PIFF 2018 Nominees and Winners
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BEST FEATURE FILM
Buckout Road - WINNER
Stuck
Change In The Air
Lear's Shadow
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BEST SHORT FILM
Crab Trap
Laboratory Conditions- WINNER
Letters From Alcatraz
The Manual
Margaux In America
My Pretty Pony
The Only Way
Pushing Skills
Saving Santa
Trash
The Zim
Krieg
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BEST DIRECTOR
Eleanor Hoppe (MARGAUX IN AMERICA)
Brian Elerding (LEAR'S SHADOW)
Kemp Lee (TRASH) - WINNER
Michael Hilf (THE CANDIDATE)
Madli Lääne (THREE AUGUST DAYS)
Dianne Dreyer (CHANGE IN THE AIR)
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BEST ACTOR
Fred Cross (LEAR'S SHADOW) - WINNER
David Blue (LEAR'S SHADOW)
Joe Kelly (TRASH)
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BEST ACTRESS
Kate Emerick (LETTERS FROM ALCATRAZ)
Karina Wolfe (THIRSTY GIRL)
Chloe Berman (MARGAUX IN AMERICA) - WINNER
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BEST STUDENT FILM
I Got You Babe - WINNER
Letters From Alcatraz
Margaux In America
My Pretty Pony
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BEST DOCUMENTARY
Above The Drowning Sea
Break The Chain
Up To Snuff- WINNER
Struggle In Paradise
HONORABLE MENTION
The Candidate
BEST SCREENPLAY
The Indestructible Light Of Rose Lewis by Melissa Vitello
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PIFF 2018 Program
Wednesday, March 7
Dancing in Limbo
Behind the Woods and across the Sea
Resistance is Life
BLOCK 2: CHANGE IN THE AIR - 7:30 p.m.
Change in the Air
Thursday, March 8
BLOCK 3: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS - 4:30 p.m.
Tiff
Break the Chain
BLOCK 4: POWER GRRRLS - 6:30 p.m.
Joy
Arrested (Again)
L.A. Women’s March
Buttercup
Bare
Vici
Passage
7 Days in November
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A Magician
Good Morning Beautiful
The Closet
The Wait
Mulch
Solitude
Limbo
This Fucking Town
The Only Way
Wake
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Friday, March 9
BLOCK 6: THICKER THAN WATER - 4:00 pm
The Rotting
Tea Time with Mr. Patterson
NotWithStanding (A pesar de que)
I Promised her Life
Maxwell’s Demon (O Demônio De Maxwell)
Our Barrio
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BLOCK 7: A VIEW TO A THRILL - 6:30 pm
Bella Donna
Specter
Rule of Threes
Vellum
Underhanded
Five are Fallen
Dylan
The Zim
BLOCK 8: THE EVIL WITHIN - 8:35 p.m.
Dead Week
Papua
Buckout Road
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Saturday, March 10
BLOCK 9: GOLDEN YEARS - 11:00 a.m.
1943
As it Seems
Brooklyn in July
All Quiet on the Homefront
I Got You, Babe
Letters from Alcatraz
BLOCK 10: ALL MY PRETTY ONES - 1:35 p.m.
A Tiempo (In Time)
Parental Guidance
Darklight
Bear with Me
My Pretty Pony
Active Shooter
A Desert Storm
Crab Trap
BLOCK 11: THE BEST MEDICINE - 4:00 pm
Breakfast: The Series
STUCK
BLOCK 12: SCI-FI HIGH - 6:15 p.m.
The Babies
Echoes
Pushing Skills
The Hen
The Manual
BLOCK 13: SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES... - 8:20 p.m.
It Began without Warning
Silence, Please!
The Daughters of Virtue
Found
Unexpected Company
Smiley’s
Jax in Love
Laboratory Conditions
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Sunday, March 11
BLOCK 14: FAMILY FRIENDLY FAIR - 11:00 a.m.
Ukalliq and Kalla Go Fishing
The Pirate Cruncher
Night Light
Tale Of The Kite
BLOCK 15: SHATTERING THE BOX - 12:30 p.m.
The Duel
The Candidate
Two DJs: Both Alike in Dignity
Your Call is Important to Us
Going Mental
Crosby
Aw Rats!
BLOCK 16: THE ART OF LIVING - 2:45 p.m.
Wish
The Performance
Wet Paint: Silent Short Film
Lear’s Shadow
BLOCK 17: LA VIE EN ROSE - 5:10 p.m.
Once Upon a Dream
Margaux in America
L’ Attente (The Wait)
Regarde
Fils (Son)
BLOCK 18: EMERALD ISLE - 8:00 p.m.
Saving Santa
The Holy Fail
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Monday, March 12
BLOCK 19: INVISIBLE - 4:30 p.m.
Trash
Struggle in Paradise
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BLOCK 20: THE PHANTOM PAIN - 6:00 p.m.
Listen
Jupiter
Lawman
The 5th
Krieg
BLOCK 21: MORE THAN KIN - 8:00 p.m.
Like Mountain, like Son
This is Home
Wyrm
This is Jack
Three August Days
Luca
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Tuesday, March 13
BLOCK 22: CITY OF ROSES - 5:45 p.m.
Sinatra in Palm Springs
BLOCK 23: REVELATIONS - 8:05 p.m.
Tzeva Adom: Color Red
Above the Drowning Sea
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Wednesday, March 14
BLOCK 24: CONSERVATION - 5:30 p.m.
Thirsty Girl
Shadow of Drought
BLOCK 25: UP TO SNUFF - 7:00 p.m.
Up to Snuff TRAILER
BLOCK 26: A SALVE FOR THE SOUL - 8:50 p.m.
The Dark and the Wounded
Nowhere Mind
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PIFF 2018 Screenplay Finalists
A War on Terror by Peter Haig
Casablanca 101 by John Madill
Cherry Glazed by Christine Sherwood
Effulgent by Jacob Pence
God Is Not Purple by Matt Pacini
Honey Boy by Shia LaBeouf and Otis Lort
Honor by Ed Vela
Isonzo by Brando Boniver and David Reynié
Lariat Girl by Suzanne Prescott
Little Warrior of Manzanar by Zachary Clark
Metro by Tristan Aird
My Atari Christmas by Chris Parish
Nour by Maitha Alawadi
Perfidies by Bill Baber
Red Light by Dempsey Tillman and Ted Dewberry
Sect by Andrew Fitzgerald
Selah Selam by Michael Vincent Montgomery
Sepulchre by Matthew McLaughlin
Siblings by David Samuels
Soulbreak by Richard Levine and Marie Bailey
Stray Cat Jazz by Jake MacPherson
The Biker's Wave by Damien Mazza
The Hammer: Subjugated by Ryan Jaroncyk and Jim Massie
The Indestructible Light of Rose Lewis by Melissa Vitello
The Island of Eter by Elisabeth Hayward
The Kid Next Door by Jim Norman
The Rental by L.P. Lee
The Sins of the Script by Walter Hochbrueckner
The Venus Syndrome by Lynn Vincentnathan
This Man Will Save Us by Max Blustin
Screening with David Hayter:
Friday, March 9 - 8:35 pm
Actor, screenwriter David Hayter (Buckout Road, Metal Gear Solid Saga, X-Men, X2, Watchmen) to be honored with the PIFF 2018 Career Inspiration Award after the screening of Buckout Road.
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