FILMQUEST 2021 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
The 2021 FilmQuest saw 1,524 films and screenplays submitted for consideration. This shattered our previous record for submissions, and made judging and selecting this year’s lineup an incredibly difficult task. From these submissions, we have made our Official Selections across several categories from around the world to play and compete at the 2021 FilmQuest Festival. Screenplay finalists were chosen by a group of professional third party judges, who judged a record amount of screenplay submissions this year, of which we expanded the list to 80 finalists (50 features, 30 shorts). A total of TBD nations are represented in the final selections. TBD of all films selected were either written, directed, and/or produced by a female filmmaker.
The 8th annual FilmQuest will take place October 29th – November 6th, 2021 at the Velour Live Music Gallery in beautiful Downtown Provo, Utah. Tickets and passes will go on sale once the schedule of events and screenings are finalized. A virtual cinema, with selections screening exclusively online will also be a part of the festival, with more information on how to access the films coming soon. The website will be updated with information on each film and screenplay in preparation for the physical festival this Fall.
Due to the ongoing uncertainties surrounding Covid-19, affecting filmmaker participation and attendance of the festival, particularly amongst non-US citizens, the festival decided to expand the 2021 lineup. Thus, 9 extra blocks of films (about 16 hours) have been accepted into the festival as an Official Selection to screen virtually only, while also remaining in competition. This was done in order to ensure maximum participation for both those that can join us at FilmQuest in-person and also those who cannot from afar, and which films will screen as such will be determined in a near future date.
Nominations will be announced for all awards at a later date. Premiere statuses TBD. Selections are subject to change before the festival.
Start planning your FilmQuest experience today!
FEATURE FILMS
An Ideal Host – Australia
Daughter – USA
Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes – Germany
Deadstream – USA
Esluna: The Crown of Babylon – Canada
Follow Her – USA
Futra Days – USA
Ghosts of the Ozarks – USA
Keeping Company – USA
Not Alone – USA
The Free Fall – USA
The Old Ways – USA
The Parker Sessions – USA
Tin Can – Canada
Two Witches – USA
When I Consume You – USA
When the Screaming Starts – United Kingdom
Wicked Games – USA
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
Alien on Stage – United Kingdom
Code Name: Nagasaki – Norway
SHORT FILMS
COMEDY & DARK COMEDY SHORTS
Book – USA
Cabin for Two – USA
Don’t Text Back! – Canada
Every Time We Meet for Ice Cream Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes – USA
F*ucking Ghosts – USA
Gastral Projection – USA
Guts – USA
Hell Hole – USA
Hell in a Handbasket – Canada
Her Release – USA
I’m Not a Robot – USA
Last Chance – USA
Lethalogica – USA
Logan Lee & The Rise of the Purple Dawn – USA
Make a Wish – USA
Minimally Invasive – New Zealand
No Good Deed – USA
Numerus Duo – USA
Old Fox – Canada
Picnic Pals in Dreamland – USA
Pick Up Artist – Germany
Shallow Graves – USA
Sins of a Werewolf – Ireland
Sitting Duck – USA
Sleep Tight – United Kingdom
Smiles – Spain
Snake Dick – USA
Star Saga – USA
Still Together – USA
Stuck – USA
Swiped – Canada
The Dead Collectors – United Kingdom
The Fuzzies – USA
The Other Side of Fear – United Kingdom
Together Till The End – Mexico
Unholy ‘Mole – USA
Welcome to Our Home – USA
What Happened Downstairs? – USA
What It Feels Like for a Girl – USA
What the Spell? – USA
Wich – USA
Wolf in Dude’s Clothing – Canada
Yummy – USA
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
Giant: The World of Filmmaker Jeff Leroy – USA
Renaissance Man – USA
FANTASTIC SHORTS
29 – United Kingdom
A Machine for Boredom – USA
Ad Lib – France
Anniversary – USA
Buffalo & Trout – USA
Burn on Arrival – United Kingdom
Cerberus – Estonia
Class – USA
El Triste – Mexico
For Your Consideration – USA
Hells Kitchen – Australia
Hit or Miss – USA
In Hollywoodland – USA
Into the Uncanny Valley – USA
Little Brother – USA
Marked – USA
Nagual: The Sin Eater – USA
One Fight Five Times – New Zealand
RED – United Kingdom
Reklaw – USA
Salmon Pink – Canada
Strayed – France/USA
The Cenozoic Era – USA
The Dangerous Type – USA
tx-reverse – Austria
Wake – USA
Wasteland – USA
FANTASY SHORTS
Brackish – USA
Break Any Spell – Canada
Incarnation – Japan
Mask of the Evil Apparition – Australia
Muse – Australia
Offerings – USA
Riven – New Zealand
Snow Globe – USA
The Wishflower – USA
HORROR SHORTS
#NOFILTER – USA
A Good Couple – USA
Abracitos – Spain
After Dark – USA
Axe to the Face – USA
Back to the Woods – USA
