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Director(s): Nate Hapke
Writer(s): Nate Hapke
Producer(s): Nate Hapke, Rosie Grace, Julia Armine
Cast: Niya Wright, CB Mullen, Allie Leonard, Nate Hapke
Who’s the real superhero?
Director(s): Neil Payne
Producer(s): Emmanuel Sandoval
Cast: Will Klem, Ashlyn Aaron, John Luder
Mutiny! is a swashbuckling, action-adventure comedy featuring a progressive Captain dealing with a crew that’s set in their old ways— all while confronting gender inequality and the lack of self-awareness of overt masculinity… but all seen through the eyes of 17th Century Pirates.
Director(s): Matthew Gratzner
Writer(s): Matthew Gratzner
Producer(s): Camille Balsamo-Gillis, Matthew Gratzner, Shannon Blake Gans
Cast: Angie Teordora Dick, Terence Rotolo, Robert Chapin, Christopher Halsted, Paul Anthony Scott, Peter Bisson
Aliens descend in crystal spaceships to make contact with people through guitar amp distortion and glowing animal skulls.
Director(s): M. Wild
Writer(s): M. Wild
Cast: Adam Kromachou, Alana Dietze, Amber Quinn, Anastassia Melnikova, Ben Nesbit, Benjamin James Thomas, C. David Jones, Caitlin Zambito, Derek McAlister, Douglas M. Eames, Eric Gorlow, Hal Dion, Ian Neville, Ifeoma Kpaduwa, Jack Tripp, Jason Kekich, Jennifer McCall, Jul Kohler, Karen Anne Patti, Lara Lafferty, Lary Muller, Lucy Liljegren, Madeline Gillette, Maggie Adler, Marjan Elliott, Michael Danheiser, Michelle Dawn Sharpe, Nicholas Hylander, Samantha Gordon, Samuel Whitehill, Sarah Carson, Shelyn La Rush, Sierra Erika Taylor, Sofia Di Biasio, Tatiana Gomez, Taylor Watson Seupel, & Zack King
An astronaut embarks on a journey through time and space in search of life’s answer.
Director(s): Indigo Suave
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Best Feature Film – Comedy – Hawk and Rev: Vampire Slayers
Best Feature Film – Drama – The Imaginary State
Best Feature Film – Documentary – Another Child
Best SciFi FIlm – Elipsis
Best Short Film – Comedy – Sous Pression (Under Pressure)
Best Short Film – Documentary – The Kids Are Still Here
Best Short Film – Drama – Six Nights
Best Short Film – Arthouse – Acknowledgements
Best Short Film – Experimental – Cinema
Best Short Film – Horror – Koreatown Ghost Story
Best Music Video – ODDKO D4TM
Best Director – SB Edwards, Fall Back Down
Best Actress in a Lead Role – Co-Leads: Lyndsey Frank & Bree Helders, Bree and Lyndsey are Actors
Best Actor in a Lead Role – Benny Elledge, Kringle Time
Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Aadila Dosani, Fall Back Down
Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Vernon Wells, Kringle Time
Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Ari Schneider, Hawk and Rev: Vampire Slayers
Best Performance by a Cast – Drama – The Imaginary State
Best Performance by a Cast – Comedy – Hawk and Rev: Vampire Slayers
Best Performance by a Voice Actor – Iggy Pop, Squirrel Mountain ‘Iggy To The Rescue’
Best Screenplay – SB Edwards, Fall Back Down
Best Cinematography – Henrik Jensen, The Imaginary State
Best Visual Effects – Christian Klein, Sweet Nothings
Best Production Design – In the Company of Crows
Best Screenplay – Feature (Unproduced) – go-LOVE-go John Griffin
Best Screenplay – Feature (Unproduced) – Splicer
Best Screenplay – Pilot (Unproduced) – She Creature Maria Krovatin & Chris Krovatin
Best Screenplay – Pilot (Unproduced) – Rennies Daniel Roche
Documentary – A Perfect Vintage
Feature Film – Fall Back Down
Short Films – Comedy – “Screwball Short Film Program” – Coco and Colby, Bree and Lyndsey are Actors & Lizard Brain
Short Film – Drama -“Authenticity Short Film Program” – Break, Delivery & Six Nights
Short Film – Experimental – “Poetic Short Film Program” – Acknowledgements, Telling Time, Liberate & It Doesn’t Matter
