2024 Photos and Awards

AWARD WINNERS
"A Capsule for Robin" won Best Sci-Fi Short!
"Saint-Sacrifice" and "CATHARSIS" won Best Horror Short!
"On/Off" won Best Indie Short!
"Les Bêtes" and "Innermost" won Best Fantasy Short!
"Parrot" won Best Comedy Short!
"Kafka's Doll" won Best Animation Short!
"Turn Back South" won Best Documentary Short!
"Edward Has A Tree Inside Him" won Best Student Film!
"SKIN" won Best Experimental Film!
"Hangover Food: Vampire Influencer" won Best Web Series!
American Expendables: The Films of North American Pictures won Best Documentary Feature!
The Strangers' Case won Best Indie Feature!
"Morrigan's Tree," "Happy Hour," "Demonic Trance," and "The Strawberry Feeders" all won Best Short Script!
Eden's Demons, Love Without Time, and Poachers all won Best Feature Script!
"La Soglia" and "Sincopat" both won our Most Creative award!
"Hangover Food: Vampire Influencer" won our Most Fun award!
"Salvar" and "Human / Animal" both won Best Director!
"Edward Has A Tree Inside Him" won Best Cinematography!
"The Pencil" and "The Night Hunter" both won our Spooky Award!
"Reprise" and "Stairs" both won Audience Favorite!

Congratulations to all! We had a phenomenal screening and look forward to next year!

2024 Screening Schedule

Saturday, June 15th, at the Holiday Inn Express in Apopka, Florida.

1:00pm Opening with Gift Card Giveaway
1:03pm Parrot (24 min)
1:27pm On/Off (18 min)
1:45pm Innermost (15 min)
2:00pm Saint-Sacrifice (15 min)
2:15pm Hangover Food: Vampire Influencer (21 min)
2:36pm Gift Card Giveaway + Chat Break
2:41pm CATHARSIS (18 min)
2:59pm Reprise (23 min)
3:22pm Stairs (5 min)
3:27pm Sincopat (14 min)
3:41pm Kafka's Doll (11 min)

3:52pm Salvar (29 min)
4:21pm Gift Card Giveaway + Chat Break
4:26pm A Capsule for Robin (13 min)
4:39pm La Soglia (5 min)
4:44pm Edward Has A Tree Inside Him (17 min)
5:01pm American Expendables: The Films of North American Pictures (61 min)
6:02pm Gift Card Giveaway + Chat Break
6:07pm Human / Animal (14 min)
6:21pm Les Bêtes (12 min)
6:33pm Turn Back South (12 min)
6:45pm SKIN (7 min)
6:52pm The Pencil (10 min)
7:02pm The Night Hunter (10 min)
7:12pm The Strangers' Case (1 hr 43 min)
8:55pm Last Gift Card Giveaway
9:00pm Festival Ends


Screening times are approximate. They may fluctuate slightly by a few minutes here or there depending on short Q&A's with attending filmmakers or brief discussions about the films.

SELECTED SCRIPTS
Vested
Dream On
Poachers
Black Dog
Those Things
Morrigan's Tree
MAC 1: The Shed
Eden's Demons
The Freak Carnival
Exit Stage Left
Love Without Time
A Woman Disappeared
LA FLASH - A TRILOGY

Imagine Something Yesterday
The Path on the Lagoon
The Strawberry Feeders
Into Her Darkest Musings
The Deadtime Man
Demonic Trance
Eagle Strike
Happy Hour
Porcelain
Hoodoo
Brujo

2023 Photos and Awards

AWARD WINNERS
"Horizon" and "Captcha" won Best Sci-Fi Short!
"String" and "Bad Penny" won Best Horror Short!
"Welcome to Candy's" won Best Action Short!
"Sex Sells" and "Conspiracy Cases: The Wasp Woman" won Best Indie Short!
"Hairy" and "Nightmare at Camp Bloodbath" won Best Comedy Short!
"The Emissaries" won Best Cult Short!
"The Stain" won Best Fantasy Short!
"Red Rabbit" and "Poise" won Best Animation Short!
"DEVOUR" won Best Experimental Film!
"King & Pawn" won Best Web Series!
My First Horror Film won Best Micro Budget Feature!
"Running Out," "NOT AN EXIT," and "Breathe" all won Best Short Script!
Scapegoat, Killing Machine, and SVEN all won Best Feature Script!
"The Stain" and "Hibernation" won our Most Creative award!
"Hairy," "The Spirit Hunters," and "Derailer" all won our Most Fun award!
HUNTING DAY won Best Director!
"The Book of Disquiet" won Best Cinematography!
"The Abyss of the Soul" won our Spooky Award!
"Welcome to Candy's" won Audience Favorite!

