SCAD announced the award winners for the 21st celebration of the SCAD Savannah Film Festival during an awards brunch held at The Olde Pink House this morning. A key stop on the Oscar festival circuit, SCAD Savannah Film Festival screened a total of 164 films, including 33 narrative films, 16 documentary films and 115 shorts, breaking a record for what has been shown before.
105 films competed for the 27 awards in categories such as narrative features, documentary features, professional shorts, animated shorts and student shorts selections.
PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION
- Best Narrative Feature – “Tomorrow”
- Best Documentary Feature – “The Human Element”
- Best Narrative Short – “Geoff”
- Best Directing – Will Kenning & Michael Rouse – “Geoff”
- Best Editing – “Hold The Night”
- Jury Award for Acting – Skyler Samuels – “Spare Room”
- Jury Award for Screenwriting – “One Cambodian Family Please For My Pleasure”
- Jury Award, Unheard Voices – “Facing The Dragon”
STUDENT & ANIMATION
- Best Animated Short – “Grands Canons”
- Animation Jury Award – “The Likes and Dislikes of Marj Bagley”
- Best Student Short – “Blue Christmas”
- Best Student Animation – “Creature From The Lake”
- Silver Screen Society – Best Short Film by a SCAD Student – “$30 To Antarctica”
- Student Jury Award – “Cinematographer”
GLOBAL SHORTS FORUM
- Best Global Short Overall – “Period. End of Sentence.”
- Best Global Short: Narrative – “Believe Her”
- Best Global Short: Documentary – “Period. End of Sentence.”
- Best Global Short: LGBTQ & You – “Conway Pride”
- Best Global Short: Woman Walks Ahead – “Period. End of Sentence.”
- Best Global Short: Don’t Dis My Ability – “Take Me To The Waves”
- Best Global Short: A Sporting Chance – “The Conqueror”
- Global Shorts: Jury Award – “Boy Saint”
- Global Shorts Jury Award – “Marie’s Crisis”
SHORTS SPOTLIGHT
- Shorts Spotlight: Best of Show – “My Indiana Muse”
- Shorts Spotlight: Best Animated Delight – “One Small Step”
- Shorts Spotlight: Best LOLz Short – “Bertie”
- Shorts Spotlight: Best Bump in the Night Short – “Other Side of the Box”
Professional jury members were Laura Berwick (Berwick & Kovacik), Kevin Fallon (The Daily Beast), Amy Kaufman (LA Times), Bill Keith (Entertainment Weekly), Richard Lawson (Vanity Fair), Elise Pearlstein (Participant Media), David Westhead (actor/producer) and Alison Willmore (Buzzfeed).
Elena Burnett is the Editor-in-Chief of District. She’s a writing major who will graduate in 2019.
