DUFF 2024 official program and awards
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2024 DENVER UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
November 22, 23 and 24, 2024. Althea Center 1400 Williams St. Denver, CO 80218 Doors 06:00 PM Films 06:30 PM Theater located downstairs. Bathrooms located upstairs. No ADA access. Parking on site. Tickets; $15. $12 Students. Concessions included with ticket purchase. Available through Filmfreeway Ticketing at www.filmfreeway.com/DenverUNdergroundFIlmFestival 2024 DENVER UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM FRIDAY 11/22/24 06:00 PM DOORS OPEN 06:30 PM NARRATIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS Enter the Room Director: Harry Waldman. Chicago, IL. Narrative short. 15:00 minutes. A young adult (Brian) is visited by his brother, Jeremy, who needs a place to stay as he settles into his new city. The two polar opposite personalities begin to clash as Jeremy's presence poses a threat to Brian's way of life. Award Winner: First film submitted to DUFF 2024 and Festival Opening Film. MASC Director: Jason Eldredge. Los Angeles, CA. Narrative short. 9:25 minutes. 2023. An unexpected romance unfolds between two young men who find themselves on diverging paths: one is ready for the encounter, the other is not. Award Winner: First Place, Best LGBTQ+ Narrative Short. A Careful Whisper Director: Makayla Levy. Denver, CO. Narrative short. 7:42 minutes. 2023. A documentary crew follows Corey as he helps his husband, Paul through his ASMR addiction in order to make sure they’re relationship is ready for the next step. Award Winner: First Place, Best Colorado LGBTQ+ Narrative Short, Second Place LGBTQ+ Narrative Short. Despite Director: Kate Raney. Athens, OH. Experimental animation. 11:18. 2024. Exploring the tension between the wonder of motherhood and the anxiety of illness. Award Winner: First Place, Best Experimental Animated Short. Mas Cables Que Personas (More Cables Than People) Director: Camila Dron. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Experimental film. 1:30 minutes. 2024. Camila Dron is one of the first filmmakers in the world to use cyanotype as a film medium. This is her second entry at DUFF. Award Winner: Honorable Mention for Pioneering Cyanotype Filmmaking. Silent Chirping of Invisible Digits (Das Feine Zirpen Einer Dunkelziffer) Director: Vera Sebert. Austria/Germany. Experimental film. 10:11 minutes. Insects flash for the fraction of a second, only to immediately withdraw from the field of vision again. In between their body fragments, the film shows undefinable voids. Award Winner: Third Place, Nature Experimental Short/ The Muse & Her Author Director: Jordan Spalding. Denver, CO. Narrative short. 10:00. 2023. The Muse finds herself pondering a fitting consequence for the lack of respect while the author fights writer's block to get her latest draft out on time. Award Winner: Second Place, Colorado Narrative Short. ZAXME Director: Soore Vahe. Iran. Narrative experimental short. 13:42 minutes. 2024. A symphony of self-discovery and the tale of a woman confronting her inner self, embarking on a profound journey ignited by love. Being 22 Director: Alireza Farzad, Iran. Narrative Short. 8:16 minutes. 2023. "Under every stone Lurks a politician" What is it look like to be 22 in middle east?! Embroidered Whispers Director: Rongyu Zhou. China. Documentary. 10:14 minutes. 2024. The ancient craft of horsetail embroidery empowers Shui women while connecting with the global fashion scene. Inversion Director: Xiaoki Peng. China. Narrative short. 3:46 minutes. 