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 One Genome Short Productions for winning Best Film of 2016. Their film Paid in Full will go on to represent Des Moines against all the other city winners around the world at Filmapalooza 2017.
1st Place: Best Film of 2016
Paid in Full by One Genome Short Productions
2nd Place: Best Film of 2016
Almighty Haul by Tiny Explosions
Audience Favorite: Group A
Almighty Haul by Tiny Explosions
Honorable Mention
Simply Love by Bad Medicine Films
Audience Favorite: Group B
Paved by Shrieking Tree
Honorable Mention
Don't Tell Your Mother by oddProductions
Audience Favorite: Group C
Collide by Team First To Enter
Honorable Mention
It's A Girl's World by Team last To Enter
Audience Favorite: Group D
Paid in Full by One Genome Short Productions
Honorable Mention
Magic Pizza by Two Creek Productions
Best Writing
Paid in Full by One Genome Short Productions
Best Editing
Paved by Shrieking Tree
Best Cinematography
Simply Love by Bad Medicine Films
Best Sound Design
Magic Pizza by Two Creek Productions
Best Musical Score
Collide by Team First To Enter
Best Actor
Sid Juwarker Simply Love by Bad Medicine Films
Best Graphics
Magic Pizza by Two Creek Productions
Best Special Effects
Saved by the partridge bunch by Baseball Team
Best Choreography
Butch by Silver Screeners
Best Costumes
Vicar by Divergent Cinema
Best Use of Character
Don't Tell Your Mother by oddProductions
Best Use of Prop
Almighty Haul by Tiny Explosions
Best Use of Line
Paid in Full by One Genome Short Productions
Most Inappropriate Yet Creative Use of a Pizza Cutter
It's A Girl's World by Team last To Enter
Miracle on Slice by Owl Mode
Buddies by Spoken Wheel House
2016 Film List
Almighty Haul by Tiny Explosions
Two feuding criminals are caught off guard by a baptismal congregation
Buddies by Spoken Wheel House
Two unusual buddies discover if their friendship will survive, or if they will.
Butch by Silver Screeners
Butch Lawson is an adventurous bounty hunter always there to save the day.
Collide by Team First To Enter
A man realizes that there is an intruder in his house...
Don't Tell Your Mother by oddProductions
A young college student walks into an interview and discovers something unexpected.
It's A Girl's World by Team last To Enter
A man crash lands on a women-only Earth.
Magic Pizza by Two Creek Productions
A magic man with a magic pizza.
Miracle on Slice by Owl Mode
Deep Dish Diplomacy
Paid in Full by One Genome Short Productions
One man goes through hell to say the check is in the mail.
Paved by Shrieking Tree
A man becomes one with the open road.
Pyknosis Park by OK, Great
This is a short tale of missed communications and unfulfilled expectations.
Saved by the partridge bunch by Baseball Team
Family band member has strange face
Simply Love by Bad Medicine Films
A simple couple's simple story of love and their first romantic moment.
Slice of Justice by Pineapple Shirt Productions
Vicar by Divergent Cinema
VIEWER by Krewe De Ten
A Vice President of a drone company unwitingly records an assasination and fights for survival.
Local Sponsors
Mickey Davis
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