PIFF 2024 AWARD NOMINEES AND WINNERS:
1 - Best Feature Film
The Martini Shot
Don't Tell Larry - WINNER
Ramona at Midlife
Unsinkable
My Home Unknown
2 - Best Short Film
Ojue
72
Trevor Hurt Someone
Estela, Is It You?
Motel Room
Enemy No More - WINNER
Help Is... On The Way?
Henry's Back
L'Hypermnesique (The Hypermnestic)
The Last Take
One Day You'll Know
A Pint
This Is Not My Beautiful House
Why Dogs Howl
Hello, Goodbye
3 - Best Documentary Feature
Offroad Monks
Above The Ring
Acting Like Nothing Is Wrong - WINNER
4 - Best Documentary Short
Waiter For Life
A Cow In The Sky
To Myself With Love: The Bessie Stringfield Story - WINNER
The Orchestra Chuck Built
Marionettiste
5 - Best Feature Screenplay
Alcanza el Sol (Reach for the Sun) by Douglas May
At The Mercy of Faith by Samuel Taylor
Deadly Shadows by Toneata Leona Martocchio
The Match by Crystal Rivers - WINNER
Graham by Stephanie Hutchinson
Charlie Two Shoes by Dax Phelan
Ma's Way by Christopher Buonopane
The Molting by Rick Kitagawa
They Eat Their Young by Steve Smith
Time Loss by Bradford Hill
6 - Best Short Screenplay
Who Loves The Lovemakers? by Rob McNeil
The Cargo by Chris Edgar
The Ride by Alysha Haran - WINNER
Supercuts by Reece Prentice Mitchell
We Are Not The Same by Sara Freedland
7 - Best Stage Play
The Lake At Calvary by Ed Vela - WINNER
Pirandello's Wife by Lynn H. Elliott
A Little Grift by Josh Baxt
Poor Players by Ronald Kaehler
Blood Type: RAGU - The Stage Script by Frank Ingrasciotta
8 - Best Student Film
Single Mother
Sorrow Nowhere
A Work of Heart
The Translator - WINNER
The Lost Weekend
9 - Audience Award
Don't Tell Larry - WINNER
10 - Best Animation
Bento Banana - WINNER
In The Shadows
The Mayfly
11 - Best Actor ( Feature )
Matthew Modine (The Martini Shot)
Kiel Kennedy (Don't Tell Larry)
Finn Haney (What We Find on the Road) - WINNER
12 - Best Actress ( Feature )
Yaz Canli (My Home Unknown)
Chuti Tiu (A Summer Night) - WINNER
Yvonne Woods (Ramona At Midlife)
13 - Best Actor ( Short )
Brian Rich (This Is Not My Beautiful House)
Dan Lauria (END)
Alexander Aguirre (Trevor Hurt Someone)
Jamal Johnson (The Other Mind)
Daniel E. Mora (Henry's Back)
Brian Foyster (The Last Take)
Robert John Burke (The Last Take)
Gary Teitelbaum (Why Dogs Howl) - WINNER
14 - Best Actress ( Short )
Kelley Mack (My Own Silence)
Tammy Kaitz (Motel Room)
Lauren Noll (The Heart of Texas)
Laura Patalano (Estela, Is It You?)
Shiona Lee (Hello, Goodbye) - WINNER
Chris Yejin (Hello, Goodbye)
Cheryl Bonilla (72)
Emma Dusenbury (One Day You'll Know)
15 - Best Director ( Feature )
Stephen Wallis (The Martini Shot) - WINNER
John Schimke & Greg Porper (Don't Tell Larry)
Chaysen Beacham (What We Find on the Road)
Yaz Canli (My Home Unknown)
Lina Suh (Meeting You, Meeting Me)
Oscar Torre (A Summer Night)
16 - Best Director ( Short )
Scott McKinney (Late Night Grieve)
Gregory Kasunich (The Heart of Texas)
Sam Pinnelas (Trevor Hurt Someone)
Christopher Schultz (Enemy No More)
Fabian Martin & Victor Martin (Estela, Is It You?)