2024. Lin Yu is a very rebellious Asian girl always at odds with her controlling mother. Conflicts continue and lead to Lin Yu's complete disappointment with the family. Suddenly, she notices that something seems different about herself in the mirror. Award Winner: The Last Ashlyn Director: A.J. Moss. Salt Lake City, UT. Narrative short. 9:17. 2023. A young girl in an ancient, fantasy world attempts to stop her mother and father, the last of her family, from dueling to the death over honor and spite. Award Winner: Third Place, Cinematography. INTERMISSION The Wintering Grounds Director: Jeff Springer. Columbus, GA / NYC. Documentary. 21:00 minutes. 2023. When the rivers freeze bands of world class kayakers find their way to a special spot on the Chattahoochee River on the Alabama-Georgia border. Award Winner: Second Place, Documentary. Effigy House Director: Deb Ethier. Canada. Experimental short. 4:51 minutes 2024. A meditative dreamlike journey through the surreal inner spaces of the filmmaker’s mind as passing images and thoughts overlap, yearning to coalesce into a concept. Cry For Help Director: Brandon Murphy, Devin Nutt. Stillwell, KS. Animated short. 11:22 minutes. 2024. Animated sketch show made by two lobotomized, flyover state Americans. Award Winner: Honorable Mention for Excellence in Animation Screenwriting and Third Place, Experimental Animated Short. The Door Back Director: Jillian W Fudali. Los Angeles, CA. Narrative short. 12:36 munites. 2024. Malory goes on a journey through her own subconscious after a suicide attempt to confront the decisions she regrets. Award Winner: Third Place, Narrative Short. HOT SAMANTHA Director: Frank Zanella. Brescia, Italy / Los Angeles, CA. Narrative short. 2:32 minutes. 2024. Samantha, a young stripper seduces her audience of lust-filled stares. Once the performance is over Samantha approaches the man she was attracted to only to discover a shocking secret. Award Winner: Third Place, Narrative Experimental Short. A Friendly Referral Director: Ed Mizner. Redondo Beach, CA. Narrative short. 12:32 minutes. 2024. A babysitter discovers an evil secret about the family she's working for. Award Winner: Honorable Mention for Continuous Excellence in Filmmaking. The iTch Director: Gordon Phillips. Palm Springs, CA. Narrative short. 14:28 minutes. 2024. A young man awakens in an unfamiliar apartment only to find himself under surveillance… and decaying rapidly. Award Winner: First Place, Best Narrative Short and Second Place, Cinematography. Couch Director: Ross Chavez. Chicago, IL. Narrative Short. 12:22 minutes. After Dallas’ relationship with her girlfriend Avery disintegrates she discovers a mysterious entity in her newly thrifted couch. Award Winner: First Place, Best Narrative Short Screenplay, Second Place, LGBTQ+ Narrative Short. SATURDAY 11/23/24 06:00 PM DOORS OPEN 06:30 PM UKRAINIAN FILM PROGRAM A BENEFIT FOR UKRAINIANS OF COLORADO Street Musicians Under Maidan Square Director: Eduardo Mendez Taylor. Denver, CO. Music Video. 1:47 minutes. 2018. Folk musicians in the tunnels under Maidan Square play the Bandura and sing for the citizens of Kyiv. Huliali (ГУЛЯЛИ) Artist: Kozak Siromakha. Director: Igor Pavluk. Ukraine. Music video. 2:37 minutes. 2019. Award: Honorable Mention for representing the culture of Ukraine through music and spoken word. WONDERWALL Director: Aleksandr Denysenko. Lviv, Ukraine. Music video. 7:07 minutes. 2018. Oleg and Sasha go on a musical journey through the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Meshes of the Afternoon Director: Maya Deren. 13:29. 1943. A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Eighteen Mill Street Director: Josh Weissbach. East Haddam, CT / Sweden / Kherson, Ukraine. Experimental documentary. 14:05 minutes. 