And The Winner is… St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase Winners Announced Last Night!

By Tom Stockman | July 22, 2019

And the winner is……..St. Louis!

With this years St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, we’ve again proven that our city is packed with ridiculously talented filmmakers, actors, and other artisans.

The St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, an annual presentation of the nonprofit Cinema St. Louis, serves as the area’s primary venue for films made by local artists. The Showcase screens works that were written, directed, edited, or produced by St. Louis natives or films with strong local ties. The various film programs that screened at Washington University’s Brown Hall from July 12-14 & 19-21  . The programs ranged from full-length fiction features and documentaries to multi-film compilations of fiction and documentary shorts. Many programs included post-screening Q&As with filmmakers. Filmmakers of all ages within a 120 mile radius of St. Louis were strongly encouraged to submit their works, or at the very least attend the event to celebrate the amazingly talented St. Louis filmmakers.

The jury for the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase gave out more than two dozen awards to filmmakers at the closing-night awards party held on Sunday, July 21st, at Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room. Cinema St. Louis also announced the Showcase films chosen for inclusion in the St. Louis International Film Festival.

Here’s a full list of winners:

NARRATIVE FILMS

Best Costumes – Victoria Rowe, Hot Cake

Best Makeup/Hairstyling – Rommie Martinez, The Ghost Who Walks

Best Use of Music – Damon Davis, The Stranger

Best Sound – Steve Horne, Rabbit’s Foot

Best Production Design – Kevin Reeves, Dante Falls

Best Art Direction – Damon Davis, The Stranger

Best Special/Visual Effects – Richard Taylor, Shipslog

Best Editing – Samuele Baiamonte, Who’s Paisley?

Best Cinematography – Brant Hadfield, The Wagon

Best Screenplay – Debi Bradshaw, Hot Cake

Best Supporting Actor – Frank Mosley, The Ghost Who Walks

Best Actor – Garland Scott, The Ghost Who Walks

Best Supporting Actress – Dasha Nekrasova, The Ghost Who Walks

Best Actress – Sarah Rochelle, Hot Cake

Best Direction – Holly Voges, Casualties

Best Animated Film – Robert Cox, Sodapop

Best Comedy – Gary Lobstein, Catlove

Best Drama – Dustin Carter, Rabbit’s Foot

Best Horror – Micah Deeken, The Boogie Man

Best Narrative Film under 20 minutes – Mike Steinberg, The Foghorn Trilogy

Best Narrative Feature over 20 minutes – Cody Stokes, The Ghost Who Walks

EXPERIMENTAL FILMS

Artistic Vision Award – Randy Shinn, Louis

Best Editing, Sam Nickelson, I Want To Be a Kid

Best Experimental Film – Chris Aaron, Locomotive Organisms

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

Best Use of Music – Kat Cory, Bodies Like Oceans

Best Sound – Kriss Avery, A Short Conversation with Christian Zehnder

Best Editing, Paul Schankman, A New Leaf: Reimagining Henry Shaw’s Museum

Best Cinematography – Kat Cory, Bodies Like Oceans

Best Direction – Paul Schankman, A New Leaf: Reimagining Henry Shaw’s Museum

Spotlight Award for a film that shines the light on under-represented subjects – Lisa Boyd, Prison Performing Arts: The Voice Within

Best Documentary under 20 minutes – Kat Cory, Bodies Like Oceans

Best Documentary over 20 minutes – Ben Scholle, Through the Cracks