A list of films screened and the awards given for the Imaginarium 2014 Film Festival.
The winners from the Imaginarium 2014 Film Festival and their respective categories are listed below:
Best Short Film (Non-Genre)
First Place: Guinea Pigs
Runner-up: America’s Got Superpowers
Best Short Film (Genre)
First Place: Paralyzed
Runner-up: The Living
Best Short Film Overall
First Place: Guinea Pigs
Runner-up: Paralyzed
Best Documentary
First Place: Science, Sex and the Ladies
Runner-up: Letters to Daniel
Best Character Development
First Place: Scenes from a Gay Marriage
Runner-up: Bunni
Best Plot Development
First Place: Paralyzed
Runner-up: Guinea Pigs
Best Screenplay
First Place: Guinea Pigs
Runner-up: Ten
Best Director
First Place: Science, Sex and the Ladies
Runner-up: Ten
Best Feature (Genre)
First Place: Bunni
Runner-up: Ten
Best Feature (Non-Genre)
First Place: More Scenes from a Gay Marriage
Runner-up: Scenes from A Gay Marriage
Best Feature Overall
First Place: More Scenes from A Gay Marriage
Runner-up: Bunni
Full List of Films Screened in Imaginarium 2014’s Film Festival!
Feature Length:
“Letters to Daniel” Director: Amy McCorkle
“Science, Sex & the Ladies” Directors: Trisha Borowicz, Charlie Borowicz, and Barnaby Aaron.
“Call Girl of Cthulhu” Director: Chris LaMartina
“Scenes from a Gay Marriage” Director: Matt Riddlehoover
“More Scenes from a Gay Marriage” Director Matt Riddlehoover
“Ten” Directors: Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola
“The Lashman” Director: Cameron McCasland
“Kill, Granny, Kill” Director: Jacob Ennis
“Undying Love For You” Directors: Chris Rennert and Lien Mya Nguyen
“Bunni” Director: Daniel Benedict
“The Caretakers” Director: Steve Hudgins
“Mountain Mafia” Director: Cherokee Hall
Short Films:
“Odd One Out” Director: Christopher Rohde
“Beware of Dogs” Director: Jared Callan
“Altered-The Day They Took The Children” Director: Dianne Gardner
“Bride of the Saucer Monster” Director: Jerry Williams
“Guinea Pigs” Director: Scott Sullivan
“The Box” Director Zach Schuyler
“The Living” Director: Aaron Champion
“Extracurricular” (special teaser) Director: Jonny Walls
“Not an Exit” Director: Director: Thomas Staples
“America’s Got Superpowers” Director: Jackie Gamber
“The Mysteries of Science Episode One Old Bill’s Space Rock” Director: Sven Granlund
“Paralyzed” Director: Aaron Sims
“Tarzan’s Teenage Daughter” Director: Sven Granlund
Film Descriptions:
“Altered-The Day They Took The Children”
Director: Dianne Gardner
Short Film
Synopsis: In a dystopian future, the Privatol invades American soil, and crops propel the engine. Uncontrollable tyranny has succeeded in dictating where people live, what they do, and what they eat. When Abree, a spunky twelve-year-old is taken away to learn the process of modifying seed to Newly Constructed Food she discovers an evil plan that could alter the fate of the human race.
“America’s Got Superpowers”
Director: Jackie Gamber
Short Film
Synopsis: Amanda is a shy teenager with a secret. She has superpowers.
“Beware of Dogs”
Director: Jared Callan
Synopsis: An unsuspecting man responds to a puppies for sale ad, and discovers that every dog has her day.
“The Box”
Director Zach Schuyler
Short Film
Synopsis: After an antique dealer acquires a mysterious wooden box at an estate sale, he realizes just how dangerous antiques dealing can be. It seems that all who open the box, witness something so horrible that they are left in a catatonic state. Chris attempts to sell the box repeatedly, but it keeps finding its way back to him. Chris and his sister, Dayna, realize something sinister is at work after noticing strange smells, inexplicable noises and shadows moving throughout the house. Chris begins to question his sanity as his nightmares begin to trickle into his waking life. With his sister’s help, Chris must find out the box’s dark secret before falling prey to the evil it has released.
“Bride of the Saucer Monster”
Director: Jerry Williams
Short Film
Synopsis: A flying saucer has been captured, and a monster is on the loose! With mad scientists, beautiful ladies, and a monster from space in this twisted homage to 50’s B movies and beyond. Directed by Jerry Williams. With Steve Guynn, Ford Winstar, Milly Thomas and the saucer monster!
