Southern States Indie FanFilmFest 2020
SUBMISSIONS CLOSING OCT. 15
Due to the 2020 worldwide coronavirus pandemic, these changes are underway: 1) we are closing submissions early and have moved the Final Deadline up to Oct. 15, 2020, 2) we will first judge films based on seasonal submission periods and award seasonal laurels beginning in October, 3) after all films have been judged we will announce Festival Selections - by the Dec. 5th notification date, 4) shortly thereafter we will announce Festival Winners, 5) we will set up a "Film Share Week" for selected films to share their films with other selected filmmakers who opt to participate, and lastly 6) ALL selected films from 2020 will be invited to the next live SSIFFF event and all who attend will have their films screened.
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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)