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Atlanta Horror Film Festival Awards

Award winners

2024 Awards

2024 Awards

2024 Awards

 Best Horror Feature

Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire

Director Stuart Ortiz


Best Thriller Feature

Catch A Killer

Director Teddy Grennan


Best Slasher Feature

Creeping Death

Director Matt Sampere


Best Foreign Feature

M

Director Vardan Tozija


Best Horror Comedy Feature

Mysterious Ways

Director Tyler Eaton


Best Dark Drama Feature

The Activated Man

Director Nicholas Gyeney


Best Sci-Fi Feature

Unspeakable: Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Director Chad Ferrin


Best Special Effects

Bakemono

Director Doug Roos


Best Gore Feature

Redhead

Directors Sam Hodge & Johnna Hodge


Best Fantasy Feature

Purgatory Jack

Directors Brett Butler & Jason Butler


Best Student Feature

DID I?

Director Sarah Tice


Best Director - Feature

Straight on till Morning

Director Craig Ouellette


Best Horror Short 

Honk

Director Charles de Lauzirika


Best Thriller Short 

Locksmith

Director Corey Benson Powers


Best Supernatural Short

Cruelty

Director Sam Das


Best Animated Short

Tinkerhell

Director Noah Sterling


Best Horror Comedy Short

The Flacalta Effect

Director Rochée Jeffrey


Best Sci-Fi Short

The Stranded

Director Sergi Páez


Best Paranormal Short

Amanda

Director Bel Armenteros


Best ExpERIEmental Short

Consummation

Director Van Galex


Best Psychological Horror Short

You're On Your Own, Kid

Director Michael Matsui


Best Monster Short

Chute

Director West Webb


Best Zombie Short

The Itch

Director Gordon Phillips


Best Micro Short

The Harpies

Director Rogan Lovse


Best Dark Drama Short

Live, Laugh, Love

Director Aaron Cassara


Best Gore Short

Apotemnofilia

Director Jano Pita


Best Slasher Short

Turno de Noche: The Wrong Place

Director Juanjo Avi


Best Music Video

CYA

Director Alice The G00n


Best Foreign Short

Caustic

Director Wesley Gondim


Best Student Short

Mimic

Director Thomas Edward Hindy


Best Local Short

The Reclaimers

Director Jason Sheedy


Best Director - Short

Wake

Director Sean Carter

2023 Awards

2024 Awards

2024 Awards

Best Horror Feature

Cannibal Mukbang

Director Aimee Kuge


Best Thriller Feature

Alone Together

Director William Kresch


Best Slasher Feature

Scalper

Director Chad Ferrin


Best Foreign Feature

Forever Young

Director Henk Pretorius


Best Dark Drama Feature

The Stranger

Director Veena Sud


Best Experimental Feature

Abruptio

Director Evan Marlowe


Best Director

An Angry Boy

Director Andrew Fitzgerald


Best Horror Short 

The Heritage

Director Andrew Rutter


Best Thriller Short 

Family Reserve

Director Isaac Areizaga


Best Supernatural Short

Soul Proprietor

Director Scott Riopelle


Best Animated Short

The Guitar

Director Domhnall Cotter


Best Horror Comedy Short

Charlie the Cancelled Skeleton

Director Joe Reilly


Best Sci-Fi Short

Outer Reaches

Director Karl Redgen


Best Paranormal Short

Bookworm

Director Javier Yañez Sanz


Best Psychological Horror Short

Get Away

Director Michael Gabriele


Best Monster Short

Scratch

Director Michael Trainotti


Best Micro Short

We Forgot About The Zombies

Director Chris McInroy


Best Dark Drama Short

Happy On My Own

Director Ryan Valdez


Best Gore Short

High Fun

Director Adesh Prasad


Best Slasher Short

SLASHR

Director Amir Moini


Best Local Short

Freddy Comes

Director Sarah Stephens


Best Foreign Short

Sacrifice

Director Aldo Enrique Apango Ortiz