“Bunni”
Director: Daniel Benedict
Feautur
Synopsis: Following a Halloween party, an attractive girl and her friends must fight to escape the nightmarish dwelling of a twisted killer with a dark secret.
Paige is enjoying the evening at a local Halloween party with her doting boyfriend Chris. On the walk home the crew discovers what appears to be an abandoned building. Rick (a friend of the pair) makes the decision to assist Chris in breaking into the old adult costume and toy store, despite protests from their girl friends and an eerie warning from the resident homeless man.
Upon entering the shop the gang part ways to explore and indulge in a little pleasure. Paige continues to remind her friends they shouldn’t be there and tries to get them to leave unsuccessfully as the dwelling’s host skillfully singles out and hunts her friends. All that is remaining is our heroine and her bumbling beau. After discovering Ashley’s body Paige quickly learn everything isn’t as it seems. Paige continues to fight for her life until it is only her and the masked villain in a face off to the death.
“Call Girl of Cthulhu”
Director: Chris LaMartina
Feature
Synopsis: When a virginal artist falls in love with a call girl, she turns out to be the chosen bride of the alien god Cthulhu. To save her, he must stop an ancient cult from summoning their god and destroying mankind.
“The Caretakers”
Director: Steve Hudgins
Feature
Synopsis: An aging caretaker for a powerful vampire must help hunt down a rogue half-breed vampire at the same time that he trains his two new apprentices
“Extracurricular” (special teaser)
Director: Jonny Walls
Synopsis: As the millennium wanes in a semi-rural Kentucky town, the first of Generation Y spend their high school days goofing off, flirting, cutting class, and waging a fake, silly war within the student body as a new age of digital connectivity looms.
“Guinea Pigs”
Director: Scott Sullivan
Short Film
Synopsis: “When the job market gets tough, the tough earn livings as medical test subjects.”
“Kill, Granny, Kill”
Director: Jacob Ennis
Feature
Synopsis: Answering an in-home help ad for an elderly woman, Abby Daniels leaves family and friends for a remote farmhouse in the country. But all is not as it seems with her fluffy employer, whose locked doors and cellar seem to be hiding some unusual hobbies. When she drunkenly sneaks her boyfriend into the house, breaking the rules about cursing and fornication, Abby is plunged into a nightmare of hellish proportions – pitted against a clan of ruthless, amoral and degenerate flesh-eaters lead by their murderous GRANNY!
Kill, Granny, Kill is an outrageous, gore-filled and over-the-top tribute to exploitation cinema, featuring the most amoral and degenerate Granny in the history of cinema. When this Granny says, “no cursing”, she’s not f*&king kidding.
“The Lashman”
Director: Cameron McCasland
Feature
Synopsis: The Lashman is a tale of terror. When five friends set out for a weekend excursion, they soon realize their camp fire tales have turned into a blood filled nightmare as a killer cowboy goes on a rampage.
“Letters To Daniel”
Director: Amy McCorkle
Feature Documentary
Synopsis: Amy McCorkle was an ambitious twenty-something on her way to conquer the creative world when the demons of her past, coupled with the onset Bipolar Disorder struck her down. Letters to Daniel chronicles her long road to recovery and eventual triumph in the publishing and screenwriting worlds. Letters to Daniel is a harrowing and ultimately uplifting story of one woman’s journey into the heart of darkness and her eventual return to the world she always dreamed being an accepted part of.
“The Living”
Directors: Aaron Champion and Matthew Perry
Short Film
Synopsis: A Cataclysmic event of Biblical proportions turns much of Earth’s human DNA into creatures ravenous for living flesh. Trapped on an air plane, the survivors will have to fight off these creatures to stay safe.
“More Scenes from a Gay Marriage”
Director Matt Riddlehoover
Feature
Synopsis: Leigh has made a film about how Darren and Joe met and fell in love. Due to its exaggerated nature, personal complications ensue.
“The Mysteries of Science Episode One: Old Bill’s Space Rock”
Director: Sven Granlund
Short Film
Synopsis: Old Bill recounts the time he found a Space Rock.
