In spite of the pandemic, 2020 turned out to be an AMAZING year for films and screenplays at the NOLAHFF. To quote one filmmaker, “Highest caliber of films I’ve seen at a film fest … and we’ve been to a lot!” High praise indeed. With such a stellar line-up, it was difficult to select nominees, let alone an Award Recipient. So without further adieu, we present the 2020 Award Nominees and Recipients!
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2020 FILM AWARDS
BEST FEATURE FILM
THE NOMINEES ARE:
Goodbye Honey
Hawk and Rev: Vampire Slayers
Parable
Sister Tempest
The Unfamiliar
AND THE AWARD GOES TO:
Parable
BEST SHORT FILM
THE NOMINEES ARE:
Exit
Jeff Drives You
The Fourth Wall
The Hand of the Devil
The History of Monsters
The Rougarou
Toe
AND THE AWARD GOES TO:
Exit
BEST STUDENT FILM
THE NOMINEES ARE:
Buttery
Cybolica
Dissonance
Exit
The Malfunction
AND THE AWARD GOES TO:
Butterfly
BEST DIRECTOR
THE NOMINEES ARE:
Exit – Ivan Basov
Parable – Beer Adriaanse
The Fourth Wall – Kelsey Bollig
The History of Monsters – Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz
The Rougarou – Lorraine Caffery
AND THE AWARD GOES TO:
The Rougarou – Lorraine Caffery
BEST ACTRESS
THE NOMINEES ARE:
Goodbye Honey – Pamela Jayne Morgan
Keep Mum – Nadira Murray
Limerence – Angela Riccetti
The History of Monsters – Valeria Gonzalez
The Unfamiliar – Jemima West
AND THE AWARD GOES TO:
Goodbye Honey – Pamela Jayne Morgan
BEST ACTOR
THE NOMINEES ARE:
Bloodshed – Bruno Verdoni
Exhibit Man – Troy Mundle
Flick – Nate Pringle
Jeff Drives You – Addison Heimann
Mr. Sam – Christopher Piccione
AND THE AWARD GOES TO:
Mr. Sam – Christopher Piccione
BEST SUPPORTING
THE NOMINEES ARE:
Exhibit Man – Debs Howard
Parable – Michael Richard
Polybius – Tom Atkins
Sister Tempest – Linnea Gregg
Wererock – Noah Segan
AND THE AWARD GOES TO:
Polybius – Tom Atkins
BEST WRITING
THE NOMINEES ARE:
Exit – Ivan Basov
Hawk and Rev: Vampire Slayers – Ryan Barton-Grimley
Jeff Drives You – Addison Heimann
Sam – Zeus Kontoyannis
The Hand of the Devil – Max Lollar
AND THE AWARD GOES TO:
The Hand of the Devil – Max Lollar
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE NOMINEES ARE:
Antique – Simon Matthew Valentine
Eyes of Eidolon – Kai Dickson
Limerence – Amy Limpinyakul
The History of Monsters – Tom Meredith
Toe – Neal O’Bryan
AND THE AWARD GOES TO:
Eyes of Eidolon – Kai Dickson
BEST EDITING
THE NOMINEES ARE:
Cybolica – Leo Martinez
Limerence – Dan Pedersen
Sister Tempest – Joseph Estrade
The Fourth Wall – Tyler Pharo
The Hand of the Devil – Max Lollar
AND THE AWARD GOES TO:
Sister Tempest – Joseph Estrade
BEST MUSIC SCORE
THE NOMINEES ARE:
A Burial – The Gifted
Horizon – Claudio Meloni
Malakout – Soroush Abedi
Oxygen – Joris Hermy
The Unfamiliar – Walter Mair
AND THE AWARD GOES TO:
The Unfamiliar – Walter Mair
BEST MAKEUP FX
THE NOMINEES ARE:
Cybolica – Santino Ferrese
Grave Sight – Jaimie Corbin & Aaron Peerless
Imagine A World – Kat Milligan
Night Crawl – Wendy Gonzalez & CFX
$trip – Rachael Wagner
AND THE AWARD GOES TO:
Cybolica – Santino Ferrese
NOLAHFF FEMALE FILMMAKER AWARD
THE NOMINEES ARE:
Faye Jackson – Changeling
Joanna Tsanis – Imagine A World
Kelsey Bollig – The Fourth Wall
Lorraine Caffery – The Rougarou
Luana Di Pasquale – Keep Mum
AND THE AWARD GOES TO:
Kelsey Bollig
2020 SCREENPLAY AWARD RECIPIENT
Soul Passage – written by Patrick Mediate & Kristin Ilagan
TOP 25 SCREENPLAY FINALISTS
“5-Star Review”
written by Kiley Rothweiler
“A Very Krampus Christmas”
written by Matt Stedman
“Abandon”
written by Carmen Mosley
“D.F.W.”
written by Deirdre Patterson
“Earth Angels”
written by Dedra Stevenson
“I Can’t With This”
written by Brian W. Smith
“Kudzu”
written by Marisa Forrest
“Mother, Maiden, and Crone”
written by Sara Caldwell
“Open House”
written by Sean Jourdan & John Ingle
“Parasomniac”
written by Devi Bhaduri
“Soul Passage”
written by Patrick Mediate & Kristin Ilagan
“Study in Blue”
written by Patrick Clement
“The Black Hole”
written by Lisa Wood
“The Child”
written by Tonia Kempler
“The Cure”
written by Ashley R Hall
“The Girl, Maura Bund”
written by Ally May
“The Millhaven Chronicles”
written by Rachel Searcey
“The Musketeers And The Zombies”
written by Robert Cole
“The Scarecrow”
written by Gemma Paul
“The Toy Rabbit”
written by Russell Whaley
“Third Date”
written by Avishai Weinberger
“Trip”
written by Michael Klug
“Voo Doo Point”
written by Maria Sundeen
“What We See”
written by Tyler Fruge
“Zero Feet Away”
written by Jose T. Nateras