The Final Deadline to submit a film, video or script to the Sherman Oaks Film Festival is August 15! After that date the doors close and the jury starts watching and reading everything.
SOFF 2021 Awards
Grand Jury Award Winners
Best Feature Film – Arthouse/Experimental – Bitter Taste of Ginger
Best Feature Film – Comedy – Killer Whales
Best Feature Film – Documentary – Like A Woman
Best Feature Film – Drama – Bone Cage
Best Feature Film – SciFi – Midnight Science
Best Short Film – Animation – The Cat
Best Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental – CHIPOKO
Best Short Film – Comedy – Squish (Sprötch)
Best Short Film – Comedy – The Best Orchestra in the World
Best Short Film – Documentary – Tia Gong
Best Short Film – Drama – EXITS
Best Short Film – Drama – Shevolution
Best Short Film – Horror – The Pey
Best Short Film – SciFi – My Roommate the Jedi
Best Music Video – The Sword That Waits
Best Web Series – EP
Best Director, Feature Film – Alek Lev – What?
Best Director, Short Film – Xavier Seron –Squish (Sprötch)
Best Actress in a Lead Role – Kathryne Isabelle Easton – Borrelia Borealis
Best Actress in a Lead Role – Sarah Cugini – Bitter Taste of Ginger
Best Actor in a Lead Role – John Maucere – What?
Best Actor in a Lead Role – Taylor Olson – Bone Cage
Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Aadila Dosani – Fall Back Down
Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Anthony Goes – Borrelia Borealis
Best Performance by a Full Cast – Bone Cage
Best Screenplay – Eric DePriester – Treason
Best Screenplay – Jonathan Anthony – Midnight Science
Best Cinematography, Feature Film – Kevin A. Fraser – Bone Cage
Best Cinematography, Short Film – Matthias Halibrand – The Best Orchestra in the World
Best Screenplay – Feature (Unproduced) – The Passage of Sun by Aaron Braxton
Best Screenplay – Short (Unproduced) – Happy Ending Retirement Home by Kirsty Budding
Best Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series (Unproduced) – Hollywood, Arkansas by Darren Coyle
Audience Award Winners
Feature Film – Documentary – Keeping Inn
Feature Film – Drama – What?
Short Film – Animation – Exceptional Minds Pomo – What Is Your Superpower?
Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental – Lucky
Short Film – Comedy – Guys Weekend
Short Film – Comedy – Lou
Short Film – Documentary – La Cita (The Appointment)
Short Film – Drama – Contact High
Short Film – Drama – Other
Short Film – Horror – Escalation
Short Film – SciFi – My Roommate the Jedi
Music Video – The World’s Gone Nutz
Web Series – EP
Filmmakers Award Winners
Outstanding Short Film – Animation – The Forgotten Floss
Outstanding Short Film – Animation – The Passerby
Outstanding Director – Animation – Mary Apick – The Cat
Outstanding Screenplay – Animation – Pieter Coudyzer – The Passerby
Outstanding Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental – C A • D E N C E
Outstanding Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental – How To End A Conversation
Outstanding Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental – Lonely Night
Outstanding Director – Arthouse/Experimental – Tafadzwa R Nemarundwe – CHIPOKO
Outstanding Screenplay – Arthouse/Experimental – Sarah Lyddan – Lonely Night
Outstanding Performance, Individual – Arthouse/Experimental – Syd Skidmore – CHIPOKO
Outstanding Performance, Cast – Arthouse/Experimental – Skylar Adams, Sarah Lyddan, Lonely Night
Outstanding Short Film – Comedy – Litany for Mister President
Outstanding Short Film – Comedy – My Friends The Plants
Outstanding Short Film – Comedy – yellow
Outstanding Director – Comedy – Henning Backhaus – The Best Orchestra in the World
Outstanding Screenplay – Comedy – Xavier Seron – Squish (Sprötch)
Outstanding Performance, Cast – Comedy – Guys Weekend
Outstanding Performance, Individual – Comedy – Jean Le Peltier – Squish (Sprötch)
Outstanding Short Film – Documentary – The Depths of Ningaloo
Outstanding Short Film – Documentary – The Forgotten Floss
Outstanding Director – Documentary – Lee Jing Xin Enkainia – Tia Gong
Outstanding Performance, Individual – Documentary – Frederick Taylor – Pre-Existing Freedom
Outstanding Short Film – Drama – HELPER
