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2016 FESTIVAL

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festival program

2016 AWARD WINNERS

Cinema Dulce – Best of Fest
Transpecos | directed by Greg Kwedar

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Audience Choice Award
Career Girl | directed by Fortunato Procopio and Johanna Watts

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Best Feature Film
Bear with Us | directed by William J. Stribling

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Best Short Film
The Fly | directed by Olly Williams

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Best Texas Film
Putting the Dog to Sleep | directed by Taylor Washington

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Best Documentary Film
TOWER | directed by Keith Maitland

Best Student Short Film
Fidelity | directed by Ilker Çatak

 

Best Director
Blayne Weaver for Cut To The Chase

 

Best Actor
Aaron Tveit | Stereotypically You directed by Benjamin Cox

 

Best Actress
Benita Robledo | Dependent’s Day directed by Michael David Lynch

 

Best Feature Screenplay
Baby Steps written by Rebecca Semik

 

Best Short Screenplay
Brandy written by Anika Contos

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS

Bear with Us | USA | Dark Comedy | William J. Stribling

 

Cut To The Chase | USA | Thriller | Blayne Weaver

 

Dependent’s Day | USA | Comedy | Michael David Lynch

 

Interwoven | USA | Drama | VW Scheich

 

MAD | USA | Dramedy | Robert G. Putka

 

Some Beasts | USA | Drama | Cameron Bruce Nelson

 

Stereotypically You | USA | Comedy | Benjamin Cox

 

Transpecos | USA | Thriller | Greg Kwedar

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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS

A Song For You: The Austin City Limits Story | USA | Keith Maitland

 

Daylight Come | USA | Evan Vetter

 

Nathan East: For the Record | USA | Chris Gero

 

Rwanda & Juliet | USA | Ben Proudfoot

 

TOWER | USA | Keith Maitland

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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS

Bunee: The Boy from ConstanÈ›a | USA | Bunee Tomlinson

 

Even the Walls | USA | Sarah Kuck & Saman Maydani

 

Good Times at the Schützen Verein | USA | Erik McCowan

 

Reclaiming Pakistan | USA | Lisa Donato

 

The Night’s Watch: Protecting the Dark Skies of Texas | USA | Jeffrey Buras

 

The Texas Sun | USA | Ted Fisher

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS - FEATURE FILMS

The Last Picture Show | USA | Drama | Peter Bogdanovich

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The Book of Life | USA | Animation | Jorge R. Gutierrez

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FEATURE SCREENPLAY FINALISTS

Trigger written by Judson Vaughan

Collapse written by NT Bullock

Baby Steps written by Rebecca Semik

Massacre at Agua Caliente written by Craig Rainey

No Better Lot written by Christian Gridelli, Hunter Norris

The Devil’s Vein written by Chandler Wild

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SHORT SCREENPLAY FINALISTS

Brandy written by Anika Contos

US Navy Cine-Kodak written by Stephen M. Hunt

Jaguars written by Adrienne Dawes

The Call written by Tony Espinoza

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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - SHORT FILMS

About a Mother | Russian Federation | Animation | Dina Velikovskaya

 

Aestas | Canada | Drama | Guillaume Comtois

 

Amy | USA | Dramadey | Jacob Chase

 

Ártún | Iceland | Drama | Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

 

Ave Maria | State of Palestine | Dramedy | Basil Khalil

 

Black and Blue | USA | Drama | CC Allen

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The Box | Germany | Horror | Sascha Zimmermann

 

Breaking the Curse | USA | Drama | Craig Nigh

 

Career Girl | USA | Dramedy | Fortunato Procopio and Johanna Watts

 

The Chicken | Germany | Drama | Una Gunjak

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Cowboys | Spain | Dramedy | Bernabé Rico

 

Eligeme | Spain | Drama | Carlos Muñoz

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The Fly | UK | Drama | Olly Williams

 

Food First | Germany | Drama | Pol Ponsarnau

 

Frontman | USA | Drama | Matthew Gentile

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The Gift | UK | Drama | Gabriel Robertson

 

The Girlfriend Experience | USA | Comedy | Mark Kunerth

 

Hello Charles | USA | Dramedy | Hamish Grieve

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The Holy Cave | Spain | Comedy | Aleix Massot

 

Honor Student | USA | Drama | Aaron B. Koontz

 

I Am Fairy | Australia | Comedy | James Vinson

 

Jackdaw | USA | Drama | Travis Champagne

 

Joseph’s Reel | UK | Drama | Michael Lavers

 

Kapunka | Israel | Comedy | Tal Greenberg

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The Listener | UK | Drama | Michael Gilhooly

 

Love is a Four Letter Word: Worth Seven Points | UK | Comedy | Tim

Beckmann and John Schwab

 

Marathon | USA | Drama | Lauren Smitelli

 

Mercy | USA | Drama | Mylissa Fitzsimmons

 

Military Men: Seize the Snow Mountain Castle | Sweden | Animation | Philip Helander & Gottfrid Helander

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Of Her I Dream | Norway | Drama | Katarina Gellin

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Pact | USA | Sci-fi | Zach Endres

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Perry’s Grind | USA | Drama | Dan Curtis

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Picawalico | UK | Animation | Malcolm Morrison

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Positive | USA | Drama | Paul Michael Merryman

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The Present | Germany | Animation | Jacob Frey

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Promise Me | USA | Drama | Kevin Machate

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Putting the Dog to Sleep | USA | Drama | Taylor Washington

 

The Red Thunder | Spain | Comedy | Alvaro Ron

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Rip It Up and Start Again | Ireland | Comedy | Stephen Ryan

 

Riva | USA | Drama | Christopher Wiegand

 

Roadside Assistance | USA | Thriller | Bears Fonté

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The Run | Germany | Thriller | Stefan Najib

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The Secession | USA | Comedy | Jay Hubert

 

Skål | France | Sci-fi | Benjamin Cappelletti

 

Solemates | USA | Drama | Bryce Dallas Howard

 

Speed Dating | USA | Comedy | Meghann Artes

 

Sweep | USA | Drama | Spencer Gillis

 

Tea Man | UK | Comedy | Tom Nicoll

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This Time It’s Shopping  | USA | Comedy | Chek Wingo

 

Three Dalmatians | Norway | Drama | Ingrid Stenersen

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The Treatment | Germany | Thriller | Marvin Meiendresch

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The Unforgiven | USA | Drama | Jason Piccioni

 

The Usual Silence | USA | Drama | Samuel Z.P. Thomas

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Vindication | USA | Drama | Jarod O’Flaherty

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The Visitor | USA | Drama | Bennett Pellington

 

Wasted Beauty | USA | Drama | Martin Paves

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We Can’t Live Without Cosmos | Russian Federation | Animation | Konstantin Bronzit

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The Weight of Blood & Bones | USA | Western | Chris Ekstein

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Wrapped | Germany | Animation | Roman Kälin, Falko Paeper and Florian Wittmann

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