2022 AWARD WINNERS
The following list are the winners for the 2022 FilmQuest Awards. The award winners, including the coveted FilmQuest Cthulhu Trophy winners, were announced in full at the Closing Night Awards Ceremony on November 5th, 2022 at Velour Live Music Gallery in Downtown Provo, Utah. The 2022 FilmQuest Winners are, as usual, filled with many more deserving films than can possibly win or be nominated. To the winners, congratulations!
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BEST FEATURE FILM
Moon Garden
BEST COMEDY SHORT
(TIE) The Mages of Rages and the Desecration of the House of Mimicry
(TIE) The Unusualist
BEST FANTASTIC SHORT
Lilias Adie
BEST FANTASY SHORT
House of the Unholy
BEST FOREIGN SHORT
Being Born
BEST HORROR SHORT
Keep the Lights On
BEST MICRO SHORT
Special Delivery
BEST MIDNIGHT SHORT
Love is a Fire
BEST SCI-FI SHORT
Convergence
BEST STUDENT SHORT
The Rotting of Casey Culpepper
BEST UTAH SHORT
The Man in the Tree
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
VRDLK: Family of Vurdulak
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Born to Die
BEST WEB SERIES
Infinity System
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Martyr
THE MINERVA AWARD*
Natasha Halevi for “Give Me An A”
BEST DIRECTOR – FEATURE
Influencer – Kurtis David Harder
BEST SCREENPLAY – FEATURE
Murder, Anyone? – Gordon Bressack
BEST ACTOR – FEATURE ##
Breathing Happy – Shane Brady
BEST ACTRESS – FEATURE
Follow Her – Dani Barker
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – FEATURE
Bunker – Patrick Moltane
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – FEATURE
Influencer – Emily Tennant
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST – FEATURE ##
#chadgetstheaxe
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – FEATURE
Influencer
BEST EDITING – FEATURE
Moon Garden
BEST SOUND – FEATURE
Moon Garden
BEST SCORE – FEATURE
Bashira
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN/ART DIRECTION – FEATURE
Moon Garden
BEST COSTUMES – FEATURE
Moon Garden
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – FEATURE
Bashira
BEST MAKEUP – FEATURE
Moon Garden
BEST DIRECTOR – SHORT
The Following Year – Miguel Campaña
BEST SCREENPLAY – SHORT
Demon Box – Sean Wainsteim
BEST ACTOR – SHORT
Tim Travers and The Time Traveler’s Paradox – Samuel Dunning
BEST ACTRESS – SHORT
Lilias Adie – Kate Dickie
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – SHORT
Ursula – Martin Starr
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – SHORT ##
Lilias Adie – Isis Hainsworth
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST – SHORT
The Breakdown Parables
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – SHORT
The Following Year
BEST EDITING – SHORT
The Big Red Bastard
BEST SOUND – SHORT
Black Dragon
BEST SCORE – SHORT
Once Upon a Time in a Haunted House
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN/ART DIRECTION – SHORT ##
Bad Acid
BEST COSTUMES – SHORT
House of the Unholy
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – SHORT
Wakener
BEST MAKEUP – SHORT
Shiny New World
DIRECTOR’S PRIZE*
Overall Cinematic Achievement – A Life on the Farm
Overall Cinematic Achievement – Give Me An A
Overall Cinematic Achievement – Larvae
Unique Concept & Execution – The Coupon
Cultural Impact & Achievement – One Good Night
Cultural Impact & Achievement – The Signal
BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY – FEATURE
1st Place (TIE) – Drift Off by Avishai Weinberger
1st Place (TIE) – Wolfmother by Shane Bannon & Celina Bernstein
2nd Place – The Spirit Wants by Katherine LaVictoire
3rd Place – Baby Girl by Jason Von Godi
BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY – SHORT
1st Place – Witch, Please! by Meg Swertlow
2nd Place – The Whisper Tree by Daniel Alan Kiely
3rd Place – Boneseed by Brett Brooks & Joshua David Matthews
BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY – FEATURE – TOP 20 FINALISTS
Apocryphal by Hudson Henry Franzoni
Baby Girl by Jason Von Godi
Close by Kristen Wade
Cove by Thomas O’Malley
Decomposer by Mason & Tabitha McDonald
Drift Off by Avishai Weinberger
Frostbite by Minsun Park & Teddy Tenenbaum
Halloween Parade by Julie Sharbutt
Hey Bestie! by Lulenoxx
