2018 FESTIVAL
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festival program
2018 AWARD WINNERS
Cinema Dulce – Best of Fest
The Unicorn | directed Robert Schwartzman
Audience Choice Award
Time Trap | directed by Mark Dennis and Ben Foster
Best Feature Film
The Best of All Worlds (Die beste aller Welten) | directed by Adrian Goiginger
Best Short Film
Unforgivable | directed by Giosue Petrone
Best Texas Film
Dance Hall Days | directed by Erik McCowan
Best Documentary Film
Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders | directed by Dana Adam Shapiro
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Best Student Short Film
Towards the Sun | directed by Monica Santis
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Best Director
Dianne Dreyer | Change In The Air
Best Actress
Emilie Krause | They Are Strangers
Best Actor
James Paxton | An American in Texas
Best Short Screenplay
Overwood written by Scott Cobb, Morgan Floyd, Angelina Castillo, Ali Meier
Best Feature Screenplay
Summer of ’84 written by L. Elizabeth Powers
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS
6 Dynamic Laws for Success in Life, Love & Money | USA | Comedy | Gregory Bayne
After Hours Trading | USA | Comedy | Fredrick Johnson
An American in Texas | USA | Drama | Anthony Pedone
The Best of All Worlds (Die beste aller Welten) | Austria | Drama | Adrian Goiginger
Change In The Air | USA | Drama | Dianne Dreyer
Love’s Labour’s Lost | USA | Comedy | Jake O’Hare & Jennifer Sturley
Poor Jane | USA | Drama | Katie Orr
They Are Strangers | USA | Drama | Zane L’Erario
Time Trap | USA | Sci-Fi | Mark Dennis & Ben Foster
The Unicorn | USA | Comedy | Robert Schwartzman
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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS
Dance Hall Days | USA | Erik McCowan
Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of the Dallas
Cowboys Cheerleaders | USA | Dana Adam Shapiro
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Every Night’s A Saturday Night: The Bobby Keys Story | USA | Jeff Stacy
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Looking for David | USA | Betsy L. Ross
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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS
An Affair on the Nueces | USA | Jeffrey Harland
Buck ‘Em | USA | Gregory Beck
The Catch | USA | Brad Beesley (out-of-competition)
Coles Manor | USA | Cordelaine Kline & Nichole Abshire
The Devils | USA | Paul Pryor (out-of-competition)
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The Driver Is Red | USA | Randall Christopher
Holt Collier | USA | James Mathews
Horse Packer | USA | Matthew Gary
I’ve Seen So Much | Spain | Gonzalo Guajardo
Muslim Sheroes of Minnesota: Valerie Shirley | USA | Ariel Tilson
Retornados (The Returned) | USA | Sarah M. Kuck & Meredith Hoffman
Saltwater Baptism | USA | Jared Callahan & Russell Sheaffer
Unforgivable | Italy | Giosue Petrone
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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - STUDENT SHORT FILMS
Allisk8r | USA | Animation | Anna Prado
The Backup Plan | USA | Drama | Daniel Earney
The Call | USA | Drama | Colton Constanzo
Dempsey the Diabetic Superhero | USA | Documentary | Health Kendall Goldberg
Head Above Water | USA | Drama | Eric Shahinian
In the Trees | USA | Drama | Will Nordstrom
Meditation | USA | Animation | Esten Cooke
Old Bloo | USA | Dramedy | Jack Nordstrom
Perfect Profile | USA | Drama | Lauren Bowman
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Pickle | USA | Dramedy | Grant Moore
The Red Ball | USA | Comedy | Emily Ashman (out-of-competition)
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Rosario | Mexico | Drama | Marlén Ríos-Farjat
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Round and Round | USA | Dramedy | Olivia Carter
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Shape Fighter | USA | Animation | Cody Bearden
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Tom in Couchland | USA | Animation | James Just
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Towards the Sun | USA | Drama | Monica Santis
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What The Lake Held | USA | Drama | Shaffiat Folahan
The Wishing Cranes | USA | Animation | Ellen Arnold, Kaiya Telle, Thomas Anderholm
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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - SHORT FILMS
An American Attorney in London | UK | Drama | Darrell Alden
Backtrack Vodka | USA | Comedy | Brandon Bruno & Jason Lockhart
Bargain | USA | Drama | Clifford Miu
Blackcats | USA | Drama | Scott Edwards
Bodies of Water | USA | Drama | David Lykes Keenan
Cold Storage | Finland | Comedy | Thomas Freundlich
Contact High | USA | Comedy | Joseph Bowman
Contraption | USA | Comedy | Robert Ingraham
Crowbar Smile | USA | Drama | Jamie Mayer
Echoes | USA | Drama | Mark Kerins & Elliot Mayen
Fading Scars | USA | Drama | Cullen Douglas
Far From The Tree | USA | Drama | Dave Thomas
Fevah | USA | Drama | Randall Dottin
Forgive Me | USA | Drama | Tani Shukla
Goodbye Sirena | USA | Drama | Melissa Dalley
I See Something | USA | Drama | James Fite
If I Could Talk | USA | Drama | Shawn Welling
Iron Hands | USA | Drama | Johnson Cheng
Katie and Ben | USA | Drama | Nell Teare
Leaves of Fall | USA | Animation | Marc Wiskemann
Leecher | USA | Drama | Kris Snyder
Mombie | USA | Comedy | N.T. Bullock
Nobody Knows | USA | Drama | Nolan Wilson Goff
Old Habits | USA | Drama | Sophie Ellsberg
The Peculiar Abilities of Mr. Mahler | Germany | Drama | Paul Philipp
Prenatal | USA | Drama | Bears Fonté
Quantum | USA | Sci-Fi | Ryan Willard
Raha | Iran | Drama | Yeganeh Balouchi
A Real Adventure | USA | Drama | Josh Zuckerman
Remember Me | USA | Drama | Birgit Schroeder
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The Robbery | Spain | Dramedy | Alfonso Díaz
Rustlers | USA | Drama | Rob York
Scanners | USA | Comedy | Natalie Jenison
See Yourself Out | USA | Dramedy | Kevin Nielsen
Shakespeare on the Range | USA | Drama | Christine Chen
Split Rail | USA | Drama | Christian Lybrook
Taylor Kitsch n Africa | USA/Africa | Music Video | Taylor Kitsch
Tell Me | UK | Drama | Charlie Manton
Tertium Quid | USA | Drama | J. Matt Wallace
Therapy, Bro | USA | Dramedy | John Hedlund
The Transfer | Germany | Drama | Michael Grudsky
Who Decides | USA | Drama | Mylissa Fitzsimmons
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FEATURE SCREENPLAY FINALISTS
The Black Forest Ham written by Matt Heinze
The Breakdown written by Michael Charron
Callie Earlene written by Scott Simpson
The Fight After written by Gunnar Garrett
North of Houston written by Jakob Christensen
The Salt Box written by Robert J. Rogers
Summer of ’84 written by L. Elizabeth Powers
Thank You, Amelia Earhart written by Al Mertens
A Wing and a Prayer written by Jeff Haber
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SHORT SCREENPLAY FINALISTS
AZUL written by Joe Houde
Dear Spero written by Michael Rowney
Empathic written by John Burdeaux
A Light Among Us written by Daniel Lahr
Nanna written by NT Bullock
Overwood written by Scott Cobb, Morgan Floyd, Angelina Castillo, Ali Meier
The Talk written by Patrick Zapata