As its annual movie competition winds down this weekend, the Savannah Faculty of Artwork and Design (SCAD) introduced the award winners for the twenty seventh annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival. The occasion, which has turn into a key cease on the busy regional competition circuit main as much as the Academy Awards, this 12 months screened 162 movies, together with 123 narrative function movies, 31 documentary function movies, 69 quick movies, and 10 world premieres and 6 U.S. premieres.
Out of over 2,335 submissions, nineteen awards have been introduced from the 105 movies chosen to compete in competitors classes, which included Narrative Options, Documentary Options, Skilled Shorts, Animated Shorts, Documentary Shorts, Scholar Shorts, Shorts Highlight, World Shorts Discussion board, and the SAVFF LGBTQIA+ Brief Film Competitors introduced by Amazon MGM Studios.
Taking prime honors within the competitors function part embrace a pair of exceptional movies nonetheless in search of distribution (full disclosure: I used to be a member of the jury that picked these titles, we have been gifted with some excellent entries), together with Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson’s narrative function “Los Frikis” and Ben Sturgulewski’s doc “Champions of the Golden Valley.”
The awards winners are as follows:
Skilled Competitors
Greatest Animated Brief – “The Wedding Veil of the Proud Princess,” directed by Anna-Ester Volozh
Honorable Point out: “Monsoon Blue,” directed by Jay Hiukit Wong and Ellis Kayin Chan
Greatest Documentary Function – “Champions of the Golden Valley,” directed by Ben Sturgulewski
Greatest Narrative Brief – “The Masterpiece,” directed by Àlex Lora
Greatest Narrative Function – “Los Frikis,” directed by Michael Schwartz & Tyler Nilson
Greatest Director – “The Ride Ahead,” directed by Samuel Habib & Dan Habib
Particular Jury Recognition for Cinematography – “After Annecy,” directed by Rebecca Holstein
Particular Jury Recognition: Highlight Efficiency: Amrit Kaur, “The Queen of My Dreams”
Worldwide movie and social media platform Letterboxd is sponsoring this 12 months’s Narrative Function Prize on the 2024 SCAD Savannah Film Festival. As a part of this sponsorship, Letterboxd will award the winner, “Los Frikis,” a considerable grant within the type of an intensive media marketing campaign together with focused promoting and direct advertising to advertise their movie.
The 2024 competition’s skilled jury members included Kate Erbland (Editorial Director at IndieWire), Brian Formo (head of studio Relations & video, Letterboxd), Zeberiah Newman (filmmaker), and Richard Suckle (producer).
SAVFF LGBTQIA+ Brief Film Competitors Introduced by Amazon MGM Studios
Recognizing the necessity for extra inclusive storytelling within the filmmaking trade, the 2024 SCAD Savannah Film Festival (SAVFF) and Amazon MGM Studios have created a devoted SAVFF LGBTQIA+ Brief Film Competitors. Amazon MGM Studios will donate $10,000 for the jury-awarded Greatest General Film and $5,000 for an Viewers Award. Movies in this system are beneath 40 minutes in size and characterize excellence in storytelling and execution in narrative or documentary codecs, reflecting distinctive perception into LGBTQIA+ themes, points, or concepts.
Greatest LGBTQIA+ Brief: “RIPE!,” directed by Tusk (Olivia Mitchell and Kerry Furrh)
Viewers Award Winner: “Re-Entry” directed by Ariel Mahler
The SAVFF LGBTQIA+ Brief Film Competitors Introduced by Amazon MGM Studios jury members included David Canfield (workers author at Self-importance Honest), Anthony Allen Ramos (vice chairman of communications and expertise at GLAAD), Adam Eager (Co-Head, World Film PR, Amazon) Rachel Shatto (editor in chief at Equal Pleasure), and Seth Fradkoff (Senior Vice President, Publicity, Amazon MGM Studios).
Scholar Competitors
Greatest Narrative Scholar Brief – “El Alma de la Sed,” directed by Colleen Ryan, Savannah Faculty of Artwork and Design
Honorable Point out: “Desync,” directed by Minerva Marie Navasca, Sheridan Faculty
Greatest Scholar Animated Brief – “High Diver,” directed by Oscar Bittner, Filmakademie Baden Württemberg
Particular Jury Honorable Point out: “The Nectar Instead” for Excellence in Craftsmanship, directed by Yoo Lee, College of Southern California
Greatest Scholar Documentary Brief – “Failure to Fail,” directed by Haley Breese, Savannah Faculty of Artwork and Design
The 2024 competition’s Scholar / Animation jury members included Henry Selick (Director), Daniel Casey (Netflix Animation), Madison Egan (Tribeca Film), Andy Cohen (Grade A Leisure), Kyle Bell (Animator), and Mandy Tankerson (SVP, Head of Manufacturing, Sony Imageworks). The 2024 competition’s Doc Shorts jury members included Doug Blush (Mad Pix), Rivea Ruff (Leisure editor), Liselle Feingold, Juliet Blake (Producer), and Myra Scheer (PR Marketing consultant/Sirius XM Co-Host).
The Inaugural Katie Spikes Legacy Award Scholarship
Katie Spikes was a senior story editor for CBS “60 Minutes” and a beloved pal of the SCAD Savannah Film Festival for a few years after her passing in 2023 the Katie Spikes Legacy Scholarship was created to honor excellence in filmmaking by a SCAD pupil.
Award Winner – “Failure to Fail,” directed by Haley Breese, Savannah Faculty of Artwork and Design
This inaugural winner will obtain a $7,000 money prize. The 2024 competition’s Katie Spikes Legacy jury members embrace Alison Owen (producer), Lynn Hirshfield, Myra Scheer, June Dowad, Andy Cohen (Grade A Leisure), Juliet Blake, and Amy Grey.
World Shorts Discussion board
Greatest Latin Lens: “¡salsa!,” directed by Antonina Kerguelen Roman
Greatest Visions de France: “Yuck!,” directed by Loïc Espuche
Honorable Point out for Social Influence: “Monochrome,” directed by Cedric Prevost
Greatest World Brief: “Little Queen,” directed by Julien Guetta
The 2024 competition’s World Shorts jury members included Ben Thompson (Tribeca Festival shorts programmer), Chris Lane, Stevie Wong (journalist), Lynn Hirshfield (producer), and June Dowad.
Shorts Highlight
Greatest Comedian Distortions: “Idiomatic,” directed by Phil Dunster
Greatest After Darkish Horror Brief: “Wake,” directed by Sean Carter
Greatest Femme Ahead: “Vlog,” directed by Yvonne Strahovski
Greatest Shorts Highlight: “A Family Portrait, Queens,” directed by Billy Silva
Greatest Skilled Documentary Brief: “Good Enough Ancestor,” Directed by Cynthia Wade
Honorable Point out: “I’m Still Here: A Life on Dynamite Hill,” directed by Stephen Stinson and Sam Miller
Jury Award Honorable Point out: “Les Bêtes” for Craftsmanship in Animation
The 2024 competition’s Brief Highlight jury members included Greg Sorvig (Heartland Film), Kaila York (director/producer), Katherine Tulich (journalist, HFPA/Australia), and Sibella Dowad (producer).