Congratulations to all! We had an outstanding screening and look forward to next year!

2023 Screening Schedule

Saturday, June 17th, at the Holiday Inn Express in Apopka, Florida.

1:00pm Opening with Gift Card Giveaway
1:10pm The Emissaries (18 min)
1:28pm Sex Sells (33 min)
2:01pm The Spirit Hunters (8 min)
2:09pm Hairy (11 min)
2:20pm The Book of Disquiet (16 min)
2:36pm Welcome to Candy's (14 min)
2:50pm Nightmare at Camp Bloodbath (6 min)
2:56pm Red Rabbit (5 min)
3:01pm String (13 min)
3:14pm My First Horror Film (1 hr 27 min)
4:41pm Poise (7 min)

4:48pm The Stain (14 min)
5:02pm Derailer (19 min)
5:21pm Horizon (15 min)
5:36pm The Abyss of the Soul (18 min)
5:54pm Bad Penny (9 min)
6:03pm Hibernation (20 min)
6:23pm King & Pawn (18 min)
6:41pm Captcha (10 min)
6:51pm Conspiracy Cases: The Wasp Woman (30 min)
7:21pm DEVOUR (7 min)
7:28pm HUNTING DAY (1 hr 11 min)
8:39pm Festival Ends

Screening times are approximate. They may fluctuate slightly by a few minutes here or there depending on short Q&A's with attending filmmakers or brief discussions about the films.

SELECTED SCRIPTS

Scapegoat
FINAL EXAM
Saturday Night Dead
Running Out
A Dangerous World of Possibilites
The Sin Eater Chronicles
Figure
Demon
Five
SVEN
Seekers
Killing Machine
Harrowed
The Morbs

Gym Candy
The Deputy
NOT AN EXIT
Sojourn: Summer's End
The Four Of Us Are Dying
Where the Black Cat Sleeps
BOYSandGIRLS
Breathe
Candy
Marah From Eilat
Secondhand Crystal
Phases of the Moon
JELLY DOUGHNUT OF EVIL

2022 Photos and Awards

Sorry still no screening photos this year because we held another online event.
Next year should finally be back to normal.

AWARD WINNERS
"Fieldtrip," "Checkpoint," and "Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox" all won Best Sci-Fi Short!
"Night Light," "Vodi," and "Corridor" won Best Horror Short!
"Cocaine" and "X-Mas on Fire" both won Best Action Short!
"Exaltation" and "Group Think (Brain Bug)" won Best Cult Short!
"Moon Drops," "Fulgidusen," "Hot Wool," and "When I Explode" all won Best Fantasy Short!
"SQUISH," "The Colouring Book Out of Space," and "Red Velvet" won Best Comedy Short!
"The Babylon Gardens" won Best Indie Short!
"Posted No Hunting" and "fulcrum" both won Best Animation Short!
"Good Neighbors" won Best Student Film!
"Caverna" and "VR Food" both won Best Experimental Film!
"SCARRED" won Best Music Video!
Chinese Speaking Vampires won Best Indie Feature!
"Gloomy Sunday," "Regenesis," and "Simone" all won Best Short Script!
THE CANDY NOTES - ANTHOLOGY, Adrienne Cart, and Hybrids all won Best Feature Script!
"Intruder," "Transfert," and "Artificial Existence" all won our Most Creative award!
"Checkpoint," "Beans," and "The Apology" won our Most Fun award!
"Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox," "Hot Wool," and "They Called Me David" won Best Director!
"Red Velvet," "Caverna," and "The Pact" all won Best Cinematography!
"In the Bowels of the Building," "Jumpcut," "Into the Darkness," and "The Big Bad Woods" won our Spooky Award!
"Good Neighbors," "Inspirare," and "Cook with the Heart" won Audience Favorite!

Congratulations to all! We had an amazing screening and look forward to next year!
Thanks to everyone who participated!

2022 Screening Schedule

We planned to finally return to our physical screenings this year but unfortunately, cases have been increasing again recently (back up to over 100,000 a day) and hospitalizations have been rising too according to the CDC's website. Several of our team live with immunocompromised individuals as well so we don't feel comfortable risking that since masks are almost non-existent in Florida now. Thus, we're going to have an online screening again on Zoom starting at 11am US Eastern Time on Saturday, June 18th (we're paying for Pro, they have security encryption, viewers can chat via text while watching, etc.).