Chris Lee (Hello, Goodbye)
Brian Foyster (The Last Take) - WINNER
Marissa Chibas (72)
Kerri Lynn Miller (The Luckiest Man Alive)
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17 – Best Horror/Thriller
Trolled
My Own Silence
The Luckiest Man Alive
Don't Hate Me
The English Rose - WINNER
END
Drawn
Come Home
Oddities
18 – Best Sci-Fi
Roswell Delirium
Older Self
Space Ryder
The Love Rock
Division - WINNER
19 – Best Comedy
DeadHead
Don't Tell Larry
Cheddar
Quiet! Mom's Working!
Undercover Wrestler
Last Rights
Guardian
Why Dogs Howl
The Black Experience
Hangover Food: Vampire Influencer - WINNER
20 – Best Film Score
Division (music by Nigel Harrison and Clark Moses)
Nocturne (music by Jonathan Beard and Forrest Gray)
Ojue (music by Alejandro Lagrotta)
Space Ryder (music by Ken Christianson)
DeadHead (music by Robert Reider) - WINNER
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PROGRAM
THURSDAY, APRIL 4
Mike
Motel Room
The Big Book
The Heart of Texas
Abrazo
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Lost Bird
Single Mother
The Point
Offroad Monks
Cheddar
Roswell Delirium
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FRIDAY, APRIL 5
PIFF 2024 PANEL - 12:00 PM
Brian Ralston - Audio Is Half Your Film: Panel on Music and Sound in Post-Production
This panel discussion of a composer, music supervisor, motion picture sound designer/mixer, and film director will deep dive into the Post-Production audio and music process, discussing what works on a technical, creative and business level and how to avoid what doesn’t.
Guest speakers include: Sharon Farber (Composer/Producer, AMPAS board member, Television Academy board member, Alliance for Women Film Composers VP); James Jacoby (Music Supervisor, former head of of film music licesing at Warner Bros.); Charlene Huang (VP of music production at Netflix Animation); Chris Chan Lee (film Director); and Victoria Rose Sampson (Sound Department/Director/Producer).
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Wake Up Mijita!
Trevor Hurt Someone
Sorrow Nowhere
The Other Mind
Just Us
Sea Cloud Park
72
Unsinkable
The Ossan
Instant Noodle
Pickled Herring
Hyphen
Henry's Back
Miracle Wood
The Bright Side of Being Barren
Don't Tell Larry
Melancholy Darkness
Take My Hand
Dead Air
Older Self
Trolled
The Love Rock
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SATURDAY, APRIL 6
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The Orchestra Chuck Built
Homeschooled
Back to Normal
Flash Frame
The Best Gift in Life is Life Itself
Fiego and the Magic Fish
Infinity!
Last Rights
A Cow in the Sky
The Unreachable Star
Waiter for Life
United States vs Takashi Hoshizaki
Razon de Ser
Under The Umbrella
Pirarucu: The Breath of the Amazon
To Myself with Love, the Bessie Stringfield Story
Zoe and Alan meet, cute?
Chorus Notes
The Mayfly
Prophet
Bento Banana
In The Shadows
Division
Baggage Claim
Angelman
Foreigner
Space Ryder
My Own Silence
The Mantis
The English Rose
The Unquiet Dead
Come Home
Viral
My Scary Indian Wedding
Oddities
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SUNDAY, APRIL 7
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Cross
Not Afraid
Shot Clock
Above the Ring
Undercover Wrestler
The Black Experience
Guardian
Carelessly There
The Avon Lady
A Work of Heart
Red Velvet
Why Dogs Howl
Stitched
Tilt
Quiet! Mom's Working!
The Ghost Light
Hangover Food: Vampire Influencer
A Suit and a Straight Razor
Haunted
Don't Hate Me
Because I Love You
End
Drawn
Marionettiste
Help is... on the Way
Ramona at Midlife
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MONDAY, APRIL 8
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Block 20 - 2:10pm
Hello, Goodbye
The Lift
Enemy No More
And that's for this Christmas
Wuss
Ojue
Oh My Sweetheart
Nocturne
Good Grief
A Pint
The Ghost of Los Angeles
My Home Unknown
Apple Blossoms
The Last Take
The Hypermnestic
Estela, is it You?
