

Here at Home

Horizons

How To Train Your Pet

Ice

ID

Idiot in Love (Canada)

I’m Gonna Do it Until the Day I Die (Doc)

In the Dark

Inside

Inspiration (Germany)

Jack theReaper

Jimmy Stringbean VS. TheRock God of the Cosmos

Jock Butterscotch

KennyRay FairleyRelease (Doc)

Letter Home (Canada)

Lev

Life After Diamonds (Canada)

Looking Thru the B-Sides

Love Bombing (United Kingdom)

Make Art, Save World

Manifestations – An Animated Tale of Love

Meatwaffle

Meltdown

Miracle Investigators

Mistaken

Mr. Gun

Mutually Assured Desire

My First Tooth

NelReinu

Old Dogs

On Homeostasis

Out Of My Head (Doc)

Permute (Canada)

Ping Pong

Piper & Tupper – Hands Free Born to be Wild

Pissing Vocal Gold

Prelude

Purge

RainRain

Repaired?

Ride Of The Yoga Valkyries (Canada)

Robert Shaw

Rocket

Schrodinger’s Cat

Sexual Tension: The Super Adventures of Steve and Stephen

Silent Treatment

Skylight

Skylight (Canada)

Smear Your Peers

So Whaddya Think?

Sock Puppet Inferno!

Special Delivery

Subcutaneous

Survival

Take-Out

TenderRoots

The Amazing Esca-ciser

The Arm

The Birthday Party

The Book of Tomorrow

The Condescending Fry

The Devil’s Matchmaker

The Dinner Party

The Door (Canada)

The EmptyRoom

The Family

The Juggler

The Little Acorn

TheRealm of Possibility

TheRoad

The Second Half

The Seed Perfection

The Sitdown

The Urge

The Veiled Commodity

Throw Me Away

Thru

Time Capsules

True Beauty This Night

Twirl

Two in the Bush

Tyle Wody Kolo Domu (Poland)

Undercurrent (Canada)

Valentines (Canada)

Visa – Breakout the Violins

What They Want

Your Name’s Absurd, Mr. Smith

You’re Outa Here

Short Film Honorable Mention

Dašak

Doctor Schneider

RealTime … It’s Just a Game

Eli and the Golden Fish

His Good Will

Refrigerator

Rooftop

The Caretaker

The Music of Erich Zann

The Snow Princess

Documentary (Alpha Order)

Act As If

Boyer

Dunkball

FokkersMountain Path

I’m Gonna Do it Until the Day I Die

KennyRay FairleyRelease

Life After Diamonds

Mind of the Demon, the Larry Linkogle Story

Out Of My Head

Signs of the Time

Surviving The Grind

Documentary Honorable Mention

Creator of God

LatinRap Conference 2008

Skim Chicks

The Hitchhiking Movie

Unconquered; Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family

Finalist Short Form Scripts, Screenwriter

Day Off, Shawna McCartney Frey

Don’t Wake the Baby,Elvis Wilson

He Knows, Stuart Creque

Katrina’s 7th: The Nigga Taxonomy,Roger Edwards

Money for Nothing, Susan Stein

One Child Born, Stuart Creque

Salvaging, Joseph Lyons

Semi-Finalists Short Form Scripts, Screenwriter

Day Off, Shawna McCartney Frey

Don’t Wake The Baby,Elvis Wilson

Elliot Moose: Night Jewels, Katarzyna Kochany

He Knows, Stuart Creque

Hey, Professor!, Kevin Kolack

Investment, William Colella

Jess, Neil Sashidharan

Katrina’s 7th: The Nigga Taxonomy,Roger Edwards

Kitten,MagaliRennes

Knight and Day, Tim Viola

Last of the Free,Michael Ozias

Last of the Long Ears, Alex Flanagan

Lemonade,John Spinoso

Money For Nothing, Suzy Stein

One Child Born, Stuart Creque

Salvaging, Joseph Lyons

Silence, Marco AntonioRodriguez

Stakeout, Gilbert Stark

Stan’s NoRacist, Ned Ehrbar

The First Shot,Cionin Lorenzo

The Wishing Tree, Darryl Knickrehm

Time Skip, Owen Thomas

To Be Seen is To Exist,Cionin Lorenzo

ToRest in Peace, Fawaz Al-Matrouk

Finalists Long Form Script, Screenwriter

A Modest Proposal for the CaliforniaState Energy Crisis Or: A Convenient Truth,Dominick Bagnato