Intergalactic Io by Seth Nesenholtz
Kiss Me Before You Go by Kevin Sluder
Lupe Q and the Galactic Earworms by Javier Badillo & Nat Marshik
Mutt by Zachary Eglington
Septicemia by Ben Floss
StarFighter: Zero by C.J. Duke
The Blackening by Biagio Gulino & Tyler Kamens
The Rats in the Walls by Luca Violante & Annarosa Schiavone
The Spirit Wants by Kathernie LaVictoire
Tramps Like Us by Julian David Hoxter
Video Nasties by C.J. Duke
Wolf Mother by Shane & Celina Bernstein
BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY – SHORT – TOP 10 FINALISTS
Ash in Amber by Allison Hana
Boneseed by Brett Brooks & Joshua David Matthews
Entrainment by Bill Prokopow
LoveSick by Michael Muchnij
Make Me A Pizza by Talia Shea Levin, Woodrow Currie & Katie Peabody
Murmur by Matthew Woods & Kevin Burns
Skinny Dip by Daniel Pappas
The Safety Games by Jerry Sampson
The Whisper Tree by Daniel Alan Kiely
Witch, Please! by Meg Swertlow
All Unproduced Screenplay Competition judging was done by a group of third party professional judges.
2022 NOMINEES
The following list is are the nominees for the 2022 FilmQuest Awards, including the secret nominees as announced during the awards ceremony. The award winners, including the coveted FilmQuest Cthulhu Trophy, were announced in full at the Closing Night Awards Ceremony on November 5th, 2022 at Velour Live Music Gallery in Downtown Provo, Utah. The 2022 FilmQuest Nominees were, as usual, filled with many more deserving films than can possibly win or be nominated. To the nominees, congratulations!
The following nominees were culled from a process that began with a record breaking 1,567 submissions for the 2022 festival. Each Feature Film category, unless otherwise noted, has 5 to 8 nominees. Each Short Film & Other category, unless otherwise noted, has 10 nominees. A “secret” nominee in most categories will be announced at the Awards Ceremony. These “secret nominees” often became the winner of their categories, and is our patented twist on the awards process, a unique and fun activity that many have come to enjoy.
Nomination laurels for the 2022 season can be found on our site here and via FilmFreeway here.
Congratulations to all the 2022 Award Nominees, and start spreading the word today! Use hashtags #filmquest #prepareforfantastic #filmquest2022 #thebestofthebest #filmquestawards as you promote online!
BEST FEATURE FILM
#chadgetstheaxe
Breathing Happy
Bunker
Give Me An A
Influencer
Moon Garden
Murder, Anyone?
SECRET NOMINEE: Follow Her
BEST COMEDY SHORT
Baby Fever
Cruise
Eric
Meat Jerky
Noche del Infierno (Hell Night)
Prom Car ’91
The Big Red Bastard
The Mages of Rage and the Desecration of the House of Mimicry
The Unusualist
SECRET NOMINEE: Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
BEST FANTASTIC SHORT
Blank
Fog of War
Lilias Adie
Loveseat
Nest
The Blood of the Dinosaurs
The Breakdown Parables
The Coupon
The Misanthrope
SECRET NOMINEE: Demon Box
BEST FANTASY SHORT
Fábula
Fishwife
Grummy
House of the Unholy
Larvae
Night of the Cooters
Sylvain’s Hunt
The Rock of Ages
The Wallpaper Man
SECRET NOMINEE: Legs
BEST FOREIGN SHORT
Backstage Fright
Bean Feasa (Wise Woman)
Being Born
Golem
Moshari
The Signal
The Wet Nurse
Tislebu
Unheimlich
SECRET NOMINEE: A Roll in the Hay
BEST HORROR SHORT
7 Minuts in Hell
Black Dragon
Keep the Light On
Kickstart My Heart
Loose Ends
My Left Arm
Ringworms
This Is Our Home
While Mortals Sleep
SECRET NOMINEE: Incubus
BEST MICRO SHORT
Cancelled
Fume
Funny Business
Get Out of There
Old Time Radio
Seaborne
Special Delivery
Wellness Check
Wolfman
SECRET NOMINEE: Upya
BEST MIDNIGHT SHORT
Baby Boom
Bad Acid
Chicks
Love is a Fire
Nycto
Shiny New World
Sucker
The Rise
Wuurm
SECRET NOMINEE: Motherlord
BEST SCI-FI SHORT
Black Hole
Convergence
Defibrillator
Risen
Solus
Submittan
The Following Year
Through the Stars
Wakener
SECRET NOMINEE: Bebe AI
BEST STUDENT SHORT
Aperio
Black Whole
Mantis Club
OST
Swept Under
The Businessman
The Erl King
The Lion and the Firebird
The Rotting of Casey Culpepper
SECRET NOMINEE: Daddy’s Night
BEST UTAH SHORT
Death Parts Us: A Lovecraftian Horror
El Moño
House of the Mummy
Inheritance
Moonstruck
The Cache
The Man in the Tree
Trouble
Where is Cody From?
