2014 AWARD WINNERS
2014 Award Winners were announced on July 5, 2014 at an awards ceremony closing FilmQuest. All categories will be awarded the FilmQuest Cthulhu Trophy, unless otherwise noted.
BEST OF FEST
The Landing
Dir. by Josh Tanner
2nd Place
Echoes
Dir. by Nils Timm
3rd Place
The Seventeenth Kind
Dir. Andy Colliler
FILMQUEST CTHULHU LEGACY AWARD
Doug Jones
BEST FEATURE FILM
Crawlspace
Dir. by Justin Dix
BEST FANTASTIC SHORT FILM
Hyena’s Blood
Dir. by Nicolas Caicoya
BEST FANTASY SHORT FILM
Death of a Shadow
Dir. by Tom Van Avermaet
BEST SCI-FI SHORT FILM
The Landing
Dir. by Josh Tanner
BEST HORROR SHORT FILM
Itsy Bitsy Spiders
Dir. by Bertrand Paré
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Premiere Automne
Dir. by Aude Danset & Carlos de Carvalho
BEST STUDENT FILM
I, Helios
Dir. by James R. Berry
BEST FAN FILM (receives plaque)
Weeping Willow: A Hunger Games Fan Film
Dir. by Annie Poling & Maxwell Swet
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
With the Flow
Dir. by Eddie Sooyoung Chae
BEST WEB SERIES
LARP’s: The Series
Dir. by Julien Stamboulieh
BEST COMMERCIAL/ADVERTISEMENT (receives plaque)
Buried Alive Film Festival Bumper
Dir. by Brian Lonano
BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY – FEATURE
1st Place
“Iron Dogs” by Neil Chase
2nd Place (TIE)
“Fallen Star” by Patrick Gibbs & Paul Gibbs
“Into the Who Knows” by Micah Barber
3rd Place (TIE)
“No Man’s Land” by Karsten Freeman
“Storm Dragons” by Leonardo Reis
ARROWSTORM PRODUCTION OPPORTUNITY FINALISTS
“Journey with the Magi” by Guillermo Gomez
“No Man’s Land” by Karsten Freeman
“The Sleeping Deep” by JB Palmer
BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY – SHORT
1st Place
“Memento Mori” by Stuart Creque
2nd Place
“Fridge Feeder” by Anthony Cowood
3rd Place (TIE)
“A Tell-Tale Heart” by Stephen M. Hunt
“Inhuman Nature” by Ezeibiel Chidi
BEST DIRECTOR
Nils Timm
Echoes
BEST ACTOR
Whit Hertford
The Perfect 46
BEST ACTRESS
Kate French
Echoes
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Henry Nixon
The Landing
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sophie Meister
Lapsus
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Landing
Cinematograph by Jason Hargreaves, ACS
BEST SCREENPLAY
Echoes
Screenplay by Nils Timm
BEST SCORE
The Landing
Original Score by Guy Gross
BEST SOUND
Crawlspace
Sound Design by Paul Pirola
BEST EDITING
24 After
Edited by Yuki Aizawa & Eddie Sooyoung Chae
BEST ART DIRECTION / PRODUCTION DESIGN
Lessons Learned
Design by Scott Foster & Toby Froud
BEST COSTUMES
Hyena’s Blood
Costumes by Lissete Barrios & Adriana Olivera
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Entity
Visual Effects by Jean Philippe Ferre
BEST MAKEUP EFFECTS
Lessons Learned
Makeup by Toby Froud
BEST FILMQUEST EXPRESS FILM
Siren’s Call
Dir. by Chris Luker
2014 NOMINATIONS
2014 Nominations were announced with the 2014 Official Selections in June, 2014. All films and categories (except for FilmQuest Express and the Utah Shorts Competitions) are eligible for all awards in all categories, as long as the films fit in accordance with FilmQuest’s General Rules and Terms & Conditions (please refer to our General Rules and Terms & Conditions on the website).
BEST OF FEST
Finalists to be announced at the FilmQuest awards ceremony.
BEST FEATURE FILM
Crawlspace
Dark Vision (8th Nominee)
Detective Detective Detective
Echoes
Ni 28 – Strate I
Paracosm
The Immortal Augustus Gladstone
The Perfect 46
BEST FANTASTIC SHORT FILM
Extreme Pinocchio
Indigo
Hyenas Blood
John Henry and the Railroad
Lapsus
Monsura is Waiting (8th Nominee)
No Ordinary Ham
Voice Over
BEST FANTASY SHORT FILM
24 After
Being Doug (8th Nominee)
Cassandra
Death of A Shadow
Dustland
East of Kensington
Lessons Learned
The Hypnotist
BEST HORROR SHORT FILM
Dark Origins
Don’t Move
Familiar
Insane
Itsy Bitsy Spiders (8th Nominee)
Little Matthew
The Only Man
The Visitant
BEST SCI-FI SHORT FILM
Entity
From the Future with Love
On/Off
Prospect
Shift
The Landing
The Seventeenth Kind
Void (8th Nominee)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Amaqqut Nunaat
Francis
Little Quentin
Monstro!