Borderlands (formerly Drive By), Michael Schock

Buried on Page 8, Jennifer Harrison

Miss Liberty,William Melton

Solitaire, Melanie Lewis

The Black Cat, Mark Penberthy

The Primary Talent, Vitaliy Krutoshinskiy

Semi- Finalists Long Form Script, Screenwriter

A Modest Proposal for theCaliforniaState Energy Crisis Or: A Convenient Truth,Dominick Bagnato

ALICE, JaneRosen

Another Man’s Shoes, Fiona Veitch Smith

Borderlands, Michael Schock

Buried on Page 8, Jennifer Harrison

CrescentPlantation, Cliff Zimowski

Ellsville, Josh Garrell

Family Secret,Warren Hull

Fearful Thing, Eric Havens

I’ll Die Tomorrow, John J. Maffucci

It Only Takes A Minute, T. Watkins

Medicine Avenue, Susan Sfarra

Miss Liberty,William Melton

One Good Day,Scott Taylor

Project Delta, John Lamont

Rupert and the Flying Weasel, Katarzyna Kochany

Solitaire, Melanie Lewis

TemperatureRising- Episode 1 THE QUAKE,Kris Hulbert

The Black Cat, Mark Penberthy

The Legend ofRanger Bill,William Melton

The Primary Talent, Vitaliy Krutoshinskiy

The Target, Beth and Gary Hoover

Time Of Death,ElvisWilson

Two of Hearts, Lupos Sobre-Vega and Warren Deacon

Walrus Eating Baloney, Benjamin Bates

Season 4, 2008

THE GOLDEN TICKET (Best-in-the-Fest)
Zebra Crossings

JURY PRIZE
I Kicked Luis Guzman in the Face

BEST FEATURE FILM
Jackson

BEST SHORT FILM
Bill

BEST DIRECTOR (FEATURE FILM)
CRAZY,Rick Bieber
JACKSON, J.F. Lawton (WINNER)
RIGGED,
SYMPATHETIC DETAILS,
ZEBRA CROSSINGS,

BEST DIRECTOR (SHORT FILM)
BILL, John Salcido
CHINA LAKE, Roman Bostick
THE ISOLATIONIST, Nathaniel Atcheson
THE UNDERTAKER, Swati Kapila (WINNER)
CIENEFUEGOS, Richard Mcfarlane
DIG, Gena Shaw

BEST DOCUMENTARY
ANY GIVEN MORNING, Laurel Hugues (WINNER)
KING KAUFMAN: THE PASSION OF THE LLOYD, Shauna Jaeger
A DROP IN THE BUCKET, Brook Dryoff
AMERICAN SOLDIER, Bob Jones

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
CHINA LAKE (WINNER)
CREEPERS
RIGGED
ROSES HAVE THORNS
SYMPATHETIC DETAILS

BEST ANIMATED FILM
A CRUEL IRONY
AUTOMATON
HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL
MATTER, IN A QUIESCENT STATE, PREPARES ITSELF TO BE TRANSFORMED
OUTSOURCE
THE TURTLE AND THE SHARK (WINNER)

BEST ACTOR
David Tenenbaum, BILL
Waylon Payne, CRAZY
David Nett, I SAVED THE WORLD FROM GLOBAL WARMING
Barry Primus, JACKSON (WINNER)
Travis Stella, THE UNDERTAKER

