Central States Indie FanFilmFest 2019
Rock Island, IL, Quad Cities, USA May 28 - 31, 2019
CSIFFF 2019 Nominations
AWARDS RECIPIENTS are underlined
TOP 3 AWARDS
Best of Fest
Double Riddle, What Color Do You See? - Dreamwisher - Expend - Instinct - Magnetick Pathways - Paris la Blanche - Sugar Cube - The Clay Men - The old man and the dead
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ “All My Relations” Inclusion in Film Award
7th Generation - Carro - Dodging Bullets - Grateful - Kaya - My Name Was January - Still Rising - Straight From the Pen
Best Central States Film
Another Yesterday - D.P.D. Echo 1 - Knee High - Love Letters From the Resistance - Ribbons - Right to Harm - The Cold Season - The Scary Ham - The Voicemail - When You’ve Finished Recording
FILM BY TYPE
Best English Language Feature or Featurette
Another Yesterday - Double Riddle, What Color Do You See? - One Nation Under God - Sugar Cube - The Island of Dr. Moron
Best Foreign Language Feature or Featurette
Paris la Blanche - The Clay Men - The Noise of the Light - The Sleeper by the River - The Writer
Best Comedy
Interpretations of "N" Words - Kissy Cousins Monster Baby and Morphing Elvis - Nadine - Sac de Merde - Skin: The Movie - Swipe Right
Best Experimental/Art House/Film Noir
And the forest began to sing - Cygnus - Emergency Alert - Magnetick Pathways - Ribbons
Best Silent Film
128 Days - As the Earth Turns - Dare 2 Disturb
Best Open Category Film (pre-2016)
Copy Shop - Pechorin - The Arcandiers
Best English Language Short
Bob and Edgar - Dreamwisher - KAYA - Kommando 1944 - Mountain - Nasty Habits
Best Foreign Language Short
Carro - Instinct - My Ground - The Boy At Platform 3 - The Invaders - The old man and the dead
Best Central States Short
#Beauty Sickness - D.P.D. Echo 1 - Knee High - The Cold Season - The Scary Ham - The Voicemail
Best Animated Film
Expend - Mysterical Planet
Best Drone Film
Caught in the Quicksand - The Dying of the Light
Best Web Series
Epic Quest - I Do - Two Housemates
Best Student Film
#BeautySickness /Jung Ah's Vlog - Below A Dark Wood - GIVE+TAKE - Heroes in Our Minds - The Girl in the Blue Bra - When You've Finished Recording
Best Music Video
Ain't No Mystery - Dry - New Orleans Girl - I Will Never Give Up
Top Trailer
de Sade - Shark Sorrow - The Blurry World of Marcello Casagrande - The Arcandiers - The Island of Dr. Moron - United Hopes
DOCUMENTARY
Best Feature Documentary
7th Generation - Dodging Bullets: Stories from Survivors of Historical Trauma - Journey to Hope - Shattered Dreams: Sex Trafficking in America - Straight From the Pen
Best Short Documentary
6,743 Count My Voice! - Ka Wa'a: The Canoe - My Name Was January - The Kaleidoscope Guy at the Market - United Hopes
Best Central States Documentary
Grateful - Love Letters From the Resistance - My Friend Ingrid - Right to Harm - Still Rising: Celebrating 10 Years of the Iowa City Civil Rights Trip
DIRECTOR
Best Director Feature or Featurette
Double Riddle, What Color Do You See? (Fernando Castro) - One Nation Under God (Lisa Arnold) - Paris la Blanche (Lidia Terki) - Sugar Cube (Luke Jacobson) - The Clay Men (Mourad Boucif)
Best Director English Language Short
