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PIFF 2023 AWARD NOMINEES & WINNERS:

 

1 - Best Feature Film 

The Party 

The Son Rises 

A Pretty Good Movie - WINNER 

Yes Repeat No 

 

2 - Best Short Film 

Heroes 

Awaken Her 

Back Home 

Ball and Vase 

Black Boy Suffering Is A Mood. - WINNER

Bound 

The Caddy 

Darlings 

Fight Like A Mother 

Frelse 

fu 

A Ghost Story 

Glimpse 

Kanashimi 

Testimony 

The Visit 

 

3 - Best Documentary Feature 

DancingDADS 

Sorry, We’re Closed - WINNER 

 

4 - Best Documentary Short 

SUE 

Nicholas Brothers: Stormy Weather 

A Boat For My Brother - WINNER 

The Sandwich Man 

The Exchange Girl 

 

5 - Best Feature Screenplay 

Cleopatra’s Needle by Leanne Melissa Bishop 

Kairn: Mates of the Alliance by Fionne Foxxe Farraday, Oliver Tuthill and Tara Walker 

Maestra by Susan Polk 

Missed Connection by Bruce Gadel 

Mystic Stranger by Gerald Berns and David Morse 

Out of the Flames by Stephanie Hutchinson 

Raguel by Ali Jordan 

Sam’s Place by Sheri Sussman - WINNER 

 

6 - Best Short Screenplay 

Death’s Assistant by Brian G. White 

Madly by P. Patrick Hogan 

On The Last Day by Rachel S. Thomas - Medwid 

Watching Walter by Mark Brown - WINNER

Yachatz by Dawna Sirard 

 

7 - Best Stage Play 

Sad-Man by Connor Lawless 

Autumnal Summer by Ed Vela - WINNER 

 

8 - Best Student Film 

Leaving The Factory 

Bliss and Sad 

Far From The Wheel 

Plain Sight 

Thunderclouds 

The Baseball Cap 

Roses 

Senseless - WINNER 

 

9 - Best Music Video 

Fireline 

Strange Loops 

Unsteady 

A Biker’s Dream 

You Can’t Hide The Light - WINNER 

 

10 - Best Animation 

Trojan Horace 

In Your Dreams 

Turning The World - WINNER 

 

11 - Best Actor ( Feature ) 

Leif Gantvoort ( A Pretty Good Movie 

Erik Alexander Gavica ( The Son Rises ) - WINNER 

Lyndon Hoffman-Lew ( The Party 

Ebin Antony ( The Party 

Carter Skyers ( The Party 

 

12 - Best Actress ( Feature ) 

Mariana Anaya ( The Son Rises 

Sara Catherine Bellamy ( The Party ) - WINNER 

Michelle Redman ( The Party 

Savannah Meaike ( The Party 

Briza Covarrubias ( The Son Rises 

 

13 - Best Actor ( Short ) 

Roberto Sanchez ( Testimony 

David Cameli ( Back Home ) - WINNER 

Jeremy Schaye ( Back Home 

Austin Pendleton ( Ball and Vase 

Marc Anthony Sepulveda ( Bonus Time 

Michael O’Neill ( Bound 

Ron Perlman ( The Caddy 

Teddy Lee ( Darlings 

Ed Begley Jr. (A Ghost Story

Roberto Sanchez ( Heroes )

Sky Elobar ( The Lizard Laughed 

Zhan Wang ( Paper UFOs 

Lashaun Clay ( True Story: God Tells Bad Jokes 

Stephen Barrington ( True Story: God Tells Bad Jokes 

Andrew Rudy Galindo ( Sana, Sana 

 

14 - Best Actress ( Short ) 

Kerri Lynn Miller ( Awaken Her ) - WINNER 

Alisha Gaddis ( Alone Together 

Cailyn Rice ( The Book of Disquiet 

Ashley Platz ( Fight Like A Mother 

Stephanie Erb ( Lady Invisible 

Jeanine Bartel ( Overdue 

Christina Connerton ( The Recruit 

Maxi Witrak ( Romanova 

Leigh Rachel Faith ( In Search Of

Talia Rose Goodman ( Romanova 

Hannah Hedrick ( Roses 

Leanne Melissa Bishop ( In Search Of 

Rena Strober ( Spaghetti & Matzo Balls! 