SECRET NOMINEE: Lovers Retreat
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
BackSpace
Beacon
Buzzkill
Everybody Goes to the Hospital
Ormur
The Fall
The Well
VRDLK: Family of Vurdulak
Your Battle of Mine
SECRET NOMINEE: Blue
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Bones
Born to Die
Consensual
Fade Into You
Glass Ship
Here Comes the Wolves
Jungle Go Dumb
Knives
The Tragic Truth
SECRET NOMINEE: Dream Child
BEST WEB SERIES
Hot Department: Dark Web
Inappropriate Jokes Well Told
Infinity System
Interface
The Cloaked Realm: Tunnel 23
SECRET NOMINEE: Midnight Stories: Morgan
BEST DOCUMENTARY
(No secret nominee)
A Life on the Farm
Beyond Tomorrow
Exegesis Lovecraft
Living with Chucky
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
(No secret nominee)
Belongings
Bloody Sun
Bridge City Sinners: Go to Hell
The Martyr
THE MINERVA AWARD
(Awarded to a female filmmaker/duo/group whose work embodies the advancement of the voice and empowerment of the female filmmaker in genre cinema today. Must have been a film directed, written, and/or produced by the same female filmmaker.) (No Secret Nominee)
After Mara & The Overkill – Joanna Tsanis
Bad Acid – Sam Fox
Dana – Lucía Forner Segarra
Defibrillator – Madeleine Coghlan
Domestic Bliss – Jennifer Scott & Nicole Townssend
Fishwife – Beth Park
Follow Her – Sylvia Caminer
Give Me An A – Tasha Halevi
Good Vibes Only – Robyn Von Swank
Kickstart My Heart – Kelsey Bollig
Lily’s Mirror – Linnea Frye
Meat Friend – Izzy Lee
Scooter – Chelsea Lupkin
The Coupon – Laura Seay
The Ones You Didn’t Burn – Elise Finnerty
BEST DIRECTOR – FEATURE
#chadgetstheaxe – Travis Bible
Breathing Happy – Shane Brady
Bunker – Adrian Langley
Follow Her – Sylvia Caminer
Influencer – Kurtis David Harder
Murder, Anyone? – James Cullen Bressack
The Ones You Didn’t Burn – Elise Finnerty
SECRET NOMINEE: Moon Garden – Ryan Stevens Harris
BEST SCREENPLAY – FEATURE
Breathing Happy – Shane Brady
Follow Her – Dani Barker
Influencer – Kurtis David Harder & Tesh Guttikonda
Murder, Anyone? – Gordon Bressack
Shifted – Adrian Konstant
SECRET NOMINEE: Bunker – Michael Huntsman
BEST ACTOR – FEATURE
#chadgetstheaxe – Spencer Harrison Levin
Bashira – Liam Aiken
Bunker – Eddie Ramos
Follow Her – Luke Cook
The Ones You Didn’t Burn – Nathan Wallace
SECRET NOMINEE: Breathing Happy – Shane Brady
BEST ACTRESS – FEATURE
Cryo – Jyllian Petrie
Follow Her – Dani Barker
Influencer – Cassandra Naud
Moon Garden – Haven Lee Harris
Murder, Anyone? – Galadriel Stineman
SECRET NOMINEE: Bashira – Mitzi Akaha
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – FEATURE
#chadgetstheaxe – Michael Bonini
Bashira – Brandon Gill
Bunker – Patrick Moltane
Give Me An A – Sean Gunn
Shifted – Derek Laukenbauer
SECRET NOMINEE (1) – Influencer – Rory J. Saper
SECRET NOMINEE (2) – Murder, Anyone? – Kristos Andrews
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – FEATURE
Breathing Happy – June Carryl
Give Me An A – Gina Torres
Give Me An A – Molly Quinn
Influencer – Emily Tennant
Moon Garden – Augie Duke
SECRET NOMINEE (1) – Give Me An A – Jackie Tohn
SECRET NOMINEE (2) – Shifted – Jenna Gagliardi
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST – FEATURE
Breathing Happy
Bunker
Cryo
Give Me An A
Murder, Anyone?