Zoom screening link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81545308397?pwd=YVFNaGFSYk5QdkJIZW1pNmJRUGlaUT09

11:00am Red Velvet (10 min)
11:10am Artificial Existence (20 min)
11:30am Jumpcut (40 min)
12:10pm Moon Drops (16 min)
12:26pm The Pact (17 min)
12:43pm In the Bowels of the Building (11 min)
12:54pm Cook with the Heart (14 min)
1:08pm Transfert (13 min)
1:21pm When I Explode (7 min)
1:28pm Exaltation (10 min)
1:38pm The Big Bad Woods (2 min)
1:40pm Corridor (5 min)
1:45pm The Babylon Gardens (12 min)
1:57pm Cocaine (7 min)

2:04pm Posted No Hunting (3 min)
2:07pm SQUISH (21 min)
2:28pm Intruder (5 min)
2:33pm X-Mas on Fire (12 min)
2:45pm Beans (8 min)
2:53pm fulcrum (8 min)
3:01pm Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox (19 min)
3:20pm Good Neighbors (14 min)
3:34pm VR Food (13 min)
3:47pm Hot Wool (14 min)
4:01pm Inspirare (21 min)
4:22pm They Called Me David (6 min)
4:28pm Vodi (30 min)
4:58pm Fulgidusen (23 min)

5:21pm Fieldtrip (20 min)
5:41pm Group Think (Brain Bug) (2 min)
5:43pm Into the Darkness (dir. Susan Bohl) (20 min)
6:03pm The Colouring Book Out of Space (6 min)
6:09pm Checkpoint (10 min)
6:19pm SCARRED (5 min)
6:24pm The Apology (5 min)
6:29pm Festival Ends

Also selected but not shown online:
Caverna
Night Light
Chinese Speaking Vampires

SELECTED SCRIPTS

Paperplate Face
Angel of Death
Adrienne Cart
Regenesis
CandyByte
Hybrids
MALLed
Simone
MIND
Hidden
The Orb
Consecrate
The Return
Greenhouse
Dad's Home

SACRED SUN
Dark Tastes
Family Curse
The Seperate
Kingdom City
The Dark One
Chocolaphobia
The Makeover
Gloomy Sunday
Missing Pieces
Fatal Ambition
Ruined Vacation
A Christmas Eve
They're All Gone
THE CANDY NOTES - ANTHOLOGY

2021 Photos and Awards

Sorry no screening photos again this year since we held another online event because of covid.

AWARD WINNERS
"Love Is" won Best Sci-Fi Short!
"CHICKENS," "Fat Camp," and "Pastiche" all won Best Horror Short!
"Burn the Bitch" won Best Cult Short!
"303: Endless Night" and "Solstice" both won Best Fantasy Short!
"K.A.R.E.N." won Best Comedy Short!
"Re-Animal" and "The Dead Hands of Dublin" both won Best Animation Short!
"Q: ghostly remote effect" and "A Siren's Sorrow" both won Best Student Film!
"Patron" won Best Experimental Film!
"The Hunger" won Best Music Video!
"Noir Brothers" won Best Web Series!
Midnight Science and THEM both won Best Sci-Fi Feature!
Resemblance won Best Indie Feature!
If She Screams won Best Horror Feature!
The Quiet Revolution: State, Society and the Canadian Horror Film won Best Documentary Feature!
"Tortured Artist," "Unleashing the Beast," "Graveyard Girl," and "Piggy" all won Best Short Script!
BURMA HELL, The Sea Kings, IMMORAL IMMORTAL, and The Millhaven Chronicles all won Best Feature Script!
"Solstice," "Photalgia," and "I HAD TO" all won our Most Creative award!
"The Fuzzies" and "The Strong Box" both won our Most Fun award!
"Koreatown Ghost Story" and "Immersion" both won Best Director!
"Box Fort," "Menticide," and "All of You" all won Best Cinematography!
"Creature" and "Long Pig" both won our Spooky Award!
"The Greatest Horror Film Ever Made" and "Nightfall" both won Audience Favorite!

Congratulations to all! We had a fantastic screening and look forward to next year!
Hopefully we can finally have an in-person physical event again then.
Thanks to everyone who participated!