Blood Will Have Blood – USA
Central Dental – Canada
Crock Pot – USA
Cutter – USA
deMonica – USA
Don’t Be Afraid – USA
Don’t Go Outside – USA
Escalation – Italy
Every 75 Minutes – Spain
Evie – Australia
Face Your Fears – USA
Familiar – United Kingdom
Feed Your Muse – USA
Forgive Us – USA
Golem – Australia
He Comes at Night – Canada
Hospital Dumpster Divers – Norway
Household Demons – USA
Hunter’s Cabin – Canada
I Call Upon Thee – Australia
Imaginary Portrait – Argentina/USA
Inch Thick, Knee Deep – USA
Inferno – Australia
Ivan Moody’s Dirty Poetry – USA
Killing Small Animals – Sweden
Killing Time – USA
Killjoy – USA
Koreatown Ghost Story – USA
La Ciguapa Siempre – USA
Lily in the Maze – USA
Matched – USA
Mourn – Canada
No One is Coming – USA
Pathosis – USA
Poor Glenna – USA
Posies – USA
Prudence – USA
Rancour – Australia
Receiver – Canada
Reflection – USA
Return of the Beast from Outer Space – United Kingdom
Shadow at the Door – USA
She. Picked. Me. – USA
Sink – USA
Skinner 1929 – USA
Smile – Canada
Snake Eyes: An ASMR Nightmare – USA
Spore – USA
Terrible Things – Ireland
The Anniversary – USA
The Fourth Wall – USA/France
The Mad Shagger – United Kingdom
The Night Courier – USA
The Pey – USA
The Recipients – USA
The Relic – USA
The Rickety Man – USA
The Silent Lay Steady – Canada
There’s Something in the Silence – USA
Upstairs – United Kingdom
user_ – USA
Visitors – Japan
Watcher – USA
We All Dream – Canada
Weee Woo – USA
Weirdo – Canada
Witch Hunt – USA
Xiety – USA
ZTV Sympathy for the Devil – USA
SCI-FI SHORTS
Anemone – Italy
Body of the Mined – USA
Carmentis – Australia
Disembodies – USA
Fenestra – USA
Forsaken Mandalorian and the Drunken Jedi Master – USA
Jettison – USA
Mark II – USA
Ouroboros – Canada
Raze of the Cyborg – Taiwan
Ruby Red – USA
She – USA
Survivers – Spain
Sweet Nothings – USA
The Offer – USA
The Other Side – South Africa
Today – Australia
Venus – United Kingdom
Watch Room – USA
You Will Never Be Back – Spain
Zealandia – New Zealand
UTAH SHORTS
Conscription – USA
Folie á Deux – USA
Isolate – USA
Orphan – USA
Outer Darkness – USA
Petra – USA
Subscribe – USA
The Moon and the Hummingbird – USA
Thirst – USA
Widow’s Peak – USA
STUDENT FILMS
COMEDY & DARK COMEDY STUDENT FILMS
What the Heck is Going On? – USA
You Missed a Spot – USA
FANTASTIC STUDENT FILMS
The Small Hours – United Kingdom
FANTASY STUDENT FILMS
Big Touch – USA
Knightman – USA
Stra Man – USA
HORROR STUDENT FILMS
Bordo – Israel
Echthaar – Austria
It’s Me, Sarah – Honduras/USA
Itch – Malta
Night Call – Belgium
Parricide – USA
The Fox – Australia
The Painted – USA
The Rule of Three – USA
SCI-FI STUDENT FILMS
Homesick – Poland
In My Image – USA
Penumbra – USA
The Purple Iris – USA
ANIMATED FILMS
A New Normal – India
Burning Bright – USA
Death and the Winemaker – Switzerland
Elsewhere – USA
Following the Comet – USA
I Can’t Relax Here – USA
Little Wolf: The Night Trail – USA
Monster Encounters – Germany
On / Off – Argentina
Posted No Hunting – USA
Scarlet Red – Belgium
The Dark Odyssey – USA
The Feast – USA
The Mechanical Dancer – USA
The West Patch – USA
MUSIC VIDEOS
Boneyard Ballet – USA
Broken As Me – USA
Devil in Me – USA
Forever Ting – Canada
Her – United Kingdom
I Wonder – USA
La Domenica Delle Salme – Romania
Low – USA
Mulletude – USA
Once Upon A Second Act – USA
Sala de los Pecadores – USA
Skynut – New Zealand
That Ain’t You – Canada
The Visitor – USA
Video Games – USA
Walk Into the Water – USA
You Said – USA
WEB SERIES
Auction House – USA
Dead End – Israel
Hug the Sun – Australia
Magenta – Italy
Tales from Black Manor – USA
The Coroner – France
SCREENPLAYS
All unproduced screenplay finalists chosen by a team of third party judges. Winners and Top 20 & Top 5 (Features) and Top 5 (Shorts) will be announced at the festival.
SCREENPLAY FINALISTS – FEATURES (Top 50)
Coming soon!
SCREENPLAY FINALISTS – SHORTS (Top 30)
A Town Dressed in Black by Gregory Fishwick
Blood & Marriage by Katlyn Aviles
Boxed-Up by Jamie Tree
Dead Drunk by Christopher M. Moreman
Dolores by Michael Seabolt & Gregory Schroeder
Don’t Let Her Out by Thomas McKean
Eden by Rakefet Abergel
Forget Me Not by Sarah Cooper
Frabjous Day by Tavis Doucette
Gloomy Sunday by Kevin Machate
Gloves by Michael Clifton
Horror Kid by Billy McAfee
Love You More Than Rain by Kristy Walsh
Matchstick by Philip Tice
Mermaids Have No Tears by Lulenoxx
Mommy’s Old Playhouse by Joey Scoma
Nighttime is No Fun Anymore by Jennifer Trudrung
One Who Knows by Shiloh Nyce
Pigeon by Paul Silwinski
Pod People by Stirling J. McLaughlin & J. Wilder Konschak
Pron by Hyrum Hansen
Queensguard by Kevin Anglin
Ren-Fair by Jesse Mattson & Sam Mattson
She Creature by Maria Krovatin & Chris Krovatin
The Bad Poet by Michael Clifton
The Familiar by Carrie Specht
The Heart is an Organ by Tim Troemner
This Little Valley by Zoe Maltby
Vodi by Nath Milburn & Luke Baker
What We See by Tyler Fruge