Southern States Indie FanFilmFest 2020
Biloxi, Gulf Coast, MS, USA January 2021
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PAST EVENTS - AWARD RECIPIENTS
Southern States Indie FanFilmFest 2019
Biloxi, Gulf Coast, MS, USA January 2020
#SSIFFF
Best of Fest - Easy Does It
Atman Award for Diversity in Film - Who Is James Meredith?
Best Southern States Film - Catatonia
FILM CATEGORY
Feature - This World Won't Break Featurette - Watermark English Language Short - Portrait of a Woman at Dawn
Foreign Language Short - The House in the Suburbs Southern States Short - Catatonia Horror - Room 566
Comedy - We Should Hang Out More Animated Film - The Ribbon Drone - Day Thirty-Three
Experimental/Art House/Film Noir - SPIRIT: A Martian Story Short Short - Another Love Story
Feature Documentary - Forced Change Short Documentary - Ashes to Ashes
Southern States Short Documentary - Water is Life Student Film - Gasp
DIRECTOR
Feature - Easy Does It/Will Addison Featurette - Inhaling Red/Scott Allan Pardue
Foreign Language Film - It Comes From the Heavens/Oldren Romero
English Language Short - For Hope/James P. Rees Southern States Short - Magnolia & Clementine/Ashley Shelton
Comedy - The Ham Sandwich/Paul Catalanotto Horror - Ghost in the Gun/Andrew Chen
Talented New Director - Jules/Alexandra Gilbreath
ACTRESS
Feature or Featurette - Watermark/Katie Peabody Comedy or Horror - Ethnically Ambiguous/Tiffany Phillips
English Language Short - Portrait of a Woman at Dawn/Elizabeth Roberts
Foreign Language Short - The House in the Suburbs/Eleni Sani Southern States Short - Lillian/Shanae'a Moore
Supporting Actress - Easy Does It/Linda Hamilton
TALENTED YOUNG ACTOR or ACTRESS
Soul Bones/Lucien Rattray
ACTOR
Feature or Featurette - Easy Does It/BenMatheny & Matthew Martinez Comedy - Chronic/Bill Rogers
English Language Short - Dreaming of the Moon/Tony Greengrass Southern States Short - Swagger Back/Lawrence Green
Foreign Language Short - It Comes from the Heavens/Carlos Rafael Sanchez Vazquez
Horror - Fifty/Sasha Golberg Supporting Actor - This World Won't Break/Matthew Posey
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Feature - Limbo/Joe Stauffer Featurette - Chapter 9/Jake Brown
English Language Short - Bella/John Spencer Southern States Short - I Resign/Jay Mohan
Foreign Language Film - It Comes from the Heavens/Alexander Gonzales
MUSIC, POSTER, TRAILER
Feature or Featurette - This World Won't Break/Michael Paraskevas
Short Film - The Blurry World of Marcello Casagrande/Luigi Porto
Original Song - The Island of Dr. Moron/Mission Statement
Music Video - Across the River and Into the Trees/Enzo De Rosa
Southern States Music Video - I Will Survive/Don Smith
Trailer - Crowbar Movie Poster - Lillian
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Southern States Indie FanFilmFest 2018
Biloxi, Gulf Coast, MS, USA January 2019
#SSIFFF
AWARD RECIPIENTS
Best of Fest - Rice (California)
Atman Award for Diversity in Film - Marching Forward (Florida)
Best Southern States Film - The 12 Lives of Sissy Carlyle (Georgia)
FILM CATEGORY
Feature - Technicolour Daydream Featurette - Esther’s Attic English Language Short - Jump
Foreign Language Short - Carro Southern States Short - Scarlet Begonias Comedy - The Writer
Horror - The Invaders Animated Film - Day of the Western Sunrise Drone - Namibia Web Series - Momtress
Experimental/Art House/Film Noir - Liquid Soul Silent Film - Poster Boy Smartphone Film - Apartment 14
Feature Documentary - Day of the Western Sunrise Short Documentary - Sugar Glass Ceilings
Southern States Documentary - Sound and Sole Music Video - Crosstie Town Trailer - Death and Compromise
DIRECTOR
Feature or Featurette - Beside Me (Tedy Necula) Southern States Feature or Featurette - Luke & Jo (Joshua Overbay)
English Language Short - The Conversation (Adam Ethan Crow) Foreign Language Short - Bhauvra (Saraswathi Balgam)
Southern States Short - Nashedonia (Will Berry) Comedy - Incommunicado (John Marcucci)
Web Series - I Do (Nathalie Schmidt) Talented New Director - Sunrise, Sunset (Hannah Roark)
Talented Student Filmmaker - Bingo Night (Brooklyn Alexander)
