FilmQuest, a film festival that celebrates the majesty of genre filmmaking in the realms of fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and beyond, backs up its stellar reputation with an amazing lineup of official 2020 selections. I can highly recommend the incredible horror anthology The Mortuary Collection, the rowdy, punk rock-driven horror comedy Uncle Peckerhead, and the humorous reimagining of The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, and I cannot wait to see the other features on tap. Dozens of mouth-watering short films are also scheduled. One of MovieMaker Magazine’s 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2017 and 2015, a MovieMaker Magazine Top 30 Bloody Best Genre Fest in the World in 2018, a FilmFreeway Top 100 Best Reviewed Film Festival, and Utah’s three-time Best of State Film Festival (2018, 2019, 2020), the seventh annual FilmQuest will take place on dates to be determined at the Velour Live Music Gallery in Provo, Utah. Following is the official announcement from FilmQuest.
The 2020 FilmQuest saw exactly 1,100 films and screenplays submitted for consideration. From these submissions, we have made our Official Selections across several categories from around the world to play and compete at the 2020 FilmQuest Festival. Screenplay finalists were chosen by a group of professional third party judges, who judged a record amount of screenplay submissions this year, of which we expanded the list to 75 finalists. A total of 25 nations are represented in the final selections; 52% of all films selected were either written, directed, and/or produced by a female filmmaker.
The 7th annual FilmQuest will take place on a TBD date at the Velour Live Music Gallery in beautiful Downtown Provo, Utah. Tickets and passes will go on sale once the new date has been determined, due to Covid-19 related circumstances. The website will be updated with information on each film in preparation for the physical festival this Fall. More information about FilmQuest’s plan for Covid-19 can be found here: Covid-19 Information
Nominations will be announced for all awards at a later date. Film blocks and schedules will be announced near the announcement of the new dates. Premiere statuses TBD. Selections are subject to change before the festival.
Start planning your FilmQuest experience today!
FEATURE FILMS
12 Hour Shift – USA
Danger! Danger!
Danger! Danger! – USA
Meander – France
Survival Skills – USA
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die – USA
The Mortuary Collection – USA
The Reckoning – UK
The Return – Canada
There’s No Such Thing as Vampires
There’s No Such Thing as Vampires – USA
They Live Inside Us – USA
Uncle Peckerhead – USA
Uncle Peckerhead
SHORT FILMS
COMEDY & DARK COMEDY SHORTS
A Perfect Circle – USA
A Play – USA
Afterlife – Ireland
Allergic Overreaction – USA
And Then God Laughed – Mexico
APPyness – USA
Beauty Juice – USA
Below – USA
Common Decency – USA
Curses LLC – USA
Demon Cooler – USA
Dent – USA
Don’t Sneeze – Canada
Exterminator – USA
Flick – USA
Frank & Mary – UK
Hellevate – USA
Imagine a World – Canada
Inflatio – USA
Make A Wish – USA
Meat Lovers – USA
Miracle Desert – USA
Numerus Duo – USA
OverKill – USA
Peter the Penguin – UK
Rattenfalle – USA
Seasonal Depression – Canada
Tea Time – USA
The Speed of Time – USA
The Virgin Amus – USA
Unholy ‘Mole – USA
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Inferno – New Zealand
FANTASTIC SHORTS
A Storybook Ending – USA
Banjanxed – USA
Buffalo & Trout – USA
Chill – USA
Disco Graveyard – USA
First Lesson – USA
Fragile.com – USA
Green Cobra – USA
Honour They Mother – USA
I’ll End Up in Jail – Canada
Mom Fight – USA
Monstrous Circus – France
Plainsong – Canada
Postmarked – USA
Push the Point – USA
Stalag III-C – Belarus
The Baker – USA
The Face of the Deep – USA
The Hour After Westerly – USA
The Last Pizza – China
The Legacy – France
The Long Walk Back – UK
The Obliteration of the Chickens – USA
The Stranger – South Africa
The Wick – UK
VR Food – USA
Washed – USA
FANTASY SHORTS
And So He Opens His Eyes – Russia
Barrier – USA
BOS – Belgium
Circle of Stone – USA
Darling, Darling, Wendy – USA
Exactly As They Are – USA
Know-It-All – USA
Last Dream Before Sunrise – USA
Moon Drops – Serbia
Superhero – Luxembourg
The Ballad of John St. George – USA
The Last Incantation – USA
The Rougarou – USA
Your Monster – USA
HORROR SHORTS
$trip – USA
Antique – Norway
Backward Creep – USA
Central Dental – Canada
Changeling – UK
Concealer – USA
Crawler – Sweden
Culpa – USA
Dar-Dar – Spain
Day Break – USA
Death Walks on Nitrate – USA