BEST ACTRESS
Janet Varney, BILL
Maxine Bahns, CONJURER
Kelly Costa, DIG
Rebecca Neuenswander, RIGGED (WINNER)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
John Schneider, CONJURER
Luis Guzman, I KICKED LUIS GUZMAN IN THE FACE
Charles Robinson, JACKSON
Kevin Nealon, REMARKABLE POWER! (WINNER)
EricRoberts, THE COOKIE THIEF

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Rachel Dratch, BILL
Ali Larter, CRAZY (WINNER)
Marilyn Ghigliotti, DIG
LourdesPantin, LOON

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
POV (Fields)
REMARKABLE POWER!
SURVIVING NEW YEAR’S
SYMPATHETIC DETAILS (WINNER)
THIEVES RUSH IN
ZEBRA CROSSINGS

BEST STUDENT FILM
CONTROL
I SAVED THE WORLD FROM GLOBAL WARMING
LIGHT YEARS
NEGOTIATIONS
THE ISOLATIONIST (WINNER)

BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT FORM
Complications, by James Gallagher (WINNER)
The Border Land, by Faisal Qureshi
No Feelings, by Robert Mazzona
Streetcar, by Frederick Weller
Trio, by Jennifer Bogush

BEST SCREENPLAY LONG FORM
Alone, Together, by Randal Kamradt, John Mitchell
In Your Wildest Dreams, Lew Osteen (WINNER)
My Dirty Secrets, by James Tuverson
Selling Life, by Patricia Mahon
Zombie Love, Kenneth Morris

2008 Official Movie Selections

A Cruel Irony

A Drop In The Bucket

A Girl And A Gun

A Life In Transition

Against The Wind

American Soldier

An Unquiet Mind

Any Given Morning

Automaton

Backroads

Barrio Thief

Bat Mitzvah

Beachwood Music Video

Berlin

Bill

Boyfriend Latte

Bride Of Bodybagman

Cam2Cam

Cargo

Check Please

Chiles

ChinaLake

Cienfuegos

Complete Breakfast

Conjurer

Control

Crazy

Creepers

Crystal

Denim

Detroit: Not For Wimps (2007)

DIG

Distraxion

Doody Pants

Driver Ed

Easy On The Eyes

Family Karma

Fear Leaps Out

Final Prayers

First ____.

Four Minutes TilNoon

Glow

Good Soil

Harold Goes To The Circus

Head

Hold On

Hollywood Jerome

HopeSprings Eternal

I Kicked Luis Guzman In The Face

I Saved The World From Global Warming

Incongruent Body

Jackson

King Kaufman: The Passion Of Lloyd (A Schlock-Umentary)

La Juerga

Letting Go

Light Years

Long Night Drone

Loon

Matter, In A Quiescent State, Prepares Itself To Be Transformed.

Miss Dirt

Monsieur Tall And Stella

Mugs

Negotiations

On Betamax

Outsource

P.O.V

Picture Perfect

Pink Shorts

PK-Granny

Popsicle Love

POV

Psycho Hillbilly Cabin Massacre!

Pulp Fiction

Rafi & Naila

Redemption Maddie

Reflections

Remarkable Power!

Reservoir Dogs

Resolve

Rigged

River

Rogue 379

Roses Have Thorns

Rules Of TheRoad

Saturday Night At Norm’s

Sexy Thing

Sky

Sleeping Awake

Sombrero

Surviving New Year’s

Sympathetic Details

Ten Years

The Bebitching Hour

The Cave: An Adaptation Of Plato’s Allegory In Clay

The Cheapest Man In TheRoom

The Cookie Thief

The Hit

The Isolationist

The Last Cherry

The Proposal

TheRedRoom

The Truth About Faces

The Truth Is Underrated

The Turtle & The Shark

The Undertaker

The Whistler

ThievesRush In

Three Thug Mice: Year Of TheRat

Thursday Market

Training Dogs

Trepan Hole

Whitebread And Goatman

Zebra Crossings

Zombie Vs. Ballerina

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Non-Screening, But Recognized
We will list websites and info for these movies soon

FEATURES
Target Practice
Anton
Mr. Laughs: A Look Behind the Curtain
The Human Experience
A Minor Glitch
P.J.

