2018  BEST- IN - FEST WINNER:       MY RANGER
2018 AUDIENCE  CHOICE  WINNER:   CLOSURE

2018 laurels

2018   awards   

saturday

STUDENT AWARDS
Best University  - Hello Henry
Best Film School - Grounded 
Best High School - Why, God? 
Best Student Screenplay - The Backup Plan
Best Student Editing - The Competition
Best Student Actor - Laundry Day - Chris Neal

SLATES
Best Texas Spirit - El Rosario
Best Self-Taught - Whiskey at Midnight 
Best Fan Film - The Dark Resurgence 
Best Mystery - Hollow Earth
Best Horror - Beloved Beasts trailer
Best Drama -Mother of a Sacred Lamb 
Best Comedy - Tattoos 
Best Thiller - Leecher 
Best Animation - Star and Moonboy
Best Sci-fi - 1993
Best VR/360: Best Video - Welcome to Your Own Private Hell
Best Trailer - Beloved Beasts 
Best Music Video - Big Moon
Best International - The Secrets of Tatooine
Best Experimental - Existential TV 
Best Western - Runaway Train
Best Editing - Of a Grateful Nation
Best Wardrobe - You Can’t Get There From Here
Best Hair and Makeup - El Rosario
Best VFX - IRY
Best Screenplay - Closure
Best Cinematography - Sepia 
Best Viral Video - A Believer
Best Actress - Closure - Catia Ojeda
Best Actor  - Hatchback- Ericson Just

TROPHIES
Worst Film: So Bad It’s Good - Reaper Island 
Cult Classic - Jeremiah’s Woods
Best Pilot: Web Series - F#cking 40 
Best Pilot: Television - Breakers 
Best Veterans: Documentary - Grunt Film Project 
Best Veterans: Short - The Hun 
Best Veterans: Long Short -  A Soldier’s Judgment
Best Texas: Documentary - 10,000 LIVES
Best Texas: Short -  Robber 
Best Texas: Long Short - Companion
Best Texas: Director - To Know You 
Best Texas: Feature - Tag Team Truckers

Best in Fest - My Ranger

SUNDAY (WOMEN IN FILM)

Slates
Best WIF Animation - Lone Wolf
Best WIF Music Video - “Last Meal” By Big Bill
Best WIF Self-taught - PATIRI in the promised land
Best WIF Comedy - Frankie and Jude: A Star Wars Story 
Best WIF Drama - Dog Years
Best WIF Pilot - Centered
Best WIF Cinematography - Don’t Bring Me Down 
Best WIF Actress - Full Moon and High Tide - Meissa Hampton 
Best WIF Screenplay - Bingo Night
Best WIF Art Direction - Fumer Tue

Trophies
Best Women: Director - Any Wednesday - Allie Light
Best Women: Documentary Director - Memphis Massacre
Best Women: Documentary - Breaking the Silence
Best Women: Short - Ruby Woo
Best Women: Long Short - Thin Lines 
Best Women: Feature - Stoke
Best Women: Made in Texas - Abide
Best Women: International - Grá & Eagla: Love & Fear