Official Selections
Walkie-Talkie
Episode One: After a brutal fight with her best friend, Jess, Katie embarks on a quest to meet and connect with new people by hiding a walkie-talkie in a new place each week and then going on a walk with the person that finds it. On her first outing, Katie meets Adam, her seemingly perfect match. Episode Two: After a "romantic non-date" with Adam, Katie meets Ashley, a psychic with a bizarre bucket list.
Best Podcast - All Genres
We're Alive: Descendants - Submission Reel
The story of survival continues; the fight is not over. It’s been 18 years since the outbreak and events from We’re Alive: A Story of Survival. The world is starting to re-organize and rebuild, not always for the better. It’s a fractured world, with many different forms of humanity still struggling to survive in the aftermath. The stronghold of California is no longer called The Colony. It’s now “Westport”, and extends from sections of Orange County to Long Beach. This independent state continues to thrive, but not for long. Rumors are starting to spread… sightings of someone long thought dead. The echoes of the monsters, are being heard again. The story of "We're Alive: Descendants" is about a boy, Nicholas, who grew up in the shadow of his father, the late, great, Saul Tink. Little does he know that deep in the places where infected dwell, another descendant lies waiting. Descendants is the culmination of story that has been unfolding over 10 years. Each chapter has established the background for many characters that will come together one last time to conclude the series in a powerful and meaningful finale.
Best Podcast - All Genres
Auto Aficionado
'Auto Aficionado' is a premium digital series created by auto enthusiasts for auto enthusiasts. Host Kristen MacCulloch explores the art, design, and history of some of the coolest cars in Canada and the people who drive them. Nominated for a 2023 Canadian Screen Award.
Best Dramedy Series
Don't Mind: Cruxmont
After his brother goes missing on a UK hiking trip, American Neal Mitchell must leave his comfort zone to search for his brother at his last known location: Cruxmont, England. While there, Neal meets Dr. Gwen Kingston, a neurologist with her own goal in mind; finding the source of an unrecognizable miracle drug traced back to the village of Cruxmont.
Audio Fiction (Standalone)
Summer Eclipse
RILEY (16), often elated by the subtlest moments and feelings in life, begins dating his presumed first love, Orbit (16) in the sapid summer of 2017, but soon enters emotional turmoil in the wake of receiving skewed signals from Orbit presumably prompted by her post-breakup mourning.
Short Film - All Genres
Rosemary Street Web Series - Eps 1 & 2
This is a series about life in North Baltimore. Multiple plots run through the series as we follow two families and their neighbors on or near Rosemary Street. About two families, a black family, and a white family that raise their children a few houses away from each other over a 40 year span of time. About Life in North Baltimore, amongst the painted lady Rowhouses.
Best Dramedy Series
Joey Skaggs: Celebrity Sperm Bank
In 1976, Giuseppe Scaggoli (a.k.a. Joey Skaggs), the proprietor of the Celebrity Sperm Bank, announced an exclusive auction of world-famous rock star sperm. The night before the auction, the sperm was stolen, leaving many would-be recipients disappointed. Skaggs created this performance event, which took place in real life on the street in New York, as a commentary on the media's obsession with celebrity, our distorted value system, and the fact that sometimes technology is in direct conflict with human values and ethics. The eighth film in the ongoing oral history series, "Joey Skaggs Satire and Art Activism, 1960s to the Present and Beyond," this is a journey into the mind of the iconic performance artist who defies reality with his unforgettable antics.
Best Dramedy Series
Demon Doctor
Inspired by 90s genre shows like Buffy, The Vampire Slayer and The X-Files, Demon Doctor is an LGBT story about a portly demonologist and a detective who believes in the beyond teaming up to confront the mysteries lurking beneath the surface...
Best Dramedy Series
End of the Cornfield
End of the Cornfield is a 9-episode murder mystery series centered on six former high school classmates who reunite for a hometown softball alumni tournament. When the six head to the cornfield on Miller Road — their favorite high school spot for a night of drinking and catching up — it doesn’t take long before someone winds up…dead. With no clear motive and no one stepping forward, the five remaining classmates are thrown into a clusterfuck investigation among themselves. [All 9 episodes are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or wherever you find your podcasts. Each episode runs 6-12 minutes. Total run time is approx. 85 minutes for the full series.]
Best Podcast - All Genres
ABULIVIA
Abulivia is a neologism that means "away from the olive trees". Since Italy was unified, things have not been very good for the south of the nation. It has been plundered of all its wealth and has gradually become the poorest area of the country. So for about 160 years many people have been seeking fortune in the rich north of Italy where they are sometimes exploited, but abandoning their beautiful homeland. Abulivia wants to tell the story of one of these guys from the south, who returned to his country of origins to help his family in the traditional olives harvest that takes place every year in the months from november to january. The protagonist of the story is a high school graduate, a multiple graduate and has even attended very expensive masters, but in the northern Italy the only job he has found is in a call center. The visit to his native land will represent a catharsis for him, as it is in his agricultural work that he will discover his roots and the beauty of a lost world in which there are still values. All the storytelling revolves around emptiness, void understood both in the Buddhist sense but also in the sense of lack of values. A sad man stares at a large hole in the ground, it is all that remains of a beautiful tree with immense foliage that stood there the day before. The old farmer tells the camera how a monumental olive tree was stolen by bad people who sell all the trees in the south to the north, The farmer tried to defend the tree but the bad guys beat him. They then resold the olive tree to wealthy gentlemen who live in the north and wanted to beautify their garden. But we know the climate of the north is not suitable for this type of trees so they are doomed to death, while the south is increasingly impoverished.
Best Dramedy Series
Dice Tower Theatre - An Audio Fiction Podcast
A clean, quality, audio-only, fantasy epic where swords and those behind them can change the fate of their world. Based on the actual events of a table top roleplaying game, the gameplay has been removed distilling it down to the story created collaboratively with the players. Enter a land where dragons speak, magic lives and wishes come true. Our adventure follows 6 young heroes bound in love and kinship who are forced on a quest to discover the truth behind the magic of dragons, and seek those that stole it before their world itself is destroyed by the growing power of the Dark Army.