Marissa Pistone ( Sana, Sana 

Princess Punzalan ( Self Storage 

 

15 - Best Director ( Feature ) 

Leif Gantvoort & Brian Spillane ( A Pretty Good Movie

Alexander G. Seyum ( The Son Rises

Kevin Stevenson ( The Party ) - WINNER 

Peter Ferriero ( Sorry, We’re Closed

Oliver Oertel ( DancingDADS

Michael Moshe Dahan ( Yes Repeat No

 

16 - Best Director ( Short ) 

Christianne Cruz ( Aftertaste

Kerri Lynn Miller ( Awaken Her

Meg Swertlow ( Alone Together

Bailey Castle ( Back Home

David Baram ( Ball and Vase

Vince Maui ( Black Boy Suffering Is A Mood.

Christopher Willis ( The Book of Disquiet

Ronny Rose ( Darlings

Dale Griffiths Stamos ( Entwined

Meagan Noel Fulps ( Fight Like A Mother

Seki Hiroyuki ( fu

Roberto Sanchez ( Heroes ) - WINNER 

Melissa Skirboll ( Overdue

Ingela E. Ogard ( A Real Adventure

Melissa Jane Rodriguez ( Sinigang

Brian Shakti ( Foreverland

Jason Camp ( Testimony

Matthew Law ( True Story: God Tells Bad Jokes

 

17 – Best Horror/Thriller 

Aftertaste 

Black Dragon 

Call From Kelly 

The Erl King 

In Search Of 

The Last Word 

Mamu 

The Needle 

Ouija Bro 

Pool 

Plain Sight 

SCRATCH - WINNER 

Storage 

Testimony 

 

18 – Best Sci-Fi 

Dark Cell 

Heroes 

Falling Up 

A Real Adventure - WINNER 

Stratosphere 

Wakener 

 

19 – Best Comedy 

A Pretty Good Movie  

Across The Room 

Asking For It 

Beware of Goat 

Foreverland 

The Lizard Laughed 

Parking Spot - WINNER 

Seatbelts 

Sinigang 

Sweetest Day 

Welcome to Candy’s 

 

20 – Best Film Score 

The Can by J.M. Quintana Cámara 

Frelse by Jesse Haugen - WINNER 

The Last Cloudweaver by Ros Gilman 

PIFF 2023 PROGRAM

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THURSDAY, MAY 4 

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SURPRISE STAR WARS DAY SCREENING - 3:00 PM

Star Wars: Visions episode - "The Pit"

(followed by Q&A with Award-winning PIFF Alumnus director/writer/executive producer LeAndre Thomas)

 

 

 

 

 

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Block 1 - 4:00 PM - Click here for Passes & Tickets

The Exchange Girl

Five fifths

Time is Eternal

OKSANA

SUE

Leaving The Factory

 

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A Biker’s Dream

Scene from a Funeral

Thunderclouds

The Recruit

Nicholas Brothers: Stormy Weather

Rite of Passage

Hostile Territory

Frelse

 

Block 3 - 8:00 PM - Click Here for Passes & Tickets

Aftertaste

Sorry, We’re Closed

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FRIDAY, MAY 5 

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PIFF 2023 PANEL - 1:00 PM - Click Here for Passes & Tickets

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

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Block 4 - 4:00 PM - Click Here for Passes & Tickets

Seatbelts 

The Party 

 

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Roses

South Pasadena 3

Far From The Wheel

A Reason To

This and That

True Story: God Tells Bad Jokes

 

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Wei-Lai

The Lizard Laughed

Self Storage

The Sweet Taste of Freedom

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Black Dragon

Mr. Bowling Ball

Fight Like a Mother

Puncher's Chance 

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SATURDAY, MAY 6

 

Block 8 - 12:00 PM - Click Here for Passes & Tickets

Hummingbird

Yes Repeat No

 

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The Field

Ouija Bro

Storage

Testimony

Call From Kelly

Wakener

 

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In Your Dreams

Doug Ever After

Thinkfeels

Remains of a Nation

Romanova

Falling Up

Stratosphere 

 

