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.

Source: FILA

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.

Source: FILA

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.

Source: FILA

447. Jaime Saginor “Black Creek Trail”

Welcome back everyone! This week I had Jaime Saginor in the studio with me and it was an absolute blast. Jaime’s film “Black Creek Trail” won the programmers prize at the 2022 Sherman Oaks Film Festival and rightfully so. We go over her story of becoming a filmmaker, advice for aspiring filmmakers, and so much more! I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did recording it.

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446. 4Qs with Bailey Castle, Jeremy Schaye, David Cameli, & Jules Quaas

What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.

I had the pleasure of having a whole team with me in the studio today. Their film “Back Home” came to the 2023 Film Invasion LA Festival where it took home the Programmers Award! We just wrapped up a jam-packed interview and you know I was going to have them answer the 4Q’s before leaving!

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@delicateconditionseries

 

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