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Winners noted in yellow
2023 Fest
Nominations/Winners
FILMS
Best Micro Short
Bulldozer
Choose A Wagon
Good Listener
Happy B’Day Maria
Mermagic
On Fire
Teething Problems You Need Help
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Best Comedy
Beat
Gunpoint
Light of My Life
Terminator: Bad Judgment Day Too Many Tylers
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Best Drama
Beats
Come Find Me
Guilt
Mr. Giggles
Radley
The Gloaming
The Little Drummer Boy
The Shortest Night of Summer
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Best Animated
Midas
Necessary Evil
The Sprayer
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Best Documentary
Bulldozer
Dancing on Water
Emerging Artists
Filmed in Oklahoma
Portrait of a Race Car Driver Rockin’ Baker
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Best Foreign Language
A Courageous Mind
Ada Office
On/Off
The Third Defector
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Best Thriller
A Little Dead
It Mimics
Knock, Knock
Paralyzed
The House
The Third Defector
Best Experimental
Achilles
The External-Internal Monologue of an Interdependent Insomniac
The Last Star
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Best Web/New Media
Dear Mama
L.I.F.E., Episode 2: The Road Not Taken
Best Student
Cell Mates
Max & Taco (Get Their Sh!t Together) Nine Months to November Sacrament
The Monster You Became
Best High School
Found
Solar Flare
The Act
The External-Internal Monologue of an Interdependent Insomniac
(Un)alarmed
Best Oklahoma
10 Minutes
A Little Dead
Bleeding Heart Routine
Dropping Guards
Garden Spells
L.I.F.E., Episode 2: The Road Not Taken
Truck Stop Waltz
Warren’s Gold
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FILMS
Best Music Video
A Window by Burl
Angels Missing Wings
Far Away Man
Making Friends
Pale in the Darkness
The Low Before
Things Are Gonna Be Alright
Toy Llama
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Best Acting in a Drama
Grace Berry
Nine Months to November
Hannah Shealy
Max & Taco (Get Their Sh!t Together)
Kevin Coubal
Mr. Giggles
Shannon Mitchell
After the Storm
Xander Berekely
The Little Drummer Boy
Best Joint Lead Actors
Marlo Minnaar & Aletta Bezuidenhout
On/Off
Jenny Frame & Kacie LaCombe
Guilt
Giulia Goldhammer & Julian Lehr
Beats
Brandon Stewart & Devin Montgomery
present perfect continuous
Jordan Beltz & Curtis Caldwell
The Shortest Night of Summer
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Best Ensemble Cast
A Dark Destiny
A Little Dead
Granny Panties
Radley
The Fall From Grace
Warren’s Gold
We All Die Alone
Best Acting in a Comedy
Avery Merrifield
Terminator: Bad Judgment Day
Kayla Kirk
Too Many Tylers
Melissa Whitely
Light of My Life
Romy Malviya
Gunpoint
Travis Staton-Marrero
Beat
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SCREENPLAY FINALISTS
As Time Goes By by John Martins III
Ashlee Knows by Tommy Britt
Casting Shadow by Angela Sincere
Herbie by Mekko Toretto
I Wish Tonight by Mike McDonald
Karaoke Night by Jessie Kyle
LAX by Rachael Vaughn
Limit Brake by Brian Du
Meeting Myselves by Roman Soto
Murderous Adventures of Mr. Winters by Kasey Hiatt (2nd Place)
Once Upon A Time In Manila by Edje Perezantolo
Prepare the Way by Tommy Britt
Remember...Member...Me by John Martins III
Rhino Ricky’s Fantastical Bowl-A Rama by Sean Patrick Leonard Seeing Things Differently by Jim Norman
Slow Death by Melissa Caswell
Sneakerhead by Jamie Campbell (1st Place)
That’s So Gay by Dr. Tamecca Rogers (3rd Place)
The Light by Jessi Kyle
The Roar by Sean Patrick Leonard
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PHOTOGRAPHY FINALISTS
Zoltan Boros
David Conn
Jenny Conn
Luís Damas
Sterling Eliot
Datlas Erre
Andrea Gluckman
Mike McDonald
Jeremiah Jahi
Alekzandr Korolko
Sean Patrick Leonard
Hamed Asgharzadeh Marghmaleki
Molly Meader
Julia Momtazee
Rachael Vaughn
Jojin Van Winkle
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2022 Fest
Official SelecTIons
FILMS
652 Miles = 0
A Bit of Colored Ribbon
A Long Road to Liberty
A Monster Within
A Real Friend (Best Foreign Language Film)
Across Her Mind
Assisted Living
At the Strawberry Stand
Attic Trunk
Be F*cking Weird
Before You Woke
Before You Woke
Ca Va? (Winner, Best High School Film)
Closed For the Weekend
Cook with the Heart Winner, Best Direction in a Short)
Curb Service (Winner, Best Ensemble Cast)
Death Offers Life
Disposal
Do Mi Sol (Winner, Best Animated Film)
Down Seafaring Way
Eviction Conviction
Exit Package (Winner, Best Short Thriller)
Falling South
Falling South (Best Acting in a Supporting Role)
Fighting for Daybreak
Fire in Little Africa (Winner, Best Short Documentary)
Food Apnea
Goodnight Mr. Vincent van Gogh (Winner, Indie Spirit Award)
Great Mistakes
Hang Up
He Wants to Know My Number
Household Demon
Human Resources (Best Narrative Feature & Best Direction in a Feature)
If Any
Incurable
Incurable
Javelina Run
June (Winner, Best Experimental Film)
Kalamiti (Winner, Best Short Drama)
Kathy with a "K"
Kiss Me
Knights When We Dream
Lilly
Love Me Tinder
Love Me Tinder
Manufactured Luck
Marshmallows
Maybe Tonight
Mirror
On/Off
Pap Trap (Best Acting in a Short Comedy)
Paradox
Paranoia
Retirement Day
Rose Royce
Ruby Eyes
Sakthi Vibrations (Winner, Best Feature Doc.)
