Announcing the Winners
After much deliberation, our distinguished panel of judges has selected this year’s winning films. Congratulations to all of the filmmakers and teams who participated. We are proud to announce our winners.
Kudos to Render Gang for winning Best Film of 2019. Their film Rate Your Clown will go on to represent Cleveland against all the other city winners around the world at Filmapalooza 2020.
1st Place: Best Film of 2019
Rate Your Clown by Render Gang
2nd Place: Best Film of 2019
ESCAPED by Burning House Films
3rd Place: Best Film of 2019
Foray by Bootstrap's Bootstraps
Required Elements
- Character: Jenna or Jeremy Lee, certified public accountant
- Prop: a stapler
- Line: ""What’s the worst thing you did as a kid?" OR "What is the worst thing you did as a kid?""
Audience Favorite: Group A
Rate Your Clown by Render Gang
Audience Favorite: Group B
The Unseen by Conrad Studios
Best Writing
Beyond the Light by TKF Films
Best Editing
The Unseen by Conrad Studios
Best Directing
Rate Your Clown by Render Gang
Best Cinematography
ESCAPED by Burning House Films
Best Sound Design
The Unseen by Conrad Studios
Best Musical Score
Rate Your Clown by Render Gang
Best Actor
Vincent Sarowatz The Unseen by Conrad Studios
Best Actress
Makenna Weyburne The Unseen by Conrad Studios
Best Supporting Actor
Todd Baur Beyond the Light by TKF Films
Best Supporting Actress
Morgan Paige The Unseen by Conrad Studios
Best Ensemble Acting
The Unseen by Conrad Studios
Best Graphics
Foray by Bootstrap's Bootstraps
Best Special Effects
Resurrected by Papa Productions
Best Use of Character
Couliphobia by One Red Cup
Best Use of Prop
Beyond the Light by TKF Films
Best Use of Line
From Darkness Returned by Fly-By-Wire Films
Best Costumes & Makeup
Rate Your Clown by Render Gang
Best Location
ESCAPED by Burning House Films
BEST MOVIE POSTER
The Unseen by Conrad Studios
Best Original Song
ESCAPED by Burning House Films
Best trailer
The Unseen by Conrad Studios
MOST BLOOD SPLATTERED
Teeth by Sewn Shut
MOST ORIGINAL SCORE
Foray by Bootstrap's Bootstraps
SCREAM QUEEN
Johanna McGinley Strange Appetites by The Freke Showe
2019 Film List
BENNY by Dark Horses Productions
"YOU AND ME WILL BE FREINDS FOREVER!"
Beyond the Light by TKF Films
A look into madness.
Condamned by Szego Films
Paranormal group cant babysit.
Couliphobia by One Red Cup
Disquiet by 54th Street Films
Desperate to return to her family a woman struggles against an unrelenting force to escape to the life she once knew.
ESCAPED by Burning House Films
A true test of intelligence to escape death.
Find the Fool by Eyecrush Productions
A brother and sister discover a family heirloom card game, and the horrifying creature trapped within it.
Flikr by Working Title II
For You by Banana Bread Productions
A girl breaks into a house, only to find what she wasn't expecting.
Foray by Bootstrap's Bootstraps
A bloodthirsty, career woman has a night.
From Darkness Returned by Fly-By-Wire Films
A religious cult tries to resurrect the dead
Ghost Town by Lake FX
Here They Stay by Spiral Movies
A group of college girls come together to learn the consequence of seemingly benign things they did in their past.
Home Sweet Home by MorSho Productions
A group of unsuspecting co-workers are thrown into the worst day of their lives when they arrive to a killer dinner party.
Hunger by Tri-Cera Films
Rate Your Clown by Render Gang
Resurrected by Papa Productions
A grieving couple solicits the powers of a witch to resurrect their dead daughter but the child who arrives comes with a more sinister purpose.
Sins Ain't Forgiven by Brutal Flowers
When a man purchases an abandoned warehouse, he learns his past has caught up to him.
Strange Appetites by The Freke Showe
This group can stomach anything. Will they be more than he can swallow?
Teeth by Sewn Shut
The Portrait by Akron Asylum Productions
Heading home to celebrate with her boyfriend after a successful job interview, a woman finds her house disturbed, her boyfriend missing, and her best friend under the influence of a cursed portrait.
The Unseen by Conrad Studios
Siblings unravel the mystery regarding the disappearance of their mother.
Verboten Schokolade by White Midnight
A cult is divided and members try to escape its control. In the process they have to confront their hooded sisters that have other plans for them.
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