We are humbled and honored to announce that Oakdale, 1959 has been given an Award of Excellence for short films in the Best Shorts Competition!
Oakdale, 1959: Official Selection - The Lift-Off Showcase Online Extravaganza
We are proud to announce that Oakdale, 1959 has been named an official selection in The Lift-Off Showcase Online Extravaganza! For more information about the festival and tickets, please visit see the festival's website.
Update: While we did not ultimately win, we were finalists!
Oakdale, 1959: Official Selection - NewFilmmakers New York Film Festival & The Smoky Mountain Film Festival; FINALIST - Two Box Film Festival
It’s three-for-one day! We are proud to announce that Oakdale, 1959 has been named an official selection in The Smoky Mountain Film Festival 2020 and NewFilmmakers New York! Additionally, we’re a Finalist in the Two Box Film Festival! unfortunately, we will have to withdraw from Smoky Mountain because of a potential conflict with another festival. However, the programmers were incredibly kind and gracious, and we wish them the absolute best!
Oakdale, 1959: Official Selection - Roma Prisma Film Festival
We are proud to announce that Oakdale, 1959 has been chosen as an official selection to The Roma Prisma Film Festival 2020!
Oakdale, 1959: Official Selection - Sunscreen Film Festival
We are proud to announce that Oakdale, 1959 has been named an official selection in The Sunscreen Film Festival 2020. The festival is being pushed because of Covid-19; for more information about the festival and when you can see Oakdale, 1959, see the festival's website.
Oakdale, 1959: Official Nomination- Paris Play Film Festival
We are proud to announce that Oakdale, 1959 has been named an official nomination to The Paris Play Film Festival 2020. We are honored to be nominated and hope that this is a sign of an exciting future for the film!
Official Selection: Wild Bunch Film Festival
We are proud to announce that Stygian has been named an official selection in The Wild Bunch Film Festival 2016. The festival is held in September in Oklahoma and is a Western themed film festival. While we will not be able to attend, we are honored to have been selected as part of the festival.
For more information about the festival and when you can see Stygian, see the festival's website.
Official Selection: NewFilmmakers Los Angeles
We are proud to announce that Stygian was named an Official Selection in the New Filmmakers Los Angeles Film Festival. The film will be screening as part of the Shorts 2 Program on July 30, 2016. For information on tickets or the film, see NFLA's website or Facebook. Each month, NFLA highlights new filmmakers and hosts this event so that filmmakers can show off their projects and network.
After the screening, there will be a Q&A session with the filmmakers of the 4 films in the Shorts 2 Program.
We will attending the screening and hopefully give some insightful answers about indie filmmaking, thesis films and making Stygian during the post-screening Q&A.
Official Selection: Trail Dance Film Festival 2016
Stygian was named an official selection in the 2016 Trail Dance Film Festival. The festival is held annually in January in Oklahoma. While we were not able to attend the event, we are proud and honored to have been one of the 131 films accepted.
Trail Dance is hosted by the Trail Dance Film Festival Association and is an open-category film festival. For more information on the 2016 Festival, Stygian, and the other films honored, see their website.
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival Success
Waiting for the show to start.
Stygian premiered on the festival circuit in the New Mexico True Shorts section of the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival to a sold out crowd. A second showing of the shorts that evening (third overall for the festival) was added because of the sell out. The other showings were well-attended and the overall reception of the film was quite positive.
For more on the festival and happenings, see the SFIFF blog post.
Official Selection: Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
We're proud to announce that Stygian has been accepted to its first film festival!
Stygian is an official selection in the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival. It's premiere will be held at 6:30pm MST on Thursday, October, 15th at the CCA Main Theater in Santa Fe, NM with a second screening the same night at 8:00pm MST and a third screening on Friday, October 16th at 10:00PM MST.
It's being shown as part of the New Mexico True Shorts segment of the festival. These are films that were shot in New Mexico and feature the state at its finest.
If you're in the New Mexico area and interested in seeing Stygian, or any of the other 10 shorts showcased in the True Shorts category, tickets are still available for the Friday showing. See the SFIFF website for more information on where to buy tickets and prices.