St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase

Friday, July 13, 2018 to Sunday, July 22, 2018
2019 Showcase
Submissions are now open for the 19th annual St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase via FilmFreeway. The 2019 event will place over two consecutive weekends in mid July (12-14 and 19-21) at Brown Hall on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. Click HERE to go to our entry sign-up page.2018 Showcase
An annual presentation of the nonprofit Cinema St. Louis, the 2018 Whitaker St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase served as the area’s primary venue for films made by local artists. The Showcase screened works that were written, directed, edited, or produced by St. Louis natives or films with strong local ties. The film programs that screened from July 13-22 serve as the Showcase’s centerpiece. The programs range from full-length fiction features and documentaries to multi-film compilations of fiction and documentary shorts. Programs with feature-length films include post-screening Q&As with filmmakers. The 2018 event took place over two consecutive weekends in mid July at Brown Hall on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis.
Tickets are on sale for all shows via Brown Paper Tickets. A small service charge will be applied per ticket.
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Shorts in multi-film programs are listed alphabetically, not in the order screened. All programs are at Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium except for the closing-night awards party, which is held at Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room.
AWARDS
SHOWCASE JURIED AWARD WINNERS
Narrative Films
Best Costumes - Shutter, Nancy Eppert & Maude Vintage
Best Makeup/Hairstyling - East Plains Get Out, Jessica Dana
Best Use of Music - The Wedding Song, Ben Stanton, Thia Schuessler, & Will Dickerson
Best Sound - Strings, Ross Mercer, Ryan Kneezle, & Theo Lodato
Best Production Design/Art Direction - Parallel Chords, Gypsi Pate
Best Special/Visual Effects - Dawn of Man, Vlad Sarkisov
Best Editing - MLM, Benjamin Dewhurst
Best Cinematography - Parallel Chords, Kyle Krupinksi
Best Screenplay - Foxes, Tristan Taylor & Garrick Bernard
Best Actor - Ayinde Howell, Foxes
Best Actress - Jackie Kelly, Mother of Calamity
Best Direction - Richard Louis Ulrich, Steve
Best Animated Film - Tiffanys, Caitlin Chiusano, Sean Esser, & Zhara Honore
Best Comedy - Cabin Killer, Michael Rich
Best Drama - Saint Sinner, Brian Cooksey
Best Narrative Short - Foxes, Tristan Taylor
Best Narrative Feature - Parallel Chords, Catherine Dudley-Rose
SHOWCASE JURIED AWARD WINNERS
Experimental Films
Best Experimental Film - Passages in Revisiting: I Hear Someone Playing Urheen, Xinyue Deng
Documentary Films
Best Use of Music - Busking on the Wagon, Randy Shinn & Drew Gowran
Best Sound - Such and Such, Cory Byers
Best Editing - Gateway Sound, Justin Fisher & Patrick Lawrence
Best Cinematography - Lingua Francas, David Christopher Pitt
Best Local Subject - The Man Behind the Merferds, Phil Berwick
Best Direction - Lisa Boyd, An American Tragedy
Best Documentary Short - For a Better Life, Yasmin Mistry
Best Documentary Feature - Gateway Sound, Justin Fisher
Showcase Films invited to the 27th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival
FEATURES
An American Tragedy - Lisa Boyd
The Best of Us: 100 Years of Muny Magic - Kathy Bratkowski
Dirty Laundry - Conor Lewis
Gateway Sound - Justin Fisher
Parallel Chords - Catherine Dudley-Rose
DOC SHORTS
#thesocialmovement - St. Louis Artworks Digital Squad
The 610 Project - Jessica Ambuehl & Alvaro Aro
The Buck: Midwest Gully - Jun Bae
Crowning Change: The Erin O’Flaherty Story - Alexis Kadey (Cinema for Students)
Flags of Valor - Lou Cariffe
For a Better Life - Yasmin Mistry
The Joy of Doing - Ryan Fitzgerald & Jack Mulopulos
The Kinloch Doc - Alana Marie
Lingua Francas - Bret Hoy
The Man Behind the Merferds - Josh Herum
The Mountains That Made Me - Sharee Silerio
Movement Women: The Making of a Crew - Aziza Binti
Such and Such - Cory Byers & Ashley Seering
The Wave - Christopher Hill & Sean Loftin
NARRATIVE & EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
2.0 - Shane Dioneda
Ashlock - Elliott Geolat
Birth Cycle: A Flip Book - Zak Zych
Blair Trump Project - Paul Hibbard
Cabin Killer - Michael Rich
Foxes - Tristan Hill
Fugue - Gabe Sheets
Geek Lounge: Going Solo - Larry Ziegelman
Love In a Vacuum - Jenna Anderson, Kyla Anderson, Paige Lockwood, Brent Uramoto & Lincoln Ward
Saint Sinner - Brian Cooksey
Steve - Richard Louis Ulrich
Story 2: Scenes 1-9 - Zlatko Cosic
The Stroke - Jessica Pierce
Tapeta Lucida - Zlatko Cosic
Tiffanys - Caitlin Chiusano, Sean Esser & Zhara Honore
The Wedding Song - Rex New & Thia Schuessler
Z-Grid - Van McElwee