2024. Ukrainian artists Marianna Tarish and Nikita Gryshko relocate to Sweden from Kherson, Ukraine after the Russian invasion. We see the impact of their experiences as part of their journey to Sweden. SML Director: Eleni Morchadze. Ilysa Spencer. Milwaukee, WI / Republic of Georgia / Ukraine. Documentary short. 10:00 minutes. 2023. While in service, my six year old neighbor Eleni, wanted to make a film with me. Petrikyvka Director: Anne Ciecko. Amherst, PA. Experimental short. 3:52 minutes. 2022. Petrykivka reconjures stories of heroism, everyday artifacts and spaces decorated with floral folk imagery, remediated viral video, and footage of acts of resistance and survival. Inundations Director: Anne Ciecko. Amherst, PA. Experimental short. 3:34. 2023. An American traveler meditates upon the unsettling discovery that climate change has transformed rivers, towns, and roads of the Northeast into floodlands. ZHUYKA (CUD) Director: Anne Ciecko. Amherst, PA. Experimental short. 5:00 minutes. 2023. Almost one year after the start of the war, cows are among the victims of the devastation, but their remaining kin, their fabled primordial bovine ancestors, and the tenacious humans point to miraculous possibilities for cultural survival. Award: Honorable Mention for representing Ukrainian culture on film. GOLDEN SEA Director: Erik Sémashkin. Ukraine / France. Narrative short. 2:34. 2023. A fish that survives in an ocean despite internal and external threats, seeks a way out to a better world. Golden Love Director: Pavel Ostrikov. Kyiv, Ukraine. Narrative short. 12:20 minutes. 2016. Hesitantly, Viktor finally decides to look for love. Black Raven Director: George Wyhinny. Ukraine / Los Angeles, CA. Documentary. 39:57 minutes. 2024. A gripping documentary, featuring the witnesses of Joseph Stalin’s Holodomor Genocide of Ukrainians in 1932-33. The survivors' stories of resilience and defiance have kept Ukraine’s history and culture alive. Award Winner: Best Documentary INTERMISSION NARRATIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL FILM PROGRAM Syn Valley Coup Director: William Briggs. Denver, CO. Narrative short. 7:05 minutes. 2024. Fed-up with the president's abuse of power, Evie stages an HOA coup, but is citing past grievances enough to sway the board? Award Winner: Honorable Mention for Continuous Excellence in Filmmaking in Colorado. Feedback Loop Director: Thomas Nelsen. Denver, CO. Experimental short. 4:44 minutes. 2023. What makes otherwise rational and educated people fall into cesspools of dangerous rhetoric that make them act against their own self-interest - and who reaps the benefits? Award Winner: ithinkijustfigureditout Director: Colleen Lee. Evergreen, CO. Experimental short. 4:46 minutes. 2024. A journey to explore the connection between language and thought. Award: Revelation to the Disembodied Director: Andre Silva. Wilmington, NC. Experimental short. 9:20 minutes. 2023. Fragments of a collective post-human dream construct a world that straddles hyper-technological, ecological, and mythological dimensions. A Mountain is Like a House. Director: Stephan Hillerbrand, Mary Magsamen. Houston, TX. Experimental short. 2:30 minutes. 2024. An exploration of personal identity, memory, and home through digital deconstruction and reconstruction. Award Winner: Comply Director: Padrick Sean Ritch. Michigan, USA. Experimental short. 3:05 minutes. 2024. Comply is a satire of our relationship with mass communication in a post-truth era. Award Winner: Second Place, Found Footage Experimental Short. Dear, When I Met You Director: Craig Smith. Los Angeles, CA. Found footage experimental short. 06:00. 2023. Performer Yvette Rugel knew that film would affect stage performers' careers in the 1920s. Art can be both ephemeral and immortal in a badly deteriorating 1928 musical short. Award Winner: First Place, Best Found Footage Film. Fragments of an Echo Director: Martin Del Carpio. Venezuela/NYC. Narrative experimental short. 