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2024 Audience Award Winners

Audience Award Winners

Best Feature Film – Comedy – All the Wrong Ingredients
Best Feature Film – Documentary – Hong Kong – Final Days of Freedom
Best Feature Film – Drama – Look At Me
Best Short Film – Animation – Hoang the Paper Boy
Best Short Film – Comedy – The Feeling Expert
Best Short Film – Drama – You Look So Good
Best Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse – Girl Upstairs
Best Short Film – Horror – Vessel
Best Short Film – Sci-Fi – REVERIE
Best Immersive Short – The Carrier
Best Screenplay – Feature Film – A Nightmare’s Reverie – Lianna Perry Fountain
Best Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series – Transitions – Rachael CG Cudlitz
Best Screenplay – Short Film – Fear – Noelle Ann Mabry

Audience Awards – Determined by highly scientific instruments to measure audience satisfaction.

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2024 Filmmakers Awards Winners

Filmmakers Awards

Outstanding Short Film – Animation – Anansi the Spider
Outstanding Director – Animation – Moving Day – Sean Mirkovich
Outstanding Screenplay – Animation – Hinter-Land – Christopher Angus
Outstanding Cast Performance – Animation – Anansi the Spider – Daniel Jennings, Elijah Gallimore-Repole & Jared Hall
Outstanding Originality – Animation – Nostalgia Transplant
Outstanding Short Film – Comedy – V-Card
Outstanding Director – Comedy – The Word – Rob M. Neilson
Outstanding Screenplay – Comedy – The Word – Colin Ochs, Rob M. Neilson, Sam Demaris & Billy D. Washington
Outstanding Cast Performance – Comedy – The Word
Outstanding Originality – Comedy – V-Card
Outstanding Short Film – Drama – Rites of Passage
Outstanding Director – Drama – On Earth, as it is in Heaven – Michael Cudlitz
Outstanding Screenplay – Drama – The Unreliables – Jen Robyn Jacobs & Adam Linkenhelt
Outstanding Cast Performance – Drama – On Earth, as it is in Heaven
Outstanding Originality – Drama – Intertitle
Outstanding Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse – PANG
Outstanding Director – Experimental/Arthouse – Wesley Loses His Penis – Brennan Thomas McGee
Outstanding Screenplay – Experimental/Arthouse – Wesley Loses His Penis – Brennan Thomas McGee
Outstanding Cast Performance – Experimental/Arthouse – Wesley Loses His Penis
Outstanding Originality – Experimental/Arthouse – PANG
Outstanding Short Film – Horror – The Wheel
Outstanding Director – Horror – Wake
Outstanding Screenplay – Horror – The Wheel
Outstanding Cast Performance – Horror – Vessel
Outstanding Originality – Horror – You’re Dirty Now
Outstanding Short Film – Sci-Fi – OVERCLOCKED : Origins
Outstanding Director – Sci-Fi – ID EST – Shayda Frost
Outstanding Screenplay – Sci-Fi – REVERIE – Kelli Horan
Outstanding Cast Performance – Sci-Fi – REVERIE
Outstanding Originality – Sci-Fi – Somniscience

Filmmakers Awards – Determined by a panel of filmmakers whose films have been Official Selections previous years and given only to short films.

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2024 Programmer’s Prize Winners

Programmer’s Prize

Exceptional Filmmaking – Village of Death: Oradour-sur-Glane 1944
Exceptional Filmmaking – The 10,000 Mile Bridge
Exceptional Filmmaking – The Spectacular Absence Of God
Exceptional Filmmaking – At Ten Weeks
Exceptional Filmmaking – I DID
Exceptional Filmmaking – I’ll Be There
Exceptional Filmmaking – Oh My Sweetheart
Exceptional Filmmaking – Talia

Programmer’s Prize – Determined by festival programmer Jeff Howard as a reward for his hard work.  Importantly, having his own awards means he never has to put his finger on the scale for the other awards.

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Herbarium

2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Dance

Choreography composed to a suite by Edward Grieg and presented by the artists-dancers of the Polish Dance Theatre takes the audience into the world of flora. It allows to explore a day in the life of a plant from the moment it blooms to the end, drowned in warm nostalgia.

Director(s): Iwona Pasińska
Producer(s): Polish Dance Theatre

Country: Poland

 

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Village of Death: Oradour-sur-Glane 1944

2024 Official Selection: Feature Film – Documentary

Oradour-sur-Glane is unique in Europe: a fully preserved, ruined village that was the site of the worst Nazi massacre of civilians on French soil. 643 people, including 247 children, were shot or burnt alive on 10 June 1944 in an unexplained act of barbarity.

Director(s): Tim Gray
Writer(s): Tim Gray
Producer(s): Jim Karpeichik

Country: USA

 

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Hong Kong – Final Days of Freedom

2024 Official Selection: Feature Film – Documentary

Hong Kong’s battle for democracy with interviews from protestors, professors, politicians, and activists telling how their new National Security Law has turned this international business mecca into a Chinese-controlled police state.

Director(s): Sean Fleck
Writer(s): Sean Fleck
Producer(s): Sean Fleck, Alan Parks

Country: USA

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Marco Polo

2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

Charlie imagines the future with his unborn daughter but at 10 weeks pregnant there is still a long way to go.

Director(s): Pablo Riesgo Almonacid
Writer(s): Pablo Riesgo Almonacid
Producer(s): Pablo Riesgo Almonacid, Ainara Landon, Juantxu Alvarez, Alberto Rocamora
Key Cast: Omar Banana, Jorge Zuloaga, Carolina Riesgo, Cesar Perez, Rebeca Badia, Jesus Lloveras, Salvador Leon Molina, Fran Abellan

Country: Spain

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