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2020 FESTIVAL AWARDS ANNOUNCED
2020 SCREAMFEST HORROR FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS ANNOUNCED
VAN NUYS, Calif. – Oct. 15, 2020 – America’s largest and longest running horror movie festival, Screamfest, awarded this year’s top movies, filmmakers, actors and screenplay Thursday during the fest’s closing night at The Screamfest Drive-In. Screamfest, which ran from Oct. 6 – 15, 2020 at the Regency Theater Plant Drive-In in Van Nuys, has launched careers – providing a platform for filmmakers and actors to showcase their latest work to horror film enthusiasts and general audiences.
Screamfest 2020 winners:
Best Cinematography -Tim Tregoning - Sweet River
Best Editing -Baptiste Rouveure - Anonymous Animals
Best Special Effects Makeup - Geir Njarðarson -Thirst
Best Visual Effects -Atli Þór Einarsson -Thirst
Best Musical Score -Damien Maurel - Anonymous Animals
Best Short -Vikaari
Best Comedy Short -Kalley's Last Review
Best Student Short -The Rule of Three
Best Screenplay -Bloody Mary by Dan Ast and John C. Thursby
Best Actor - MacLeod Andrews - A Ghost Waits
Best Actress -Lisa Kay - Sweet River
Best Picture -A Ghost Waits
Best Director -Adam Stovall - A Ghost Waits
2020 SCREENPLAY COMPETITION FINALISTS
SCREAMFEST HORROR FILM FESTIVAL IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE 2020 SCREENPLAY COMPETITION FINALIST AND SEMI-FINALISTS.
THIS YEAR’S FINALISTS:
- Bloody Mary by Dan Ast and John C. Thursby
- The Bunny by Michael Sametz
- Night Terrors by Jesse Kapp
- The Nocturnal by Mason Weigel
- Obituary Boys by Kenny Yakkel
THE 2020 SEMI-FINALISTS INCLUDE:
- A Bad Night in Talbot by Tyler Jones
- A.D. - After Death by Colter Freeman
- Below by Steve Hayes
- Bloody Mary by Dan Ast & John C. Thursby
- Brave Men Stay by Chris Allan
- Cold Hand Lane by Kevin Wilson
- Detritus by Chris Drzewiecki
- Double Red by Brennan Gilpatrick
- Dreams of the Dead by Eric Taylor
- Fangs by Malcolm Badewitz
- Graven by Dave Campfield
- Holler Mercy by Graham Bowlin
- In His Presence by Daniel A. Seiler & Joseph Weber
- Kill Devill Cllub by Jose Liera
- Night Terrors by Jesse Kapp
- Obituary Boys by Kenny Yakkel
- Octopad by K. John Iskander
- Omega Dawn by Eric Taylor
- Pile by Morgan Von Ancken
- Raven Mocker by Dylan Barnett
- Salvage by Ben Bailey & Nathan Zoebl
- Seed by Rob Capili
- Study in Blue by Patrick Clement
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome by Doug Mallette
- The Bunny by Michael Sametz
- The Face Eater by Rod Smith
- The Hunter by Grant Swanson
- The Nocturnal by Mason Weigel
- The Philmore Phantom by Adam Krause
- The Portland Ripper by B.C. Kendall
- The White City by Carroll Brown
CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS YEAR’S FINALIST & SEMI-FINALISTS!
Check out the 2020 Brochure!
2020 Festival Schedule
The 20th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival was held at The Regency Plant Drive-In - October 6th till October 15th, 2020.