A Leg Up (Joe Jennings, Jr.) - Dreamwisher (Colin Costello) - KAYA (Catherine Fordham) - Nasty Habits (Allisyn Arm) - One (Carlos Carrasco)
Best Director Foreign Language Short
Carro (Gustavo Rosa) - Instinct (Gudjon Ragnarsson) - My Ground (Michael Rue) - The Boy at Platform 3 (Michael Daniel Vetter) - The Invaders (Mateo Marquez) - The old man and the dead (Amirreza Falaki)
Best Director Central States Film
Another Yesterday (Steven Heil) - D.P.D. Echo 1 (Joe Malouf) - Knee High (Marissa Von) - The Scary Ham (Sue Mroz) - The Voicemail (Kyle Solomon) - When You've Finished Recording (Mitchell Kennard Francis)
Best Director Comedy
Nadine (Hans Holsen & Nancy Friedrich) - Sac de Merde (Greg Chwerchak) - Swipe Right (Corbin Sanders) - The Writer (Sondre Fristad) - Two Housemates (Sean Joseph Young)
Talented New Filmmaker
Amends (Griffen Schiller) - Instinct (G. Ragnarsson) - Love Letters From the Resistance (Karalee Padilla & Lynn Sanchez) - Sare Jahan Se Accha (Gurprasad Singh) - Swipe Right (Corbin Sanders) - Winkville (Seth Chatfield) - XING (Rosa Costanza)
ACTRESS
Best Lead Actress Feature or Featurette
Paris la Blanche (Tassidit Mandi) - Skin: The Movie (Michelle Way) - Sugar Cube (Tess Dobre) - The Clay Men (Magaly Solier) - The Sleeper by the River (Marina Tome)
Best Lead Actress English Language Short
Amends (Katherine Smith Rodden) - Dreamwisher (Jolie Handler) - GIVE+TAKE (Ray Kennington) - Heroes in Our Minds (Cassie Brown) - KAYA (Shakira Barrera) - Nasty Habits (Serena Laurel)
Best Lead Actress Foreign Language Short
Heart Broken (Myriam Sieber) - Sara Jahan Se Accha (Daneen Kaur) - The Girl in the Blue Bra (Jehan Ibrahim) - The Invaders (Isra Elsalihie)
Best Actress Central States Film
Another Yesterday (Lucia Rodriguez-Nelson) - The Scary Ham (Cheryl Graeff & Sandra Shea) - When You've Finished Recording (Taylor Winks)
Best Lead Actress Comedy
I Do (Nathalie Schmidt) - Nadine (Nancy Friedrich) - Sac de Merde (Arielle Haller-Silverstone) - Two Housemates (Lucy Chappell) - Winkville (Toni Nagy)
Best Supporting Actress
Double Riddle, What Color Do You See? (Martina Karra) - One Nation Under God (Patricia de Leon) - Popcorn & Chocolate (Kimberly Gail Williams) - Sugar Cube (Mariu Moreno) - The Sleeper by the River (Delphine Depardieu) - Two Housemates (Holly Earl)
ACTOR
Best Lead Actor Feature or Featurette
Double Riddle, What Color Do You See? (Mike Greca) - One Nation Under God (Isaak Presley) - Sugar Cube (Matt Marasco) - The Clay Men (Miloud Naciri) - The Sleeper by the River (Dominique Pinon)
Best Lead Actor English Language Short
A Leg Up (Phoenix Washington) - Kommando 1944 (Daniel Joo) - Nasty Habits (Josh Phillips) - One (Michael Broderick) - Popcorn & Chocolate (Michael Baker)
Best Lead Actor Foreign Language Short
Carro (Victor Lucena) - Instinct (Stefan Arni Gylfason) - My Ground (Michael Rue) - The Boy At Platform 3 (Louis von Bohlen) - The Blurry World of Marcello Casagrande (Jean Paul Dal Monte) - The old man and the dead (Bijan Yeganeh)
Best Actor Central States Film