Best Music Video

Crooks - Heart Of Vengeance

Director Snorre Fuglsang Ruhe


Best Experimental Short

Lisa Tries Love

Director Vinnie Pagano


Best Student Film

Don’t Feed the Cat

Director J. Zachary Thurman


Best Director - Short 

The Custodian

Director Colin J. Mason

2022 Awards

2024 Awards

2022 Awards

Atlanta Horror Film Festival Awards

Best Horror Feature
Night of the Bastard
Director Erik Boccio


Best Thriller Feature
Night Shift
Directors Greg Swinson, Ryan Thiessen


Best Animated Feature
Agatha
Directors Roland Becerra, Kelly Bigelow Becerra


Best Foreign Feature
Blur
Director Andrew Miles Broughton


Best Local Feature

Courtney Gets Possessed

Directors Madison Hatfield & Jono Mitchell


Best Horror Comedy Feature
Stag
Director Alexandra Spieth


Best Dark Drama Feature
Erzulie
Director Christine Chen


Best Psychological Thriller Feature
Do Not Disturb
Director John Ainslie


Best Supernatural Feature
The Creeping
Director Jamie Hooper


Best Director - Feature

Hotel Dunsmuir 

Director Michael Zaiko Hall


Best Horror Short

Smiley Face
Director François Ricard-Sheard 


Best Thriller Short

The Evil is Inside
Director Martin Sharpe 


Best Horror-Comedy Short

GUTS
Director Chris McInroy 


Best Sci-Fi Short

The Malfunction
Director Tom Festo 


Best Animated Short

Art House
Director Nicole Harker 


Best Supernatural Short

TEMPVS
Director Jason Branagan 


Best Paranormal Short

Stuck
Director David A. Roncone 


Best Psychological Horror Short 

The Bottom
Directors Morgan Ruaidhrí O'Sullivan, James Kautz 


Best Monster Short

Seaborne
Director Dylan Ashton


Best Dark Drama Short

Box on the Hill
Director Erik Odom 


Best Gore Short

Love is a Fire
Director Sofie Somoroff 


Best Local Short

The Lady of the Lake
Director Zane Stephens 


Best Foreign Short

Aperio
Director Patrick Hanser  


Best Music Video

I. The Void
Director Alexandros Papathanasopoulos  


Best Experimental Short

Vultures
Director Daniel Denegre 


Best Director - Short

When You're Gone
Director Kristin Noriega 


Best Cinematography

Fog of War
​Director Steven Lundgren 

2021 Awards

2021 Awards

2022 Awards

Atlanta Horror Film Festival awards

Best Feature Film
A Savannah Haunting
Director William Mark McCullough


Best Horror Feature
Malibu Horror Story
Director Scott Slone


Best Thriller Feature
Wicked Games
Director Teddy Grennan


Best Horror-Comedy Feature
An Ideal Host
Director Robert Woods


Best Documentary Feature
Rondo and Bob
Director Joe O'Connell


Best Local Feature
Bigfoot : The Conspiracy
Director Chris Simoes


Best Foreign Feature
The Winter Hunger
Director Alvaro Garcia Gutierrez


Best Horror Short
Specter of Weeping Hill
Directors Matthew Barber & Nathaniel Barber


Best Supernatural Short
​Ignore It
​Director Samuel Evenson


Best Thriller Short
Anniversary
Director Craig Ouellette


Best Sci-Fi Short
Katu​
Director Oskar Johansson


Best Horror-Comedy Short
The Lake Parasite
Director Joe Reilly


Best Animated Short
The Dark Odyssey
Director Michael Lavine


Best Dark Drama Short
Mourn
Director Joanna Tsanis


Best Paranormal Short
Penumbra
Director Daniel Byers


Best Slasher Short
Camping With Rex
Director Matthew Brennan


Best Gore Short
Teratoma
Director Jano Pita


Best Psychological Horror Short
Sleep
Director Karl Toft


Best Foreign Short
The Water Will Regret You
Director Marco Bentancor


Best Monster Short
The Pey
Director Ramone Menon


Best Zombie Short
The Last Men
Director Adrien Jeannot


Best Experimental Short
New Flesh for the Old Ceremony
Director Elizabeth Rakhilkina


