2019 Festival Winners

Winner Best Animated Film                      Winner Best Comedy                                   Winner Best Comedy Short

THE SECOND SHORE.                          RAISING BUCHANAN.                                PEGGY

Winner Best Documentary                       Winner Best Doc Short.                                 Winner Best Student Film       

 JUMPIN' JOHNNY.                              RIDIN' ROPIN' JUMPIN OVER CARS.                DAISY

Winner Best Music Film.                        Winner Best Drama (TIE)                                 WInner Best Drama (TIE)

I WANT MY MTV                                 NASEDONIA                                               lEAVE THE BOTTLE

Winner Best Foreign FIlm (S)                   Winner Best Foreign Film                                 Winner Best Purpose Film

WHAT LEADS to HUMANS FLOURISHING         RAINBOW ROSES (Trilogy)                                        MIRACLE IN EAST TEXAS (P)

Winner Judge's Choice                                   Winner Best Music Film (S)

ARE YOU VOLLEYBALL?                         CHERIE BERRY

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        (S) Goodnight (or Goodmorning)

(M) Better Off

(N) Gatlinburg

(S) Knee High

(S) Drafted

(N) I am Not There

(S) Leave the Bottle

(F) Linger

(D) Ridin' Ropin' & Jumpin' Over Cars

(M) Almost

(N) He Needed Killin'

         (M) His Town

(D) Charley Pride: I'm Just Me

(S) Signing Day

(P) Sun Never Sets on Integrity

(M) Safe and Warm

(P) Reap What You Sew

        (P) Miracle in East Texas

       (D) Windows Into a Contemplative Life

(D) Helen LaFrance - Memories

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(N) Raising Buchanan

(N) Daisy

         (D) Miracles from the Killing Fields

(N) In the Land of Moonstones

(F) Prometti Mi

(M) Cherie Berry

        (N) The Second Shore

(D) My Life With Rosie

(D) Soul of Yodeling

         (N) Prison Within

(N) Sweet Tooth

(D) How Should Humans Live?

(D) Run the North

(D) What Leads to Human Flourishing

(F) 49 Years Above Limits

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(N) Habeneros

(N) Giraffraud

(N) DUDS (A Fidddle Faddle Fable)

(D) Jumpin Johnny

(F) Are You Volleyball

(SD) Ernest Day

(S) Fall

(M) What She’ll Never Know

(N) Alienated

(F) Rainbow Roses

(N) Man From Gath

(N) Nashedonia

(N) Peggy or: The Art of Coveting in the Age of Social Media

(N) The Adventures of Wonderboy

(N) Diamond in the Rough

(MD) I Want My MTV

(F) In Between

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2019 Film List

Legend: (N) Narrative, (D) Documentary, (S) Student, (M) Music Film, (F) Foreign), (P) Purpose Film

PANELS & WORKSHOPS 

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Panels and Workshops included Seed & Spark, Incentives for Music and film  Sync, Licensing and composition, Casting,Pitch & Dealmaking, and Animation/Gaming Industry panel. . Panelists and experts were Tsalia Abesadze, Tamara Trexlor, Kimberly Skyrme, Hazel Joyner Smith, Anna Lonn Franko, Brian Shun, David Smith, Brian Gall, Dave Debord, Hal "Corky" Kessler, Christina Raia, Tiffany Rhodes, Barbara Hall, Angela Green, Lisa Arnold and included Brooks Robinson, Raul Torres, Carla Christina Contraras and KImmy Inez.