HollyShorts Film Festival

HollyShorts Film Festival

Also known as: HSFF
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Best Short Film Grand Prize

Vultures Trailer
Dian Weys
VulturesIn the volatile moments after a car crash, before the authorities arrive, a hot-headed…

Best Live Action

Pale Sun Trailer
Adrian Moyse Dullin
Pale SunOn a beach, in summer, 12-year-old Abel is ashamed of his father’s body, which is ravaged…

Best Animation

With Tapes and Toasts in the Car No Video Available
Kiana Naghshineh
With Tapes and Toasts in the CarIn the face of her body fading into stardust, Shari realizes what truly matters to her.

Best Documentary

The Time My Grandmother Was Held Hostage by Bank Robbers Trailer
Rosella Tursi
The Time My Grandmother Was Held Hostage by Bank RobbersFilmmaker Rosella Tursi humorously investigates the family legend of when her grandmother…

Best Director

Jessy Moussallem

Faux Bijoux21 min
Jessy Moussallem
Faux BijouxMireille promises Johnny the big screen, dragging him to an audition whose rules only she…

Best International

Vultures Trailer
Dian Weys
VulturesIn the volatile moments after a car crash, before the authorities arrive, a hot-headed…

Best Cinematography

Junxiong Zhu

The Kalgan Horse Trailer
Zichen Zhao
The Kalgan HorseIn the borderlands of farming and herding in northern China, a Mongolian horse awaits the…

Best Editing

Altay Ulan Yang

Hyena Trailer
Altay Ulan Yang
HyenaIn an isolated castle, students prepare for a life-changing examination. As anticipation…

Best Costume Design

Syra McCarthy and Kyle Casey Chu

Betty St. Clair No Video Available
Syra McCarthy, Kyle Casey Chu
Betty St. ClairA drag queen searches for the courage to perform at a senior center upon realizing that a…

Best Stunts

Jo Bareun

FLOOR Trailer
Jo Bareun
FLOORHis perfect home has just one flaw—The unrelenting noise from upstairs.For neighbors who…

Best Performance

Russell Tovey

I Am The Prize No Video Available
Sai Karan Talwar
I Am The PrizeA polarizing self-help figure (Russell Tovey: Plainclothes, The War Between the Land and…

Best Producer

Nina Georgieff, Anna Sophia Duff, Maxine Peake, Tobi Kyeremateng, and Slick Films

Laundreams No Video Available
Amber Gadd, Evie Ward-Drummond
LaundreamsThe hottest day of the summer. An empty laundrette situated in an empty street in…

Best Drama

Copy, Save No Video Available
Alyssa Loh
Copy, SaveSolitary teen ANI (15) is intensely devoted to her glamorous older sister, Casey (18).…

Best Comedy

The Oracle No Video Available
JJ Adler
The OracleWhen an atheist psychiatrist hypnotizes his con artist patient, a message from his…

Best Horror

Banshee No Video Available
Peter Vass
BansheeIn 1880s Ireland, Róise's family is haunted by a banshee after she discovers a mysterious…

Best Sci-Fi

Imprint Trailer
Ran Jing
ImprintIn a near-future where knowledge can be traded for citizenship, a desperate mother buys…

Best Midnight Madness

The Seeing Eye Dog Who Saw Too Much Trailer
Eric Jackowitz
The Seeing Eye Dog Who Saw Too MuchIn 1975, Italian director Enrico Januzzi began filming a giallo set in Rome - a feverish…

Best Sports Documentary

Zina No Video Available
Vicky Wight
ZinaA documentary portrait of tennis champion Zina Garrison, tracing how early sporting…

Best Sports Narrative

The Colosseum No Video Available
Nabil Kechouhen
The ColosseumDuring the final of the Espoir Basketball Championship, Mehdi, point guard for Elan…

Best Music Documentary

Reflections Under the Electric Sky: 30 Years of EDC No Video Available
Devin J. Dilmore
Reflections Under the Electric Sky: 30 Years of EDCA short reflection documentary celebrating the 30 years of the worlds largest EDM music…

Best Music Video

Weval – Open Up That Door No Video Available
Bear Damen, Merijn Scholte Albers
Weval – Open Up That DoorAt a relaxed party where nobody is dancing, one guest begins to move and the entire room…

Best TV

Do I Know You From Somewhere? Trailer
Alan Scott Neal
Do I Know You From Somewhere?Facing her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and the crushing cost of care, struggling actor…

Best Web Series

Birth is For P*ssies No Video Available
Hannah Shealy
Birth is For P*ssiesA rookie doula is thrust into her first birth with a mother she's never met. After a…

Best Shot on Film – 35mm

KINK Trailer
Carissa Gallo
KINKA girl in a straight relationship uses her queer best friend to fulfill her sexual…

Best Shot on Film – 16mm

Gobstopper No Video Available
Pippa Feldberg Collins
GobstopperAn agoraphobic mother (Annabel Scholey) leaves home for the first time in decades, her 12…

Honorable Mention – Shot on Film

I Think About Killing You No Video Available
Ran Ran Wang
I Think About Killing YouCrew team captain Dani is plagued by invasive fantasies of killing her abusive coach.…

Social Impact Award

Extremist No Video Available
Sasha Molochnikov
ExtremistA young Russian artist replaces supermarket price labels with anti-war messages, leading…

SAGindie Award

Them That’s Not18 min
Mekhai Lee
Them That’s NotAndrea “Drea” Stoney, a down-on-her-luck poet, finds herself at her grandmother’s repass,…

Best Student Film

Pankaja No Video Available
Anooya Swamy
PankajaPankaja, along with her daughter, Lalli, searches for her missing husband through the…

Made in LA Award

Christmas Angels No Video Available
Ida Hoffman, Remington Hoffman
Christmas AngelsA single mother uses play and imagination to shelter her daughter from a reality she’s…

Best TV Pilot

Joseph Oliver Hooten
Rippers No Video Available
Joseph Oliver Hooten
RippersIn this unproduced one-hour television pilot screenplay, a family of outlaw cannabis…