3:29 minutes. 2024. Fragmented static shots evoking a sense of nostalgia and abandonment of a medical facility soon to be torn down. Award Winner: Honorable Mention for Continuous Excellence in Experimental Filmmaking. Oscillating Sporadically Directors: Gabby Follett Sumney, Hogan Seidel. State College, PA. Experimental short. 6:03 minutes. 2024. Shot in 35mm. A conversation spread over time, distance, and hand painted film. Also available as a 2 monitor installation with headphones. Award Winner: First Place, Best Experimental Short Shot on Film. Tides Director: Andre Silva. Wilmington, NC. Experimental short. 8:00 minutes. 2020. A contemplation of the liminal space between the modern technological world and that more ecological dimension we label as “nature” or “the environment.” Award Winner: First Place, Best Natural Experimental Short. Lurker Director: Savanna Wrobel. USA. Narrative short. 8:13 minutes. 2023. While Chelsea is living at home with her penny-pinching parents she finds herself facing an unexpected adversary. Award Winner: Second Place, Narrative Short Screen Writing. Wellness Check Director: Tyler Holme. Denver, CO. Narrative short. 13:32 minutes. 2024. A young woman struggles with her well being during a tense dinner party with family and friends. Award Winner: First Place, Best Colorado Screenwriter. SUNDAY 11/24/24 06:00 PM DOORS OPEN 06:30 PM MUSIC VIDEOS Huliali (ГУЛЯЛИ) Artist: Kozak Siromakha. Director: Igor Pavluk. Ukraine. Music video. 2:37 minutes. 2019. Award: Honorable Mention for representing the culture of Ukraine through music and spoken word. Standing by a River Artist: Carla Sciaky. Director: Steef Sealy. Boulder, CO. Music video. 5:20 minutes. 2024. A cappella song with four voices by Carla Sciaky. From the album "Heart of the Swan", Propinquity Records. Award: First Place, Best Music Video 2024. Al Kharif (Oud Music) Artist: Tito Malaga. Music video. 4:08 minutes. 2019. Director: Tito Malaga. Denver, CO / Morocco. Agua y Arena (Water and Sand) Artist: Tito Malaga. Director: Tito Malaga. Denver, CO / Morocco. Music video. 4:21 minutes. 2021. Award: Honorable Mention for Excellence in Cinematography and a longstanding musical career in Colorado. Heartshine Artist: Verena, featuring Ojo de Luna band. Directors: Jacob Montano and Verena Fuentes. Denver, CO. Music video. 4:46 minutes. 2024. Hand-painted/animated by Verena Fuentes. Award: Honorable Mention for integrating hand painted animation in a live action music video. Till The Day Artist: Verena. Director: Daniel Cano. Mexico City, Mexico. Music Video. 4:22 minutes. 2022. NARRATIVE SHORT Black Metal Director: Michael Hyon Johnson. Denver, CO. Narrative short. 15:00 minutes. 2023. A black teen is determined to make it as a heavy metal artist in defiance of his father, a failed jazz musician. Award: First Place, Best Colorado Narrative Short. ANIMATED SHORTS PROGRAM Laffoon: Tales from the Quarter Director: Jack Hutsey. New Orleans. LA. Animated short. 4:48 minutes. 2024. When a trendy real estate development looms over New Orleans’ colorful French Quarter, the eccentric, self-appointed mayor must unite his eclectic community’s feuding factions to fight the gentrifiers and keep the Quarter weird. Award: First Place, Best Animated Short of 2024. Ballad of a Bleeding Heart Director: Fuzhi Zhao. Brooklyn, NY. Stop motion animation. 8:31 minutes. 2024. Roach wants to show people that she is a good cockroach. With her friend Puppet they help various creatures, but Puppet’s old enemy finds them and Roach steps up to become an unlikely hero. Award: First Place, Best Stop Motion Animated Short of 2024. The Last Snow Director: Shayan Naghibi. Iran. Stop motion animation. 