Shriekfest Winners

Best Horror Feature Film
“The Unborn”
Written by Danny Matier
Directed by Tal Lazar
Produced by Dr. David M. Milch, Tal Lazar, Phil Newsom, Ohad Ashkenazi, and Assaf Mor

Best Thriller Feature Film
“Stalker”
Written by Tyler Savage & Dash Hawkins
Directed by Tyler Savage
Produced by JP Castel, Dash Hawkins, Daniel Pisano, Tyler Savage

Best Sci-Fi Short Film
“Scars”
Written by Bryan Bagby
Directed by Jonny Zeller
Produced by Tim Frazier, Jackson Rathbone, Davey Johnson, Dallas Carroll, Robert L. Levy

Best Horror Short Film
“Milk Teeth”
Written by Nick Lopez
Directed by Felipe Vargas
Produced by Brendan Bennett, Jamie McNeill

Best Thriller Short Film
“Face Your Fears”
Written and Directed by Neil Stevens
Produced by Neil Stevens, Ryan Husk, Venezia Zavala

Best Super Short Horror Film
“Night Crawl”
Written and Directed by Greg Shultz
Produced by Brook Linder

Best Horror Feature Screenplay
“The Hitchhiker”
Written by Dan Ast

Best Sci-Fi Feature Screenplay
“Precipice”
Written by Avishai Weinberger

Best Thriller Feature Screenplay
“In the Scrape”
Written by Mark Steensland & James Newman

Best Short Screenplay
“Murphy’s Gulch”
Written by Jeff Bassetti

Best Music Video
“Nice Shoes”
Written by Tommy Mack And Jonathan Lawrence
Directed by Jonathan Lawrence
Produced by Tommy Mack

Best 2021 Shriekfest Commercial
“Surprise”

Best Director
Venita Ozols-Graham
“Who Wants Dessert?”

Best Actress
Caroline Williams
“Ten Minutes to Midnight”

Best Actor
Michael Lee Joplin
“Stalker”

Best Pilot Screenplay
“What Darkness Brings”
Written by Ross Denyer

Best Editing
Delaney Bishop
“Terror Eyes”

Best Cinematography
Chris Saul & Kyle Wright
“Wide Awake in Bridgewater”

Best Commercial
Blood Bath
Directed by Colin Costello

Best Music Video
Withorwithout by the band Parcels
Directed by Benjamin Howdeshell

Best Performance in a Short Film
Baker Chase Powell
in “We Die Alone”

Best Female Performance in a Feature Film
Jamie Tisdale
in “Portal”

Best Male Performance in a Feature Film
Chase Williamson
in “Greenlight”

Best Short Screenplay
Ganglers
Written by Mark Renshaw

Best Super Short Film
Peep
Directed by Zachary Dehm

Best Thriller Short Film
We Die Alone
Directed by Marc Cartwright

Best Horror Short Film
OverKill
Directed by Alex Montilla

Best Sci-Fi Feature Screenplay
Dark Noise
Written by Christopher Allan Poe & Jen Badasci

Best Thriller Feature Screenplay
Agriturismo
Written by Nick Rufca

Best Horror Feature Screenplay
The Blood-Red Night of Hatchet Valley
Written by Edward Martin III

Best Sci-Fi Feature Film
Volition
Directed by Tony Dean Smith

Best Thriller Feature Film
Greenlight
Directed by Graham Denman

Best Horror Feature Film
Making Monsters
Directed by Justin Harding and Rob Brunner

Best Commercial
The Spectral Bride
Directed by Carroll Brown

Best Music Video
U.S. Butcher
Directed by Aleksey Smirnov

Best Short Screenplay
Magic
Written by Kenny J. Wright

Best Super Short Film
Cabin Killer
Directed by Michael Rich

Best Sci-Fi Short Film
Safe
Directed by Tim Earnheart

Best Horror Short Film
Latched
Directed by Justin Harding and Rob Brunner

Best Sci-Fi Feature Screenplay
A Quiet War
Written by Carroll Brown

Best Thriller Feature Screenplay
Pervert
Written by Rona Mark

Best Horror Feature Screenplay
No Child Left Behind
Written by Daniel Shea

Best Sci-Fi Feature Film
Soundwave
Directed by Dylan K. Narang

Best Thriller Feature Film
Alive
Directed by Rob Grant

Best Supernatural Horror Film
Echoes of Fear
Directed by Brian and Laurence Avenet-Bradley

Best Horror Feature Film
Camp Cold Brook
Directed by Andy Palmer