SHORTS
Red White and You
Black Box
Joe Mover
Gangster’s Crib
24 Frames
Lullaby
Dudley’sRaft
Signerz

Season 3, 2007

Best-in-the-Fest, The Elephant King
Director: Seth Grossman
Best Feature Film, The Elephant King
Director: Seth Grossman
Best Short Film, Validation
Director: Kurt Kuenne
Best Director, Float
Director: Calvin Simmons
Best Actress, The Garage
Tania Raymonde
Best Screenplay, The Garage
Carl Thibault
Best Actor, Permanent Vacation
Frank Harper

Best Cinematography, China
Charlene Wang
Best Documentary, I Wanna Be Like Mike: The Story of the New NBA
Brent Baker
Best Animated Film, Slum Noir
Jamad Rollins
Best Student Film, Centinelas
Dir. Jimena Montemayor
Best Screenplay Long-Form, The Maltese’s Falcon
Patti Candelari
Best Screenplay Short-Form, Reflections of an Exterminator
Larry Gotterer

Official Selections

(Jeff Buckley) Morning Theft: Sketches of Scottie
A Little Night Fright
A Moment In Time
A.W.O.L.
American Deluxe
Available Men
Bear Essentials
Birthday
Bloodbath
Bodybagman
Centinelas
China
Code Blue
Dartsville
Deacon’s Mondays
Delirium
El Otro Lado
everything will be ok
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Feeding
Float
For a Swim with the Fish
Fortune Hunters
Fragile Machine
Futures (and Derivatives)
Gay Zombie
Glimpse
Go Ride Your Bicycle
headBoy TM
Heart, American Red Cross
How to Breathe
I Love Hip Hop in Morocco
I Wanna Be Like Mike: the story of the new NBA
In a Moment
Itsy Bitsy
Laid Off
Little Wings
Loman’s Tale
My First Christmas Tree
New to Laundry
Night Falls
No Parking
Numero Dos
Permanent Vacation
Pilgrimage
Pop Rocks
Puppet
Quiet
Rad Racers
Revolver
Room Service
Script Cops
Slum Noir
Son
Soup Ladle
Summer Job
The Von
The Deadening
The Death Strip
The Documents
The Elephant King
The Garage
The Great Pretenders
The Horsemen
The Needful Head
The Sweet Lady with the Nasty Voice: Wanda Jackson
The Urge
Tis The Season
TV LUV
Validation

NON-SCREENING OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Jake’s Closet
Ms. Goldman
Twee Dromen

Screenplay Long-Form Finalists
Cross Match
Limbo
Married Seeking Same
The Golden Palm
The Healer
The Maltese’s Falcon
The Unbroken Bond
Trial of the Century

Screenplay Long-Form Semi-Finalists
Good Soldier
Isobel
Jack & Addie.
Let the Good Times Roll
Nuke ’em in their Beds… the threat from within
Planet Thesaurus (Also The Empyrean)
The Lab
The Swimmer Manuscript
The Ten Commandments of Karaoke
The Unseen
Trust Fund Baby

Screenplay Short-Form Finalists
15-40
Dressed in a Black Flag
Russian Elephant in the Room
Voyeur
Reflections of an Exterminator

Screenplay Short-Form Semi-Finalists
Alone in a Crowd
Building Better Pumpkins
Devil Goes Down
Never Ever Land
Red Flag

Season 2, 2006

Best-in-the-Fest:

ROSA(Dir. William Olsson)

Best Feature Film:

ALLEYBALL(Dir. Dan Consiglio)

Best Short Film:

LUCKY (Dir. Avie Luthra)

Best Documentary:

BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE(Dir. Rex Pratt)