Shifted
The Ones You Didn’t Burn
SECRET NOMINEE: #chadgetstheaxe
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – FEATURE
Bashira
Breathing Happy
Bunker
Cryo
Influencer
Moon Garden
The Ones You Didn’t Burn
SECRET NOMINEE: Murder, Anyone?
BEST EDITING – FEATURE
#chadgetstheaxe
A Life on the Farm
Breathing Happy
Exegesis Lovecraft
Give Me An A
Living with Chucky
Moon Garden
SECRET NOMINEE: Influencer
BEST SOUND – FEATURE
Bunker
Cryo
Follow Her
Influencer
Moon Garden
Shifted
The Ones You Didn’t Burn
SECRET NOMINEE: Bashira
BEST SCORE – FEATURE
A Life on the Farm
Bashira
Follow Her
Influencer
Moon Garden
Murder, Anyone?
The Ones You Didn’t Burn
SECRET NOMINEE: Bunker
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN/ART DIRECTION – FEATURE
Bashira
Breathing Happy
Bunker
Moon Garden
Murder, Anyone?
SECRET NOMINEE: Give Me An A
BEST COSTUMES – FEATURE
(No secret nominee)
Bashira
Bunker
Give Me An A
Moon Garden
Murder, Anyone?
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – FEATURE
(No secret nominee)
#chadgetstheaxe
Bashira
Bunker
Moon Garden
BEST MAKEUP – FEATURE
(No secret nominee)
Bashira
Bunker
Moon Garden
Shifted
BEST DIRECTOR – SHORT
Demon Box – Sean Wainsteim
Fishwife – Beth Park
From Where It Hides – Quinn Halleck
House of the Unholy – Daniel Merlot
Lilias Adie – Elize du Toit
The Breakdown Parables – Emil Benjamin
The Following Year – Miguel Campaña
Through the Stars – Ariel Danziger
While Mortals Sleep – Alex Fofonoff
SECRET NOMINEE: Larvae – Alessandro Rota
BEST SCREENPLAY – SHORT
Black Hole – Jamie Parslow
Demon Box – Sean Wainsteim & Aurora de Peña
Keep the Light On – Freddie Paull
Larvae – Alessandro Rota
Loose Ends – Randall Greenland & Jason Tostevin
Relationshirt – Joshua Paul Radford
Standing Woman – Max Gee
The Coupon – Micah Cohen
The Following Year – Miguel Campaña & Luis López Carrasco
SECRET NOMINEE: Lilias Adie – Elize du Toit
BEST ACTOR – SHORT
Black Dragon – Matthew Del Negro
Convergence – Anthony Caldwell
Keep the Light On – Brad Grubenhoff
Monkey-Love, Please Hold – Dan Mousseau
The Baby Next Door – Isaac Joy
The Bottom – James Kautz
The Following Year – Kieran O’Brien
The Living – Brad Dourif
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox – Samuel Dunning
SECRET NOMINEE: Lonely Fans – Casey Kline
BEST ACTRESS – SHORT
10:33 – Alison Louder
A Roll in the Hay – Clémentine Verdier
Being Born – Hitomi Ando
How to Disappear – Kerry Howard
Incubus – Malou Coindreau
Lilias Adie – Kate Dickie
Return to Sender – Allison Tolman
The Following Year – Rachel Keller
Ursula – Hannah Heller
SECRET NOMINEE: Sam & Doug – Carla Langley
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – SHORT
Aperio – Paulo Azevedo
Box on the Hill – Eric Odom
Eric – Oliver Powell
Loose Ends – Todd Allen
Mantis Club – Reginald James
Meat Jerky – Lee Citron
Sam and Doug – Craig Charles
The Bottom – Alex Grubbs
Ursula – Martin Starr
Fishwife – Charles Beaven
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – SHORT
After Mara – Jessica Pontes
Bebe AI – Amanda Abington
Finger – Gates McFadden
Heartbeater – Hailee Lipscomb
