QUARTERLY WINS: YEAR 4, ROUND 4
- Team ZepFEST
- 6 days ago
- 3 min read
Film Categories
Best Feature Film
Backwards Dad
Honorable Mention: Obsession’s Rising
Best Short Film
Cut Your Wings and Fly
Honorable Mention: Grimly Inexperienced
Honorable Mention: Quiet Gods
Best Micro Short
Use Your Words
Honorable Mention: Isabelle
Best Director
Cut Your Wings & Fly – Maryem Lahlou
Honorable Mention: Brandie McDonald – Number 7: A Space Opera
Best Cinematography
Thus Spoke the Wind – Ebrahim Ghaeini
Honorable Mention: Grimly Inexperienced – Ian Wood
Best Editing
Nomina – Justin Huard
Honorable Mention: Cut Off Your Wings and Fly – Kayden Turnbow
Best Music Score
Gus Diablo: Dying Laughing – Joshua Sohn
Honorable Mention: Grimly Inexperienced – Forrest Green
Best Colorist
“The Fire I Am” Aurelian – Anthony Wood
Honorable Mention: After Us – Drew Tekulve
Best Sound Design
After Us – Brenden Bytheway & Doug May
Honorable Mention: Grimly Inexperienced – William Sanford
Best Makeup/Special Effects Makeup
Cut Your Wings and Fly – Marie Esther Dor
Honorable Mention: After Us – Michaela Fordham
Honorable Mention: My F*cka*s Roommate – Jessica Ruiz
Best Visual Effects
The Assassin’s Apprentice – Trevor Mayes
Honorable Mention: Quiet Gods – Erick Lozano & Liliana Hernandez
Best Production Design
Isabelle – Patrick Doughtery
Honorable Mention: After Us – Sariah May
Honorable Mention: Quiet Gods – Erick Lozano & Liliana Hernandez
Best Stunt Work
Use Your Words – Kent Lloyd
Best Original Soundtrack
Obsession’s Rising – Chloe Vonkoelsch
Honorable Mention: Happily Better After – Archelaus B. Crisano
Best Actor
Quiet Gods – Isaac Nelson
Honorable Mention: Backwards Dad – Michael Rodriguez
Best Supporting Actor
Grimly Inexperienced – Rich Daigle
Honorable Mention: Gus Diablo: Dying Laughing – Peter Larney
Best Actress
Nomina – Alex Borlo
Honorable Mention: Evelyn – Kayla Coulthurst
Honorable Mention: Gus Diablo: Dying Laughing – Rebecca Stoughton
Best Supporting Actress
Nomina – Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Honorable Mention: Gus Diablo: Dying Laughing – Emilie Soghomonian
Best Voiceover Talent
Grimly Inexperienced – Rich Daigle
Best Ensemble Cast
My F*ck*as Roommate
Honorable Mention: Use Your Words
Honorable Mention: After Us
Best Documentary – Feature
Overlooked
Honorable Mention: Carter County
Best TV/Web Series Episode
The Assassin’s Apprentice: Silbadors of the Canary Islands
Honorable Mention: After Us
Best First-Time Director
Grimly Inexperienced – Sam Axtell
Best Experimental Film
Use Your Words
Honorable Mention: Where the Water Gets Dark
Honorable Mention: Cut Your Wings & Fly
Honorable Mention: Number 7: A Space Opera
The Willowstone Award (Best Family-Friendly Film)
Happily Better After
The Fablestone Award (Best Fantasy or Sci-Fi)
Quiet Gods
Honorable Mention: Thus Spoke the Wind
The Shadestone Award
The Great Cardona
The Powerstone Award (Best Drama)
Evelyn
The Sunstone Award (Best Comedy)
My F*cka*s Roomate
Honorable Mention: Grimly Inexperienced
Honorable Mention: Use Your Words
The Brightstone Award (Best Youth Acting)
Grimly Inexperienced – Felix Brubaker
The Grimstone Award
Obsession’s Rising
Honorable Mention: Where the Water Gets Dark
The Gritstone Award (Western or Apocalyptic)
After Us
The Rainbowstone Award (Best LGBTQ+)
The Pain & the Power
Honorable Mention: After Us
Social Impact Film
Happily Never After
Honorable Mention: Overlooked
Music Categories
Best Music Video
Platinum: “The Fire I Am” Aurelian
Gold: “No Need to Whisper” In the End
Silver: Spin Me Again
Bronze: “The Cunningham Wake” Lycan Bite
Tie: Bronze: "Atlas" Kindly Kait
Best Pop Song
“The Fire I Am” Aurelian
Best Rock Song
Bahia Underground
Best World Song
“Together We Rise” Aurelian
Honorable Mention: “Between What is Real” Aurelian
Best Alternative/Indie Song
“Sickness” Chloe Vonkoelsch
Honorable Mention: “SWKM” Chloe Vonkoelsch
Best Instrumental/Classical Song
“Fall of a Dream” Hana Masai
Honorable Mention: “Moon Song” Maria Rago
Best Inspirational Song
“Lullaby for Benson” Archalaus B. Crisanto
Best Music Video Producer
“The Fire I Am” Tony Toscano & Jinhee Wilde
Best Song Lyrics
“Sickness” Chloe Vonkoelsch
Honorable Mention: “The Fire I Am” Aurelian
ZepTUNES Song of the Year
“The Fire I Am” Aurelian
Honorable Mention: “Fall of a Dream” Hana Masai
ZepTUNES Performance of the Year
“The Fire I Am” Aurellian
Writing Categories
Best Poem
Blind Man You Don't See - Ramsom Miller
Honorable Mention: Peripatetic Salvaged Poetry for Inexorable Excoriations Brought on by Grief – Anne Ciecko
Best Non-Fictional Podcast
Shadow Clock: Mr. Ramsom Part 2
Best Fiction Book
Only the Dead Know Burbank – Bradford Tatum
Best Non-Fiction Book
The Path of the Priestess: A Guidebook for Awakening the Divine Feminine – Sharron Rose
Best Original Screenplay – Feature
Platinum: 221-A – Tony Toscano
Gold: Americana – Dale Wolf
Silver: The Bell – Michael Ferrara
Bronze: Anthrillogy – Thomas Ortiz
Best Original Screenplay – Short
Platinum: The 18th Hole - Michael Ferrara
Gold: The Long Road to Recovery - Michelle L. Morgan, David R. Schleicher
Silver: The Current – Michael Ferrara
Bronze: Grimly Inexperienced – Sam Axtell
Arts & Innovation Categories
Best Dance Performance
“The Fire I Am” Aurelian
Honorable Mention: Isabelle – Annie Kloppenberg
Best Theatrical Performance
Venus in Fur
The Innovator Award
Use Your Words
Best Photography
Top View Photography – Aaron Lawrence
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