FILMQUEST 2019 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

The 2019 FilmQuest saw over 1,120 films and screenplays submitted for consideration. From these submissions, we have made 192 Official Selections in films across several categories from around the world to play and compete at the 2019 FilmQuest Festival. Screenplay finalists were chosen by a group of professional third party judges, of which there were 55 Official Selection finalists.

The 6th annual FilmQuest will take place September 6th – 14th at the Velour Live Music Gallery in beautiful Downtown Provo, Utah. Tickets and passes are already on sale, but more details and specific showtimes and events will be made available before July 30th.

Nominations will be announced for all awards by July 25th. Film blocks and schedules will be announced no later than July 30th. Premiere statuses TBD. Selections are subject to change before the festival.

Start planning your FilmQuest experience today!

FEATURE FILMS

Blood Vessel – Australia
Burning Kentucky – USA
Daniel Isn’t Real – USA
Finale – Denmark
Lake Michigan Monster – USA
Making Monsters – Canada
Swing Low – USA
The Black String – USA
The Fare – USA
The Sonata – France/UK
To Your Last Death – USA
Villains – USA
Volition– Canada
Wild Boar – USA 

SHORT FILMS

COMEDY & DARK COMEDY SHORTS
A Wreck in Paradise – France
Asparagus Tips – UK
Compartmentalization Storage Facility – USA
Crap-Man – Japan
Crop Dust – USA
Dead Teenager Seance – Brazil
Evstronger – Spain
Exhibit Man – Canada
Fashion Alibi – France
Five Course Meal – Canada
For The Love of Kyle – USA
Gut Feeling – USA
Half-Cocked – USA
In Love – USA
Keloid – USA
Killer Date – USA
Murderabiliac – USA
My Dinner with Werner – USA
O.I. – Canada
Open Wide – UK
Proper British Sex – USA
Rub Me The Right Way – Germany
Rubbish Robbers – Norway
Serial Dater – USA
The Muffin Man – USA
The Office is Mine – USA
We Got a Monkey’s Paw – USA

FANTASTIC SHORTS
Alaraph – Netherlands
Attrition – UK
Blue Pig – USA
Brute – USA
Doffice – Belgium
Earthy Encounters – UK
Harper Finch – USA
Rain Catcher – UK
The Blizzard – Andorra
The Cunning Man – UK
The Dishwasher – USA
When We Dance – USA

FANTASY SHORTS
A Purgatory Story – USA
By Blood – France
Dead Animals – Switzerland/Germany
Dispel – USA
Good Night Little Knight – USA
Steel Cut Oats – USA
The Automaton – USA
The Lossen – UK
The Seahorse Trainer – Canada
The Secret Box: The Rise of Paperboy – Ireland
The Time Tree – UK
Troll Bridge – Australia/New Zealand
Worship – USA

HORROR SHORTS
After the Rain – Canada
Always Listening – USA
Atomic Ed – France
Ausente – Colombia
Boo – USA
Brute – Ireland
Condamned – Spain
Conversion Therapist – USA
Deep Clean – UK
Dreamcatcher – Canada
Fatale Collective: Bleed – USA
Fever – USA
Jonagold – USA
Hear Me – Finland
Last One Screaming – USA
Lili – Netherlands
Limbo – Spain
Lobisome – Spain
Low Tide – Ireland
Maggie May – Australia
Nepenthes – Canada
Oscar’s Bell – UK
Puzzle – Switzerland
Rainy Season – USA
Re-Home – USA
Samantha – USA
Snaggletooth – USA
Spitting Image – USA
Stray – Australia
Supine – Czech Republic
The Desecrated – USA
The Friend – France
The Hidebehind – USA
The Reckoning of Darkness – USA
The Vicious – USA
Tingle Monsters – USA
Together – USA
We Die Alone – USA
Wrong Number – UK
Z-Goat: First Bleat – France

SCI-FI SHORTS
Aeranger – USA
Article 19-42 – Luxembourg
Ava in the End – USA
CC – Canada
Face Swap – USA
God Glitch – Netherlands
Hashtag – USA
Hello, World – USA
Motherhood – Japan
Prefigured – USA
Regulation – USA
Rocket Boy – UK
Scavenger – Denmark
The Beacon – USA
Third Kind – Greece
Unregistered – USA
Virtually – USA
What Daphne Saw – USA
Young Blood – USA

UTAH SHORTS
Anna – USA
Chasing the Dragon – USA
Gather – USA
Llvonija – USA
Me & Michael – USA
Night Games – USA
Night Sky – USA
The Tormenting of Jones – USA
The Wreath – USA

STUDENT FILMS

COMEDY & DARK COMEDY STUDENT FILMS
Boy’s Club – USA
Stop / Eject / Rewind – USA
Swipe Right for Murder – Canada