3:35 minutes. 2023. Everything can disappear, like the fall of the last snowflake. Award: Second Place, Stop Motion Animated Short. Nerd Director: Gustavo Andres Menese. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Animated short. 3:10. 2024. Gus is following his path to understanding reality through science and what we truly are. Award: Second Place, Animated Short. The Almost Believable Bunny Director: Daniel Roche. Urbana, IL. Animated short. 9:00. 2024. A cat named Donna knows in her heart-of-hearts she is a bunny. She bravely defies the backyard norms and embraces her true identity, but acorns fly when the squirrels fiercely reject her transition. INTERMISSION NARRATIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS PROGRAM Due Dilligence Director: Peter Nepi. Denver, CO. Narrative short. 13:27. 2019. A young idealistic teacher struggles with his job as he clashes with a troubled student. Due Diligence is a love letter to all teachers and educators. Award Winner: Third Place, Colorado Narrative Short. The Meeting Directors: Kevin Hart, Steef Sealy. Highlands Ranch, CO. Narrative Short. 7:07. 2024. A lowly office worker encounters unrelenting pressure from his co-workers to lead a meeting he is not prepared for. Award Winner: Best of Fest and First Place, Best Cinematography. Sylvia Says Goodbye Director: John Sylva. Los Angeles, CA. Narrative short. 3:55 minutes. 2024. It was time. Award Winner: Honorable Mention for continuous excellence in filmmaking. The Gate Director: Philip Cooney. Spring. TX. Narrative short. 15:00 minutes. 2021. A man wakes up in the afterlife and finds himself represented by a jaded celestial attorney on whom his soul’s destinations depends. The Judgment of Jonathan Crest Director: Eddie Portoghese. Denver, CO. Narrative short. 14:45 minutes. 2024. Jonathan Crest is a staunch unbeliever of an afterlife. His convictions are about to be tested in the most extraordinary way imaginable. Image Dance Director: John Dawson. Boulder, CO. 2023. Experimental short. This short film is 100% hand made by drawing, painting and scratching directly onto 16mm and Super 8 film stock. My films are all about motion and having fun! Award Winner: Second Place, Best Experimental Short Shot on Film. Pineapple Upside Down Cake Director: Deven Verma. Boulder, CO. Experimental short. 8:09. 2023. Hyperbolic retellings of tropes surrounding consumerism and advertising. Narrative without plot. Meaning without resolution. Structure as narrative. Characters as symbols as opposed to vehicles for identification. Award Winner: Second Place, Found Footage Short Film. Clear Director: Hogan Seidel. Boston, MA. Experimental short. 6:20 minutes. 2024. Clear is a visceral confrontation with the illusion of "safety," where altered 16mm footage and layered audio reveal the quiet violence surveillance imposes on trans and gender-nonconforming bodies. Clear Ice Fern Director: Mark Street. NYC, NY. Experimental short. 12:00 minutes. 2023. Images shot through architectural glass on Super 8 film in the dead of night in NYC. The city peeks its head in as an off screen character, but the glass bends and twists it in its own warped and wonderful way. Lyfe Director: Daniel Roche. Urbana, IL. Experimental short. 10:00. 2023. “Lyfe” is virtual world created for everyone's happiness. When Paul decides to return to reality the AI refuses and he must learn to live in a simulation not unlike our own Another Rapid Event Director: Daniel Murphy. Milwaukee, WI. Experimental short. 7:55 minutes. 