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HollyShorts Film Festival Wraps Up For 2018 - Film
Rych McCain International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist
The
2018 HollyShorts Film Festival!
The 14th
edition of the Oscar® qualifying HollyShorts
Film Festival has concluded for 2018. The standing room only Awards
Ceremonies hosted by the lovely Gabrielle
Loren who is a Hollyshorts alumni, convened at the beautiful Harmony Gold Theater on the fame Sunset
Strip in Hollywood.
The Festival was held at the world famous TCL Chinese Theater in the heart of Hollywood.
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| HollyShort 2018 Winners! |
Best
Short Film Top Award, presented by Buffalo
8 went to Skin, directed by Guy
Nattiv. The film drew a massive amount of attention during its premiere.
Grand
Jury Prize went to Souls of Totality, directed by Richard Raymond.
Best
Director went to Randall Christopher
for The
Driver Is Red.
Best
Short Shot on Film presented by
KODAK went to Trapeze USA by Mark
Anthony Green.
The
Panavision Future Filmmaker Award went to Daniel Drummond for A Foreman.
The
HollyShorts 2018 Screenplay Competition Winner presented by The Seattle Film Summit went to Best Seller by Nora Kirkpatrick.
The 15th Anniversary of HollyShorts
will take place on August 8-17 at The TCL Chinese 6 Theaters. The festival
begins taking early bird submissions for next year’s festival on September 23,
2018.
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| Festival Check-in |
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| Busy Filmmakers at TCL Chinese Theater |
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| Red Carpet Backdrop |
The rest of the winners. Congratulations!
May your futures in film making be bright!
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| All of the night's winners line up on stage |
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| Awards Hostess, HollyShorts Alumnus Gabrielle Loren |
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| Steven Adams, Panel Leader, Award Presenter and Sponsor, Buffalo 8 |
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| Gabrielle Loren & HSF Co-Creator Theo Dumont |
Best Action
Mascarpone –
Jonas Riemer
Best Animation
The Driver Is Red – Randall Christopher
Best Cinematographer
The Other End Of The Earth – Aaron Grasso
Best Comedy
Must Kill Karl – Joe Kicak
Best Coming Of Age
Melody –
Bernard Kordieh
Best Diversity
Diwa – Aina
Dumlao & Bru Muller
Best Drama
Phone Duty
– Lenar Kamalov
Best Editing
The Sermon
– Paco Sweetman
Best Female Director
Magic ’85
– Annika Kurnick
Best Horror
Bite Size Horror – Andrew Laurich, Anthony Melton, Ben Franklin, Chris Leone, Jack
Bishop, Jerome Sable, John Ross, Justin Nim, Michael Thelin, Rob Savage and
Toby Meakins
Best International
Matria – Alvaro
Gago Diaz
Best LGBT
Pop Rox – Nate
Trnrud
Best Music Video
Sea – Thor
Brenne
Best Narrative
A Drowning Man – Mahdi Fleifel
Best Period Piece
Cypher –
Lawrence Le Lam
Best Produced
Deer Boy – Pawel
Kosun & Agnieszka Janowska
Best Romance
Fill Your Heart With French Fries – Tamar Glezeman
Best Sci-Fi
Paleonaut –
Eric McEver
Best Screenplay
1. Best Seller – Nora Kirkpatrick
2. Melville – Jeremy Storey
3. Conviction – Nino Mancuso
Best Student
Falling – Ewen
Wright
Best Thriller
Baghead –
Alberto Corredor
Best TV
Pickup –
Jeremiah Kipp
Best VFX
UI Soon We Will All Be One – Johannes Mucke & Patrick Sturm
Best VR
A Yosemite Welcome – Kevin Pontuti
Best Web Series
Little Itally, LA – Adriano Valentini
Honorable Mention
Magic Alps
– Andrea Brusa & Marco Scotu
Kodak Honorable Mention
Always Remember Me – Nell Teare
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| Capacity Crowd Packing Into The Harmony Gold Theater |
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