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Fest Alumni

We are fortunate to continually meet filmmakers, screenwriters, and photographers. We are honored to be able showcase their work at our annual festival. 

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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?

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