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 

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

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​

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

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 

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

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

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

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