Books of Blood | FREE EVENT! SOLD OUT! SIGN UP ON THE EVENTBRITE WAITLIST. |
Human Trash | Screens with Halloween 2 | |
Hansel | Screens with Halloween 2 | |
Sins of a Werewolf | Screens with Halloween | |
Halloween (1978) | Q & A w/ cinematographer Dean Cundey + Screens with the following short film: Sins of a Werewolf. |
Halloween 2 (1981) | Halloween 2 Screens with the following short films: Hansel & Human Trash. |
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning |
Initiation | Screens with the Following Horror Shorts: Axe To The Face | Guest | The Last Man on Earth | Regret | |
The Last Man on Earth | Screens with INITIATION and the following short films: Axe To The Face | Guest | The Last Man on Earth | Regret | |
Guest | Screens with INITIATION and the following short films: Axe To The Face | Guest | The Last Man on Earth | Regret | |
Regret | Screens with INITIATION and the following short films: Axe To The Face | Guest | The Last Man on Earth | Regret | |
Axe to the Face | Screens with INITIATION and the following short films: Axe To The Face | Guest | The Last Man on Earth | Regret |
My Victims of True Crime | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more | |
Klaus Eats Butterflies | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more | |
An Ideal Host | Screens with the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley | Klaus Eats Butte...read more | |
MURDER FOR DUMMIES | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more | |
Mime | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more | |
Circle of Stone | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more | |
Into the Uncanny Valley | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more | |
Mind Over Matter | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more | |
Good Head | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more | |
RAINY SEASON | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more | |
Fucking Ghosts | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more | |
The Appointment | Screens with An Ideal Host and the following short films: The Appointment | Circle of Stone | F*cking Ghosts | Good Head | Into the Uncanny Valley ...read more |
Psycho Therapy | Screens with anonymous animals and the following short films: Clean | The Creeping Darkness | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason ...read more | |
A temporary void of reason | Screens with anonymous animals and the following short films: Clean | The Creeping Darkness | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason ...read more | |
Zwart | Screens with anonymous animals and the following short films: Clean | The Creeping Darkness | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason ...read more | |
The Creeping Darkness | Screens with anonymous animals and the following short films: Clean | The Creeping Darkness | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason ...read more | |
FACELIFT | Screens with anonymous animals and the following short films: Clean | The Creeping Darkness | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason ...read more | |
Anonymous Animals | SCREENS WITH HORROR SHORTS: Clean | The Creeping Terror | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason | Woodland Cemetery | |
Woodland Cemetery | Screens with anonymous animals and the following short films: Clean | The Creeping Darkness | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason ...read more | |
Clean | Screens with anonymous animals and the following short films: Clean | The Creeping Darkness | Facelift | Psycho Therapy | Temporary Void of Reason ...read more |
You and Me | Screens with Caveat and the following short films: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night at Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia ...read more | |
The Little One | Screens with Caveat and the following short films: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night at Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia ...read more | |
A Night in Camp Heebie Jeebie | Screens with Caveat and the following short films: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night at Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia ...read more | |
DAY 14 | Screens with Caveat and the following short films: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night at Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia ...read more | |
CAVEAT | Screens With The Following Horror Shorts: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night At Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia | You and...read more | |
Hellevate | Screens with Caveat and the following short films: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night at Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia ...read more | |
Hostile | Screens with Caveat and the following short films: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night at Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia ...read more | |
Sclera Absentia | Screens with Caveat and the following short films: Day 14 | Hellevate | Hostile | The Little One | A Night at Camp Heebie Jeebie | Sclera Absentia ...read more |
The Rule Of Three | Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule o...read more | |
Necro-Men (OV) | Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule o...read more | |
Let the ghost pass | Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule o...read more | |
The History of Monsters | Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule o...read more | |
The Chair-Maker | Screens with these short films: The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule of Three | Stalkers...read more | |