Hellion – Deidre Rubenstein
House of the Mummy – Emily Ashby
Pretty Pickle – Whitney Masters
Prom Car ’91 – Jayne McLendon
Where is Cody From? – Cherie Julander
SECRET NOMINEE: Lilias Adie – Isis Hainsworth
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST – SHORT
(no secret nominee)
Baby Fever
Demon Box
Fog of War
Hip Cat
Hometown Boys
Larvae
Miltown
Noche del Infierno (Hell Night)
Otherkin
The Breakdown Parables
The Coupon
The Devil’s Daughters
The Fourth
The Mages of Rage and the Desecration of the House of Mimicry
The Phoenix
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – SHORT
Hysteric
Lilias Adie
Loveseat
Macagni’ Symphony
Nest
Once Upon a Time in a Haunted House
Paracosm
The Following Year
The Little Match Girl
SECRET NOMINEE: Keep the Lights On
BEST EDITING – SHORT
Black Hole
Convergence
Demon Box
OST
Ringworms
Solus
The Big Red Bastard
The Following Year
Through the Stars
SECRET NOMINEE: House of the Unholy
BEST SOUND – SHORT
Anomaly
Black Dragon
Creep Box
From Where It Hides
House of the Unholy
Jim of Earth
Keep the Light On
Nest
The Mages of Rage and the Desecration of the House of Mimicry
SECRET NOMINEE: 7 Minutes in Hell
BEST SCORE – SHORT
Blue
Convergence
Fábula
House of the Unholy
Motherlord
Noche del Infierno (Hell Night)
Once Upon a Time in a Haunted House
Paracosm
The Following Year
SECRET NOMINEE: BackSpace
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN/ART DIRECTION – SHORT #
Angel City Horror
Grummy
House of the Unholy
Out of this World
Tank Fairy
The Blood of the Dinosaurs
The Molok
The Wet Nurse
Zombie King of Balacombe
SECRET NOMINEE: Bad Acid
BEST COSTUMES – SHORT
Fieldtrip
Fog of War
Golem
House of the Unholy
Larvae
Lilias Adie
Mummering Legends
The Lion and the Firebird
The Rock of Ages
SECRET NOMINEE: Born to Die
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – SHORT
Black Dragon
Convergence
Creator
Darkside
June
Red Gaia
Ringworms
The Fore-Men
Wakener
SECRET NOMINEE: The Following Year
BEST MAKEUP – SHORT
From Where It Hides
Grummy
Heartbeater
Old Time Radio
Shiny New Worlds
The Erl King
The Rotting of Casey Culpepper
When You’re Gone
While Mortals Sleep
SECRET NOMINEE: Demon Box
SCREENPLAY FINALISTS – FEATURES (Top 50)
A Nice Place to Visit by John Munn
Aerials by Stephen Michael Vanderpool
Antarctica by Ryan M. Lange and Alan Peery
Apocryphal by Hudson Henry Franzoni
Baby Girl by Jason Von Godi
Catfish by Stephanie Moore & Vincenti DiSanti
Cizin by James Croke
Close by Kristen Wade
Cove by Thomas O’Malley
Dark Astral by Jerry Sampson, JC McNaughton & Jared Rogers
Decomposer by Mason & Tabitha McDonald
Drift Off by Avishai Weinberger
Eve of Destruction by James Holmes & Jeffrey Stackhouse
Eyes of Eve by Dan Bronzite
Frostbite by Minsun Park & Teddy Tenenbaum
Halloween Parade by Julie Sharbutt
He’s a Vampire, but At Least He’s Jewish by Jeremy Padow & Rakefet Abergel
Hell by Lonzo Bentley & David Bornstein
Hey Bestie! by Lulenoxx
Hollowed by David Bowman
Intergalactic Io by Seth Nesenholtz
Kiss Me Before You Go by Kevin Sluder
Leper Khan by Michael Graf
Lupe Q and the Galactic Earworms by Javier Badillo & Nat Marshik