2024. In 1859, two telegraph operators communicate using the radiant energy from a massive solar storm as their sole power source. In 2012, the radiation from a comparable solar storm narrowly misses the earth. Award Winner: Second Place, Nature Experimental Short. AI GENERATED SHORTS Something I Do Not Want Director: Vasco Diogo. Lisbon, Portugal. Experimental film. A day dream trip around the figure of Vasco Diogo, using only a mobile phone and several artificial intelligence apps. Something I Do Not Want Award: Third Place, AI Animated Short and Honorable Mention for continuous excellence in experimental filmmaking. Deep Time of Latent Space Director: Eric Souther. Michigan. AI Experimental Short. 9:59. 2024. The strata of human activity as another layer of the Anthropocene, which places AI into the realm of geological thinking. Award Winner: Second Place, Best AI Generated Short and Second Place, Experimental Short. The Good, The Bad and The Bloodthirsty (EP1) Director: John Kalning. USA. Animated short. 10:00 minuters. 2024. Driven by a dark personal history this gothic western delves deep into themes of love, redemption, and the eerie boundaries that blur man and monster. Award: First Place, AI Animated Short. DUFF 2024 AWARD WINNERS BEST OF FEST The Meeting Directors: Kevin Hart, Steef Sealy. Highlands Ranch, CO. FIRST FILM SUBMITTED AND FESTIVAL OPENING FILM Enter the Room Director: Harry Waldman. Chicago, IL. BEST DIRECTOR 1. The Meeting Directors: Kevin Hart, Steef Sealy. Highlands Ranch, CO. 2. The iTch Director: Gordon Phillips. Palm Springs, CA. 3. Laffoon: Tales from the Quarter Director: Jack Hutsey. New Orleans. LA. BEST NARRATIVE SHORT 1. The iTch Director: Gordon Phillips. Palm Springs, CA. 2. Couch Director: Ross Chavez. Chicago, IL. 3. The Door Back Director: Jillian W Fudali. Los Angeles, CA. BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT 1. Oscillating Sporadically Directors: Gabby Follett Sumney, Hogan Seidel. State College, PA. 2. A Mountain is Like a House. Director: Stephan Hillerbrand, Mary Magsamen. Houston, TX. 3. Revelation to the Disembodied Director: Andre Silva. Wilmington, NC. BEST NARRATIVE EXPERIMENTAL SHORT 1. ZAKHME Director: Soore Vahe. Iran. 2. Feedback Loop Director: Thomas Nelsen. Denver, CO. 2. ithinkifigureditout Director: Colleen Lee. Evergreen, CO. BEST EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION 1. Despite Director: Kate Raney. Athens, OH. 2. Revelation to the Disembodied Director: Andre Silva. Wilmington, NC. 3. Cry For Help Director: Brandon Murphy, Devin Nutt. Stillwell, KS. BEST NATURE EXPERIMENTAL SHORT 1. Tides Director: Andre Silva. Wilmington, NC. 2. Another Rapid Event Director: Daniel Murphy. Milwaukee, WI. 3. Silent Chirping of Invisible Digits (Das Feine Zirpen Einer Dunkelziffer) Director: Vera Sebert. Austria/Germany. BEST ANIMATED SHORT 1. Laffoon: Tales from the Quarter Director: Jack Hutsey. New Orleans. LA. 2. The Good, The Bad and The Bloodthirsty (EP1) Director: John Kalning. USA. 3. Nerd Director: Gustavo Andres Menese. Buenos Aires, Argentina. BEST STOP MOTION ANIMATION 1. Ballad of a Bleeding Heart Director: Fuzhi Zhao. Brooklyn, NY. 2. The Last Snow Director: Shayan Naghibi. Iran. BEST NARRATIVE ANIMATION IN A NEW MEDIUM 1. GOLDEN SEA Director: Erik Sémashkin. Ukraine / France. For utilizing fish as talent in a narrative short. BEST AI GENERATED ANIMATION 1. The Good, The Bad and The Bloodthirsty (EP1) Director: John Kalning. USA 2. Deep Time of Latent Space Director: Eric Souther. Michigan. 3. Something I Do Not Want Director: Vasco Diogo. Lisbon, Portugal. BEST EXPERIMENTAL 3D ANIMATION 1. Effigy House Director: Deb Ethier. Canada . BEST DOCUMENTARY 1. Black Raven Director: George Wyhinny. Ukraine / Los Angeles, CA. 2. The Wintering Grounds Director: Jeff Springer. Columbus, GA / NYC. 3. Embroidered Whispers Director: Rongyu Zhou. China. BEST EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY 1. Eighteen Mill Street Director: Josh Weissbach. East Haddam, CT / Sweden / Kherson, Ukraine. 