FILMQUEST 2024 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

The 2024 FilmQuest saw a record setting 1,816 films and screenplays submitted for consideration, shattering yet again our record for submissions, and made judging and selecting this year’s lineup by far the most difficult ever for our jury. From these submissions, the jury made our Official Selections across several categories from around the world to play and compete at the 11th edition 2024 FilmQuest Festival.

Screenplay finalists were chosen by a group of professional third party judges, of which the list of 80 finalists (50 features, 30 shorts) has been made and can be seen below the film selections on this page. A total of 30 nations are represented in the final selections from a field that saw over 65 countries submit to the festival for consideration. Over 54% of all films selected were either written, directed, and/or produced by a female filmmaker.

The 11th annual FilmQuest will take place October 24th – November 2nd, 2024 at the Velour Live Music Gallery in beautiful Downtown Provo, Utah. Passes are now on sale, with tickets for individual screenings and events going on sale  once the schedule of events and screenings are finalized by the end of September. A virtual cinema, with selections screening exclusively online will also be a part of the festival, will be hosted with our festival streaming platform partner EO Flix, aka EO (download the mobile app today). More information on how to access the films for the online screenings will be coming in September. The website will also be updated in September with information on every film and screenplay in preparation for the physical festival this Fall.

Nominations will be announced for all awards at a later date in September. Premiere statuses TBD. Selections are subject to change before the festival.

Start planning your FilmQuest experience today and prepare for Fantastic as our 11th season is going to be a can’t miss experience and event!

FEATURE FILMS

BA – USA
Catch a Killer – USA
Daughter of the Sun – Canada
Decibel – USA
Delivery Run – Finland
Hunting Matthew Nichols – Canada
Scared Shitless – Canada
Somnium – USA
Straight on Till Morning – USA
Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire – USA
The Beldham – USA
The Bunker – USA
The Complex Forms – Italy
The Daemon – USA
The Island Between Tides – Canada
The Killgrin – Canada
The Worlds Divide – Canada
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox – USA

SHORT FILMS

COMEDY, DARK COMEDY & HORROR/SCI-FI COMEDY SHORTS
1 in the Chamber – USA
3 Easy Steps – USA
Aliens Don’t Like White People – USA
Bath Bomb – Canada
Beverly Hills Exorcist – USA
Collection Only – United Kingdom
Damn Handy – USA
Dance With Me – USA
Don’t Forget – Canada
Dummy – USA
Finger Food – United Kingdom
Framed – USA
Goodbye Jeremy – USA
Hold Up – USA
Hot Spring Rangers – USA
Hundreds – USA
Hunger – USA
In Old Ranchos – USA
Lab Rats – USA
Lady Times – USA
Light Can’t Escape – Australia
Like Me – USA
Little Lucha & The Big Deal – USA
Make Me A Pizza – USA
Meat Cleaver! – USA
Meet Evelyn, My Sleep Paralysis Demon – USA
Micro-Short – USA
Moondays – USA
Narranext – Canada
Nervous Ellie – United Kingdom
O.C.D. – USA
One Happy Customer – USA
Pizza Panic Party – USA
Pocketman – USA
Princeton’s in the Mix – USA
Pushover – USA
Rat! – USA
Red Flag – USA
Rejected – USA
RoButler – Wales
Roger is a Serial Killer – USA
Room Tone – USA
Safe – United Kingdom
Second Sight – USA
Sick Day – USA
Stop Whining & Start Winning – USA
The Blue Diamond – USA
The Bougie Man – USA
The Clogging – USA
The Curse of the Velvet Vampire – Denmark
The Custodian – USA
The Debutante – USA
The Feed – USA
The Final Stoge – USA
The Hug – Australia
The Last Thing She Saw – USA
The Princess of Coyote Palms – USA
The Promotion – USA
The Retreat – USA
The Shitty Ride – Canada
The Trunk – USA
To Hell With You – USA
Tragedium – Spain
Two Women Make a Lunch Plan – USA
We Joined A Cult – USA
Weasel – Mexico
White Elephant – USA
You’re An Angel – USA
You’re It – USA
Z – USA