Mourn by DW Medoff
Mutt by Zachary Eglington
Not Dead Enough by Joseph DeFrancesco
Not Like Other Girls by Rebecca Moret, Jasper Garner Gore & Lachlan Marks
Of the Forest by Brant Karnes
Oread by Lee David Copeland
Pine Tree Mary by Nath Milburn & Luke Baker
Problematic by Jerry J Sampson
Regent of the Sun by Jeremy Storey
Restoration by Don Stroud & Winter Mead
Septicemia by Ben Floss
StarFighter: Zero by C.J. Duke
Stranger Dreams by Alyssa Stevens
Suspension by Bryan Ricke
Tales from the Necronomicon: Chapter 1: The Innsmouth Case by Luca Vilante & Annarose Schiavone
The Blackening by Biagio Gulino & Tyler Kamens
The Hearth by Joss Refauvelet & Blake Nespica
The Horror in the Hills by Eric L Thompson & Andrew Garrett
The Man Inside by Kymberly Harris
The Murder Show by Shane Spiegal & Justin Reager
The Rats in the Walls by Luca Violante & Annarosa Schiavone
The Seeker Brothers by Philip Tice
The Spirit Wants by Kathernie LaVictoire
Theater Crawlers by Jeff Craig Bassetti & Christopher John Fetherolf
Time, Space, and The Poet by John Turner
Timestop by John Dowalo & Josh Mabie
Tramps Like Us by Julian David Hoxter
Trick of the Eye by Dennis Haseley
Video Nasties by C.J. Duke
Wolf Mother by Shane & Celina Bernstein
SCREENPLAY FINALISTS – SHORTS (Top 30)
/Haaw/ by Joey Scoma
A New Leaf by Kieran Shea
Allusion by Scott Hutz
Ash in Amber by Allison Hana
Boneseed by Brett Brooks & Joshua David Matthews
EMF by Vincente DiSanti, Jeremy Brown & Mike Meade
Entrainment by Bill Prokopow
Gentlemen of Leisure by Jason Kupfer
Hiccups by Jason Von Godi
House of Wolves by Andrew Yeremeyev
I Wouldn’t Touch That by Meik V. Fischer
Inherit by Melissa Balint
Killer Crush by Rakefet Abergel
LoveSick by Michael Muchnij
Make Me A Pizza by Talia Shea Levin, Woodrow Currie & Katie Peabody
Man Baby by Aaron Murtagh
Marieta by Cassie C. Phillips
Moko Jumbi by PJ Germain
Murmur by Matthew Woods & Kevin Burns
Regenesis by Stephonika W. Kaye
Scam by Julie Sharbutt
Skinny Dip by Daniel Pappas
Stranded by Kevin Machate
Surprise Baby Shower by Tim Troemner
Sweet Molly by J.C. McNaughton
The Ghost Light by Nick Burchard
The Safety Games by Jerry Sampson
The Unknowners by Stirling McLaughlin & Wilder Konschak
The Whisper Tree by Daniel Alan Kiely
This Modern Love by Nate Southard
Unbound by Tavis Doucette
Witch, Please! by Meg Swertlow
The Top 20 Feature Screenplay Finalists and Top 10 Short Screenplay Finalists were announced at the Closing Night Awards Ceremony.
CONGRATULATIONS to ALL the 2022 FilmQuest Official Selections and Nominees!
FILMQUEST 2022 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
The 2022 FilmQuest saw a record setting 1,567 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 2022 FilmQuest Festival. Screenplay finalists were chosen by a group of professional third party judges, of which we the list of 80 finalists (50 features, 30 shorts) has been made. A total of 31 nations are represented in the final selections. Over 50% of all projects selected were either written, directed, and/or produced by a female filmmaker.