Best Podcast - All Genres
Romp
Jade, Michael and Stacey - a trio of young, queer, and amorous housemates - pursue love and happiness, but instead blunder their way through life in Sydney's heterosexual-flexible dating scene.
Best Dramedy Series
The Good Advice Cupcake: Greatest Hits
The Good Advice Cupcake is the internet’s favorite aggressive cupcake. In this episode, Cuppy gives extremely important advice on how to handle anger and forgiveness in romantic relationships… with a timely example from her partner, Bun.
Best Dramedy Series
Block Watch: Season 2
Block Watch Is BACK with an all new season of misadventures. Join the gang as they continue to do what they do best- keeping their town safe.
Best Web Series - Comedy Series
Assisted Suicide
Kristen’s suicide is hindered when her friend Nancy decides to help her.
Short Film - All Genres
Night Voices
A jaded talk radio host in a cycle of hopeless and demoralizing monotony makes a life-altering decision while on-air.
Short Film - All Genres
Loren & Rose
Rose is a legendary actress trying to revive her career. Loren is a promising filmmaker. Over the course of their many encounters, a deep friendship evolves as their love of art, understanding of grief, and faith in life’s potential guide them through personal and creative transformations. Jacqueline Bisset and Kelly Blatz star with a chemistry that is at once authentic and intoxicating.
Best Web Series - Comedy Series
Party Of One Podcast
Party of One is an actual-play podcast focused on two-player roleplaying experiences. Every week, host Jeff Stormer sits down with friends for a two-player game to have some laughs, maybe a few tears, and a really good time.
Best Podcast - All Genres
Hurt (Season 2)
Stone and Fin have chosen to live... but what does that mean? When Fin returns from rehab, he finds Stone living a drastically different life, and the two must contend with the ways they have changed.
Best Web Series - Drama
Slightly New
Stuck in a dead-end sales job at a shady dealership, Brandon and Leo were always destined for mediocrity. But when their boss gets arrested and things take a turn for the better (or the worse?) at work, the duo have a chance to finally step up and make something of themselves. Between keeping the IRS off their backs and a rival dealership off their case, dealing with the women, weed, and occasional 2 hour employee lunch break seems like light work. The road back to respectability is a long, bumpy test drive.
Audio Fiction (Standalone)
Candy Town Follies of 2022
While working in America, a band of musicians from far-off Candy Town become aware of a time-rupture they inadvertently caused by leaving their "quantum door" running, back home. As they head back to investigate, local police and federal agents also get involved, but have no luck gaining access to the "quantum door" inside the tightly-locked house. However, a pair of children in the neighborhood have no trouble at all getting inside, which they do just as the band returns, causing a second rupture in time.
Best Dramedy Series
The Farmer and the Lightning Storm
Burdened by frustration and fear, the Goddess of Lightning cannot find meaning in what she does and suppresses her abilities. After hearing Lightning's frustration, a nearby farmer helps her regain confidence in her powers by offering a different point of view.
Short Film - All Genres
Womb Envy
This series is created with Integrated Described Video (IDV) making it equally accessible for a blind or partially-sighted audience through its scripting, production and sound design. Mark is stuck in a rut. Nearly 30 years old, he is wanting more than the tired beat of the Toronto gay dance floors and is seeking purpose in life. His childhood friend Mary is pregnant and desperate to escape the clutches of her religious zealot mother, Dorothy, and the small town they grew up in. Showing up on Mark’s door one day after years of separation, Mary convinces him to pretend to be her baby daddy, since he was the only man her mother ever approved of, after reminding him of the years she spent being his “fake girlfriend” as a teen. They create rules to ensure the success of their half-baked idea, which splinters Mark’s fragile queer ego to create a drag queen apparition - The Divine - who constantly fights against this new assimilation to heteronormativity. Confusing things even more, Mark soon falls head over heals in love with their lamaze instructor, Patrick, which throws a huge wrench in their charade for Dorothy. Internalizing the chaos in his life, Mark develops a rare condition known as couvade syndrome, bizarrely displaying pregnancy symptoms which become increasingly more difficult to hide, even from his new crush Patrick, who is partially-sighted. Everything in their lives quickly unravels, leaving Mark and Mary to pick up the pieces in time to welcome their babies into the world and into a new nuclear family.
Best Web Series - Comedy Series
Somebody Killed Mom
A mysterious death. A hidden addiction. A family drama. As it turns out, Mom's life was more complicated than it seemed.
Best Podcast - All Genres
Joy to the World
Joy to the World follows Joy, an astronaut alone on the ISS, as they take calls from around the world on a lonely Christmas Eve. It's about end-of-year holiday spirit in general, exploring different experiences of what makes this time of year special. This show is completed and out in full - check it out now!
Best Podcast - All Genres
Mães & Filha - O Pedido de Natal
Mães & Filha - O Pedido de Natal - 2Sinopse: Faltando uma semana para o natal de 2022, as brigas entre o casal Camila (Morgana Corrêa) e Luana (Mony Gester) estão cada vez mais frequentes e intensas. Desesperada sem saber como ajudar as mães, Maria Eduarda (Bruna Ferreira) faz um pedido ao papai Noel e tudo acorda diferente na manhã seguinte.
Best Web Series - Drama
Illuminagents
Illuminagents is a comedic web series that deconstructs conspiracy theories and examines people's belief systems. Follow Agents Nara Mason and Nasmith Jones as they perform their duties for the organization that secretly runs the world.