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
Blood, Sweat & Fears: The Community of Just Scare Me – USA
Born to Hustle – Australia
LARP Like Marc – USA
Line Rider – Australia & Slovenia
Methuselah – USA
The Shaver Mystery – USA

FANTASTIC SHORTS
Ambush at St. Mary’s – USA
Batman Beyond: Year One – USA
Beach Logs Kill – USA
Birdhouse – USA
Boomerang – Thailand
Cameron – USA
Going – United Kingdom
Izzy – Netherlands
Mop – Malaysia
Nettle Day – United Kingdom
Out on a Limb – USA
Pretty as a Picture – USA
Queen of Hearts – Canada
The Proposal – USA
Wild Animal – United Kingdom

FANTASY & DARK FANTASY SHORTS
A Life, Lost – USA
Baggage – USA
Bloody Fury – France
Blue Boy – USA
Empress ClawScream – Ireland & United Kingdom
Empty Jars – Chile
Hearts of Stone – Belgium
Outcast Forest – USA
Porcelain – United Kingdom
Secret Gospel – USA
Shadow – USA
The Script – North Macedonia
Una Volta – Netherlands

HORROR & THRILLER SHORTS
A Moment of Your Time – USA
A Waste of Life – Denmark
Anemoia – USA
Apotemnofilia – Spain
Beltane – USA
Black Dog – United Kingdom
Blood Waters – USA
Body Worn Video – United Kingdom
Burn Out – USA
Carnívora – USA
Catacombs – USA
Dark Mommy – USA
Dead End – Russia
Devotee – USA
Don’t Talk to Strangers – Spain
Drop – Kazakhstan
Earworm – USA
Faces – USA
Fisitor – Wales
Good Girls Get Fed – USA
Hangman – USA
Heirlooms – USA
Help! – USA
Her House – USA
Hi! You Are Currently Being Recorded – Canada
Hive – USA
Hollow – USA
I Can’t Go On – Canada
I Carry Them Wherever I Go – USA
Inked – USA
It Draws Closer – USA
Katie’s Skin – USA
Keep Coming Back – USA
La Croix – France
Let’s Go Disco – USA
Mosquito Lady – USA
Mr Sunshine – USA
Paralian – USA
Parasomnia – USA
Retreat – USA
Ronces – France
Shiva – Canada
Shiver – USA
Sonos – Australia
Speak with the Dead – USA
Stains – USA
Still – USA
Stop Dead – United Kingdom
Strange Creatures – USA
Tag – USA
Terror by Night – Australia
The Apocalypse of Johnny Dupree – USA
The Bomb – Turkey
The Chain – USA
The Eyes of Marge – United Kingdom
The Key Club – USA
The Red Stone – Mexico
The Shadow Wrangler – USA
The Thaw – USA
The Unquiet Dead – USA
Through the Throat – Canada
Tight – USA
TREADMILL_ – USA
Virgin – USA
Wake – USA
Writer’s Block – USA

SCI-FI & THE BEYOND SHORTS
(Dis)Connected – USA
/HAAW/ – USA
A Green Affair – Australia
Attachment Theory – New Zealand
Beautiful Things – Slovenia
Benji – United Kingdom
Birdcage – Belgium & Netherlands
Coléoptère – France
Concrete – USA
Defect – Netherlands
Deja Vu – Canada
Disfigura – USA
Doppelgänger – USA
Dummy! – USA
Eden – Italy
Escape – USA
Factory Drop – Germany
Figment – New Zealand
First Sight – United Kingdom
Golden Hour – USA
Here’s the Plan – USA
Hestia 19 – France
I’m Not a Robot – Netherlands
ID EST – USA
Jade – USA
Marie – USA
Memory Card – USA
Motherly Lovecraft – USA
Pu Ekaw Tnod – United Kingdom
Recursive Dreams – United Kingdom
Replacement – Spain
Rodent – United Kingdom
Seven Sisters – United Kingdom
Star.Wav – USA
Sweet Dreaming – USA
The Anomalist – USA
The Cardinal & The Computer – USA
The Edenbound – United Kingdom
The Harvester – USA
The Meeting Spot – USA
The Ossan – USA
They Chose Here – Canada
Universe 25 – USA

