2024 WINNERS
The following list are the winners and full list of nominees (including secret nominees) for the 2024 FilmQuest Awards. The award winners, including the coveted FilmQuest Cthulhu Trophy winners, were announced in full at the Closing Night Awards Ceremony on November 2nd, 2024 at Velour Live Music Gallery in Downtown Provo, Utah. The 2024 FilmQuest Winners are, as usual, filled with many more deserving films than can possibly win or be nominated. To the winners, congratulations!
The following nominees were culled from a process that began with a record breaking 1,816 submissions for the 2024 festival. Each Feature Film category, unless otherwise noted, has 6 to 8 nominees. Each Short Film & Other category, unless otherwise noted, has 10 nominees (short film nominees coming soon). A “secret” nominee in all short film categories will be announced at the Awards Ceremony, however there are no secret nominees for feature films this year. 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. All “Virtual Exclusive” films are also eligible for awards, and several winners have emerged from this group as well.
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**Indicates winner was a secret nominee
BEST FEATURE FILM
The Island Between Tides
GRAND PRIZE BEST SHORT FILM
I’m Not A Robot
BEST COMEDY SHORT
To Hell With You
BEST FANTASTIC & BEYOND SHORT
Faces
BEST FANTASY SHORT
Hearts of Stone
BEST FOREIGN SHORT
I’m Not A Robot
BEST HORROR SHORT
Wake
BEST MICRO SHORT
Escape
BEST MINI SHORT
One Happy Customer**
BEST MIDNIGHT SHORT
/HAAW/
BEST SCI-FI SHORT
Universe 25
BEST STUDENT SHORT
Fishmonger
BEST UTAH SHORT
Sweet Molly
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Shimmer
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Sacrament (Die Shiny)
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Born to Hustle
BEST FOUND FOOTAGE FEATURE
Hunting Matthew Nichols
BEST FOUND FOOTAGE SHORT
Body Worn Video
THE MINERVA AWARD
Talia Shea Levin for “Make Me A Pizza”
BEST DIRECTOR – FEATURE
The Beldham – Angela Gulner
BEST SCREENPLAY – FEATURE
Tim Travers & the Time Traveler’s Paradox – Stimson Snead
BEST ACTOR – FEATURE
Tim Travers & the Time Traveler’s Paradox – Samuel Dunning
BEST ACTRESS – FEATURE
Somnium – Chloë Levine
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – FEATURE
Scared Shitless – Steven Ogg
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – FEATURE
The Beldham – Patricia Heaton
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST – FEATURE
The Complex Forms
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – FEATURE
Daughter of the Sun
BEST EDITING – FEATURE
Hunting Matthew Nichols
BEST SOUND – FEATURE
Decibel
BEST SCORE – FEATURE
Daughter of the Sun
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN/ART DIRECTION – FEATURE
Tim Travers & the Time Traveler’s Paradox
BEST COSTUMES – FEATURE
Tim Travers & the Time Traveler’s Paradox
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – FEATURE
The Complex Forms
BEST MAKEUP – FEATURE
The Killgrin
BEST DIRECTOR – SHORT
Fishmonger- Neil Ferron
BEST SCREENPLAY – SHORT
Empty Jars – Guillermo Ribbeck & Iván Maureira
BEST ACTOR – SHORT
Out on a Limb – George C. Tronsrue
BEST ACTRESS – SHORT