Best Dramedy Series
Walking Shadows Vol. 2
In a Shakespearean mash up consisting of a series of vignettes that play out over one night, Walking Shadows Vol. 2 tells the story of the Everyman Theatre Co. as we join them for their 2023 season launch. Each episode dips in and out of conversations and encounters, unearthing the rivalries, jealousies, personal dilemmas and occasional downright murderous intent of its company members and assorted patrons over one of the most important nights of their artistic year. Walking Shadows Vol. 2 pulls characters from across nine of Shakespeare’s plays into a new imagining of what would happen if they all met in the overheated circumstances of a theatre company plagued by artistic rivalry and ambition on the eve of launching their most ambitious program to date, with a crowd peppered with company members alongside wealthy patrons of the Arts they are trying to impress, who have their own secrets to hide. This new season of the series, featuring a cavalcade of Shakespeare characters, takes the work in a brand-new direction as we watch some thrive, some plot and many unravel. And did we mention they also have a haunted theatre to contend with? Walking Shadows Vol. 2 … what's past is prologue …
Best Web Series - Drama
The Hand That Feeds
When a starving woman can't find any food to feed herself or her dog, she decides that one of the them must be sacrificed to keep the other alive.
Short Film - All Genres
Someone Dies In This Elevator
A spoiler-driven anthology podcast where there is always an elevator and someone always dies in it - but everything else is different.
Best Podcast - All Genres
The Madness of Chartrulean
Chartrulean was destined to be the messiah the people wanted. Instead, he became what he believed his world needed. Now, the war he brought to an end rages on in his mind. And the timing couldn’t be worse. A delicate game of politics is afoot, and he is torn between the people he trusts and the gods he's angered. Chartrulean must reconcile with both before succumbing to the madness he created.
Best Podcast - All Genres
Ку-ку
Pick-a-BooIn secret from her parents, young Alina arranged a date with her boyfriend Pasha at her home, but the girl's father unexpectedly returns home: these circumstances force the couple in love to do everything possible to get out of the situation.
Short Film - All Genres
Drag Heals
Drag Heals is a hybrid stage workshop and documentary TV series that follows six drag artists over an intensive month long workshop to build their own show. In each workshop, a guest coach joins stage director Tracey Erin Smith in exploring soul-deep story sharing techniques as well as the unique talents and skills required from a drag performer. Over the course of the intensive workshops and story crafting, the participants dive deep into their personal lives to unearth lessons learned and bring them back to the audience as a gift. They are both the pirate and the pirated, the island and treasure. The resulting stories are emotional and cathartic, both for the drag artists and the audience who share in the experience.
Best Dramedy Series
Pinoy Noir
Follow the adventures of Filipino-American Detective Conanan in these classic noir episodes.
Short Film - All Genres
2 FYE (Music Video)
A music video to the song 2 FYE by BREADBOX!
Best Music Video
Less Than Kosher
At 20, Viv was a promising young singer. At 30, her failing music career has forced her back into her mother's basement. But when this self proclaimed Bad Jew lands ass-backwards into a job as a Cantor at her family's synagogue, she’s thrown into a wild ride of illicit affairs, drug trips, tense family drama, self-discovery and some serious Jewish bops. It’s “Shiva Baby” meets “A Star is Born.” Modern Jewish wit and Hebrew Electro-pop.
Best Web Series - Comedy Series
Valloward: a Speculate Actual Play
In a city-state on an island blessed with magical bounty, six houses vie for status and power. A new coterie rises within House Vorster, bastions of honor and tradition. These retainers will need all of their skill, power, and luck to pursue the house's ambitions as well as their own secret desires.
Actual Play (Video)
AbSolved - SE2 EP1: The School
AbSolved is the story of Father Demetrious: a soon to be ex-priest, who is becoming, reluctantly clairvoyant.
Best Dramedy Series
The Rapscallion Agency
Set shortly after the events of the award-winning podcast The Leviathan Chronicles, this spinoff audio drama series continues the adventures of its two youngest characters, Lisette Mainsabiles and Paul Lee (aka Cluracan) as they use their unique skills to start a business, navigate young love, and lovingly care for a cybernetic rat.
Best Podcast - All Genres
Fire Pockets
A friendly guy who's been stuck alone in a strange apocalypse for a year records his heroic attempts to make contact with other people and put the world back to how it used to be-- But he's impressively bad at making friends and ridiculously accident-prone, on a grand scale. Danny Vanderwilks has theories about what the Fire Pockets are, but they seem out to stop him--as are the crazy lunatics, allies, and betrayers he encounters on his misadventures. His own love interest wants to kill him. In this cinematically sound-designed and immersive found-footage-style podcast, Danny takes us wherever he goes like a wartime journalist mixed with a sports commentator on a self-imposed mission to fix the world and make friends... or be humiliated and die horribly.
Best Podcast - All Genres
BAB on 3!
A trio of "mature" actresses cross paths on a low-budget television show and realize they are fed up with fighting the stereotypes found in the entertainment industry for middle-aged women. Together they vow to show the film industry and the world that they are still “Bad Ass Bitches” and find friendship along the way. This is the pilot episode of Season 1 with at least 6 episodes planned.
Best Dramedy Series
ENCLAVE : The Four of Neuville.
With the chemical spreading across the continents, plunging the world into chaos, the Four of Neuville are the only ones who can stop ADES and, certainly, the last hope of humanity.
Best Dramedy Series
Cardboard Titanics: Smart People Being Stupid
Intelligent and successful people build, row, and race boats made solely of cardboard and duck tape in an insane effort to recapture the American dream.
Best Dramedy Series
Once Upon a Wasteland
Once upon a time, twenty-seven years after the bombs fell, there were two people: a Vault Dweller and a California girl. They met, and sparks flew. That's when things got interesting. This is their story. The story follows Elizabeth Kirby and Odessa Valdez - the spy and the Scribe - as they search for their "happily ever after" in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. Their love affair blossoms as they race against the clock to try to solve a mystery that threatens not only the future of Appalachia, but the rest of what remains of civilization.