PostHuman (8th Nominee)
Premiere Automne
Shave It
The Return of an Outcast
BEST STUDENT FILM
24 After
Better the Devil
Dustland
Ghost Light (8th Nominee)
I, Helios
Killer Kart
Out There
The Captain
BEST FAN FILM
Pac-Man: The Movie
Star Wars: The Holo Xperience
Weeping Willow: A Hunger Games Fan Film
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Broken Circuits (4th Nominee)
Nihilists Need Love Too
With the Flow
Zombie Nation
BEST WEB SERIES
Brightside
Great Daena
LARP’s
Progress
Shifters (6th Nominee)
The Invaders
BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY – FEATURE
(Top Ten Finalists Listed)
“Fallen Star” by Patrick & Paul Gibbs
“Into the Who Knows!” by Micah Barber
“Iron Dogs” by Neil Chase
“Journey with the Magi” by Guillermo Gomez
“Mountain of the Moon” by Jeffrey Ryback
“No Man’s Land” by Karsten Freeman
“Storm Dragons” by Leonardo Reis
“The Minstrel” by Todd Sorrell
“The Sleeping Deep” by JB Palmer
“Troublesome Creek” by Wesley Mullens
BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY – SHORT
(Top Five Finalists Listed)
“A Tell-Tale Heart” by Stephen M. Hunt
“Fridge Feeder” by Anthony Cowood
“Inhuman Nature” by Ezeibiel Chidi
“Memento Mori” by Stuart Creque
“WiFighters” by Rahdy Elwan
BEST DIRECTOR
24 After – Eddie Sooyoung Chae
Death of a Shadow – Tom Van Avermaet (8th Nominee)
Echoes – Nils Timm
Hyenas Blood – Nicolas Caicoya
Lapsus – Karim Ourat
Ni 28 – Strate I – Terence Tesh Chevrin
The Landing – Josh Tanner
The Seventeenth Kind – Andy Collier
*8th Nominee to be announced at FilmQuest
BEST ACTOR
Extreme Pinocchio – Christophe Fluder
Hyenas Blood – Jon Lange
Familiar – Robert Nolan
The Only Man – Timothy Gibbs
The Perfect 46 – Whit Hertford
The Seventeenth Kind – Tony Curran
Valibation – James Kirkland (8th Nominee)
Warhol – Corey Johnson
BEST ACTRESS
Dark Origins – Rosie Keogh
Echoes – Kate French
Indigo – Cecilia Forss
Insane – Shannon Lahaie
Killer Kart – Christine Rodriguez
Mama Doesn’t Know Best – Ksenia Pavlov (8th Nominee)
Monsura is Waiting – Nell Gwynn
The Visitant – Amy Smart
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Better the Devil – Tim De Zarn
Birth of a Ghost – Dhananjay Sardeshpande
Detective Detective Detective – Matthew Clay
Echoes – Steven Brand
Extreme Pinocchio – Brice Fournier
Lapsus – Arben Bakraktaraj
Out There – Sean Weil (8th Nominee)
The Landing – Henry Nixon
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Dark Origins – Jane Elizabeth Barry
Itsy Bitsy Spiders – Jessica Galinas
Lapsus – Sophie Meister
LARP’s – Charlotte Rogers
Love, and Other Devices – Kate Bowen
The Host – Fernanda Castillo
The Interview – Dawn Alden
The Negative – Abigail Augusta (8th Nominee)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
24 After
Crawlspace (8th Nominee)
Don’t Move
Echoes
Prospect
The Landing
The Only Man
Valibation
BEST SCREENPLAY
Boome & Slade
Detective Detective Detective
Echoes
Frank & the Ant (8th Nominee)
Lapsus
The Landing
The Perfect 46
Voice Over
BEST SCORE
Cassandra (8th Nominee)
Entity
Itsy Bitsy Spiders
John Henry and the Railroad
On/Off
The Hypnotist
The Landing
The Passage
BEST SOUND
Crawlspace
Echoes
Entity
Insane
The Heebi-Jeebies
The Landing
The Last Ten (8th Nominee)
The Visitant
BEST EDITING
24 After
Indigo
Lapsus
Pity
Shift (8th Nominee)
The Amulet of the Dragon
The Hynotist
The Landing
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN / ART DIRECTION
Dustland
Extreme Pinocchio
Itsy Bitsy Spiders
Lessons Learned
Paracosm
The Hypnotist (8th Nominee)
The Last Halloween
The Seventeenth Kind
BEST COSTUMES
Cassandra (8th Nominee)
Chaisson: Quest for Oriud
Dreams of the Last Butterflies
Dustland
Hyenas Blood
LARPS’s
The Dragonphoenix Chronicles: Indomitable
The Three
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Dustland
Entity
Eve
On/Off
Tears of Steel (8th Nominee)
The Gate
The Third Letter
Void
BEST MAKEUP (applies to puppetry, hair, makeup and makeup fx)
Don’t Move
Lessons Learned
Monster Island (8th Nominee)
Paracosm
The Last Halloween
The Only Man
The Visitant
Zombinladen: The Axis of Evil Dead
BEST FILMQUEST EXPRESS FILM (and other awards)
Finalists announced at Festival
*Note that FilmQuest reserves the right to deem a category null in any given year if there are not enough quality submissions/selections for there to be a fair competition for the category. (For example: There is only 1 quality fan film submitted to the festival and/or there are not enough quality submissions sent in for a particular category. We also deem a category null if there are fewer than six films to nominate for any given category.