Another Yesterday (Kento Matsunami) - Below A Dark Wood (Jesse Massaro) - D.P.D. Echo 1 (Nate Brassfield) - Knee High (Michael Ridley) - The Cold Season (John Wells) - The Survivor's Guide of a Newspaper Carrier (Klifford Barkus)
Best Lead Actor Comedy
Interpretations of "N" Words (Danny Brasco) - Make America Black Again (Leon) - Nadine (Hans Holsen) - Swipe Right (Ryan Stathos) - The Writer (Sondre Fristad) - Two Housemates (Sean Joseph Young)
Best Supporting Actor
Double Riddle, What Color Do You See? (Armand Lane) - GIVE+TAKE (Chili Davidson) - Instinct (Theodor Juliusson) - Knee High (Ben Bergthold) - One (Joshua Dubois) - One Nation Under God (Kevin Sorbo) - The Cold Season (Tim Ross) - The Sleeper by the River (Pascal Turmo)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Best Cinematography Feature or Featurette
Double Riddle, What Color Do You See? (Alexander Koo) - Magnetic Pathways (Edgar Pera) - One Nation Under God (Leonidas Jaramillo) - Paris la Blanche (Malik Brahimi) - Sugar Cube (Realm Choong) - The Clay Men (Michel Baudor)
Best Cinematography English Language Short
Dreamwisher (Gus Bendinelli & Kenzo K. Le) - KAYA (Drew Levin) - Kommando 1944 (Christopher Brendan Kistan) - Mountain (Darren Eggenschwiler) - Nasty Habits (Dylan Snyder) - Ribbons (John Spencer) - Swipe Right (Jeremiah Kayner) - XING (Erik Forssell)
Best Cinematography Foreign Language Short
And the forest began to sing (Raoul Largi) - Carro (Angelos Rompolis) - Instinct (Bjarni Svanur Fridsteinnsson) - The Boy At Platform 3 (Klaus Leibmann & Michael Daniel Vetter) - The Invaders (Mike Gialloreto) - The old man and the dead (Arash Mirzakhani)
Best Cinematography Central States Short
Below A Dark Wood (Bill Slovick) - D.P.D. Echo 1 (Istvan Lettang) - Knee High (Bruce James Bales) - The Cold Season (Austin R. Sheehan & Josiah Stendel) - When You've Finished Recording (Jackie Marten)
SOUNDTRACK / SONG / POSTER
Best Original Soundtrack English Language Feature or Featurette
As the Earth Turns (Ed Hartman) - One Nation Under God (Heath McNease & Greg Lafollette) - The Island of Dr. Moron (Lyn Dockrill) - The Providers (Paul Brill) - Sugar Cube (Ben Coe)
Best Original Soundtrack English Language Short
Bob and Edgar (Tony Scott-Green) - Dreamwisher (Asaf Sagiv) - Epic Quest (Philip Derochie) - Mountain (Oliver Lodge) - Nasty Habits (Steve Arm) -The Blurry World of Marcello Casagrande (Luigi Porto)
Best Original Soundtrack Foreign Language Film
Instinct (Helgi Kristjansson) - Kommando 1944 (Ahmed Arifin) - My Ground (Didier De Giorgi) - Paris la Blanche (Chloe Thievenin) - The Boy At Platform 3 (Dagmar Wuhrer) - Invaders (Jonathan Bingham)
Best Original Soundtrack Central States Film
Another Yesterday (Asuka Ito) - The Cold Season (Jacqueline S. Boothe) - The Scary Ham (Nuno Bianchi & Marcos Romera)
Best Song
Ain't No Mystery (Dave Tabar) - Another Yesterday (Douglas Heil) - KAYA (De Plata/Rosalia) - Make America Black Again (Kipnis, Mavericks, & Williams) - Nasty Habits (Built To Fail/Pistol For Ringo)
Movie Poster
Clay Men - La Dormeuse Duval (Aymeric Galisson) - Magnetick Pathways (To Trips) - Sur'vi (Stephen Wise & Roland Paris) - The Blurry World of Marcello Casagrande (Sally Vicky Sade Lattanzi) - The Island of Dr. Moron (Chris Dockrill)
