2023 ST. LOUIS FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE JURIED AWARDS

Narrative Films

  1. Best Costumes - The Candy Crucible
  2. Best Makeup/Hairstyling - Eliza
  3. Best Use of Music - Somewhere in Old Missouri - Mother Meat, Bas Drogo, & Kevin Koehler
  4. Best Sound - Kyle Pham, Up for Air
  5. Best Production Design/Art Direction - Somewhere is Old Missouri
  6. Best Special/Visual Effects - Austin Zwibelman, Processing…
  7. Best Editing - Chase Norman & Hattie Smith, Up for Air
  8. Best Cinematography - Chris Lawing, Penitentia
  9. Best Screenplay - Andy Compton, Captcha
  10. Best Actor - Zachary Scott Clark, "Honorable"
  11. Best Actress - Kazia Steele, "Eliza"
  12. Best Ensemble - Honorable
  13. Best Direction - Kevin Coleman-Cohen, “Pretty Boy”
  14. Best Animated Film - Gorilla Tactics, Michael Long
  15. Best Comedy - Captcha, Andy Compton
  16. Best Drama - Pretty Boy, Kevin Coleman-Cohen
  17. Best Horror/Thriller - The Queue, Michael Rich
  18. Best Narrative Feature over 20 minutes - Somewhere is Old Missouri, Tom Boyer
  19. Best Narrative Film under 20 minutes - Fortune Cookie, Fu Yang

Animated, Documentary & Experimental Films

  1. Best Animated Documentary or Experimental Film - Fortune Cookie, Fu Yang
  2. Best Use of Music - Bring Dat Mono Back, Edward Thornton
  3. Best Sound - Loup Garou, Erin Greenwell
  4. Best Editing - Todd Soliday, Uncle Bully’s Surf Skool
  5. Best Cinematography - Papa Blankson, Shark Brained
  6. Best Direction - Raising Spirits | The Big Muddy Dance Company, Chadwell & Ria Ruthsatz
  7. Best Documentary under 20 minutes - The Highland Incident, Zia Nizami
  8. Best Documentary Feature over 20 minutes - clusterluck, Cami Thomas
  9. Best Experimental Film - These Flowers Were for You, Taylor Yocom

Essy Awards

Documentary/Experimental - Bring Dat Mono Back, Edward Thorton

Narrative - Captcha, Andy Compton

23 SLFS-SLIFF

  1. The Box, directed by Doveed Linder (80)
  2. The Candy Crucible, directed by Micah Deeken (11)
  3. Captcha, directed by Andy Compton (9)
  4. clusterluck, directed by Cami Thomas (23)
  5. Eliza, directed by Delisa Richardson and Dan Steadman (28)
  6. Fortune Cookie, directed by Fu Yang (4)
  7. Gorilla Tactics, directed by Michael Long (4)
  8. The Highland Incident, directed by Zia Nizami (7)
  9. Honorable, directed by Zachary Scott Clark and Mariah Richardson (16)
  10. Nova, directed by Gabe Sheets (8)
  11. Pretty Boy, directed by Kevin Coleman-Cohen (18)
  12. The Queue, directed by Michael Rich (11)
  13. These Flowers Were for You, directed by Taylor Yocom (19)
  14. Up for Air, directed by Chase Norman (3)