The 9th annual FilmQuest will take place October 28th – November 5th, 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 fall-out from Covid-19 and other global events, affecting filmmaker travel, participation and attendance of the festival, particularly amongst non-US citizens, the festival decided to keep an expanded 2022 lineup. Thus, 9-11 extra blocks of films (about 16-20 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
#chadgetstheaxe – USA
Bashira – USA
Breathing Happy – USA
Bunker – USA
Crom – USA
Cryo – USA
Feed Me – United Kingdom
Follow Her – USA
Give Me an A – USA
Influencer – Canada
Moon Garden – USA
Murder, Anyone? – USA
Shifted – Canada
The Ones You Didn’t Burn – USA
Waking Karma – USA
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
A Life on the Farm – United Kingdom
Beyond Tomorrow – USA
Exegesis: Lovecraft – Canada
Living with Chucky – USA
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters – USA
SHORT FILMS
COMEDY, DARK COMEDY & HORROR COMEDY SHORTS
Baby Boom – Norway
Baby Fever – USA
Bad Acid – USA
Broke Up – USA
Bug Bites – USA
Call Casting – USA
Chicks – USA
Cruise – Canada
Domestic Bliss – USA
Dystopia – Norway
Eric – United Kingdom
Funny Business – USA
Good Vibes Only – USA
Gut Instinct – Australia
Hip Cat – USA
Hometown Boys – USA
How I failed the Bechdel Test – USA
How to Disappear – United Kingdom
Last Christmas Wish – Sweden
Lily’s Mirror – USA
Loveseat – USA
Meat Friend – USA
Meat Jerky – USA
Monkey-Love, Please Hold – Canada
My Friends the Plants – USA
My Lonely Devil – USA
Nightmare at Camp Bloodbath – USA
Noche del Infierno (Hell Night) – USA
Pretty Pickle – USA
Prom Car ’91 – USA
Pumpkin Boy – USA
Reel Trouble – USA
Relationshirt – USA
Robot Tells a Joke – USA
Shiny New World – Netherlands
Special Delivery – USA
Ta-Da! – USA
The Big Red Bastard – USA
The Breakdown Parables – USA
The Devil’s Daughters – USA
The Last Christmas – Canada
The Living – USA
The Mages of Rage and The Desecration of the House of Mimicry – USA
The Merger – USA
The Overkill – Canada
The Unusualist – USA
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox – USA
Ursula – USA
Weird Shit – USA
Weirder Shit – USA
Wuurm – United Kingdom
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
Belongings – USA
Bloody Sun – Australia
Bridge City Sinners: Go to Hell – USA
The Martyr – United Kingdom
FANTASTIC SHORTS
A Roll in the Hay – France
Being Born – Japan
Blank – USA
Dana – Spain
Demon Box – Canada
Evicted – Sweden
Fog of War – USA
Hermanita – USA
Lost Footage – Romania
Mascagni’ Symphony – Italy
Nest – Australia
The Blood of the Dinosaurs – USA
The Coupon – USA
The Misanthrope – USA
The Return: Wrath of the Ravishing – USA
FANTASY & DARK FANTASY SHORTS
An Untrained God – USA
Bean Feasa (Wise Woman) – Ireland
Brightstar – Canada
Fishwife – United Kingdom
Fábula – USA
Grummy – USA
House of the Unholy – Thailand & USA
June – New Zealand
Larvae – Italy
Legs – United Kingdom
Night of the Cooters – USA
Spellbound – Switzerland
Sylvain’s Hunt – USA
Tank Fairy – Taiwan
The Little Match Girl – South Africa
The Molok – USA
The Phoenix – USA
Rock of Ages – Iceland
The Wallpaper Man – USA
The Wet Nurse – France
Upya – France
Zombie King of Balacombe – USA
HORROR & THRILLER SHORTS
10:33 – Canada
7 Minutes in Hell – USA
After Mara – Canada
Angel City Horror – USA
Backstage Fright – France
Black Dragon – USA
Box on the Hill – USA
Cancelled – USA
Code One Eighty Seven – USA
Creak – USA
Devoured – Canada
Finger – USA
From Where It Hides – USA
Get Out of There – USA
Han – Sweden
Heartbeater – USA
Hysteric – USA
Immolation – USA
In the Dark – Canada
Incubus – United Kingdom