“Odd One Out”
Director: Christopher Rohde
Short Film
Synopsis: Odd One Out is a sci-fi fantasy story told almost without dialogue that takes place in a surreal film-noir universe inhabited by faceless living mannequins. A paranoid military cabal looking for the ultimate war deterrent create a mechanized colossus in an underground laboratory, but a mysterious organization of black-suited anarchists brainwash a hapless soldier into triggering the monster’s escape. This act of sabotage is only one part of a sinister plot that plunges the city into all-out civil war and leads to an apocalyptic final confrontation. Six years in the making, Odd One Out was filmed entirely with miniatures and practical effects, and features just four actors playing over seventy characters.
“Paralyzed”
Director: Aaron Sims
Short Film
Synopsis: After confronting her fiancé, Paul, in a cheap motel, Betty discovers the horrifying secret that has kept him from sleeping for days.
“Not an Exit”
Director: Thomas Staples
Short Film
Synopsis: A young woman searching for her step-sister, finds her hunt leads to the clutches of a dangerous cult.
“Mountain Mafia”
Director Cherokee Hall
Feature
Synopsis: In the rolling landscape of Eastern Kentucky, beauty resides within each valley and atop the crest of each hill. It is the land of bluegrass, horses, coal mines, and tobacco. Under the surface of this delicate veneer, a treacherous underbelly lies. A world stricken with drugs, guns, money, and the Mountain Mafia rules all. Shortly after the passing of his mother and meeting his soul mate, Dwight begins questioning his line of work and his life in general, and comes to the realization that he wants out just as his family inadvertently rekindles an old feud with a rival drug family. Now Dwight must make a choice to either leave with his new soul mate or help save his family and risk it all. Blood, bullets, betrayal, and the Mountain Mafia!
“Scenes from a Gay Marriage”
Director: Matt Riddlehoover
Feature
Synopsis: A recently single man finds solace in his upstairs neighbors’ seemingly perfect relationship – until he suspects one of them is cheating.
“Science, Sex & the Ladies”
Directors: Trisha Borowicz, Charlie Borowicz, and Barnaby Aaron
Feature Documentary
Synopsis: Science, Sex and the Ladies is frank but irreverent with a simple yet far reaching argument. Misunderstanding the female orgasm has broken our sexual cultural. Through witty looks at anatomy, history, and culture, the film discusses how we got this way and why we need to change.
It deconstructs the popular notions about women and orgasm and reveals a modern sexual reality which leaves many women feeling frustrated, ashamed, or inadequate; men perplexed and often hurt by the sexual relationship they share with the women they love; and many girls feeling confused about their very real, yet culturally complicated desire.
“Tarzan’s Teenage Daughter”
Director: Sven Granlund
Short Film
Synopsis: Being a single parent is hard. Especially if you were raised by apes…
“Ten”
Directors: Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola
Feature
Synopsis: Ten women find themselves in a vacant mansion on Spektor Island in December, 1972. Each believes she’s traveled to the house on business, but they all agree that something seems strange. For one thing, the entire house is full of pictures and statues of pigs.
The women all come from drastically different walks of life. None of them would have chosen to spend the night together in such an eerie place, but the last ferry for the mainland has just left, and a terrible storm is rolling in. Trying to make the best of an unpleasant situation, they raid the mansion’s wine cellar and throw a party. As the night creeps on, however, it becomes clear that someone–or something–has arranged to get them in the house. It’s not long before someone mentions that Spektor Island is supposed to be haunted. Of course, no one in the house believes in ghosts.
At least, not until the first murder.
What do an actress, a religious zealot, a renegade, a coed, a model, a singer, a medium, a real-estate investor, a historian, and a doctor have in common? None of them is who they seem. Yet, the fate of the entire world may rest in their hands.
“Undying Love For You”
Directors: Chris Rennert and Lien Mya Nguyen
Feature
Synopsis: David and Sydney Bishop had the perfect marriage, atleast for a while. David’ s career required him to work uncountless hours causing suspicion in Sydney as she accusing him of having an affair. In attempt to improve marriage Sydney was given a “lucky” necklace from a fortune teller, which was to give Sydney and David a new undying love for one another. Unbeknownst did Sydney know, the necklace was cursed causing death to Sydney in a fatal car accident. As David’s whole life began to change for the worst, the necklace caused Sydney to become part of the paranormal world and give her a relentless will to make sure that noone would be apart of David’s world except for her, haunting him to the point of near insanity. Suddenly everyone one in David’s life begin to die one by one until he is alone to deal with turmoils of his new life of murder, fear and his wife’s undying love for him.
Comments are closed, but trackbacks and pingbacks are open.