PAST FESTIVALS
Recap of Our Past Festival Events & A Celebration
of Our Winners. Thank You To Everyone
Who Has Helped This Event Grow
2025 Third Annual Recap
Third Annual Hard Faith Film Festival AWARD WINNERS LIST
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Special Honor:
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Beverly Holloway
Juried Awards:
Animation — "The 21" Tod Polson
Documentary Feature — "Unsung Hero" Dr. Michael W. Wesley
Documentary Short — "Hate Undone" Andrew Johnston
Experimental — "Stations of the Cross" Aleksa Ristović
Feature Film — "Triumph of the Heart" Anthony D’Ambrosio
Screenplay Competition:
1. "Shut Eye Revival" — John Kestner
2. "Magdalene" — Mary Driscoll
3. "Dance of the Innocent" — T. L. Michaels
Short Films:
1. "Ripple" Jason Munden
2. "Grand Canyon" Sean P. Malone
3. "Sons of Thunder" Chris Mac
Student Film — "The Celebration" Jason Sterling Orcutt
Television — "The Shadow of a King" Daniel Charles Cole
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Individual Category Awards:
Best Actress — Zoe Simek "Ruins"
Best Actor — Leland Mergillano "Film Camp"
Best Supporting Actress — Joy Villa "Pastor Sue Saves Christmas"
Best Supporting Actor — Demetrios Troy "Ripple"
Best Director — Timothy Goodwin "Film Camp"
Best Writer — Alyssa Plock & Joseph Holmes "Lizzie Lives Again"
Best Cinematography — "Mission Upside Down"
Best Original Score — "Space Waves"
Best Editing — "The Club"
Best Costume Design — "The Jeweled Bird"
Best Visual Effects — "The End of Youth"
Best Makeup — "Pastor Sue Saves Christmas"
Best Trailer — "Reason to Fight" — Hiram Johnson
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Pitch Fest
• Judges’ Choice: "Lizzie Lives Again" — Alyssa Plock
• Audience Choice: 'The Hittite" — Daniel Cole
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See you next year—stories that liberate keep rolling!
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2024 2nd Annual Recap
2024 Award Winners
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FEATURE FILM
1st Place: "UnDefiled"
2nd Place: "8beats Anthology"
3rd Place: "Ordinary Things"
Audience Award: "8Beats Anthology"
SHORT FILM
1st Place: "David: A King's Calling"
2nd Place: "Pacific Parable: Buried Treasure"
3rd Place: "FOUR-NINETY"
4th Place: "I’ll Speak For You"
Audience Award: "smallgroupthink
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DOCUMENTARY FILM
1st Place: "The Threshing Floor"
2nd Place: "We Were Fans"
3rd Place: "The Terrifying Delight of Losing Everything"
Audience Award: "The Threshing Floor"
SCREENPLAY
1st Place: “Out of the Flames”
2nd Place: “Believers”
3rd Place: “UNEARNED”
Audience Award: “Believers”
STUDENT
1st Place: "In Situ"
2nd Place: "One of a Kind"
3rd Place: "All Things New"
EPISODIC
1st Place: "Townsend"
EXPERIMENTAL
1st Place: "The Foxhole"
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THANK YOU TO ALL FILMMAKERS AND OUR SUBMISSIONS
THANKS TO OUR 2024
EVENT SPONSORS
1st Annual Film Festival Event
Took Place July 22nd, 2023
At the CineLounge Theatre on Sunset Boulevard
~ FIRST ANNUAL EVENT ~
HARD FAITH FEST 2023
winners list 2023
AWARDS RECOGNITION
SHORT FILMS:
1st Place: “NUMB: Dealing with Abuse”
Directed by Andrew Wesley Johnston & Producer Steventhen Holland
2nd Place: "Toy Train” Directed by Kyle Tiernan
3rd Place: “Night Voices” Directed & Writer Bradley Hawkins​
STUDENT FILMS:
1st Place: “Cohabitation” Director & Writer David Pozdyrka & Producer Yulia Alexandrovna Novikova
2nd Place: “The Ace” Directed by Adam Whitney, Writer & Producer Miranda Watson
3rd Place: “Crossing” Director & Writer Plinio Antonin Santarelli
EXPERIMENTAL FILMS:
1st Place: “Fortress” Director & Writer Andrew Huggins
2nd Place: “Regarding Abel” Director & Writer Alyssa Giese
3rd Place: “Damp Moss” Directed by Christopher Thompson
EPISODIC:
1st Place: “Breaking Strongholds Season 1 - Episode 4 "The Mother Wounds”” Directed by Jake Allen, Writer Robin Murray, Producer Carla McDougal
2nd Place: “Breaking Strongholds Season 1 - Episode 3 "The Message"
3rd Place: “Breaking Strongholds Season 1 - Episode 2 - "The Advocates"
SCREENPLAY:
1st Place: “Flower In the Sun" Written by Jesse Low, Suzette Sutton-Frazee
2nd Place: “Soldier Through The Storm” Written by Kimberly Jade Soliman
3rd Place: “Aktion T-4” Written by John Martins III
FEATURE FILMS:
1st Place: “Metamorphosis” Directed by Brigham McNeely
2nd Place: “Miracle At Manchester” Directed by Eddie McClintock
3rd Place: “Amazing Gracie” Directed by Micah Caronna
DOCUMENTARY:
1st Place: “One Second at a Time: Battling the Monster of Addiction” Directed by Tim Searfoss
2nd Place: “Rescuer” Directed by Gergely Hajnal
3rd Place: “In God's Hand” Directed by Andy Costa
THANKS TO OUR 2023
EVENT SPONSORS