First Sight – Ellise Chappell
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – SHORT
Faces – Ethan Daniel Corbett
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – SHORT
Fishmonger – Donnla Hughes
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST – SHORT
The Blue Diamond
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – SHORT
The Harvester**
BEST EDITING – SHORT
A Green Affair**
BEST SOUND – SHORT
Escape
BEST SCORE – SHORT
Hearts of Stone**
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN/ART DIRECTION – SHORT
One Happy Customer
BEST COSTUMES – SHORT
Hearts of Stone
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – SHORT
Baggage
BEST MAKEUP – SHORT
Dance With Me
BEST UN-PRODUCED SCREENPLAY – FEATURE
1st Place (TIE) – Driverless by Wilder Konschak, Stirling McLaughlin
1st Place (TIE) – Tour of Devastation by Avishai Weinberger
2nd Place – Goodnightmare by Ian Rowe
3rd Place – After the Harvest by Jeffrey Howe
BEST UN-PRODUCED SCREENPLAY – SHORT
1st Place – In Cryo by Conner Stirling
2nd Place (TIE) – Plastic by Victoria Fratz Fradkin
2nd Place (TIE) – Taga by Jill Sachs
3rd Place (TIE) – Eat Me by Jason Tostevin
3rd Place (TIE) – You Won’t Kill Me by Fayna Sanchez
BEST UN-PRODUCED SCREENPLAY – FEATURE – TOP 20
A Rose of No Man’s Land by Sara AlThani
After the Harvest by Jeffrey Howe
Assimilated by Christopher Guerrero
Babaylan by David Todd Ocvirk
Brothel by Alex Chew & L.M. Harter
Come in Threes by John-Paul Panelli
Desert Desert Desert by Zoë Maltby
Driverless by Wilder Konschak, Stirling McLaughlin
Goodnightmare by Ian Rowe
Harrow by Alex Moran
Out Came the Sun by Mike Weimer
Stardom by Celina Bernstein
The Dark Room by Matthew Troy
The Satan Level by Paolo Mancini & Daniel Watchorn
Tour of Devastation by Avishai Weinberger
Treasure Trap by Jack Warner
What the Wind Blows In by Shawn Austin
Where Do All the Bodies Go? by Jerold Wallace
White Bone by Richard B. Pierre
Wonderful Rainbow by Paul Sliwinski
BEST UN-PRODUCED SCREENPLAY – SHORT – TOP 10
Damned by Lukas Anderson & Elio Andres
Deadlock by Kristen Semedo
Eat Me by Jason Tostevin
In Cryo by Conner Stirling
Nightmares by Justin Nosler
Plastics by Victoria Fratz Fradkin
Please Hang Me by Andrea Tellez & Sophie Tellez
Taga by Jill Sachs
Townie by Ashley Thomas
You Won’t Kill Me by Fayna Sanchez
All Un-produced Screenplay Competition judging was done by a group of third party professional judges.
*Indicates winner was a secret nominee
2024 NOMINEES (COMPLETE LIST)
BEST FEATURE FILM
Catch a Killer
Daughter of the Sun
Somnium
The Beldham
The Complex Forms
The Island Between Tides
The Killgrin
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
BEST FOUND FOOTAGE FEATURE
Hunting Matthew Nichols
Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire
BEST COMEDY SHORT
Beverly Hills Exorcist
Collection Only
Goodbye Jeremy
O.C.D.
RAT!
Room Tone
Stop Whining and Start Winning
To Hell With You
White Elephant
SECRET NOMINEE: Moondays
BEST FANTASTIC & BEYOND SHORT
A Green Affair
Beltane
Birdhouse
Cameron
Faces
Jade
Out on a Limb
Shadow
The Meeting Spot
SECRET NOMINEE: Wild Animal
BEST FANTASY SHORT
A Life, Lost
Baggage
Blue Boy
Factory Drop
Hearts of Stone
In Old Ranchos
Meat Cleaver!
