HXFF 2018 - AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD WINNERS

2018 AUDIENCE CHOICE 
AWARD WINNERS

Each year, the Hexploitation Film Festival places the power to choose the festival's top award winners in the hands of its audience members. Audience members in attendance vote for every short and every feature, and the the film from each category with the highest score is crowned BEST SHORT or BEST FILM of the festival. 

We are proud to announce the following Audience Choice Winners for our 2018 season.

BEST SHORT 
*AUDIENCE CHOICE*

Camille Monette, Roxane De Koninck, Keenan Poloncsak, 2017

Four douche-bags embark on a weekend of partying and debauchery at a cabin in the woods, unaware that they will be disturbing the humanoid-termite mutant: Termitator.

WINNER OF MOST GORE FILM @ SPASM FILM FESTIVAL 2017 IN MONTREAL

WINNER OF PUBLIC'S CHOICE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION @ COURTS MAIS TRASH 2018 IN BRUSSELS

BEST FILM 
*AUDIENCE CHOICE*

Brendan Steere, 2017

After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first horrified by this new power, a hooker convinces him to use it to fight crime. And ninjas.

WINNER: FUNNIEST FILM @ HXFF 2018

WINNER: BEST ACTOR @ HXFF 2018

WINNER: BEST MONSTER @ HXFF 2018

Congratulations to this year's winners!

See the full list of 2018 HXFF Award Winners

HEX FILM FEST - 2018 AWARD WINNERS

2018 AWARD WINNERS

The Hexploitation Film Festival is proud to announce the following Feature Film & Short Film Award Winners for our 2018 season.

~~ SHORT FILM AWARDS ~~

BEST HORROR SHORT

Directed by Justin Harding & Rob Brunner

MOST SHOCKING SHORT

Directed by Stephen Stull

BEST COMEDIC SHORT

A Clarissa Jacobson production by JM Logan

BEST FANTASY SHORT

Directed by Justin Harding & Rob Brunner 

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Directed by Lora D'Addazio

BEST CANADIAN SHORT

Directed by Justin Harding & Rob Brunner 

~~ FEATURE FILM AWARDS ~~

SCARIEST FILM

Directed by Eduardo M. Clorio

MOST SHOCKING FILM

Directed by Andy Collier & Toor Mian

FUNNIEST FILM

Directed by Brendan Steere

BEST DIRECTOR

PRESTON DEFRANCIS for RUIN ME

BEST ACTRESS

MARCIENNE DWYER for RUIN ME

BEST ACTOR

GREGORY JAMES COHAN for THE VELOCIPASTOR

BEST SUPPORTING

ACTRESS

JORJA CADENCE for THE HERETICS

BEST SUPPORTING

ACTOR

IVÁN MONDRAGÓN for I WISH I WISH (DESEO DESEO)

BEST WRITING

TRYSTA A. BISSETT & PRESTON DEFRANCIS for RUIN ME

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

JEFF MAHER for THE HERETICS

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Directed by Eduardo M. Clorio

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Directed by Chad Archibald

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

ALEJANDRO KARO for I WISH I WISH (DESEO DESEO)

BEST VILLAIN

(TIE)

BEST MONSTER

Directed by Brendan Steere

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP FX

Directed by Lloyd Kaufman

Congratulations to all this year's winners!

Audience Choice Award Winners to be Announced March 28th

2017 FNTFF AWARD WINNERS REVEALED

Please join us in celebrating all our FNTFF 2017 Award Winners! A creepy congratulations to all our amazing filmmakers, crews, and teams who partook in the festival. Your work and passion are truly exceptional. And a special thank you to all our fans who voted for the Audience Choice Awards across all three nights of the fest.

Without further adieu,  the winners are.....

AWARD WINNERS: March 2016 Fright Night Theatre Film Festival

Now that the March 2016 Fright Night Theatre Film Festival has come to a close we are thrilled to annouce the winners of our Audience Choice and Selection Committee Awards. From the phenomenal five feature films and 15 short official selections that made up our festival, the following films and filmmakers stood out as exceptional beacons of indie talent.

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS

As voted by the in-attendance audience

BEST FILM

Bunny the Killer Thing

(Director - Joonas Makkonen / Producers - Miika J. Norvanto, Matti Pekkanen, Mikko Soukkala)

BEST SHORT

O Christmas Tree

(Director - Greg Kovacs / Producers - Nathan Hawkins, Stephanie Christiaens, Darren Hutchings)

SELECTION COMMITTEE AWARDS

As voted by the Fright Night Theatre programming team

== FEATURE FILMS ==

SCARIEST FILM

She Who Must Burn (dir. Larry Kent)

MOST SHOCKING FILM

Harvest Lake (dir. Scott Schirmer)

FUNNIEST FILM

Bunny the Killer Thing (dir. Joonas Makkonen)

BEST DIRECTOR

Scott Schirmer (Harvest Lake)

BEST ACTOR

Jason Crowe (Harvest Lake)

BEST ACTRESS

Missy Cross (She Who Must Burn)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kevin Roach (Harvest Lake)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Tristan Risk (Harvest Lake)

BEST SCREENPLAY

Harvest Lake- Scott Schirmer

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

TIE - Brian K. Williams (Harvest Lake) & Nejc Saje (Idyll)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Harvest Lake

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
TIE - The Barn & Bunny the Killer Thing

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Harvest Lake - Adam Robl & Shawn Sutta

BEST VILLAIN
She Who Must Burn - Andrew Dunbar, Shane Twerdun, and Missy Cross as The Baarkers

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP FX
The Barn

BEST MONSTER
Harvest Lake

 == SHORT FILMS ==

BEST HORROR SHORT

Heir (dir. Richard Powell)

MOST SHOCKING SHORT

Die! Sitter! Die! (dir. Lee Boxleitner and Sam Boxleitner)

BEST COMEDY SHORT

Night of the Slasher (dir. Shant Hamassia)

BEST SCI-FI SHORT

They Will All Die in Space (dir. Javier Chillon)

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Exordium (dir. Morgan Galen King)

BEST FANTASY SHORT

Portal to Hell!!! (dir. Vivieno Caldinelli)

BEST CANADIAN SHORT

The Indestructible (dir. Kalen Artinian)