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My Dear Aunt Sally

The Book of Disquiet

The day, at the Beach

Bonus Time

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The Baseball Cap

DancingDADS 

 

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Exercised

Nightmare at Camp Bloodbath

Mamu

The Needle

Pool

Bliss and Sad

SCRATCH

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SUNDAY, MAY 7

 

Block 14 - 12:00 PM - Click Here for Passes & Tickets

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The Golden Cage

In Search Of

The Son Rises 

 

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Strange Loops

Trojan Horace

The Pig and Pirate

Hitbaby

Beware of Goat

Foreverland

Across the Room 

 

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Somewhere

Spaghetti and Matzo Balls

Sinigang

Overdue

A Ghost Story 

 

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The Last Word

The Desert King

Above The Branches

A Real Adventure

The Erl King

The Tale of Captain Fortyhands 

 

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You Can’t Hide The Light

Four Walls - Episode 1

Cult

Vax

Plain Sight

Dana

Parking Spot

The Caddy 

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MONDAY, MAY 8

 

Block 19 - 4:00 PM - Click Here for Passes & Tickets

Between Floors

Gabriela

Guber

Mink!

Senseless

Heroes

 

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Fireline

The Sandwich Man

Awaken Her

Sweetest Day

Lady Invisible

Empty Nest

Asking For It

One Day You’ll Be Here

Welcome Home, Eugene!  

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Turning The World

Bound

A Boat For My Brother

Paper UFOs

The Little Drummer Boy

Kanashimi 

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TUESDAY, MAY 9

 

Block 22 - 4:00 PM - Click Here for Passes & Tickets

Pretty Doesn’t Hurt

Entwined

The Visit

Hyde Street

Birth of a Mind

An Interview With The Times 

 

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Alone Together

Black Boy Suffering is a Mood.

Memory Swim

Too Many Tylers

Glimpse

My Over There

Relationshirt 

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Back Home

Dark Moon

Darlings

Ball and Vase 

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 10

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Block 25 - 4:00 PM - Click Here for Passes & Tickets

Wicked Image

Welcome to Candy’s

Big Al

Billy Kills The Internet

Dark Cell 

 

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Unsteady

Little t

Meet Carly W.

Love Child

Perception

Privacy, Please

Sana, Sana 

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The Crossing Guard

A Pretty Good Movie 

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Screenplays, Stage Plays, TV Pilots:

PIFF 2023 Official Selections

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72 by Marissa Chibás 

Another Will Come by Kevin J. Howard 

Autumnal Summer by Ed Vela

Bot The Farm by Henry Sarwer-Foner 

Cleopatra’s Needle by Leanne Melissa Bishop

Daughter of Fire by Seege Vega 

Death’s Assistant by Brian G White 

The Impossible Question by Jeremy Germain 

Kairn: Mates of the Alliance by Fionne Foxxe Farraday, Oliver Tuthill and Tara Walker

The Long Shadow Hunters by Ed Vela 

Madly by P. Patrick Hogan 

Maestra by Susan Polk 

Missed Connection by Bruce Gadel 

Mystic Stranger by Gerald Berns and David Morse 

No Address by Julia Verdin and James Papa 

On the Last Day by Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid 

The Orb by Byron Anderson 

Out of the Flames by Stephanie Hutchinson

Raguel by Ali Jordan 

Sad-Man by Connor Lawless 

Saint Dorothea by Chris King 

Sam’s Place by Sheri Sussman 

Still by Rakefet Abergel 

Watching Walter by Mark Brown 

The Widow Mrs. Widger by Megan Breen 

Yachatz by Dawna Sirard 

Film Scores:

PIFF 2023 Official Selections

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The Can by J.M. Quintana Cámara

Frelse by Jesse Haugen

The Last Cloudweaver by Ros Gilman

THURSDAY, MAY 11

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The Great Gatsby Gala & Award Ceremony

 

7:00 PMRed Carpet

8:00 PMGreat Gatsby Gala & Award Ceremony

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Dress Code: Black Tie optional - 1920's attire suggested

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DER WOLF RESTOBAR:

72 North Fair Oaks Avenue

Pasadena, CA 91103

(626) 219-6054

www.thederwolfpasadena.com

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