2. SML Director: Eleni Morchadze. Ilysa Spencer. Milwaukee, WI / Republic of Georgia / Ukraine. BEST LGBTQ+ NARRATIVE SHORT 1. MASC Director: Jason Eldredge. Los Angeles, CA. 2. Couch Director: Ross Chavez. Chicago, IL. 3. A Careful Whisper Director: Makayla Levy. Denver, CO. BEST MUSIC VIDEO 1. Standing by a River Artist: Carla Sciaky. Director: Steef Sealy. Boulder, CO. BEST NARRATIVE SHORT CINEMATOGRAPHY 1. The Meeting Directors: Kevin Hart, Steef Sealy. Highlands Ranch, CO. 2. The iTch Director: Gordon Phillips. Palm Springs, CA. 3. HOT SAMANTHA Director: Frank Zanella. Brescia, Italy / Los Angeles, CA. BEST FOUND FOOTAGE SHORT 1. Dear, When I Met You Director: Craig Smith. Los Angeles, CA. 2. Comply Director: Padrick Sean Ritch. Michigan, USA. 3. Pineapple Upside Down Cake Director: Deven Verma. Boulder, CO BEST USE OF FILM ON FILM 1. Oscillating Sporadically (35mm) Directors: Gabby Follett Sumney, Hogan Seidel. State College, PA. 2. Image Dance (16mm) Director: John Dawson. Boulder, CO. 2023. BEST NARRATIVE SHORT SCREENPLAY 1. Inversion Director: Xiaoki Peng. China. 2. Wellness Check Director: Tyler Holme. Denver, CO. 3. Lurker Director: Savanna Wrobel. USA. COLORADO AWARDS BEST COLORADO DIRECTOR 1. Black Metal Director: Michael Hyon Johnson. Denver, CO. 2. The Judgment of Jonathan Crest Director: Eddie Portoghese. Denver, CO. 3. Due Dilligence Director: Peter Nepi. Denver, CO. BEST COLORADO NARRATIVE SHORT 1. Black Metal Director: Michael Hyon Johnson. Denver, CO. 2. The Muse & Her Author Director: Jordan Spalding. Denver, CO. 3. Wellness Check Director: Tyler Holme. Denver, CO. BEST COLORADO NARRATIVE EXPERIMENTAL SHORT 1. ithinkijustfigureditout Director: Colleen Lee. Evergreen, CO. 2. Feedback Loop Director: Thomas Nelsen. Denver, CO. BEST COLORADO SCREENPLAY 1. The Muse & Her Author Director: Jordan Spalding. Denver, CO. 2. The Judgment of Jonathan Crest Director: Eddie Portoghese. Denver, CO. 3. Due Dilligence Director: Peter Nepi. Denver, CO. BEST COLORADO CINEMATOGRAPHY 1. The Judgment of Jonathan Crest Director: Eddie Portoghese. Denver, CO. 2. Black Metal Director: Michael Hyon Johnson. Denver, CO. 2. Due Dilligence Director: Peter Nepi. Denver, CO. BEST COLORADO LGBTQ+ NARRATIVE SHORT 1. A Careful Whisper Director: Makayla Levy. Denver, CO. HONORABLE MENTIONS Director: John Sylva. Los Angeles, CA. For continuous excellence in filmmaking. Director: Vasco Diogo. Lisbon, Portugal. For continuous excellence in experimental filmmaking. Director: Camila Dron. Buenos Aires, Argentina. For Pioneering Cyanotype Filmmaking. Director: Brandon Murphy, Devin Nutt. Stillwell, KS. For Excellence in Animation Screenwriting. Director: Ed Mizner. Redondo Beach, CA. For Continuous Excellence in Filmmaking. Artist: Kozak Siromakha. Ukraine. For representing the culture of Ukraine through music and spoken word. Clear Director: Hogan Seidel. Boston, MA. For bringing awareness of surveillance on trans and gender-nonconforming bodies. Director: Anne Ciecko. Amherst, PA. For representing Ukrainian culture on film. Director: William Briggs. Denver, CO. For Continuous Excellence in Filmmaking in Colorado. Director: Martin Del Carpio. Venezuela/NYC. For Continuous Excellence in Experimental Filmmaking. Artist: Tito Malaga. For Excellence in Cinematography and a longstanding musical career in Colorado. Artist: Verena For integrating hand painted animation in the live action video Heartshine. Director: Padrick Ritch. For Continuous Excellence in Experimental Filmmaking. |