Best Podcast - All Genres
Starship Q Star
When a tone deaf space agency sends the “first all woman and non-binary crew” on a PR mission to Mars, they inadvertently end up the last six humans in the universe.
Best Podcast - All Genres
The Man With the Midas Touch Music Video
A music video chronicling the downfall of tragic fictional rocker, Sebastian Jupiter, from the Skeleton Crew Universe
Best Music Video
The White Vault
Explore the far reaches of the world’s horrors in the audio drama podcast The White Vault. Follow the collected records of a repair team sent to Outpost Fristed in the vast white wastes of Svalbard and unravel what lies waiting in the ice below.
Audio Fiction (Standalone)
Liars & Leeches
Grief. Anxiety. Terror. Tonya Wright felt it all after the tragic murders of her sister and brother-in-law in a random act of gun violence. Struggling to travel outside of her home, she now lives constantly on edge about perceived threats that seem to surround her. Retreating to the house her sister and brother-in-law once shared to process her grief, Tonya soon discovers that someone — or something — has followed her there. With the help of her best friend Natalie, and others she meets along the way, can Tonya overcome her fears before they completely consume her? The first original audio drama from Hemlock Creek Productions, “Liars & Leeches” delves deep into the complicated horrors of grief, trauma, resilience, and steadfast human determination to uncover the truth.
Best Podcast - All Genres
"TWO CHAIRS"
A road weary traveler takes the chance meeting of a lifetime, but it turns out to be a Mysterious interrogation beyond time and space that will reverse the core of human existence... FOREVER. "Can Humans know everything? Should they?" This film was shot in Pittsburgh, but the director/editor/visual effects artist now resides in Cleveland, Ohio. The Director Enni Eastman is actually Jens Klein, a german/maltese director who has visual effects credit to his name from films like "Troy," "Gladiator" and "Munich"!!!
Short Film - All Genres
Hurt: The Special
In the wake of Hurt's Season 1 finale, Stone is alone. This is what happens next.
Best Dramedy Series
insignificant
A teen navigates sexuality, love, friendship and trauma as he and his friends grow up in the 90s.
Best Web Series - Drama
The Houseguest & Very Merry Mahusay
This Filipino-American comedy follows the Mahusay family when a case of mistaken identity brings about ongoing misadventures.
Best Dramedy Series
Herrings
Herrings is a dramatic web series about a former skip tracer who helps people disappear in plain sight by disguising their digital footprint and how this reverberates with various characters as they intersect and overlap within the City of Philadelphia.
Best Web Series - Drama
THE MAHUSAYS - SECRET FAMILY
The misadventures continue when Pedro is caught sneaking around.
Short Film - All Genres
Story of Godia
Hussein lives in his father's house, who used to put the house as a retirement home before he died in a poisoning accident with a number of elderly people with Hussein's daughter who was in the house by chance. Hussein lives in his father's house with his sick son who suffers from a disease that needs expensive treatment. The child watches things strange happening in the house
Best Web Series - Drama
No Hay Nadie
No One AroundNo One Around is a fiction series which employs comedy to deal with everyday situations. The 8 individual episodes’ series stand alone, though they are connected through an underlying plotline.
Best Web Series - Comedy Series
Womb Envy
This series is created with Integrated Described Video (IDV) making it equally accessible for a blind or partially-sighted audience through its scripting, production and sound design. Mark is stuck in a rut. Nearly 30 years old, he is wanting more than the tired beat of the Toronto gay dance floors and is seeking purpose in life. His childhood friend Mary is pregnant and desperate to escape the clutches of her religious zealot mother, Dorothy, and the small town they grew up in. Showing up on Mark’s door one day after years of separation, Mary convinces him to pretend to be her baby daddy, since he was the only man her mother ever approved of, after reminding him of the years she spent being his “fake girlfriend” as a teen. They create rules to ensure the success of their half-baked idea, which splinters Mark’s fragile queer ego to create a drag queen apparition - The Divine - who constantly fights against this new assimilation to heteronormativity. Confusing things even more, Mark soon falls head over heals in love with their lamaze instructor, Patrick, which throws a huge wrench in their charade for Dorothy. Internalizing the chaos in his life, Mark develops a rare condition known as couvade syndrome, bizarrely displaying pregnancy symptoms which become increasingly more difficult to hide, even from his new crush Patrick, who is partially-sighted. Everything in their lives quickly unravels, leaving Mark and Mary to pick up the pieces in time to welcome their babies into the world and into a new nuclear family.
Best Dramedy Series
Walk-In
After a chance encounter with a hustler, a well to do woman begins to experience supernatural events that upend her life
Short Film - All Genres
Social AnnXiety
Everyone loves a party. For Annie, a social gathering is an opportunity to live out every worst-case scenario before stepping foot through the door. Really, what's the worst that could happen?
Short Film - All Genres
The High Life
THE HIGH LIFE is a half-hour serialized dramedy exploring a mixed-religious family, when their black sheep daughter moves back home and tries to find God out of her childhood bedroom. The Pilot follows the Gold family as they reunite upon the mysterious death-request of their wealthy Aunt Linda, where everyone is forced to look at their lives with a little more honesty, revealing no one is who they pretend to be. Based on a Real-Life Co-Ed Naked Family Funeral.
Best Dramedy Series
Ore
It’s the 1820’s and three prospectors are searching for iron ore deep in the rural North Eastern United States in the hopes of finally finding their fortune. However, when a malevolent presence warns that they are not welcome amongst the rural landscape, Abraham, Noah, and Matthew question their commitment to the quest and what prospecting means not only for their future, but their very lives themselves.
Audio Fiction (Standalone)
Love Undone - Season 2
Love Undone explores the complexities and nuances of the Bell & Hill family, as they navigate love, friendships, family dynamics, careers and ambitions.
Best Web Series - Drama
Weird Helga: Grime and Glamour
Join Helga, Honey, and Julie as they experience the world in glorious stylized squash and stretch animation. Chaos and humor pair to show how these characters live their lives.
Best Dramedy Series
Experiment 31E
Experiment 31E is a Frankenstein-inspired, speculative fiction podcast set during an alternate version of the Victorian era that follows the recorded notes of a scientist who is performing a dangerous experiment. As she seeks to perfect her formula and find a suitable specimen for testing, unexpected threats rear their heads while her own motives lurk in the dark.
Best Podcast - All Genres
Spook Siblings
They just may just be the most unexpected monster hunters ever. Brother / Sister team, Simon and Sally Spook come from a long line of monster hunters. While they be getting a bit too old and may not be in the best shape physically, when you have a supernatural problem, they are the team to call on. The Spook Siblings are making the monsters afraid.
Best Dramedy Series
Scratched
Stuck at home during a global pandemic, boyfriends Liam and Devin have exhausted all forms of entertainment. Then Devin brings out a Ouija Board...
Short Film - All Genres
The Slightly Sleazy Speakeasy
A new couple out for a night on the town, wreaks havoc in a laundromat while searching for a trendy new speakeasy.
Audio Fiction (Standalone)
Peer
An aquaphobic college student on vacation falls for a lifeguard in Ocean City, Maryland, who helps him overcome his fear of the water.
Short Film - All Genres
HOT ANGRY MOM
Marie is a people-pleasing New York City mom who thought she’d have money, success, and respect by middle age. Instead, she’s working too many survival jobs and failing to meet her family’s expectations. But Marie’s the kind of woman you can count on to swallow her anger and put on a bright fucking smile. When she gets an opportunity to step into the role of a sexy powerful Goddess, Marie thinks she’s finally getting what she deserves. But her world is turned upside down when a video of her unleashing her anger becomes a viral sensation. AndersonVision says, "HOT ANGRY MOM intertwines elements of ‘Fleabag’ and ‘I May Destroy You’, offering a raw portrayal of a mother’s life. It humorously yet powerfully guides the audience through Marie’s self-discovery, as she learns to acknowledge her anger and sexual power, aspects she was previously conditioned to suppress." Film Threat says, “Tonally, Hot Angry Mom finds a good balance between the comedic nature of Marie’s story and finding authentic touchpoints to moments of rage women face every day. In turn, Mel House gives an empathetic performance in the serious moments without ever letting the comedy undermine her story.” - Alan Ng OC Movie Reviews says, "“Wonderful animated and graphic elements add a stylistic flair to the pilot which really stood out. If you remember the movies Tank Girl or Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, this fun animation is similar to that.”
Best Dramedy Series
Movers
Vitya and Borya are young guys, who after their death find themselves in front of a mysterious mechanism. The machine resurrects them to «restore their karma», but every time in new bodies - guest workers, strippers, women, etc. Being in someone else’s body and facing their friends and family members, they must fix their life mistakes. Could Vitya change his past life and will Borya understand on what sacrifices he has to go for his happiness?
Best Dramedy Series
"TWO CHAIRS"
A road weary traveler takes the chance meeting of a lifetime, but it turns out to be a Mysterious interrogation beyond time and space that will reverse the core of human existence... FOREVER. "Can Humans know everything? Should they?" This film was shot in Pittsburgh, but the director/editor/visual effects artist now resides in Cleveland, Ohio. The Director Enni Eastman is actually Jens Klein, a german/maltese director who has visual effects credit to his name from films like "Troy," "Gladiator" and "Munich"!!!
Best Dramedy Series
THE DOOR TO THE UNKNOWN
A couple is trapped in a house, only to be shaken to their core beliefs. Only way out: find or fight god.
Short Film - All Genres
ENCLAVE : Les Quatre de Neuville.
ENCLAVE : The Four of Neuville.With the chemical spreading across the continents, plunging the world into chaos, the Four of Neuville are the only ones who can stop ADES and, certainly, the last hope of humanity.
Best Dramedy Series
Bloodwork
When a mysterious noble enters the pub, two down on their luck drunks discover they bit off more than they can chew. In this alternate Victorian London many horrors await.
Short Film - All Genres
Superposition
Traveling through parallel worlds is possible. But are they safe? Student and talented programmer Alexey (played by Pavel Tabakov) will have to find out.
Best Dramedy Series
EvAlive
4 episodes web series about AI who thinks she is real blogger, and once she finds out that she is just a bot, she needs to rescue her host in order to survice
Best Dramedy Series
Downfall
When graduate student and aspiring author Noah Vaughn goes missing, four unlikely allies join together in a search that forces them to ask where innocence really ends. The journey will take them to the boundaries of the true world where temptations of love, lust, greed, and entitlement linger. But Noah isn't the only thing waiting at the center of this moral labyrinth, and the decisions these characters are forced to make as the illusion of reality parts around them may prove to be their Downfall.
Actual Play (Video)
Forgotten Masters - Season 2
Mockumentary where co-op radio host Ian Leighton interviews the greatest guitarists you've ever heard...but never heard of.
Best Web Series - Comedy Series
Re: Dracula
Re: Dracula takes the famous horror tale, breaks it up chronologically (every entry of this epistolary novel has a date), and sends the story directly to your podcatcher as it happens. Every time something happens to the characters, Re: Dracula will publish an episode, in real time.
Best Podcast - All Genres
Chikn Nuggit: Fruit Flavors
A brief compilation highlighting Sody Pop and his love/hate over certain candy flavors.
Best Dramedy Series
The Boar Knight
Join Nathaniel the Boar Knight as he journeys across a fantasy world in search of adventure and friendship! Nathaniel is a boar. Nathaniel is a knight. He's been bitten by a were-man and needs to find a way to break his curse before the next full moon!
Audio Fiction (Standalone)
Quest Friends!
Skeletons! Zombies! Angry, angry mushrooms! Even the most average day is filled with excitement when the afterlife is only a plane ride away. Join five best friends as they tell improvised tabletop adventures in a ghostly world inspired by cartoons like Amphibia, The Owl House, and Gravity Falls.
Best Podcast - All Genres
Table Read Podcast
The Table Read Podcast creators have taken the perfunctory Hollywood table read format and made it electric! Using top tier sound design and professional voiceover actors they’ve garnered solid 5.0 ratings from fans and comments begging for more. Each script is a new adventure in several episodes, taking you behind the scenes of the creative process as though you’re sitting right at the table with the cast. Editors even leave in occasional slip-ups, guffaws, and happy accidents by the performers, creating a real right-at-home feel for the listener, even amidst undeniable talent and skill.
Best Podcast - All Genres
Friend Draft
After ten years of marriage, Dean and Mia Summers are ready to call it quits. With the help of their lawyers, Bobby and Becca Belle, they begin the divorce proceedings. Dean agrees to move in with his dad. Mia hires her friend Janet to sell the house. Everything moves along rather easily until Dean and Mia find out that, unlike family, friends tend to choose sides. They soon find themselves getting uninvited or snubbed all together from events that would typically involve them as a couple. With the Belle's unable to legally divide up their friend base, Dean and Mia settle for the next best thing: a fantasy football-like draft to select the friends they'd like to keep moving forward. An idea that the Belle's believe might save their struggling podcast as opposed to Dean and Mia's marriage.
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The Hunted: NYCSS
This new media action horror comedy follows a group of misfit vampire slayers in New York City. Kendra and Amara, best friends, take a stage combat class with their buddies Max and Evann. Instructor Phil and administrator Diana move the group to a dungeon below class. Our fearful four are exposed to their first vampire, Nic. They learn that vampires are real and cannot be killed by conventional means anymore. Our unlikely heroes train and meet some magical beings along the way. They learn that vampires have a new elixir that keeps them alive forever. Our heroes must find a way to reverse the effects and rid New York City of the Vampire infestation. Slayers and Vampires go head to head in an epic sword fight. Who will win? Or… who can stay alive the longest?
Best Dramedy Series
The Land of Boggs: Friends 4 Evr
An ensemble cast of colorful blobs making viral friendship sketches for the masses.
Best Dramedy Series
All-Bastards
Richard Sandoval, an experienced Interpol agent based in the USA, is secretly summoned to Chile by Ruben, a clueless, alcoholic, and degraded staff member from the Chilean investigative Police, who tries to get some credit by capturing an Italian terrorist who goes by the alias Luciano Pavarotti. Together, they’ll wander the streets of Santiago, face many dangers, and uncover big secrets… That everyone seems to have.
Best Web Series - Comedy Series
Another Bad Side Quest
Another Bad Side Quest is a TTRPG Actual Play Livestream about a group of individuals who find themselves following the darkest myths and lore to stop the upcoming disaster that will destroy their entire home.
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Dark Dice
Having failed to save the world, five weary travelers try to find their way home... But something sinister pursues them within the Dead Pines.
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fête
Three sisters gather annually, over a period of five years, to celebrate the eldest's birthday. Each year brings with it new partners, challenges, heartaches, and misgivings in this messy ups and downs dramedy about hugely dysfunctional family dynamics.
Best Dramedy Series
The Great Tit is a Bird (trailer)
The Great Tit is a Bird, a new sci-fi narrative project, probes the compromises and consequences that vulnerable, structurally oppressed people around the world—from public laboratories to private boudoirs—undertake just to survive. This transfeminine micro-short is part of a larger story (forthcoming in 2023) that explores issues its creators have witnessed firsthand, including techno-colonization, research misconduct, gender-based violence, and threats to body autonomy.
Best Dramedy Series
Lucidus Somnia
Set in 1991, Lucidus Somnia (LOO-key-doos SOM-nee-ah) is a sci-fi podcast that tells the tale of Kendra and Michael, who escaped the clutches of a government research program designed to study children who possess a rare phenomenon called "the three Ts" - telekinesis, telepathy, and teleportation.
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Seen and Not Heard
An audio drama about hearing loss, deaf gain, and navigating the world through changing circumstances.
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#VANLIFE(EMOTIONAL)
ZACH (33) and KIKI (31) are just one of the thousands of gorgeous, toned, active-wearing VanLife couples who have quit their unfulfilling careers to pursue a life on the road. In a converted campervan, these two travel around the country, vlogging their exciting yet totally grounded lives in an attempt to show what Van Life is REALLY LIKE. It's one with the earth, man. It's beautiful. Calming. Connected. Spiritual. It's also bullshit. Beneath the fast-paced editing, stunning natural vistas, ample side-boob meditation sequences and royalty-free stock music, this ageing Millennial duo are just like any other struggling Millennial couple: miserable, sexless and curdling under the weight of: "I really should have a house and 2.5 kids by now. With only a few hundred subscribers to their name, Zach and Kiki feel increasingly average in front of and behind the camera. Things need to change. They need to get noticed. And time is running out - or it'll be a wrap for their vagabond lifestyle and, most likely…their relationship. When they accidentally (and violently) flatten a caravan park manager during a Livestream, it proves to be the greatest opportunity ever afforded to these wannabe Youtubers. Suddenly Zach and Kiki find themselves on the receiving end of an exceptional online boost - a digital tsunami of outrage and support rapidly casts our couple as either heroes acting in self- defence or a pair of self-absorbed narcissistic villains;, sending “Zach and Kiki” skyrocketing to the top of the Youtube algorithm. The couple must now choose between the desire to turn themselves in or seize on their newfound fame. But as all their devices are put on flight mode, and they go off the grid, tensions flare when the couple are forced to communicate and reveal their true selves without filters. As the authorities get closer and conscience begins to seep in, these #VanLifers are forced to make a choice: how far are they both willing to go to keep their channel in the spotlight, and what will become of them if they do?