Best Local Short
Sweetheart 
Director Ryan Buffa


Best Mini-Short
Hang Up
Director Cameron Dinwiddie


Best Student Film
Intrepidus
Director Alex Greenlee


Best Music Video
The Golden Man
Director Stimson Snead


Best Actor
Hannah Alline
I’m Down Here
Director DW Medoff


Best Ensemble Cast 
Koreatown Ghost Story
Director Minsun Park & Teddy Tenenbaum


Best Director
Devils
​Director Bret Miller


Audience Choice Award
The Lake
Director Joey Greene

2020 Awards

2021 Awards

2020 Awards

Atlanta Horror Film Festival Awards

Best Feature Film
Stay Out of the F**king Attic
Directed by Jerren Lauder


Best Horror Comedy Feature 
Road Head
​​Directed by David Del Rio


Best Director(s)
Bad Candy
by Scott Hansen & Desiree Connell​


Best Horror Short
$TRIP
Director Craig Ouellette


Best Thriller Short
Ten Shots
Director Gordon Shoemaker


Best Horror Comedy Short 
Numerus Duó
Director Nick Fiorella


Best Paranormal Short
Seek
Director Aaron Morgan


Best Zombie Short
STALAG III-C
Director Jason Rogan


Best Foreign Short
Morok
Director Maksim Kulagin


Best Mini Short 
The Popping
Director Shelby Pogue


Best Drama Short
Dark Water
Directors Erin Coates & Anna Nazzari


Best Local Short
Percipience
Director Daniel Oramas


Best Animated Short
Little Wolf: The Night Trail
Director Jesse Cowan


Best Screenplay
The Chrysalis
Director Michael Squid


Best Actress
Heather Langenkamp
Cottonmouth
Directors Zach Wincik, Danny Salemme


Best Actor  
Hugh Thompson
Teething
Director Glen Matthews


Best Student Film

Dead Wall

Director Alex Greenlee


Best Cinematography
Antique
Director Morten Haslerud


Best Filmmaker Duo
No One Is Coming
Directors Matthew Barber & Nathaniel Barber


Audience Choice Award
Bad Candy
by Scott Hansen & Desiree Connell​

2019 Awards

2021 Awards

2020 Awards

Atlanta Horror Film Festival Awards

Best Feature 

​The Black String

by Brian Hanson


Best Horror Short

Night Crawl

By Gregory Shultz


Best Horror Comedy Short 

Half-Cocked

By Aaron Barrocas


Best Foreign Short

Lobisome
By Juan De Dios Garduño


Best Mini Short 

Rear View

By Austin Faust


Best Sci-Fi Short

Unregistered

By Sophia Banks


Best Local Short

Finley

By J. Zachary Thurman


Best Animated Short

La Noria
By Carlos Baena​


Best Actress

Savannah Foran-McDaniel

Here There Be Monsters
By Drew Macdonald



Best Actor  

Brian Ramian

The Monster

By Neil Stevens



Best Cinematography

Zachary Ludescher

Ice Man

By Daniel Byers



Best Screenplay 

Brandon Shypkowski & Joey Beni

Killer Date

​By Colton Tran


Best Student Film

Cybolica

By Alex Greenlee


Audience Choice Award

Beauty Juice
By Natasha Halevi


Best Director (Feature)
Brian Hanson
The Black String


Best Director  (Short)
Matthew Evans Landry
Re: Possessed Homes

2018 Awards

2018 Awards

2018 Awards

Atlanta Horror Film Festival Awards

Best Feature
Alive
by Rob Grant


Best Thriller Feature