UTAH SHORTS
A Guide to the Inversion – USA
Another – USA
Disenfectant – USA
Jean Jacket – USA
Mall Hot Dog – USA
Night Shift (Animation) – USA
Origin – USA
Proserpina – USA
Star Wars: The Tales of Boba Fett – USA
Suction – USA
Sweet Molly – USA
The Angel – USA
The Destroying Angel – USA
The Ghost in the Road – USA
The Hideous Place – USA
The Making of The Making Of – USA
The Time Machine – USA
The Wrath of the Elk Lord (Animation) – USA
Till Death Do Us Part – USA
Whales of the High Desert (Documentary) – USA

STUDENT FILMS

COMEDY & DARK COMEDY STUDENT FILMS
Fishmonger (AFI) – USA
Midnight Ink (NYU) – USA

FANTASTIC STUDENT FILMS
Poppy’s Saturn (The RAFA of Ghent) – Belgium

FANTASY STUDENT FILMS
La Bruja (AFI) – USA
Lola (AFI) – USA

HORROR & THRILLER STUDENT FILMS
A Light That Doesn’t Dim (AFI) – USA
Amoeba (IADT) – Ireland
Daisy (Chapman) – USA
How to Skin a Cheetah (IADT) – Ireland
Let Us Out (Loyola Marymount) – USA
Pleasure (Chapman) – USA
Seraphim (USC) – USA
The Things We Keep (USC) – USA

SCI-FI & THE BEYOND STUDENT FILMS
And We’ve Called Them (Anadolu University) – Turkey
Mis-Alignment (AFI) – USA
Mort (AFI) – USA
My Child (Emerson) – USA
Polymorphia (Univ. of Bournemouth) – UK
The Lights Above (USC) – USA

ANIMATED FILMS

47 – Canada
A Visual Poem – USA
Bubbleman Superstar Mission El Cobra – France
Cold Terror – Turkey
Crystal Galaxy Enforcers – USA
Deadline – Israel
Ethel – Switzerland
Illuminatus! (DePaul University) – USA
Les Bêtes – USA
Luki and the Lights – USA
Mira – USA
Nemesis Battlefield Volume 16 – France
Perfect City: The Bravest Kid (USC) – USA
Rent-A-Hero (Loyola Marymount) – USA
Shimmer – Mexico
Storm (USC) – USA
Tails from the Wild: The Outback – USA
The BackSpace Trilogy – USA
The Brown Dog – USA
The Chase – USA
The Hum (UQAC) – Canada
The Noonday Demon – Canada
The Skin – Spain
The Wedding Veil of the Proud Princess – United Kingdom
Tinkerhell – USA
VHX – USA

MUSIC VIDEOS

Alone in My Dreams (Nolo Grace) – USA
Bed by 9 (Big Time Maca) – USA
Daylight (Sheppard) – Australia
Digital Lifeform (Evan Hodges) – USA
Eye for an Eye (Harfang) – Ukraine
Hangin’ Around (Applepicker) – Belarus
Mission (Harfang) – Ukraine
Monster (McKenna Michels) – USA
My Face (Jeff Hilliard) – USA
New Car (Smugly Ugly) – USA
Sacrament (Die Shiny) – USA
Speed, Leather & Hell (Vicious Blade) – USA
Trust Me (Lola Blanc) – USA
Venomous – USA
Viramar (Bacará) – Brazil

SCREENPLAYS

All un-produced 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. Semi-Finalists and Quarter-Finalists will be listed on the website at a future date.

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 Official Selections!