Keep the Light On – USA
Kickstart My Heart – USA
Lilias Adie – United Kingdom
Little Anna – USA
Loose Ends – USA
Love is a Fire – USA
Miltown – USA
Moshari – Bangladesh
Motion at Your Door – USA
Mummering Legends – Canada
My Left Arm – USA
Nycto – USA
Old Time Radio – USA
Once Upon a Time in a Haunted House – USA
One Good Night – Nigeria
Otherkin – USA
Paracosm – USA
Part Forever – Taiwan
Return to Sender – USA
Ride or Die – USA
Ringworms – USA
Sam and Doug – USA
Scooter – USA
Seaborne – USA
Shut – Netherlands
Sleep – USA
Specter of Weeping Hill – USA
Standing Woman – United Kingdom
Stay At Home – New Zealand
Suckers – United Kingdom
The Baby Next Door – USA
The Bottom – USA
The Microscope – United Kingdom
The Rise – Italy
The Sound – USA
The Trunk – Canada
This Is Our Home – USA
Tistlebu – Norway
Unheimlich – Mexico
We Wanted Children – USA
Wellness Check – USA
What a Beautiful Wedding – USA
When You’re Gone – USA
When Mortals Sleep – USA
SCI-FI SHORTS
AlieNation – Canada
An Untrained God – USA
Anomaly – Indonesia & USA
Bebe AI – United Kingdom
Black Hole – USA
Checkpoint – USA
Convergence – USA
Creator – USA
Creep Box – USA
Defibrillator – USA
Fieldtrip – United Kingdom
Golem – Mexico
Jim of Earth – USA
Midnight Television – USA
Motherlord – Canada
Out of this World – USA
Recovery of the Fallen – Canary Islands & USA
Risen – Australia
Solus – United Kingdom
Stepmother – Finland
Submittan – USA
The Following Year – USA
The Fore-Men – USA
The Fourth – USA
The Gift – USA
The Malfunction – USA
The Signal – Zimbabwe
Through the Stars – USA
Wakener – USA
Watcher – USA
Welcome to Forever – USA
Wolfman – USA
UTAH SHORTS
Ascent – USA
Bedtime – USA
Companion – USA
Death Parts Us: A Lovecraftian Horror – USA
Dungeons & Dragons: Play Your Way – USA
El Moño – USA
House of the Mummy – USA
Incomplete – USA
Inheritance – USA
It’s Coming It’s Real – USA
Lovers Retreat – USA
Moonstruck – USA
The Cache – USA
The Colouring Book out of Space – USA
The Man in the Tree – USA
Trouble – USA
Where is Cody From? – USA
STUDENT FILMS
COMEDY & DARK COMEDY STUDENT FILMS
Daddy’s Night – USA
Hellion – Australia
Mantis Club – USA
FANTASTIC STUDENT FILMS
Fume – USA
Lonely Fans – Switzerland
Swept Under – USA
FANTASY STUDENT FILMS
The Businessman – USA
The Erl King – USA
The Lion and the Firebird – USA
HORROR & THRILLER STUDENT FILMS
Aperio – Brazil
Midnight Screams – USA
Oblívio – Portugal
OST. – Thailand & USA
The Rotting of Casey Culpepper – USA
Unbidden – United Kingdom
SCI-FI STUDENT FILMS
Black Whole – USA
Darkside – Canada
ANIMATED FILMS
BackSpace – USA
Beacon – USA
Blue – USA
Buzzkill – USA
Double Trouble – USA
Everybody Goes to the Hospital – USA
Fetch – New Zealand
Ormur – Iceland
Pox – Austria
Red Gaia – South Africa
Rose – USA
SAVJ – Canada
Self-Actualization of the Werewolf Woman – Canada
Slasher Squad – Australia
Surface Deep – USA
The Black reCat – Italy
The Boy Who Woke Up Dead – USA
The Fall – Canada
The Well – United Kingdom
VRDLK: Family of Vurdulak – Canada
Welcome – USA
Your Battle of Mine – USA
MUSIC VIDEOS
Bones – USA
Born to Die – USA
Consensual – USA
Dirty Love – USA
Dirty Work – USA
Dream Child – USA
Every Night – USA
Fade Into You – USA
Glass Ship – USA
Go To Hell – USA
Here Comes the Wolves – USA
Icarus – USA
Jungle Go Dumb – France
Knives – USA
Living Matter – Russia
Scar of the Sun: Inertia – Germany
The Tragic Truth – USA
WEB SERIES
A real Killjoy – USA
Hot Department: Dark Web – Australia
Inappropriate Jokes Well Told – USA
Infinity System – USA
Interface – Canada
Midnight Stories: Morgan – Australia
SHC: Freak Accident – USA
The Cloaked Realm: Tunnel 23 – USA