Outcast Forest
Porcelain
SECRET NOMINEE: Empress Clawscream
BEST FOREIGN SHORT
Birdcage (Belgium)
Coléoptère (France)
Dead End (Russia)
Empty Jars (Chile)
Fisitor (Wales)
I’m Not A Robot (Netherlands)
La Croix (France)
Replacement (Spain)
The Bomb (Turkey)
SECRET NOMINEE: The Red Stone (Mexico)
BEST HORROR SHORT
Carnivora
Her House
Inked
Mosquito Lady
Princeton’s in the Mix
Speak With the Dead
Terror by Night
The Unquiet Dead
Wake
SECRET NOMINEE: Let’s Go Disco
BEST MIDNIGHT SHORT
/HAAW/
Apotemnofilia
Bath Bomb
Burn Out
Hold Up
Make Me a Pizza
Rejected
The Blue Diamond
The Last Thing She Saw
SECRET NOMINEE: Pizza Panic Party
BEST MICRO SHORT
Don’t Talk to Strangers
Escape
It Draws Closer
Izzy
Meet Evelyn, My Sleep Paralysis Demon
Mort (Student)
The Hug
The Promotion
We Joined a Cult
SECRET NOMINEE: Hestia 19
BEST MINI SHORT (New Category!)
(Dis)connected
Benji
Defect
Don’t Forget
Hive
Nervous Ellie
Pushover
Rodent
Through the Throat
SECRET NOMINEE: One Happy Customer
BEST SCI-FI SHORT
Attachment Theory
Concrete
First Sight
Going
Lab Rats
Marie
Recursive Dreams
The Harvester
Universe 25
SECRET NOMINEE: Figment
BEST STUDENT SHORT
Amœba
Fishmonger
How to Skin A Cheetah
La Bruja
Midnight Ink
Mis-Alignment
My Child
Seraphim
The Lights Above
SECRET NOMINEE: A Light That Doesn’t Dim
BEST UTAH SHORT
Another
Mall Hot Dog
Suction
Sweet Molly
That Horrible Place
The Angel
The Ghost in the Road
The Time Machine
Till Death Do Us Part
SECRET NOMINEE: Prosperina
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
*No Secret Nominee
Blood, Sweat, & Fears
Born to Hustle
LARP Like Marc
Line Rider
Methuselah
The Shaver Mystery
Whales of the High Desert
BEST FOUND FOOTAGE SHORT
*No Secret Nominee
Body Worn Video
TREADMILL_
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
47
Les Betes
Luki and the Lights
Mira
Nemesis Battlefield Volume 16
Shimmer
The Hum
The Skin
Tinkerhell
SECRET NOMINEE: Bubbleman Superstar Mission El Cobra
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Bed by Nine – Big Time Maca
Daylight – Sheppard
Mission – Harfang
Monster – McKenna Michaels
My Face – Jeff Hilliard
Sacrament – Die Shiny
Speed, Leather and Hell – Vicious Blade
Trust Me – Lola Blanc
Viramar – Bacará
SECRET NOMINEE: New Car – Smugly Ugly
THE MINERVA AWARD
(Awarded to a short film female identifying 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)
Alex Chew – Help!
Anna Parsons – Retreat
Courtney Eck – Dark Mommy
Haley Z. Boston – Beach Logs Kill
Hannah Alline – Anemoia
Isabella Culver – Seven Sisters
Jessica Barr – Tight
Katherine Jackson – Attachment Theory
Kelly Lou Dennis – Good Girls Get Fed
Kristine Gerolaga – Mosquito Lady
Lauren Sick – The Meeting Spot
Malin Barr & Cleo Handler – Red Flag
Rebecca Thomson – A Green Affair
Stephanie Paris – Speak with the Dead
Talia Shea Levin – Make Me a Pizza
BEST DIRECTOR – FEATURE
Delivery Run – Joey Palmroos
Somnium – Racheal Cain
The Beldham – Angela Gulner
The Complex Forms – Fabio D’Orta
The Island Between Tides – Austin Andrews & Anderw Holmes
The Killgrin – Joanna Tsanis
The Worlds Divide – Denver Jackson
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox – Stimson Snead
BEST SCREENPLAY – FEATURE
Daughter of Sun – Mackenzie Leigh & Ryan Ward
Somnium – Racheal Cain
The Beldham – Angela Gulner