Short Film – Horror – “Horror Spotlight Program” – Clean Cut Clean Cut & The Strong Box
Outstanding Short Film – Documentary – Woman of Courage
Outstanding Short Film – Comedy – Achan and Ezra
Outstanding Short Film – Comedy – Kia Summer Sales Event
Outstanding Director – Comedy – David Labrecque, Sous Pression (Under Pressure)
Outstanding Screenplay – Comedy – Omri Rose, Achan and Ezra
Outstanding Acting, Cast – Comedy – Achan and Ezra
Outstanding Acting, Individual – Comedy – Jon Ebeling, Lizard Brain
Outstanding Acting, Comedy Duo – Gerald B. Fillmore & Vanessa Benavente, Hold For Applause
Outstanding Cinematography – Comedy – Eric Bader, Kia Summer Sales Event
Outstanding Short Film – Drama – 11-95
Outstanding Short Film – Drama – She Used to Laugh
Outstanding Director – Drama – Robert Brogden, Six Nights
Outstanding Screenplay – Drama – Greg Berman, She Used to Laugh
Outstanding Acting, Cast – Drama – 11-95
Outstanding Acting, Individual – Drama -Kelly Frye, A Call Above the Clouds
Outstanding Cinematography – Drama – Ino Yang Popper, A Call Above the Clouds
Outstanding Short Film – Experimental – When Snow Falls
Outstanding Director – Experimental – Theodore Knighton, Cinema
Outstanding Screenplay – Experimental – Zack Browne, It Doesn’t Matter
Outstanding Performance, Cast – Experimental – Ted Louis Levy & Barbara Duffy, When Snow Falls
Outstanding Performance, Individual – Experimental – Ingrid Rogers, Liberate
Outstanding Cinematography – Experimental – Theodore Knighton & Co, Cinema
Outstanding Short Film – Horror – Clean Cut
Outstanding Directors – Horror – Minsun Park & Teddy Tenenbaum, Koreatown Ghost Story
Outstanding Screenplay – Horror – Minsun Park & Teddy Tenenbaum, Koreatown Ghost Story
Outstanding Acting, Cast – Horror – Koreatown Ghost Story
Outstanding Acting, Individual – Horror – Joseph Fox, The Strong Box
Outstanding Cinematography – Horror – Jon Keng, Koreatown Ghost Story
Outstanding Short Film – SciFi – Anomaly
Outstanding Director – SciFi – Michael Jeanpert, Anomaly
Outstanding Screenplay – SciFi – Christian Klein, Sweet Nothings
Outstanding Acting, Cast – SciFi – Anomaly
Outstanding Acting, Individual – SciFi – Roberto Calvet, Anomaly
Outstanding Cinematography – SciFi – Victor Ingles, Sweet Nothings
Outstanding Music Video – I Don’t Need A Sledgehammer To Start A Fire
Exceptional Filmmaking – Execution
Exceptional Filmmaking – Home By 11
Exceptional Filmmaking – In A Strange Room
Exceptional Filmmaking – Jiyan
Exceptional Filmmaking – Squirrel Mountain ‘Iggy To The Rescue’
Exceptional Filmmaking – The Sword That Waits
Grand Jury Prizes – determined by the festival’s official selection committee.
Audience Awards – determined by highly scientific instruments placed throughout the theater to determine audience satisfaction.
Filmmakers Awards – given only to short films, these are determined by a panel of fifteen filmmakers whose films have been Official Selections previous years.
Programmer’s Prize – given to film(s) that festival programmer Jeff Howard cannot bear to see go without an award. These films are generally off the beaten path and break conventions of format and genre.
Covid-18 may have kept us out of the theater, but our Official Selection filmmakers, screenwriters, actors and producers still got a taste of our “normal” film festival fun with the FILA 2021 Opening Day Festival Mixer.
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Opening Day Festival Mixer – June 12, 2021
Eddy wanted a career in photography. Instead, he’s pitching photo sales in the nation’s 27th best theme park as he finds himself caught in the middle of new co-workers and old grudges.
Director(s): Luisa Novo
Writer(s): James Hughes
Producer(s): Luisa Novo, Mario Torres Torres
Cast: Austin Carr, Robert Olsen, Colin Borden, Josh Nadler, Daisy Fernandez
