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 2 Best Music Videos
Lifetime Achievement Award - music branch B. Howard
Award sponsor is WME Theater
Parchman 8.1 Average score out of 10
Love Note 8.6 Average Score out of 10
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