The Island Between Tides – Austin Andrews & Anderw Holmes
The Killgrin – Joanna Tsanis
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox- Stimson Snead
BEST ACTOR – FEATURE
BA – Lawrence Kao
Catch a Killer – Sam Brooks
Daughter of the Sun – Ryan Ward
Delivery Run – Alexander Arnold
Scared Shitless – Daniel Doheny
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox – Samuel Dunning
BEST ACTRESS – FEATURE
Decibel – Aleyse Shannon
Hunting Mathew Nichols – Tara Nichols
Somnium – Chloë Levine
The Beldham – Katie Parker
The Bunker – Chelsea Edmundson
The Island Between Tides – Paloma Kwiatkowski
The Killgrin – Konstantina Mantelos
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – FEATURE
Hunting Matthew Nichols – Markian Tarasiuk
Scared Shitless – Steven Ogg
Somnium – Johnathon Schaech
Straight on Till Morning – Bill Hengstenberg
The Island Between Tides – David Mazouz
The Killgrin – Peter MacNeill
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – FEATURE
Ba – Kai Cech
Daughter of Sun – Nyah Perkin
Decibel – Stefanie Estes
Straight on Till Morning – Bonnie Jean Tyler
The Beldham – Patricia Heaton
The Island Between Tides – Camille Sullivan
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox – Felicia Day
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST – FEATURE
Delivery Run
Straight on Tiill Morning
The Complex Forms
The Daemon
The Island Between Tides
The Killgrin
The Worlds Divide
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – FEATURE
Catch a Killer
Daughter of the Sun
Somnium
Straight on Till Morning
The Complex Forms
The Island Between Tides
BEST EDITING – FEATURE
Catch a Killer
Delivery Run
Hunting Matthew Nichols
Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire
The Bunker
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
BEST SOUND – FEATURE
Catch a Killer
Decibel
Delivery Run
The Complex Forms
The Daemon
The Worlds Divide
BEST SCORE – FEATURE
Daughter of the Sun
Decibel
Delivery Run
The Island Between Tides
The Worlds Divide
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN / ART DIRECTION – FEATURE
Scared Shitless
Straight on Till Morning
Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
BEST COSTUMES – FEATURE
The Island Between Tides
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
BEST VISUAL FX – FEATURE
Somnium
The Bunker
The Complex Forms
The Daemon
The Worlds Divide
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
BEST MAKEUP FX – FEATURE
BA
Scared Shitless
Somnium
Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire
The Daemon
The Killgrin
BEST DIRECTOR – SHORT
Bath Bomb – Colin G. Cooper
Empty Jars – Guillermo Ribbeck
Faces – Blake Simon
Fishmonger – Neil Ferron
Hearts of Stone – Tom van Avermaet
I’m Not a Robot – Victoria Warmerdam
The Blue Diamond – Sam Fox
Universe 25 – David Tappan
Wild Animal – Beth Park
SECRET NOMINEE: First Sight – Andrew McGee
BEST SCREENPLAY – SHORT
A Life, Lost – Andrew Nisinson
Empty Jars – Guillermo Ribbeck & Iván Maureira
Figment – Ian Sweeney
Fishmonger – Neil Ferron & Alexandra Dennis-Renner
Going – Brad Brookes
How to Skin A Cheetah – Meghan O’Shaughnessy & Thomas Purdy
I’m Not a Robot – Victoria Warmerdam
Princeton’s in the Mix – Jonathan DiMaio
The Angel – Daniel Yen Tu
SECRET NOMINEE: Cameron – Sam Freedman