Best Student Film:

SPACEBOY(Dir. Ransom Riggs)

Audience Choice:

ALLEYBALL(Dir. Dan Consiglio)

Best Actor:

MY BACKYARD WAS A MOUNTAIN(Andrew Aguilar)

Best Actress:

THE TROUBLE WITH DEE DEE(Lisa Ann Walter)

Best Director:

PIRATES OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE(E.R. Nelson)

Best Cinematography:

A CIGAR AT THE BEACH(Dir. Stephen Keep Mills)

Best Screenplay:

THE HOUSE OF PEREZ (Laura Richter)

OFFICIAL MOVIE SELECTIONS

30 Seconds
A Cigar at the Beach
A Fairy Tale
A Terrorist Ate My Brain
Alleyball
And Now a Word from Our Sponsors …
Arrest Assured
Bartholomew’s Song
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
BINTA Y LA GRAN IDEA (Honorable Mention)
Buffet: All You Can Eat Las Vegas
Champion
Dead Shift
Dear Sweet Emma
Future by Design (Honorable Mention)
GWG: Girl With Gun
Last Stop for Paul (Honorable Mention)
Latent Sorrow
Lookin’ For Some Posse
Looking For My Brother
Lucid
LUCKY
Me Room Matey
MaxiDoodles: Behind the Makeup
Mime Massacre
Moongirl
MORPHIN(E)
My Backyard Was A Mountain
Paperboat (Honorable Mention)
Pebbles
Pirates of the Great Salt Lake
Pituco (Honorable Mention)
Plight of the Windie: Birds of Mystery
Pretty Kitty
Robots Are Blue
ROSA
Rural Rock & Roll
Second Round
Spaceboy
The End
The Father, Unblinking (Honorable Mention)
The Malt Shop in the Sky (Honorable Mention)
The Mamtsotsi Bird
The Run
The Trouble with Dee Dee
TWENTY
two harbors (Honorable Mention)
Unrest
Wannabe (Honorable Mention)
Why Don’t You Dance?

Screenplay Semi-Finalists, Screenwriter

A More PerfectUnion, Chris Knight

AbsoluteReality, Steve Brasfield

Bingo!, Shane Betts

Chairman Mao’s, Chris Knight

Honeymoon Heaven , Ken Kristensen

MSG Added , SusanRossi

Paging Nostradamus, Mark Saunders

She’s GotA Way, Elise Stempky

Stairway to Heaven, Lyndon McGill

Sunny Springs, Kitania Kavey

Talk, Jose Wiley

The Bridge, Bobby Field

The House of Perez, LauraRichter

ThePaperRoute, Danny Howell

Season 1, 2005

Best-in-the-Fest: Feature Film: THE GUY IN ROW FIVE
Runner-Up Feature Film: THE COLT
Third Place Feature Film: COME AS YOU ARE.
Fourth Place Feature Film:OSAMPO
First Place Short Film / Video Art: FIREFIGHTER
Runner-Up Short Film / Video Art: THE EMPTY BUILDING
Third Place Short Film Video Art: ADCORP, INC.
Fourth Place Short Film Video Art: ELDER
Fifth Place Short Film Video Art:THE VACATION
Sixth Place Short film Video Art: TACO
Best Documentary: WHY SHAKESPEARE?
Honorable Mention: DARK HEART (feature)
Best Student Award: POACHED

2005 Official Selections

SHORTS
AdCorp, Inc.
A Can of Paint
Art
Duck Hunted
Elder
Kissing Katie Holmes
Learning to Fly
Love What You Do
Me, My Swami, and I
Rendezvous
Run
Send in the Clown
Smashing Stereotypes
Something Sweet
Taco
The Big Nap
The Vacation
Moonshiner
Poached
The Empty Building
Firefighter

FEATURES
The Colt
Come As You Are
Dark Heart
Osampo
Guy in Row Five

Documentary
Why Shakespeare?
The Narrow Path
Nomad.