Outstanding Short Film – Drama – The 5th of April
Outstanding Short Film – Drama – Waves
Outstanding Director – Drama – Seidy Lopez – Shevolution
Outstanding Screenplay – Drama – Minerva Vier – Shevolution
Outstanding Performance, Cast – Drama – Kelly Lou Dennis, Jae Kim, EXITS
Outstanding Performance, Individual – Drama – Elinor McKenzie – The 5th of April
Outstanding Short Film – Horror – A Face on the Ceiling
Outstanding Short Film – Horror – Sink
Outstanding Short Film – Horror – Thank You For Staying
Outstanding Director – Horror – Andrew Marks – Electromagnetic
Outstanding Screenplay – Horror – Ty Clancey – Thank You For Staying
Outstanding Performance, Cast – Horror – Colton Little, Nick Osborne – Phases
Outstanding Performance, Individual – Horror – José Zúñiga – Electromagnetic
Outstanding Short Film – SciFi – Soundproof
Outstanding Short Film – SciFi – Space Quest
Outstanding Director – SciFi – Byrne Owens – My Roommate the Jedi
Outstanding Screenplay – SciFi – Byrne Owens – My Roommate the Jedi
Outstanding Performance, Cast – SciFi – My Roommate the Jedi
Outstanding Performance, Individual – SciFi – Mikiel Crosby – Soundproof
Outstanding Music Video – Doll Klaw – You Said
Outstanding Director – Music Video – Eric Foss, Doll Klaw – You Said
Outstanding Performance – Music Video – Billy William Keohavong, Doll Klaw – You SaidBroken (The Video)
Outstanding Screenplay – Music Video – Daniel Robert Cohn, The World’s Gone Nutz
Outstanding Web Series – Passport Chronicles
Outstanding Web Series – The Odyssey Book 9
Outstanding Director – Web Series – Pat Campo – EP
Outstanding Screenplay – Web Series – Pat Campo – EP
Outstanding Performance, Cast – Web Series – EP
Outstanding Performance, Individual – Web Series – Chevy Dant’e Douglas – Passport Chronicles
Outstanding Performance, Puppetry & Voice – Ingbert Socke (Puppetry – ?, Henning Backhaus – Voice) – The Best Orchestra in the World
Outstanding Performance, Inanimate Object – Rubber Duck The Actor (David Agustín – Voice) – yellow
Programmer’s Prize
Uniquely Original Filmmaking That Must Be Acknowledged:
Freak Grounds, Jeff Can’t Swim. Me Is You, More Than He Knows, My Own, Pathei Mathos, Those People, & What Happened.
Prize Definitions/Explanations
Grand Jury Awards – determined by the festival’s official selection committee.
Audience Awards – determined by highly scientific instruments placed throughout the theater to determine audience satisfaction.
Filmmakers Awards – given only to short films, these are determined by a panel of filmmakers whose films have been Official Selections previous years.
Programmer’s Prize – given to film(s) that festival programmer Jeff Howard cannot bear to see go without an award. These films are generally off the beaten path and break conventions of format and genre.
SOFF 2021 Trailers
We made a trailer for every day of screenings at SOFF 2021, including our Virtual Exclusives!
The festival runs from November 14 to November 21 and features 94 wonderful films from around the world.
Click here to see the trailers!
2021 Theatrical Schedule
We are delighted to share the Theatrical Screening schedule for the 2021 Festival. Don’t forget that we will also be holding Virtual Screenings, including Virtual Exclusives!
Sunday, November 14 at 6 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 1 – Comedy
The World’s Gone Nutz
Lou
Guys Weekend
Jeff Can’t Swim
Litany for Mister President
Sunday, November 14 at 8 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 2 – Drama/Arthouse
C A • D E N C E
How To End A Conversation
Other
An American Childhood
Sunday, November 14 at 10 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 3
Killer Whales
Monday, November 15 at 7 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 4 – Comedy/Drama
Collapse!
Ghosted
Tell It All
Monday, November 15 at 8:30 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 5 – Comedy
The Wapidemic
yellow
The Bubble
Monday, November 15 at 10 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 6 – SciFi/Auteur
Soundproof
The Odyssey Book 9
Life & Death
Tuesday, November 16 at 6:30 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 7
What?