BEST ACTRESS – SHORT
Cameron – Tracie Thoms
Empty Jars – Ana Burgos
First Sight – Ellise Chappell
Going – Genevieve O’Reilly
Sweet Molly – Rebekah Kennedy
The Blue Diamond – Desiree Staples
The Thaw – Emily Bennett
Universe 25 – Kelly Tappan
Wild Animal – Charlotte Riley
SECRET NOMINEE: I’m Not A Robot – Ellen Parren
BEST ACTOR – SHORT
Birdhouse – Jonah Ray
Blue Boy – Aariq Manji
Cameron – Patrick Fabian
Fishmonger – Dominic Burgess
Hangman – Peter Stormare
Keep Coming Back – Kyle Kouri
Out on a Limb – George C. Tronsrue
The Meeting Spot – Ben Rosenfield
Til Death Do Us Part – Dave Martinez
SECRET NOMINEE: Going – Nicholas Pinnock
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – SHORT
Beltane – Allison Pittel
Collection Only – Olwen Medi
Fishmonger – Donnla Hughes
Her House – Lexa Gluck
Hunger – Christine Celozi
Mosquito Lady – Maria Lingbanan
Out on a Limb – Diane Box Worman
The Angel – Jessica Staples
You’re An Angel – Avital Ash
SECRET NOMINEE: Universe 25 – Josephine Valentina Clark
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – SHORT
Black Dog – Adrian Bower
Faces – Ethan Daniel Corbett
Figment – Matt Whelan
First Sight – Jacob Fortune-Lloyd
How to Skin A Cheetah – Fiachra Corkery
Meat Cleaver – Rob Moore
The Angel – Doug Jones
The Bomb – Ozan Ayhan
Universe 25 – Kalen Parrot
SECRET NOMINEE: Empty Jars – Luis Cerda
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST – SHORT
*No Secret Nominee
Empress Clawscream
Fishmonger
Good Girls Get Fed
Goodbye Jeremy
Keep Coming Back
Narranext
Pizza Panic Party
Secret Gospel
Speak with the Dead
The Blue Diamond
The Script
White Elephant
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – SHORT
Coleopatre
Empty Jars
Jade
Let’s Go Disco
Replacement
Shadow
Stains
The Curse of the Velvet Vampire
The Red Stone
SECRET NOMINEE: The Harvester
BEST EDITING – SHORT
Amoeba
Born to Hustle
Faces
Let’s Go Disco
Poppy’s Saturn
Still
The Key Club
The Shadow Wrangler
Universe 25
SECRET NOMINEE: A Green Affair
BEST SOUND – SHORT
Escape
ID EST
Jade
La Croix
Stains
Star.wav
The Harvester
Till Death Do Us Part
Wake
SECRET NOMINEE: Faces
BEST SCORE – SHORT
Baggage
Bloody Fury
Dance With Me
Earworm
Factory Drop
Fishmonger
Porcelain
Retreat
The Red Stone
SECRET NOMINEE: Hearts of Stone
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN / ART DIRECTION – SHORT
La Bruja
One Happy Customer
Porcelain
Rodent
The Blue Diamond
The Feed
The Thaw
The Things We Keep
Till Death Do Us Part
SECRET NOMINEE: Shadow
BEST COSTUMES – SHORT
Bloody Fury
Dance With Me
Hearts of Stone
One Happy Customer
Porcelain
Speak with the Dead
The Angel
The Harvester
Til Death Do Us Part
SECRET NOMINEE: Fishmonger
BEST VISUAL FX – SHORT
Baggage
Batman Beyond: Year One
Don’t Forget
Hearts of Stone
Hestia 19
ID EST
Marie
The Edenbound
The Red Stone
SECRET NOMINEE: Porcelain
BEST MAKEUP FX – SHORT
Blood Waters
Dance With Me
Fishmonger
Hold Up
Make Me A Pizza
Mosquito Lady
Paralian
Pizza Panic Party
The Harvester
SECRET NOMINEE: Speak with the Dead
UN-PRODUCED SCREENPLAY COMPETITION
The Top 20 Un-produced Feature Screenplay Finalists and Top 10 Un-Produced Short Screenplay Finalists will be announced at the Closing Night Awards Ceremony, as well as the respective winners in each competition.