FANTASTIC STUDENT FILMS
8 – USA
Balloon – USA
Salvation – Norway

FANTASY STUDENT FILMS
Teddy Mate – USA
The Hanged Man – UK

HORROR STUDENT FILMS
You’ll Only Have Each Other – USA

SCI-FI STUDENT FILMS
Eternity – Ukraine
Here & Beyond – USA
Progeny – USA
Satellite – USA
Siphon – USA

ANIMATED FILMS

5th and Main – USA
A Poem in Bamboo – USA
FlyTrap – USA
Friends & Rivals – Canada
Fuse – Germany
Giant Bear – Canada
Gingerfall: Reckoning – USA
Kelpie – Canada
L’Homme et le Poisson – Canada
Mogu and Perol – Japan
Pipe Dream – Australia
Runo – Canada
Serendipity – USA
The Brave Heart or (The Day We Enabled the Sleepwalking Protocol) – UK
The Soul Collector – USA
Tiffany – USA
Toe – USA
Widdershins – UK

MUSIC VIDEOS

All This Love – UK
Burial – USA
Chatroom – USA
Children of Scotland – USA
Cockroach Brain – USA
Competitive Mourning – USA
Devil’s Level – USA
Freak Night – USA
Gods and Gold – USA 
Mediocrity, For Micah Dahl – USA
No Going Back – Brazil
Not Heroes – Poland
The Cicada Tree – USA
Withorwithout – USA

WEB SERIES

Abracadavers – Canada
Car Stealers – USA
Hexed – USA
Life XP – Canada
My Death Co. – USA
My Helpful Ghost Ancestor Roommate – USA
One Hit Die: The Devouring Dungeon – Canada
Who You Are – USA
Wish Weasel – USA

FILMQUEST EXPRESS FILMS

Team #1 – Dan McBride – Utah
Team #2 – Angela Wilkins – Utah
Team #3 – Adam Hightower – Utah
Team #4 – Zach Beckstrand – Utah
Team #5 – Nicholas Jay – Utah

SCREENPLAYS

All unproduced screenplay finalists chosen by a team of third party judges. Winners and Top 10 (Features) and Top 5 (Shorts) will be announced at the festival.

SCREENPLAY FINALISTS – FEATURES (Top 35)
… a Chance of Rain by Alan C. Beard & Patrick Green
6 Feet Above by Summer Moore
Blackwood Falls by Jennifer Nicole Stang
Cove by Thomas O’Malley
Cyborn by Mark Renshaw
Darkness Visible by Christopher Lopez
God Wrest His Soul by JT Seaton
Green YoYo by Kelsey Wilkins & Megan Kuntz
Land Lord by Remington Smith
Lawsuits, Love and Lucifer by Jeff Burke
M – Demon Killer by Mark William Hammond
Mitzvah Crashers by Amy Axelson Capeci
Mom Died by Michael Klug
Persona by Jeffrey Howe
Rock & Roll High School Vampires by Scott Grady
Roman Candle by Derek Abbott
Rust by Guy Pooles
Shifter by Kenny J Wright
Sick by Sylvia Batey Alcalá
Sol by James Fox
Spectrum by Jennifer Trudrung
The Coldest Horizon by Jeffrey Howe
The Eating God by Abigail Clark
The Housesitter by Suju Vijayan & Dave Palamaro
The Invader by Phillip Hardy
The Princess Vengeance by Kamran Khan
The Quicksilver Pleasure Club by Matt Pacini
The Suburban Kaleidoscope by Samuel R. Peirce
The Weatherway Conspiracy by Ryan M. Lange & Alan Peery
Third Date by Avishai Weinberger
Universal Insurance by Jack Lilburn
Until Death… by Kevin Sluder
Vessels by Levi Caleb Smith
Werewolves from Outer Space by Justin Nosler
Yellow Eye by Judy Bednarek

SCREENPLAY FINALISTS – SHORTS (Top 20)
All Creatures by James Croke
Bitch Revolution by Zeus Kontoyannis
Boos Up by Marion McDowell
Burying Mitchell by Sam Williamson
Freeze! Kid by William G Chandler Jr.
Give Love A Shot by Al Finocchio
Hand of Me by A.L. Adams
House of Aegea by Diana Lanham
Invisible Monster by Matt Harris-Freeth
Legends by Kevin Brennan & Robert Brandsma
Life on the Farm by Laurel Vail
Mary, Dispossessed by Kristy Walsh
Perpetual Valhalla by Travis Davidson & Jack Davidson
Pieces of Me by Jonathan A Eid
Plaything by Samantha Kolesnik and Jason Tostevin
Spell Bound by Mary Anzalone
Sweet Pea by Neil McLarty
The Errant Signal by Nik Theorin
The Flavor of Fury by James H. Lee
The Squirrels in the Attic by Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid