PIFF 2019 Nominees & Award Winners
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BEST FEATURE FILM
Cruel Hearts - WINNER
Wheels
Northwood Pie
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BEST SHORT FILM
Mr. Sushi
It’s a Mess
Pusher
The Invention - WINNER
Eli
Waiting Game
Diwa
2 Wrongs
Modern Slave
Broken
Paper Birds
Foxes
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Osborne (Cruel Hearts)
Leo McGuigan (The Invention)
Jon Sumple (Extraordinary: The Seeding)
Joshua Sallach (Mr. Sushi)
LeAndre Thomas (Mirror) - WINNER
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BEST ACTOR
Kenneth T. Griggs (It’s Okay)
Bruce McGill (Waiting Game) - WINNER
Luke Walford (The Invention)
John Patrick Amedori (Waiting Game)
Ayinde Howell (Foxes)
BEST ACTRESS
Anna Maiche (Paper Birds)
Aina Dumlao (Diwa) - WINNER
Andi Morrow (Pusher)
Kristin Carey (Broken)
Mair Flores (Modern Slave)
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BEST STUDENT FILM
Weltschmerz - WINNER
White River Tales
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BEST DOCUMENTARY
Band Geeks
Extraordinary: the Seeding - WINNER
Out of the Shadows
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HONORABLE MENTION
Mr. Sushi - WINNER
BEST SCREENPLAY (Other finalists at bottom of page)
The Second Coming by Gabi Goldstein - WINNER
PIFF 2019 Program
Wednesday, March 13
BLOCK 1: The City of Roses & The American Dream - 5:00 PM
The Running Man of Pasadena
Out of the Shadows
Band Geeks
Baby Steps
Wheels
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BLOCK 3: The Best Medicine - 9:15 PM
Don’t Blow It
The Dinner
Baggage
Dark Specter II
Everything’s Fine
The Metal Detector
The Invention
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Thursday, March 14
BLOCK 4: Apocalypse Later - 6:10 PM
Eternal Ride of a Heartful Mind
There’s Something in the Water
Rain
The Last Harvest
Child, Disrupted
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SPECIAL FREE SCREENING - 8:00 PM
Vader - Episode I: Shards of the Past
(For entrance to this free screening please click on the title, and email us at your name and phone number to ShardsVaderFanFilm@gmail.com, so we can add you to the list. Availability is on a first-come, first-served basis. Unless we receive your information and confirm you, you will not be granted entry).
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BLOCK 5: Why So Serial? - 8:45 PM
All We Have Left
How to Get a Boyfriend
Killer of the Week
McCarthy
Music
The Dishwasher
Mr. Sushi
American Dream
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Friday, March 15
BLOCK 6: A View to a Thrill - 5:05 PM
Time Machinery
Afterthoughts
The Visitor
Under
Sonora
Voxgirl
Zero
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BLOCK 7: The Food of Love - 7:15 PM
Nowhere Band
The Hacks
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BLOCK 8: Hell is Empty - 9:35 PM
Sign
Empty Skies
History Day
Mortal Coil
Pusher
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Saturday, March 16
BLOCK 9: Life's Not a Song - 12:00 PM (Noon)
Before You Run
Snowball
Before the Thunder
Where She Goes
Waiting Game
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Happy Hour
You Too?
Diva
Self Tape
Jacob’s Kiss
The Spirit Room
Modern Slave
The Bartender
The Last Delivery
Northwood Pie
Rubes
Cruel Hearts
BLOCK 13: Close Encounters - 8:15 PM
Knight Watch
Extraordinary: The Seeding
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Sunday, March 17
BLOCK 14: Epoch - 12:00 PM (Noon)
Killed in Action
James Joyce’s The Sisters
L.A. Fadeaway
Poppies
Weltschmerz
Paper Birds
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BLOCK 15: Shattering The Box - 2:20 PM
#88
The Beach House on Morro Lane
G.E. 2
Solemn
Blue Pig
It’s a Mess
BLOCK 16: Sci-Fi High - 4:20 PM
Shots Fired
Due Time
Red Tape
Bear with me
A Psalm of Sight - Verse 1: Zerfall
Planet
The Beacon
BLOCK 17: Something Wicked This Way Comes - 6:30 PM
Night Mara
It’s in the Bedroom
Esther
R&R
Parousia
Pop!
Full Moon
One Dark Night
Fun
War Path
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Monday, March 18
BLOCK 19: Thicker Than Water - 6:00 PM
It’s Okay
On Ice
Nothing Takes the Place of You
The Pursuit
String Phone
White River Tales
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BLOCK 20: All My Pretty Ones - 8:10 PM
Duck Duck Goose
Dreamwisher
Mona
Argumento
Dillon
Broken
Mirror
2 Wrongs
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Tuesday, March 19
BLOCK 21: More Than Kin - 6:00 PM
Dogfight
Patrick
Jingle
The Auctioneer
They Fall Fast
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BLOCK 22: The Phantom Pain - 8:00 PM
Breaking News
How Feeble the Heart
Illegal
Hayley
Protect & Serve
Dirt
Word is Bond
Diwa
Kommando 1944
Eli
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Wednesday, March 20
Séamus
Danni & May
Blue
Bye
Swaggerback
I Remember You
Campfire Alpha
Foxes
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BLOCK 24: Love At Last Sight - 8:05 PM
Fairy Tail
The Mingle
Marta
Swiped Right
Virtually
Shanghai Sole
She Comes in Colors Everywhere
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Thursday, March 21
The Great Gatsby Gala & Award Ceremony
7:00 PM
Red Carpet at the Speakeasy
8:00 PM
Great Gatsby Gala & Award Ceremony
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PIFF 2019 Screenplay Finalists
Back When by Matthew McLaughlin
Been Too Long by Laura DeBar
Cajun Justice by Mike Briock
Company Christmas by Diana Lee Woody
Dandelion Wishes by Ally May
Dream HOLLYWOOD by Bill Brock
Drive-Time by Jayson Johnson & David Ballard
El Punk by Tony Cammarata
The Fourth Night by Mike Briock
Generations - Letter From an Old Father to His Son by Kevin Starnino
The Hero of the World by Staci Greason & Linda Hill
Hibernation by Mike Briock
In Too Deep: the Brian Futz Story (a Long Lost 80's Movie) by Zack Smith & Andrew Miller
Motel by Jerry J. Sampson
Mother, Daughter, Happiness by Ed Seaward
Oakland by Andrew Koponen
The One-Room School in Darnell County by Megan Breen
Perry by RJ Watson
The Royal Aloha Club by Jody Ellis & Bryan Fierro
Runaway Cruise by Theodore Carl Soderberg
The Second Coming by Gabi Goldstein
The Senior Senior by Doug Pike
True Destiny by Joe Leone
White Lie Wedding by Whitney Powell
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Screening with Melora Hardin:
Saturday, March 16 - 6:00 PM
Actor Melora Hardin (Cruel Hearts, The Office) to be honored with the PIFF 2019 Career Inspiration Award after the screening of Cruel Hearts.