SCREENPLAY FINALISTS – FEATURES (Top 50)
A Rose of No Man’s Land by Sara AlThani
Adventures in Serial Killing by Jack Warner
After the Harvest by Jeffrey Howe
An Axe to Grind by Erika Stone
An Inconsequential Choice by Alec Gibbons, Ricardo Bravo
Assimilated by Christopher Guerrero
Babaylan by David Todd Ocvirk
Brothel by Alex Chew & L.M. Harter
Caught A Glimpse by Timothy Troy & Daniel McGuire
Come in Threes by John-Paul Panelli
Corporate Monster by Chelsea A. Schmidt
Currents by Tim Molloy
Deadnames by Natalie Hoffman
Demanding An Answer from God by Kevin J. Howard
Desert Desert Desert by Zoe Maltby
Driverless by Wilder Konschak & Stirling McLaughlin
Goodnightmare by Ian Rowe
Harrow by Alex Moran
Intrepid by Mike Langer
Lost in Buffalo City by Raymond Wallace
Luz by Kieran Shea & David Osorio
Meadowville by Phillip Clark Davis
Out Came The Sun by Mike Weimer
Period by Victoria Vaughn & Nick Krassowski
Point Return by Dillon Hammi
Problematic by Jerry J. Sampson
ReddeR by James Steele Haney
Revival by Shane Bannon
Skinwalker by John David Harris
Stardom by Celina Bernstein
The Dark Room by Matthew Troy
The Hamster by Daryl Boman
The Lily & The Scorpion by Charlie Netto
The Mantis by Wylie Rush & Jessie Gill
The Nerd Talk Experiments by Justin Nosler
The Satan Level by Paolo Mancini & Daniel Watchorn
The Silent Room by David Schlow
The Useless by Michael Charron
The War On by Jeff Bassetti
This is Our Home by A.K. Espada
Toilet Sharks by Bruce Griffiths
Tour of Devastation by Avishai Weinberger
Treasure Trap by Jack Warner
Untitled Adventure Picture by Andrew Adams & Charles Ingram
Waiting for You by Zach Maxfield
What the Wind Blows In by Shawn Austin
Where Do All The Bodies Go? by Jerold Wallace
White Bone by Richard B. Pierre
Winds from Unknown Spaces by Robert Tiemstra
Wonderful Rainbow by Paul Sliwinski
XOVA7 by Quanah Jay Hicks
SCREENPLAY FINALISTS – SHORTS (Top 30)
$elf-Checkout by Kelsey Lane & Jonathan Riles
Arbor by Matthew Robinson
Breathe In, Breathe Out by Justin Carter
Damned by Lukas Anderson & Elio Andres
Deadlock by Kristen Semedo
Eat Me by Jason Tostevin
Everything Wrong With Patrick by Constantino Ciminello & Mitchell Slan
In Cryo by Conner Stirlling
Jekyll and Pryde by Michael Clifton
Leave It Buried by Rafael De Leon Jr.
Morrigan’s Tree by Nicki Bosch
Nexus by Ivan Gartner
Nightmares by Justin Nosler
No One Mourns a Vulture by Smith
Plastics by Victoria Fratz Fradkin
Please Hang Up by Andrea Tellez & Sophie Tellez
Raccoon Seance (or, The One True Vegan) by Tova Weinberger
Return by Stephonika W. Kaye
Shutter Count by Presley Paras
Sleepwalker by Matt Moeller
Taga by Jill Sachs
The Exorcism of Father Gabriel by Pierre Langenegger
The Neuroinfernal Friend by Melissa Balint
The New Hire by Matthew Summersgill & Mark Palgy
The Shadow Over Christmas by Marc Roussel
The Survivor by Kevin Machate
Thirst by Lulenoxx
Townie by Ashley Thomas
Wax by Paranoid LA
You Won’t Kill Me by Fayna Sanchez
CONGRATULATIONS to ALL the 2024 FilmQuest Award Nominees & Screenplay Finalists!