ACTRESS
Feature or Featurette - Rice (Valerie Fortin) English Language Short - Girl (Lindsay Trachtenberg
Foreign Language Short - Simple Simon (Amelie Radulescu) Southern States Short - Polished (Andie Morgenlander)
Comedy - Gilda Sue Rosenstern: The Motion Picture! (Kelly O’Neal)
Web Series - The So-So You Don’t Know (Sachi Parker)
Supporting Actress - The 12 Lives of Sissy Carlyle (Stephanie Northrup)
ACTOR
Feature or Featurette - Synthetic Phoenix (Ryan Perich) English Language Short - The Conversation (Corey Johnson)
Foreign Language Short - I Killed Vincent (Cyril Caumont) Southern States Short - A Leg Up (Phoenix Washington)
Comedy - Incommunicado (Felipe Viana) Supporting Actor Drama - Last Call (Dustin Prince)
Supporting Actor Comedy - Gilda Sue Rosenstern: The Motion Picture! (Robin Spriggs)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Feature or Featurette - Rice (Alex Vargas) English Language Short - Peggy (Justin O’Neal Miller)
Foreign Language Film - Cold Feet (Toshiya Chimura) Southern States Short - A Leg Up (Derek Bauer)
SOUNDTRACK, SONG, POSTER
English Language Feature or Featurette - The Pea Shooter (Teri Lennox) English Language Short - Dreamwisher (Asaf Sagiv)
Foreign Language Film - Sisya, The Disciple (Sarit Sekhar Chatterjee) Southern States Short - Ripe Figs (Eric Laws)
Original Song - Epic Quest, Sevrin the Magnificent Mage (Philip Derochie) Movie Poster - Sur'vi
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Southern States Indie FanFilmFest 2017
Biloxi, Gulf Coast, MS, USA January 2018
#SSIFFF
AWARD RECIPIENTS
Best of Fest - Zelos (Australia)
Atman Award for Diversity in Film - Staring Down Fate (N. Carolina))
Best Southern States Film - The Importance of Sex Education (Texas)
FILM CATEGORY
Feature Film - She, The Sergeant Matacho Featurette - Tyson! English Language Short - It Gets Better?
Foreign Language Short - Baba Best Southern States Short - Christine Animated Film - Blows with the Wind
Comedy Film - The Importance of Sex Education Drone Film - Kiss Experimental/Art House/Silent - Xing
Smart Phone Film - Signal Web Series Pilot - Sounds of Freedom Short Short - Balloon
Feature Documentary - Outcaste - The House that Carol Built Short Documentary - The Healing of Heather Garden
Southern States Documentary - House of Saints Top Trailer - Inherit the Stars
DIRECTOR
Feature - Just a Fling (Gorune Aprikian) Featurette - Last Dream for the Moon (Octavian Repede)
English Language Short - The Importance of Sex Education (L. Elizabeth Powers)
Foreign Language Short - Baby One More Time (Paolo Turro)
Talented New Director - Xing (Rosa Costanza) Southern States Short - Barrow (Daniel Earney)
Talented Student Filmmaker - The Secret Life of Balloons (Lauren Graham, Nina Graham)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Feature - Ann (Sofia Oggioni) Featurette - One Year on a Bike (Martijn & Siebren Doolaard, Julian Wunderle, Hanz Lasthuis)
English Language Short - Imbolc (Rory Moore) Foreign Language Short - The Victim (Rassam Feali)
Southern States Short - House of Saints (Gerry Melendez) Short Short - Forgotten Birmingham (Ben McCafferty)
ACTRESS
Feature or Featurette - She, The Sergeant Matacho (Fabiana Medina) English Language Short - Pickup (Mandy Evans)
Foreign Language Short - The Victim (Shahrzad Borjian) Southern States Short - Greenwood (Tammy Thomas)
Supporting Actress Drama - Zelos (Ainslie McGlynn) Supporting Actress Comedy - This is Jack (Amanda Tepe)
ACTOR
Feature or Featurette - Zelos (Ben Mortley) English Language Short - It Gets Better? (Gys DeVilliers)
Foreign Language Short - Time Escapers (Cyril Benoit) Southern States Short - Christine (Logan Reinhart)
Comedy - Those Shoes! (Crafty St. James) Supporting Actor - Mombie (Nate Wells)
SOUNDTRACK, SONG
Feature or Featurette - Do U Want It? (Eric Heigle, Andy Rathbone, Kirkland Middleton)
English Language Short - Deirdre (Audio Network) Foreign Language Short - Baba (Nadaka)
Southern States Short - Mombie (N.T. Bullock)
Original Song - Wilmington on Fire (Voice of the Regular People/Ness Lee)