Tuesday, November 16 at 8:30 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 8 – Animation/Comedy
PeaceTime: A Royal Frog
The Best Orchestra in the World
SOFF 2021 Screenplay Ceremony
Tuesday, November 16 at 10 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 9 – Comedy
Seance-ing
Across The Room
Bryers Cucumber Tostinos
Wednesday, November 17 at 7 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 10 – Animation/Comedy
Of Crumbs and Dreams
SQUISH
Screenplay Festival Ceremony
Wednesday, November 17 at 8:30 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 11 – Comedy/SciFi
Home By 11
EP
My Roommate the Jedi
Wednesday, November 17 at 10 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 12 – Horror/Music Video
Doll Klaw – You Said
Phases
The Sword That Waits
Electromagnetic
Thursday, November 18 at 7 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 13 – Drama/Music Video
Broken (The Video)
Telling Time
She Used to Laugh
Contact High
Thursday, November 18 at 8:30 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 14 – Horror
What Happened
Thank You For Staying
Escalation
Thursday, November 18 at 10 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 15
Treason
Friday, November 19 at 7 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 16 – Arthouse/Comedy/Drama
Freak Grounds
Free Chair
Shevolution
Friday, November 19 at 8:30 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 17 – Arthouse/Drama
Me Is You
Those People
My Own
Friday, November 19 at 10 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 18
Fall Back Down
Saturday, November 20 at 6 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 19 – Drama
Separation
Helper
Drunk
The 5th of April
Saturday, November 20 at 8:00 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 20 – Horror/Arthouse
A Face on the Ceiling
EXITS
CHIPOKO
Lonely Night
Saturday, November 20 at 10 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 21
Borrelia Borealis
Sunday, November 21 at 12 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 22 – Drama/Comedy/Animation
Things Are Different Now
Space Quest
Exceptional Minds Promo – Mitsubishi Electric
My Friends The Plants
The Cat
Sunday, November 21 at 2 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 23 – Arthouse/Horror/Comedy
The Pey
Lucky
More Than He Knows
Pathei Mathos
Sunday, November 21 at 4 PM Pacific
SOFF 2021 Screening 24
Midnight Science
The Depths of Ningaloo
2021 Official Selection: Feature Film – Documentary
In March 2020, a team of ocean scientists set out to observe, document, and characterize the deep-sea biodiversity in the Cape Range and Ningaloo Canyons – a region off of Western Australia, where almost no exploration had taken place.
Director(s): Logan Mock-Bunting & Carlie Wiener
Writer(s): Alex Ingle, Logan Mock-Bunting & Carlie Wiener
Producer(s): Eric & Wendy Schmidt
Click here to watch the virtual screening
The Album
2021 Official Selection: Feature Film – Documentary
An independently produced documentary about the record industry, told from the perspective of the art department. With over 40 interviews comprised of 3 generations, top creators of their day talk about the development of the art synonymous with the music you know and love.
Director(s): Kevin Hosmann
Writer(s): Kevin Hosmann
Producer(s): Elizabeth Hosmann, Kevin Hosmann, Steve Jacobson
Click here to watch the virtual screening
Soundproof
2021 Official Selection: Short Film – SciFi / Drama
Soundproof explores the effects of miscommunication in a relationship and the mistrust that arises from that. When placed in a situation of extreme pressure, can a couple surpass these obstacles or will they succumb to assumptions and suspicion? When one can’t speak, true feelings and raw emotion take over, with dangerous consequences.
Director(s): Gabriela Lima
Writer(s): Priscila Santa Rosa
Producer(s): Gabriela Lima
Key Cast: Carmen Fitzgerald, Mikiel Crosby
Los Angeles Premiere!
The Cat
2021 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation
The story of a happy little girl who is selling flowers on the street…. until the idyllic world she knows is enveloped by an oozing, malevolent darkness that destroys everything in its path.
Director(s): Mary Apick
Writer(s): Mary Apick
Producer(s): Mary Apick
Fall Back Down
2021 Official Selection: Feature Film – Drama
Depressed ex-activist takes a job in a sweatshop where he and his coworker make a grim discovery.
Director(s): Sara Beth Edwards
Writer(s): Sara Beth Edwards
Producer(s): Sara Beth Edwards
Cast: Andrew Dunbar, Aadila Dosani, Jacky Lai
Watch this film right now at its Eventive VOD site!
Questiny
2021 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
Greg the XIV goes on a quest to destiny as he traverses the lands of Gregcester in search of the barbarous warrior who’s killed generations of his royal male lineage.
Director(s): James Camali
Writer(s): James Camali
Producer(s): Remington Moses
Key Cast: Ross Bergen, Remington Moses
Click here to watch the virtual screening