All Light Will End
by Chris Blake


Best Horror Comedy Feature
Bong of the Living Dead
by Max Groah


Best Short Film
Baghead
by Alberto Corredor Marina


Best Horror Short
Ultraviolence
by Chuong Vo


Best Thriller Short
Black Eyed Child
by Tony Morale


Best Supernatural Short
Samantha
by Josh Carley


Best Action Short
Wyrmwood: Chronicles of the Dead
by Tristan Roache-Turner


Best Sci-Fi Short
Terra
by Johnny Han


Best Horror-Comedy Short
Vinyl Destination
by Dan Cummings


Best Animated Short
Attack of the Potato Clock
by Victoria Lopez, Ji Young Na


Best Foreign Short
Post Mortem Mary
by JoshuaLong


Best Local Short
Apples & Oranges
by Ryan Buffa


Best Screenplay
Doris
by Hayder Hasen


Best Cast
Mouse
by Celine Held, Logan George


Best Special FX
Caronte
by Luis Tinoco Pineda


Best Student Film
Inappetence
by Katarzyna Babicz


Best Director
September
by Mason McDonald


Audience Choice Award
We Summoned A Demon
by Chris McInroy 

2017 Awards

2018 Awards

2018 Awards

Atlanta Horror Film Festival Awards

Best Feature
Ruin Me
by Preston DeFrancis


Best Thriller Feature
Lasso
by Evan Cecil


Best Action Feature
Happy Hunting
by Joe Dietsch and Louie Gibson


Best Supernatural Feature
Devil’s Whisper
by Adam Ripp


Best Drama Feature
Replace
by Norbert Keil


Best Foreign Feature
The Glass Coffin
by Haritz Zubillaga


Best Short Film
Alfred J Hemlock
by Edward Lyons


Best Horror Short
DaemonRunner
by Tristan Roache-Turner


Best Thriller Short
Latched
by Justin Harding & Rob Brunner


Best Supernatural Short
Cabin 11
by Brad Rego


Best Action Short
I am not the Devil
by Samuel Smith


Best Sci-Fi Short
Agent Of The Month
by Aaron Grimes


Best Student Film
Sell Your Body
by Jaanelle Yee


Best Zombie Short
Bloodyback
by Daniel Byers


Best Horror-Comedy Short
Lunch Ladies
by Clarissa Jacobson & J.M. Logan


Best Drama Short
The Last of Her
by Brian Golding


Best Animated Short
The Servant
by Farnoosh Abedi


Best Foreign Short
Avulsion
by Steven Boyle


Best Foreign Horror-Comedy Short
Blood Sisters
by Caitlin Koller & Lachlan Smith


Best Foreign Drama Short
The Frozen Eye
by Karim Ouelhaj


Best Local Horror-Comedy Short
Justin Has a Date
by Justin Ray


Best Local Drama Short
Homesick
by Samuel Goodwin


Best Local Thriller Short
Myopia
by Roger Okamoto & Alex Zhuravel


Best Local Animated Short
Stalagbite
by Kevin Luo


Best Local Director
Croak
by Matt Barrett


Best Special FX
Death Metal
by Chris Mclnroy


Best Screenplay
Buzzcut
by Jonathon Rhoads & Mike Marrero


Audience Choice Award
Something Bigger
by Chris Anthony Hamilton


Jury Choice Award
FWD
by Stephen Sawchuk


Best Director
Tethered
By Daniel Robinette

2016 Awards

2018 Awards

2016 Awards

Atlanta Horror Film Festival Awards

Best Feature
Pitchfork
dir. by Glenn Douglas Packard, Rey Gutierrez


Best Thriller Feature
Beacon Point

dir. by Eric Blue


Best Foreign Feature
Idila (Idyll)