Best Dramedy Series
A Very Muckey Christmas Parade
Join Virgil and Harmon, proprietors of the Muckey Landing Market Landing Market, Diner and Hardware Emporium, to experience the unending excitement that is the annual Muckey Landing Christmas parade!
Audio Fiction (Standalone)
Holidays After Dark - Thanksgiving 2022: Perilous Parades
In this episode, Holidays After Dark explores the history of Thanksgiving and discusses some mishaps that have occurred during the famous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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Aloha (Music Video)
One guy's trip into insanity on account of bad service over bagels.
Best Music Video
Curious Matter Anthology (Video Submissions)
Curious Matter Anthology is a podcast that adapts stories from the world’s best Sci-fi, and Horror writers into fully immersive binaural audio movies. Let your ears take you on an adventure into some of the most imaginative minds in the literary universe.
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Reimagined Volume II: Mahal
Inspired by Philippine mythology, the story focuses on Apolaki, Mayari, Tala, and Hanan, the four immortal children of the recently passed creator god, Bathala. As each of these deities wrestle with the grief of losing Bathala, their all-powerful actions create ripples throughout the universe. Can the siblings come together to defeat their own pain and learn how to accept the devastating loss before the world their father entrusted to them suffers from a celestial catastrophe?
Best Virtual Reality Content
The All Night Society
The All Night Society is a Vampire the Masquerade Camarilla chronicle following four neonate Kindred as they navigate the murky waters of Chicago politics. Prince Kevin Jackson has big plans for the Windy City, but Anarch agitators, rogue Lycans, and Sabbat terrorists threaten to undermine him at every step. Can the coterie help the young Prince build an empire to rival those of the Old World? Or will they join his broken regime in the ashes of vampire history?
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3 Blind Mice
Naeemah, a young Black woman who was adopted and raised by a Jewish couple in Massachusetts, makes an effort to discover her Black identity by transferring to an Historical Black College in Baltimore. Upon arriving, she meets two young Black women who help guide her during her transition. 3 Blind Mice is a love letter to the 90’s HBCU experience -- pre-electronic era, but takes place in current time.
Best Dramedy Series
Incoming: The Wives - Episode 2: War on Love, Episode 3: NOK and Episode 4: Band of Wives
Military wives take part in ‘My Voice’, a social experiment to document and share their experience of military life. Visiting the ‘My Voice’ booth on base to answer pre-recorded questions by Q, the wives reveal personal stories, and the highs and lows of married life as a ‘wife of’. Ep2: War on Love Beth is the subject of camp gossip while Sergeant Grant is told a few home truths from a worried Jo. Ep3: NOK Fearing the knock, Kit believes they will come home, Susie talks of old ghosts, while Leanne runs out of luck. Ep 4: Band of Wives Alice is left with no choice; Beth finds a new job and Holly faces the consequences of betrayal.
Best Dramedy Series
I Wanna Be a Super Hero
This is an animated music video for the song I Wanna Be a Super Hero by Two of a Kind. It encourages kids to try to make the world a better place, through everything from fighting climate change to being nice to others. The video features over 20 original superhero designs!
Best Music Video
Géolocaliser l'amour
Geomapping Love (series)"Geomapping Love" is the webserie adaptation of Simon Boulerice's novel of the same name. Through a succession of sexual conquests, we accompany Simon in his disappointments, emotions and disarray in his search for a soul mate (or a one-night stand) on dating applications. Behind these encounters lie a deep loneliness and a need to feel desired. Simon can only count on the loyalty of his best friend, Jocelyn, and Siri to say "I love you" without panicking. Will he be able to find love in the age of smartphones and dating apps?
Best Web Series - Drama
The Valkyrie Cycle
This is the Valkyrie Cycle: a Monsterhearts 2 actual play podcast about the messy lives of even messier teenagers, whose monstrosity is as inevitable as their destiny. Our setting is the small town of Thornridge, Washington, where monsters are as likely to lurk in the forest as in the hallways of the high school, and apocalyptic mythology threatens to become an ugly reality. As an unnaturally long winter casts an icy shadow over the upcoming prom, something more dangerous prowls at the edges of Thornridge, waiting for its chance to strike… The Valkyrie Cycle is a story about queerness, family, the chains that hold us back, and what happens when we break them.
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Joey Skaggs: Metamorphosis, Cockroach Miracle Cure
In 1981, entomologist Dr. Josef Gregor (a.k.a. Joey Skaggs), along with his cult-like clinical volunteers, dupes the mainstream media when he unveils his revolutionary cockroach hormone vitamin pill. Purported to cure all ailments known to man including the common cold, acne, anemia, and menstrual cramps, it also makes people invulnerable to nuclear radiation and can save humanity from self-annihilation. Since the 60s, artist Joey Skaggs has pioneered the use of the mass media to make social political commentary. In this documentary, Skaggs pulls back the curtain and reveals his unique stagecraft and searing commentary. This film is the sixth in the ongoing oral history series, "Joey Skaggs: Satire and Art Activism, 1960s to the Present and Beyond."
Best Dramedy Series
Blood
Kayla is forced to sequester at her husband’s ancestral home in South Korea, amidst a scandal involving him grooming underage girls, with only her loyal dog by her side and her daughter on the other end of the phone to keep her company. Yet when frightening signs of a tortured spirit start to appear at the house, Kayla must appeal for help to right not only her sins, but those of her husband and ancestors as well.
Audio Fiction (Standalone)
The White Vault: Avrum
Beset by the terrors of the Cossack Uprising of 1648, young Avrum finds his world lost to turmoil as his family and local Jewish community are lost overnight.
Audio Fiction (Standalone)
Cooking with Natasha: There is No "T" in Borsch
In premiere episode of the series, Natasha shows how to cook the Russian-Ukrainian beet soup Borsch.
Best Dramedy Series
You're It
A group of children decide to play a game of hide and seek to alleviate their boredom but nothing could prepare them for the outcome of this twisted game.