Sardis
Sibylline
Something (Winner, Best Music Video)
Stage Fright (Winner, Best Micro Short)
Stick Up (Winner, Best Oklahoma Film & Best Short Comedy)
Strawberry Toast
That Night (Best Student Film)
The Gate
The Guy Next to Me
The Jessicas
The Music Store
The Real Picture
Torn
Transition (Winner, Indie Spirit Award)
Turtles
Welcome to Forever
Zareen
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SCREENPLAYS
A Long Drive Home
Call Me Thor (1st Place - Best Feature Screenplay)
Cold Dead Hands (2nd Place - Feature Screenplay)
End of Days
Paradise Pond (Tied for 3rd Place - Feature Screenplay)
Pennyless
Review
Sour
South of the Border (3rd Place, Best Short Screenplay)
Spooklight (Tied for 3rd Place - Feature Screenplay)
The Actors (1st Place - Best Short Screenplay)
The Bridge
The Killbournes (2nd Place - Short Screenplay)
The Non-Essentials
The Protector
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Butterly Effect (Winner-Best Student Photo)
Camera Ready (Winner-Best Student Photo)
Golden Era Glamour
Gradient Rays (Winner-Best Landscape)
Holding Hands
Let Me Explain Something
Michael and the Book of Psalms (Winner-Best Portrait)
Nona's Peppers
Oklahoma Insects and Arachnids (Winner-Best Nature Shot)
Simplicity (Winner-Best Architecture)
The Chi on the 4th (Winner-Most Interesting Photo)
The Other Bogota (Winner-Best Photo shot on phone)
The Sugg Clinic
2020 Official SelecTIons
*a selection in yellow denotes a win
FILMS
12/14
15 Down
100 Beautiful Things
Accord
Alive
Another Love Story
Are You Volleyball?!
Back in the Saddle
Birth Cycle
Black Forest
Blue Tomorrow
Book Week
Bumble
Cakewalk
Cherokee Bigfoot
Cicero
Circus City, USA
Coffin Decolleté
Dreaming Of You
Extra Innings
Family
Foreign
Fred
Getaway
Gone
Hate Squared
Hollowed
iCandy
In Sickness & in Health
Incredibly Smart, Sexy, Bombshell Co-Ed Named Debra
Inside the Heart
Jones
Kill Al
Life, Upgraded
Lights
Linked
Linoleum
Little Victories
Lizzy
Lukewarm
Memio
Meredith
Miranda
Nasty Habits
New Mexico Rain
Night and Day
Notzilla
Olympic Dream
Outside
Papa Poule
Peach Cobbler
Penny Press
Pint
Plato's Ship of State
Plus One
Poolside
Postfactum
Queen for a Day
Red Dots
RUDI
Sac de Merde
Sela
Sonny Boy
Sparky & Butch
Spoons
Stood Up
Sundown Road
Sunrise
Swirl
Tech, Support
Teddy Bear Rescue
That Was Delicious
The Absence of You
The Avant-Gardener
The Dance
The Fisherman
The Highway
The Homecoming Trilogy
The In-Between
The Mismanagement of Medwin Monroe
The Skilled Trades
The Son, The Father...
The Stand-In
The Sweatshirt
This Life
To Be
Tuscany
Weekend Warriors
What People Are
Why Can't We Go Home?
Yard Sale
SCREENPLAYS
All-American
Attic Ashes
Away With My Heart
Can't Drive a Stick
Clouds
Death Whispers
Fly Old Bird
Freaky AF
Homecoming
Little Things Mean a Lot
Made in America
Mismatch
Nasty
Swamp Witch
The Doughnut Admirer
The Haunting of Reactor Five
'Til the End of Summer
Transgressions
Why Can't I Be You?