dir. by Tomaž Gorkič


Best Horror Comedy Feature
La Noche Del Virgen 

(The Night of the Virgin)
dir. by Roberto San Sebastián


Best Horror Feature
Peelers

dir. by Sevé Schelenz


Best Director
Nursing and You
dir. by Jack Macilvain


Best Producer 

Home Sweet Home

The Boneyard


Best Short Film
Kookie 
dir. by Justin Harding


Best Horror  Short
The Cleansing Hour
dir. by Damien LeVeck


Best Zombie Short

A Father's Day

dir. by Mat Johns


Best Thriller Short

Used Body Parts
dir. by Venita Ozols-Graham


Best Horror-Comedy Short:
Born Again
dir. by Jason Tostevin


Best Sci-Fi Short
Yo Soy Pedro
dir. by Jordan Inconstant


Best Supernatural Short

The Maiden

dir. by Michael Chaves


Best Foreign Short
Wolves

​dir. by Alvaro Rodriguez Areny


Best Action Short
Room 205

dir. by Zac Chia


Best Local Short
A Girl and Her Zombie
dir. by Tim Richardson


Best Animated Short

Under the Apple Tree

dir. by Erik van Schaaik


Best Drama Short
Monitor 
dir. by Paul Holtzhausen


Best Experimental Short
CRSHN ON U 
dir. by Mark Rubbo


Best Short Short:
Hexe
dir. by Michael York


Best Featurette 

Die! Sitter! Die! : Rupert

dir. by Sam and Lee Boxleitner


Best Student Film

Pigskin

dir. by Jake Hammond


Best Gore

When Susurrus Stirs

dir. by Anthony Cousins


Best Screenplay

Crazy

dir. by  Jilon VanOver


Best Special FX
The Corpse Series

dir. by James Button


Jury Choice Award

A Knock at the Door 

dir. by Katrina Rennells , Wendie Weldon


Audience Choice Award
Mister Popular
dir. by Charlie Mayforth

2015 Awards

2015 Awards

2016 Awards

Atlanta Horror Film Festival Awards

Best Feature
Savageland
by Phil Guidry, David Whelan, Simon Herbert


Best Horror Feature
Lady Psycho Killer
dir. by Nathan Oliver


Best Sci-Fi Feature
Flight World War II
dir. by Emile Smith


Best Horror Comedy Feature
Clinger
dir. by Michael Steves


Best Thriller Feature
The Man in the Shadows
dir. by Josh Fraiman


Best Drama Feature
Hank Boyd is Dead
dir. by Sean Melia


Best Foreign Feature
Don’t Speak
dir. by Amadeu Artasona


Best Local Feature
Nightstalking
dir. by Dylan Day


Best Director
Invaders 
dir. by Jason Kupfer


Best Short Film
Surgery 
dir. by George Clemens, Samuel Clemens


Best Horror Short
Don't Let Them In
dir. by David Lawrence


Best Thriller Short
Point of View 
dir. by Justin Harding


Best Horror Comedy Short
Bad Guy #2 
dir. by Chris McInroy


Best Sci-Fi Short
Iris 
dir. by Richard Karpala


Best Foreign Short
I Dare You 
dir. by Eli Klein


Best Zombie Short
Z.14.12 
dir. by AJ Caruso


Best Local Short
Party Animals 
dir. by Will Morris


Best Drama Short
A Way Out 
dir. by Jason Tostevin


Best Animated Short
The Brothers Brimm 
dir. by Matt Killian


Best Experimental Short
35MM 
dir. by John Zachary Thurman


Best Short Short
Trust 
dir. by Jerry Pyle


Best Special FX
Flight World War II
dir. by Emile Smith


Audience Choice Award
Shi 
dir. by Pablo Absento

2014 Awards

2015 Awards

2014 Awards

Atlanta Horror Film Festival Awards

Best Feature

BERKSHIRE COUNTY

dir. by Audrey Cummings



Best Horror Feature

EAT

dir. by Jimmy Weber


Best Horror Comedy Feature

The Many Lives of Jovan Cornejo

dir. by Ryan Nagata


Best Thriller Feature

INTERIOR

dir. by Zachary Beckler

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Best Drama Feature

TIME LAPSE

dir. by Bradly King

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Best Director

Where is Alice?

dir. by Zachary Beckler



Best Short

Dead Hearts

dir. by Stephen W. Martin



Best Horror  Short

House Call 

dir. by Graham Denman



Best Thriller Short

Service

dir. by Jerry Pyle



Best Comedy Horror Short

What's Eating Dad?

dir. by Michael Goldburg



Best Foreign Short

A Veces Viene

dir. by Félix Llorente


Best Local Short

Little Monsters

dir. by Jay Carver



Best Special FX

Hellyfish

dir. by Patrick Longstreth



Best Drama Short

Edward the Damned

dir. by John Weckworth



Best Animated Horror Short

L'Historie Sordide de Dave Grigger

dir. by Jonathan Mayor



Best Short Short

The Makeover

dir. by Dara Jade Moats


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