One Day You'll Know
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TUESDAY, APRIL 9
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While you are right in front of me
Late Night Grieve
Forbidden Fruit
Exit Fee
Why Are You Leaving?
The Translator
The Overlook
The Lost Weekend
Meeting You, Meeting Me
Ashes on the Highway
What We Find on the Road
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10
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PIFF 2024 PANEL - 1:00 PM
State of the Industry today from a Talent Agent's Perspective:
Self tapes, self submissions, marketing yourself, creating your own content, changing your mindset to book the room and the job, finding the right agent for representation.
Jake O'Flaherty representing the Dangerfield Talent Agency.
Dead Head
Broken Vessels
A Summer Night
When Beverly Met Reita
Acting Like Nothing Is Wrong
This is not my Beautiful House
The Luckiest Man Alive
The Martini Shot
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Screenplays, Stage Plays:
PIFF 2024 Official Selections
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Again by Katarzyna Claudia Muller (Short)
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Alcanza el Sol (Reach for the Sun) by Douglas May (Feature)
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Alone on the Beach by Simon King (Short)
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Arizona Way Out West & Wacky: The Play by Zachary Simpson (Stage Play)
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At The Mercy of Faith by Samuel Taylor (Feature)
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The Arrangement by Don L. Lorincz (Feature)
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Blood Type: RAGU - The Stage Script by Frank Ingrasciotta (Stage Play)
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Blue Jay Singing in the Dead of Night by Dale Griffiths Stamos (Feature)
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The Cargo by Chris Edgar (Short)
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Charlie Two Shoes by Dax Phelan (Feature)
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Deadly Shadows by Toneata Leona Martocchio (Feature)
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The Deputy by Paul Corricelli (Feature)
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The Empire Sky by Daniel Patrick Holland (Feature)
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The Genius by Randall Palmer (Feature)
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The George Sanders Affair by Michael Ellis (Feature)
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Graham by Stephanie Hutchinson (Feature)
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Hard Twisted by Chuck Greaves (Feature)
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In Jade Moonlight by Craig Stewart (Feature)
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Jump by Nicholas Daniel Cariddo (Feature)
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The Lake at Calvary by Ed Vela (Stage Play)
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A Little Grift by Josh Baxt (Stage Play)
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The Loser’s Club by Jonathan Turner Smith (Feature)
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Life of Bradley by Bill Brock (Feature)
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Ma’s Way by Christopher Buonopane (Feature)
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Mason by Kevin Waite (Feature)
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The Match by Crystal Rivers (Feature)
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The Molting by Rick Susumu Kitagawa (Feature)
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Mr. Right by Rakefet Abergel (Short)
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Normal With a Capital N by Aiko Lozar (Feature)
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On The Last Day by Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid (Feature)
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Pirandello’s Wife by Lynn H. Elliott (Stage Play)
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Poor Players by Ronald Kaehler (Stage Play)
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The Price of Living by Gerald Teaster (Feature)
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The Ride by Alysha Haran (Short)
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Second Nature by Max Lebow (Feature)
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The Short Game by Gunnar E. Garrett Jr. (Feature)
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Stupid Dead Boy by Alex Vickery-Howe (Feature)
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Supercuts by Reese Prentice Mitchell (Short)
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Ten Miracles by Harry Tyler Kleinman (Feature)
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They Eat Their Young by Steven Smith (Feature)
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Three Pretty Girls by Michael J. Dunker (Feature)
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Time Loss by Bradford Hill (Feature)
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Twists of Fate by Jaci Kjernander (Short)
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We Are Not The Same by Sara Freedland (Short)
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Who Loves The Lovemakers? by Rob McNeil (Short)
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THURSDAY, APRIL 11
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The Great Gatsby Gala & Award Ceremony
7:00 PM - Red Carpet
8:00 PM - Great Gatsby Gala & Award Ceremony
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Dress Code: Black Tie optional - 1920's attire suggested
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Pasadena, CA 91103
(626) 219-6054
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