Maverick Movie Awards
The Maverick Movie Awards annually honors films and screenplays. They were founded as the New Haven Underground Film Festival in 2004, and became known as "Maverick Movie Awards" in 2008.[1] The awards are given out by a panel of judges working in the film industry.[2] Its winners include both big-budget studio films as well as low budget independent films.[3]
Winners
Feature Film
Short Film
- Best Picture: Concrete/Night (Director: Noe Weil)
- Best Director: Joshua Hinkson (for Sic)
- Best Screenplay: The Funeral (Yehudah Jez Freedman)
- Best Chronicle: Project: Shattered Silence (Director: Colleen Sparks Hamilton & Jared O'Roark)
- Best Cinematography: By My Hand (Tucker Macdonald)
Feature Film
- Best Director: Dimitris Athanitis (for: Three Days Happiness)
Short Film
Feature Film
Short Film
- Best Picture: Tumbleweed! (Director: Jared Varava)
- Best Actor: Dylan Smith (in Hangnail)[7]
- Best Original Score: Atom[8]
Short Film
- Best Soundtrack: Beatboxing - The Fifth Element of Hip Hop (Director: Klaus Schneyder)
Nominations
Feature Film
- 1400
- Badsville
- The Barn
- The Birdwatcher
- Dumbbells
- Legend of the Lich lord
- Pneuma
- Restraint
- Second Honeymoon
- Silent City
Best Web Series
- Year of the Snake
- Arthur
- Cracked - A Web Series
- The Horizon
- LI Divas
- Made in Mosjøen
- Miss Beverly Hills Ghost
- Paradise High
- Rivals
- Seeking (the web) Series
Best Director
- Saranne Bensusan, “The Hunting of the Snark”
- William Carne, “Pneuma”
- Stephen Chen, “Silent City”
- Fiona Cochrane, “Women are the Answer”
- Greg I. Hamilton, “Power of the River: Expedition to the Heart of Water in Bhutan”
- Mattias Low, “All the World in a Design School”
- Derrick Lui, “1400”
- April Mullen, “Badsville”
- Ben Rider, “Seven Devils”
- Alexander Tuschinski, “Timeless”
Best Editing
- Saranne Bensusan, “The Hunting of the Snark”
- William Carne, “Pneuma”
- Stephen Chen, “Silent City”
- Fiona Cochrane, “Women are the Answer”
- Greg I. Hamilton, “Power of the River: Expedition to the Heart of Water in Bhutan”
- Mattias Low, “All the World in a Design School”
- Derrick Lui, “1400”
- April Mullen, “Badsville”
- Ben Rider, “Seven Devils”
- Alexander Tuschinski, “Timeless”
Best Music
- Wenfu Bang, 1400
- Jerome Leroy, A Better Place
- The Barn
- Simone Cilio, Badsville
- Cowards Do It Slow
- Michael Muhlfriedel, Dumbbells
- Guthrie Lowe, The Hunting of the Snark
- Guthrie Lowe, Land of Smiles
- Restraint
- Timeless
Best Actor
- Jason Beaudoin, “Pneuma”
- Mike Dopud, “Virtual Revolution”
- Brian Drolet, “Dumbbells”
- Ian McLaren, “Badsville”
- Michael Padraic Scahill, “Cowards Do It Slow”
- Will Stout, “The Barn”
- Desmond Tan, “1400”
- Stephen Todt, “A Better Place”
Best Actress
- Dana Blackstone, “Alone in the Universe”
- Lauren Campbell, “Vancouver Rhapsody”
- Anabella Casanova, “Intersection”
- Caitlyn Folley, “Restraint”
- Tamara Duarte, “Badsville”
- Mary Ann Raemisch, “A Better Place”
- Victoria Souter, “Legend Of The Lich Lord”
- Lois Stewart, “Catfish Blues”
- Camille Sullivan, “The Birdwatcher”
- Xu Yahui, “1400”
Reception
One thing is clear, the festival circuit has to be taken back for those it was originally meant to serve: filmmakers and audiences. MMA is a group whose mission is so in line with what needs to be done in this ever-changing landscape.
The Maverick Movie Awards puts credibility and intrigue back into the word ‘maverick.’
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