Not all categories had a Best of Festival winner
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GREED & GORE
BEST OF FESTIVAL FALL 2023
SHORT HORROR | CANADA
Director Adam Kirkey
EXCELLENCE: Cinematography (subcat)
EXCELLENCE: Original Score (subcat)
OUTSTANDING EXCELLENCE: SFX: Visual (subcat), • Viewer Impact: Inspirational (subcat)
Occupants
BEST OF FESTIVAL FALL 2023
FEATURE HORROR | USA
Director Russ Emanuel
"Friday the 13th Vengeance 2: Bloodlines"
(USA) "BEST OF FESTIVAL WINTER 2023"
"Horror"
Directed by Jason Brooks
"Accidental Truth - UFO Revelations"
(USA) "BEST OF FESTIVAL WINTER 2023"
"Sci-Fi"
Directed by Ron James
Narrated and Produced by Matthew Modine
Renegades Ominar
Best of Festival winner Fall 2022
Directed by Tim Russ (Tuvok: Star Trek Voyager)
This is Nichelle Nichols' (Star Trek's Uhura)
final on-screen performance.
To ensure that each film and screenplay are evaluated and graded on its own merits, we established a mechanism that ensures that entries are not judged against one another. They are, in essence, competing against themselves: we judge each item on its own merits and provide a score based on an innate value system. We want to make sure that when it's your moment to be judged, the judges' attention is focused on you and not on all of the other films/screenplays in the queue; this ensures that they won't be thinking about comparisons when they should be thinking about YOU.
1. DISTRIBUTOR REVIEW by Worldwide Motion
Pictures
Corporation (WWMPC.COM) for features, Adler & Associates for
features and
shorts, and Polaris Pictures (for screenplays) for our chosen "Best of
Festival" winners based on enough qualified
submissions.
2. The opportunity to be included in an
international
film market distributor's buyer's packet.
3. A hybrid festival run as a live screening
festival and virtual screening on WRPN.tv : We invest in getting
distributor recognition for quality films to give them a life beyond a
onetime festival showing.
SFHAFF will screen the Best of Festival award winners only. Over one
Best of Festival could be awarded, i.e., Foreign and domestic, based on
enough qualified submissions.
We collect audience feedback from live screenings.
4. Any film rejected receives a personal
letter
explaining why. Rejected submissions can correct the issues and resubmit for free, even the following season.
While most festivals do not explain a rejection, we strive to help
filmmakers improve their festival acceptance rates and, therefore,
their marketability.
Film submissions go through two stages.
Stage one: entails the
Acceptance Judges reviewing your submission and determining whether it
has the production values to be Officially Selected to compete (be
judged for an award.) Official Selection does not mean your film will
be screened.
When you get an official selection notification, it means your film,
screenplay, or novel passed through the stringent acceptance process
(By the selection judges), and now it's ready to go in front of the
awarding judges.
Rejected submissions can correct the issues and resubmit for free, even
the following season.
While most festivals do not explain a rejection, we strive to help
filmmakers improve their festival acceptance rates and, therefore,
their marketability.
Stage two: Officially selected
submissions are sent to the AWARDING judges. They will choose the award
(s) for the films. Not all films are recognized.
5. All STUDENT FILM ENTRIES, regardless of
deadline
status, are subject to a flat fee of $30. (proof required of student
status at
the time of filming: no refunds if your ID is not legitimate)
Finally, our founders are members of the Universal
Film
& Festival Organization (UFFO.ORG). The UFFO is a non-profit
organization
based in the United Kingdom dedicated to "promoting best business
practices for film festivals." It ensures that your film will be judged
fairly and thoroughly.