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VAST Horizon
Nolira is an agronomist tasked with establishing agriculture in a new solar system, but when she wakes up on a now- empty colony ship, the whole of her plan disappears. The ship has been set adrift, with numerous mission-critical problems requiring immediate attendance outside of her area of expertise. Nolira is aided by the ship’s malfunctioning AI, which acts as her confidant and companion during the fight for survival.
Audio Fiction (Standalone)
Tales from Three Corners - Compilation 2023
Short stories about the wonderful characters you meet in small towns everywhere. In no particular order.
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Bogan Moths - Ep1 (pilot)
Roger and Benny loiter in a garage, while the human party is in full swing nearby. In the dark, the two moths discuss the fact they have their lightbulb addiction under control, while truthfully they are waiting and hoping for a person to enter and turn the hanging lightbulb on, setting them free..
Best Dramedy Series
IMPOSTER The Series
Meet Marina Hayes. Artist. Activist. Liar. Marina has finally found success with an ultra-feminist, totally-original-and-her-own-idea, performance art piece. She’s making waves in the art world; from interviews with big wig arts magazines (or at least their interns) to respect gained from her notorious mentor (kinda). Marina has pretty much made it - all while sipping a perfectly crafted collagen-boosted-matcha-drip-latte in Instagram-ready lighting. And damnit if she doesn’t sound important… informed… she’s an ‘Artist’, with a capital ‘A’. You know what they say, 'fake it 'till you make it' -- right?
Best Dramedy Series
PARALYSIS
Paralysis is a poetic film featuring spoken word artists who capture the stream of consciousness of bystanders who witness a young Black boy fight for his life.
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A Perfect Bride 2
One year has passed since Kamajai’s son brought an American fiancée to his small and traditional Kazakh village. Since then Kamajai has grown to accept and love Liya, her new daughter-in-law. But when Liya’s parents arrive from America to ‘save’ their daughter from her ‘uncivilized’ duty as the kélin of the house and take her back home, Kamajai must stand her ground to keep her loved ones together and defend her national traditions.
Best Web Series - Comedy Series
Top of the Round
Stuck in the middle of a feud between gods and monsters, Talice and Chaz are forced to make allegiances and sacrifices to save all they hold dear. But can they do so without losing themselves in the process?
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"Enter the Room" Screenplay
A young adult (Brian) is visited by his brother, Jeremy, who needs a place to stay as he settles into his new city. The two polar opposite personalities begin to clash as Jeremy's presence poses a threat to Brian's way of life. Brian's uptight personality and unreasonable living standards rub off on Jeremy, creating an incredible amount of tension. Bad blood, stemming from a traumatic past event reveals the shocking truth of the brothers' current situations, as Brian struggles to differentiate between reality and his worst nightmares.
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Forever and a Day
In this episode of "Forever and a Day," gunshots ring out throughout the town of Augustus!
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What Will Be Here
In What Will Be Here?, five friends send a rocket to space with a collection of recordings on it that document the world’s decline, the stories they want to tell, and their efforts in building this rocket to get their message to the stars. They wonder what their world will have become by the time their message is listened to. What will be left of a planet that has destroyed itself? What will be left of the people who lived there? What will become of their stories? What will be here?
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Chaika
2089. Earth is silent. Chaika embarks on a journey from the moonbase where she was born in search of other humans. Could she be the last? Chaika is a science fiction audio drama podcast on loss, isolation and hope as one woman navigates a post-apocalyptic future.
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Better Men Elsewhere
Better Men Elsewhere is an American thriller with a dash of the supernatural, magical realism, and rural fantasy. Follow Jason Miranda, a prisoner sentenced to the mysterious mountain town of Coventry for 10 years for his crimes. Coventry is not your usual town and it is not your usual prison. While the townsfolk must cope with a convicted criminal in their midst as part of this unconventional arrangement, Jason must also have his wits about him as he traverses this even stranger, upside down and mysterious corner of the world.
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A Change in Gold
A group of cartographers on the Ilse of Immola find themselves on the edge of an apocalyptic event that will rip the island apart.
Actual Play (Video)
Ebb and Flo
A young woman's relationship begins to deteriorate as she struggles with an unknown disability that prevents her from understanding the concept of time.
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Savage Waking: Obliteration
When the tranquility of the small town of Monroville is suddenly shattered one morning by a mysterious earthquake, Sheriff Buckley and Deputy Fish head out to investigate. What they discover lurking among the ruins will soon threaten not only the lives of all in Monroville, but also the lives of those in the cities beyond. Trapped in the local library by forces they don’t understand, will Sheriff Buckley & a small group of civilians be able to decipher the mystery of what’s happening and escape the clutches of the dead or will the library become their tomb?
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Echoes (In) Between
Echoes (In) Between is a metaphysical audio drama podcast created by Brystal Studios. The story follows friends, Gemma Avots and Thomas Fonte, two thirty-something journalists based out of the Twin Cities who have decided to start a podcast about a radical new form of memory therapy. They have enlisted the help of a former psychology professor, Dr. Adrian Thorne, who developed a proprietary memory recall method that consists of having his subjects listen to specially designed tracks that contain frequencies which mimic brain wave patterns. Every week, Gemma, Thomas, and their listeners dive into their childhood memories with Dr. Thorne, hoping to recover long lost details. But when the hosts of the podcast begin developing worrying symptoms, what they thought would be a simple side project suddenly turns into an in-depth investigation into what Dr. Thorne’s frequency tracks actually do to the people who listen to them. Echoes (In) Between features light Sci-Fi elements as well as darkly comedic dialogue. The story highlights the pertinent themes of coping with generational trauma after an event that affected the entire world, as well as the effects of mental health deterioration on individuals and the people around them. But above all, Echoes (In) Between is a story about friendship and how complicated and nuanced non-romantic long-term relationships can be as we grow and change in adulthood.
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