Out of Order | Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule o...read more | |
I love Eve | Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule o...read more |
The Haunted Swordsman | Screens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Po...read more | |
BECKY | Screens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Po...read more | |
The Teachers | Screens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Po...read more | |
A Wake | Screens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Po...read more | |
The Popping | Screens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Po...read more | |
Make A Wish | Screens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Po...read more | |
The Brain That Wouldn't Die | Screens with Horror Shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Popping | The Teachers |
Stalkers | Screens with these short films: The Chairmaster | The History of Monsters | I Love Eve | Let The Ghost Pass | Necro-Men | Out of Order | The Rule o...read more | |
The Infiltration | Screens with The Brain that Wouldn't Die and the following shorts: A Wake | Becky | The Haunted Swordsman | The Infiltration | Make A Wish | The Po...read more |
The Mime | Screens With Sanzaru and the following short films: Hammurabi | In the Mirrors | Meat Lovers | The Mime | Sound of Silence | Ten Shots | |
SOUND OF SILENCE | Screens With Sanzaru and the following short films: Hammurabi | In the Mirrors | Meat Lovers | The Mime | Sound of Silence | Ten Shots | |
Ten Shots | Screens With Sanzaru and the following short films: Hammurabi | In the Mirrors | Meat Lovers | The Mime | Sound of Silence | Ten Shots | |
Meat Lovers | Screens With Sanzaru and the following short films: Hammurabi | In the Mirrors | Meat Lovers | The Mime | Sound of Silence | Ten Shots | |
Sanzaru | Screens the following short films: Hammurabi | In the Mirrors | Meat Lovers | The Mime | Sound of Silence | Ten Shots | |
In the Mirrors | Screens With Sanzaru and the following short films: Hammurabi | In the Mirrors | Meat Lovers | The Mime | Sound of Silence | Ten Shots |
SWEET RIVER | Screens with the following short films: A Strange Calm | Fragile.com | Kalley's Last Review | We All Scream | |
A Strange Calm | Screens with Sweet River and the following short films: A Strange Calm | Fragile.com | Kalley's Last Review | We All Scream | |
We All Scream | Screens with Sweet River and the following short films: A Strange Calm | Fragile.com | Kalley's Last Review | We All Scream | |
Kalley's Last Review | Screens with Sweet River and the following short films: A Strange Calm | Fragile.com | Kalley's Last Review | We All Scream | |
Fragile.com | Screens with Sweet River and the following short films: A Strange Calm | Fragile.com | Kalley's Last Review | We All Scream |
Hammurabi | Screens With Sanzaru and the following short films: Hammurabi | In the Mirrors | Meat Lovers | The Mime | Sound of Silence | Ten Shots |
MR MERCEDES - FREE SCREENING | Post-screening Q&A with director Jack Bender, stars Justine Lupe, Breeda Wool and Scott Lawrence moderated by Brian Collins follows the screeni...read more | |
Seasonal Depression | Screens with A Ghost Waits and the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression |
Things We Dig | Screens with A Ghost Waits and the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression | |
BOS | Screens with A Ghost Waits and the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression | |
A Ghost Waits | Screens with the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression | |
Theourgia | Screens with A Ghost Waits and the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression | |
Feed Your Muse | Screens with A Ghost Waits and the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression | |
Mourn | Screens with A Ghost Waits and the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression |
Masterpiece | Screens with A Ghost Waits and the following short films: BOS | Feed Your Muse | Masterpiece | Mourn | Theourgia | Things We Dig | Seasonal Depression |
Alvin | Screens with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | |
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Q & A with Danielle Harris follows the screening Screens with the short film Alvin |
Teething | Screens with Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers and the short film Abracitos | |
Abracitos | Screens with Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers and the short film Teething | |
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) | Screens with the short Abracitos and Teething. |
Vikaari | Screens with Thirst and the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't U...read more |
My Mother Mary | Screens with Thirst and the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't U...read more | |
Miniature | Screens with Thirst and the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't U...read more | |
The Last Leaf | Screens with Thirst and the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't U...read more | |
MetaVision | Screens with Thirst and the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't U...read more | |
You Wouldn't Understand | Screens with Thirst and the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't U...read more | |
Thirst | Screens with the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't Understand | |
Warm Blood | Screens with Thirst and the following short films: Warm Blood | The Last Leaf | Metavision | My Mother Mary | Miniature | Vikaari | You Wouldn't U...read more |
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