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SCUFF Winners

2024 Winners

Jury Award: Counting In


Best Feature: Britney Lost Her Phone


Best Short: Ava and the Doc


Best SC Filmmaker: Yasmin J. Lee

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Best SC Film: Like In The Movies

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Best Comedy: The Delicate Cycle

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Best Direction - Feature: Pater Noster and the Mission of Light

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Best Direction - Short: The Coyote Sisters

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Best Horror: Consumer

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Best Animation: With Tits


Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: The Solstice Dayton by Chris Ledoux

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Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: Bay for Blood by Harry Waldman

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Audience Choice: Counting In

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2023 Winners

Jury Award: Acorn


Best Feature: Weeknights


Best Short: The 44th Chamber of the Shaolin


Best SC Filmmaker: Anil Dhokai

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Best SC Film: A.B.

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Best Documentary: How To Break A World Record

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Best Horror: Cannibal Comedian

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Best Animation: Brutus


Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: Tackle & Bait by Genevieve and Glen McDevitt

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Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: Thank You Kindly by Evans Owens

2022 Winners

Jury Award: Silent River


Best Feature: Handshake


Best Short: Straight Shooter


Best SC Filmmaker: Michelle Iannantuono

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Best SC Film: Cupcake

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Best Documentary: The Brilliant Terror

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Best Foreign: Escalation

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Best Animation: The Insufferable General Dagon


Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: And the Winner Is... The Shocking and True, (Not So Much), Story of the 1948 Best Actress Oscars

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Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: Paperplate Face

2021 Winners

Jury Award: Nuts! The Musical


Best Feature: Bad Girls


Best Short: The Fuzzies


Best SC Filmmaker: Brittany Brock

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Best SC Film: Unblocked

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Best Documentary: Giant! The World of Filmmaker Jeff Leroy

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Best Foreign: Can't Go Home Again

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Best Animation: The Dark Odyssey


Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: Geneva by Genevieve McDevitt

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Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: The Big Break by Zach Van Fleet

2020 Winners

Jury Award: The Brain That Wouldn't Die


Best Feature: Death Drop Gorgeous


Best Short: Grave Digging


Best SC Filmmaker: Kelvin Edwards

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Best SC Film: sal.


Best Produced Screenplay – Feature: Bad Candy

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Best Produced Screenplay – Short: Requiem for a Crab


Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: "HashBrown" by Erika Bock

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Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: "The Lincoln Gambit" by Theodore Adams

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Honorable Mention: Bong Zombies

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Honorable Mention: Party Hard

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Honorable Mention: Coping: don't let it consume you

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Honorable Mention: We Came A Long Way By Faith

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Honorable Mention: The Big D

2019 Winners

Jury Award: Lieutenant Jangles


Best Feature: Crash Bang Burn


Best Short: The Animator


Best SC Filmmaker: Michelle Iannantuono

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Best SC Film: Hindsight


Best Produced Screenplay – Feature: Flesher

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Best Produced Screenplay – Short: Hollowed


Audience Choice Award: How Many Times


Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: Mary Jane's Last Dance by Millie West


Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: Where’s Stephanie? “The Ultimate Gift” by Jo-Ann Wilhelm

2018 Winners

Jury Award: The Last of the Manson Girls


Best Feature: Victor Goodview


Best Short: The Order


Best SC Filmmaker: Buddy Wingard

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Best SC Film: Dinkheller


Best Produced Screenplay – Feature: A Chance of Snow

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Best Produced Screenplay – Short: You Can't Play With Us


Audience Choice Award: Bobby


1st runner up Audience Choice: Amazon Hot Box


Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: 88 Fingers by Adam Lapallo


1st runner up Un-produced Screenplay - Feature: Away With It by Rebecca Raymer


Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: Screamer by Marc Allen
 

1st runner up Un-produced Screenplay –Short: Static by Alex Clifford


Honorable Mention: Phooled


Honorable Mention: Experimental - Mackenzie Marrow


Honorable Mention: Little


Honorable Mention: Old Lions

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Honorable Mention: The Harvest

2017 Winners

Jury Award: The Theta Girl


Best Feature: Fags in the Fast Lane


Best Short: Die Panda Die


Best Documentary: Reconstructing Hawthorne


Best SC Film: The Last Filmmaker


Best Produced Screenplay – Feature: The 5 Year


Best Produced Screenplay – Short: God


Audience Choice Award: The Girl Who Saved Dan Landis


1st runner up Audience Choice: Jack’s Java Bean Shack


Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: The Wonderful by Demitra Papadinis


1st runner up Un-produced Screenplay - Feature: The Devil in Us by Glenna O'Conner


Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: Retribution by Marc Allen
 

1st runner up Un-produced Screenplay –Short: First Prize by Carl B. Clark


Honorable Mention: Spark


Honorable Mention: Smoke


Honorable Mention: Dead Shot


Honorable Mention: Cartoonish

2016 Winners

BEST FEATURE FILM – God Bless New Dixie

BEST SHORT FILM – Avarice

BEST SC FILM – Confessions

BEST SC FILMMAKER – MJ Slide

BEST PRODUCED SCREENPLAY – FEATURE – The Last Beautiful Girl

BEST PRODUCED SCREENPLAY - SHORT– Be Better Than Equal

AUDIENCE CHOICE – Wounded

BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY – FEATURE - The Vanguard Part 1 by Derek Robbins
1ST RUNNER UP – The Melting Pot by Mark Finguerra

BEST PRODUCED SCREENPLAY – SHORT – Stay Out Of My Room by Kelly Karam
1ST RUNNER UP – Twists of Closure by CN Bean

HONORABLE MENTION – A Dose of Reality

HONORABLE MENTION – Off The Beaten Path

HONORABLE MENTION – B is for Backne

HONORABLE MENTION – The Other Side

2015 Winners

Best Feature - "Nekro" directed by Pinar Sinan

 

Best Short - "Night of the Slasher" directed by Shant Hamassian

 

Best Feature Screenplay - "The Fix" by Steven Crowley

 

Best Short Screenplay - "Walter's Days" by Nathan Ludwig

 

Best SC Feature - "Cinema Purgatorio" directed by Chris White

 

Best SC Short - "Midnight Macabre" directed by John Johnson

 

Best SC Filmmaker - William Stancil and Graham David for "Dank Shadows"

 

Audience Choice - "Hopeful Sunday" directed by Gunner Willis

 

Audience Choice runner up: (tie) "The End" by Stephanie Merrell and "Twin Geeks The Zelinksi Brothers Unleashed" by Michael T. Owens

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