Our 2023 Top 100 Fest of The Best Winners are…..

Best Set Design sponsored by Gideon Works 77

Best Costumes/Production design Foreign Planetary Payton Jane

Best Original Song sponsored by Gideon Works Ocean Child Wish upon a Star Fish - Avery Lynn

Best Score Guilt Tom Proctor

Visual and Special Effects Ultra Red

Overall Sound Bruiser

Honorable Mention Youth (2) Wicked Bass Cayson Ruoff & Billy Rapture Victor Harrelson

Best Youth Acting White Mountain Independent Ocean Child Avery Lynn

Honorable Mention Acting Uncanny Delilah Camille

Best Actor (2) sponsored by White Mountain Independent

Sanguine Father Will Orsmby Carry & The Next To Last Supper Michael Harrelson

Best Actress (2) sponsored by Jeff Reynold’s Productions

Guilt - Ashley Bowers & Donuts Courtney Simpson

Honorable Mention Editing A Forest Dark Emily Yours

Best Editing Sand In The Crack Justin Moschcau

Honorable Mention Directing Donuts Peter Crawford

Best Youth Director Hunny Bunny Jayden Barrial

Best Director (3) sponsored by The City of Show Low

Fortis Femina - Mitesh Patel, La Lucha - Josh Rand, I Just wanted you to see - Salvatore Dodeci

Excellence in Directing & Producing - only 10 years old The Magic Stone Lux Wolett

Excellence in Producing The Condition Rod Randolph

Best Cinematography (2)

Ocean Child - Nikki Skelly & Joseph Marcello, Venice Boulevard- Harris Khan

Honorable Mention Ensemble - Catching the Bus

Best Ensemble sponsored by The Town of Pinetop - I Just wanted you to see

SCRIPT AWARDS

Best Script - Action Fly- Dancing with Gravity Doc Skinner

Best Script - Holiday Bad Elf & Krampus John Rae

Best Script Horror Featurette Love Sucks Rita Betti

Best Script Horror Feature Things the Dead Fear Scott Ambrozy & Christopher LaPrath

Best Script - Faith Short The Foxhole John Kestner

Best Script - Suspense Fab & Ren A.J. Cicotelli

Best Script - Drama Mick was a Hurricane Brian O‘Connor

Best Script short Drama Do unto others Joe Leone

Top 3 Best Scripts with an average score of 8.9 out of 10 and higher

Swoosh 8.9 score out of 10

Perfect Misfits 9.4 score out of 10

Port Chicago 50 9.6 score out of 10 - Top winner also received $100 Cash

Shorts under 7 min

Best Children’s Short under 7 Jessie

Best Short- Documentary Hunny Bunny

Best Music Video - Rock Piece That Fit

Best Short Under 7 Wicked Bass

Best Short under 7 Arizona Made Bruiser

Best Web series under 7 min Combat Nuns - All or Nothing

Best Animation Purple Heart for Effect

Shorts 7-12 Min

Best Short Sci Fi 7-12 Minutes Foreign Planetary

Best Short Mockumentary 7-12 min Sand in the Crack

Best Short Student film 7-12 min My name is Warren Tenney

Best Short Comedy 7-12 min The Dumping Station

Best Short - Drama 7-12 min Control

Best Short - Faith Based 7-12 The Next to Last Supper

Best Short - Suspense 7-12 min Venice Boulevard

Best Short - Family - 7-12 min The Invite

Best Short - Human Interest - 7-12 Catching the Bus

Best Short - Made on a low Budget 7-12 min Billy Rapture

Best Short - Childrens - 7-12 min Sleepover

Best Short - Phychological 7-12 min The Dark Night of the Soul

Best Short - Arizona Made 7-12 min Alice in Quarantine

Best Short - Made on an extremely low budget Donuts

Best Short - 7-12 Min Rent A Friend

Shorts 13-16 Minutes

Best Short 13-16 Mockumentary Death by King Cake

Best Short 13-16 SciFi Grimoire Vol 1

Best Short 13-16 Horror Arizona made The Director

Best Short 13-16 Drama A Forest Dark

Best Short 13- 15 Dark Sanguine Father

Shorts 17-25 Minutes

Best Short 17-25 Arizona Made The Awakening

Best Short 17-25 Suspense International They Don’t Leave

Best Short 17-25 Thriller 77

Best Short 17-25 Horror The Devil’s Playground

Best Children’s Short 17-25 Ocean Child

Best International Short 17-25 Miss Agata

Best International Short 17-25 I Just Wanted You To See

Best Western short 17-25 Arizona made The Weight of the Badge

Best Short Arizona made 17-25 Got Your Tickets

Best Short 17-25 SciFi Grimoire Vol 1

Best Short 17-25 The Condition

Features/Featurettes Sponsor Swire Coca Cola

Best Featurette Arizona Western - Double Crossed in Durango

Best Featurette - Documentary La Lucha - Getting schooled in America

Best Feature - Horror The Uncanny

Best Feature - Sci Fi Ultra Red

Best Feature - Low Budget Day of the Wicked

Best Feature - Drama Guilt

Best Feature and Arizona Made Fortis Femina

Producer’s Choice Awards

Producer’s Choice WME Theater - Guilt

Producer’s Choice Dalea Faulkner - Rent a Friend

Producer’s Choice Martina Webster - The Dark Night of the Soul

Top Best of the Fest Awards

Winners are the top in their category or genre in most of the judging criteria and loved by the producers . Acting, cinematography, directing, set, sound, editing, producing and directing. Winners will be recognized with our top award as well as a 10 certificates to give their film team department heads.

Top 10 Best of Fest Films

A score of 8.5 Average or higher out of 10 - Sponsor is DarMar Production LLC

Fair Weather Road Score of 8.5

Seclusion Score of 8.6

The Last Wild River Score of 8.6

Transfer Score of 8.7

Almost Ancestors Score of 8.7

The Nanny score of 8.8

Women in The Maze score of 8.9

The Aftermath Score of 9

Pharma Score of 9.1

Best of Fest and highest scoring film winning $200 CASH

Short Drive score of 9.2 out of 10