Diabla – USA
Dinner For One – USA
Duérmete Niño – Canada
Face Your Fears – USA
Ghosted – USA
Go Back – USA
Goodnight Death – USA
Hammurabi – USA
Here There Be Tygers – USA
Hide and Seek – USA
Hungry Joe – UK
Last Dance – UK
Lily in the Maze – USA
Limbo: The Edge of Hell – Spain
Lose It – USA
Love Bite – USA
Mateo – Mexico
Melania – Germany
Mr. Tickelz – USA
Need Anything – USA
Night Crawl – USA
Odd Girl – Canada
Pakok – USA
Pieces of Me – USA
Pigs – France
Public Lot – USA
Red Light Green Light – USA
Rental – USA
Ride Complete – USA
Routine – USA
Seek – USA
Sensor – USA
Show Me Jack – USA
Shut Eye – USA
Significant Other – USA
Smiley Death Face – USA
Snake Eyes: An ASMR Nightmare Experience – USA
Swipe – Netherlands
Teething – Canada
The Altruist – USA
The Barber – Ukraine
The Burden – Netherlands
The Door – USA
The Howling Wind – USA
The Prisoner – UK
The Rejected – Turkey
The Survivors – USA
Three Minutes – USA
Truth or Scare – USA
Wash – Sweden
Willa – Canada
SCI-FI SHORTS
Accomplice – USA
Amara – USA
Anemone – Italy
Annie, We’re Here For You – USA
Echo – Spain
Exkursion – Germany
Flip – New Zealand
Infinity 7 – USA
Jeff Drives You – USA
Living Things – UK
Muse – UK
My Little China Girl – France
Polvotron 500 – Spain
Roughneck – USA
Ruby Red – USA
Sandbox – Norway
Skywatch – USA
Snowflakes – UK
The Fantastic Folly of Future Jess – USA
The Immortal – Australia
The Last Man on Earth – New Zealand
The Man Who Took Out the Trash – USA
Transfert – France
You Wouldn’t Understand – USA
UTAH SHORTS
American Killjoy – USA
Circadian – USA
Cradle Song – USA
Kepler 138 – USA
Love Spell – USA
Lumeria – USA
The Cultist Next Door – USA
The Tell Tale Heart – USA
Through the Valley of the Hunter – USA
STUDENT FILMS
COMEDY & DARK COMEDY STUDENT FILMS
Downs of the Dead – Norway
Witchin’ – USA
FANTASTIC STUDENT FILMS
Love (and so on) – USA
FANTASY STUDENT FILMS
Eye for an Eye – Australia
Knightman – USA
The Beast – UK
HORROR STUDENT FILMS
A Strange Calm – USA
Exit – Russia
Gaslight – Australia
Milk Teeth – USA
Nymph – Ireland
Soon Comes Night – USA
The History of Monsters – USA
The Rule of Three – USA
ANIMATED FILMS
Abe’s Story – Ireland
Black Forest Sanatorium – Canada
Chef Giants – USA
Dark Ride – USA
Fast Feud – USA
Meanwhile, at the Abandoned Factory – Australia
One Last Monster – USA
Passage – India/USA
Quirkistador – Luxembourg
Spark – USA
The Animator – USA
The Breakfast Nook – USA
The Haunted Swordsman – USA
Theourgia – USA
Tides Are Changing – USA
Too Late – Canada
Tragic Magic – USA
MUSIC VIDEOS
Amazong Prunk – USA
Disappear – USA
Down the Line – USA
Falling – Canada
Funeral – Mexico
Helluva Ride – Canada
Human Killer – USA
I’m So Depressed – USA
Nice Shoes – USA
Piso 21 – Mexico
RED – USA
Suckers – USA
The Call of Cthulhu – Ireland
The Enigma Men – USA
Trials – USA
You’re Afraid – USA
WEB SERIES
After Ray – USA
American Tourist: Nightmare in Thailand – USA/Thailand
Dark Before Dawn – Canada
In Limbo – USA
Karate Tortoise – USA
Over and Out – Australia
Sydney Sleuthers – Australia
The Influencers – USA
The Kara Morgan Show: Western – USA
Thumb Runner – USA
Zenith Run – USA
FILMQUEST EXPRESS FILMS
More information will be provided about FQ Express, and if a FQ Express competition will in fact be taking place, once our new dates are determined for the 2020 festival.
SCREENPLAYS
All unproduced screenplay finalists chosen by a team of third party judges. Winners and Top 20 & Top 5 (Features) and Top 5 (Shorts) will be announced at the festival.
SCREENPLAY FINALISTS – FEATURES (Top 50)
A Night in the Country by Larry Hankin
Best of Virginia by Matthew Corley
Benny B by Patrick Hogan
Bestial by Clark D. Schaefer
Cadicle by James Fox & Darrell Gabonia
Cellular Memory by Brian Erwin & Christina Hunsicker
Cover Crop by Jeffrey Howe
Crazy Time by Andrew Cooper
Darkroom by Levi Buchanan
Diamond Lake by Justin Michael Terry
Erased by Camille Huot & Ambrealys
Faithful Shadow by Kevin J. Howard
First Nation by Thomas DiMassimo
Fractal by Euroy Tan
Gifts by Josh Kaukl
Graven by David Campfield
Guacamole Yesterday by Hudson Phillips
Gullun Drift by Richard Clarke
Hometown by James Rees
Hurricane Party by James B. Cox
In Country by Scott Peterman & Cat Davis
Kelipot by Seth Nesenholtz
Kudzu by Marisa Forrest
Lonely Planet by Karl Mather
Meth Gators by Jordan Miller
No Overnight Parking by Meg Swertlow
Orson by Jared Egol
Palisades by Richard P. Alvarez
Precipice by Avishai Weinberger
Saint Shari by Dana Hammer
Salt West by Samuel Peirce
Siege by Ian Neligh
Share by Neil Krolicki
Soul Passage by Patrick Mediate and Kristin Ilagan
Stephen the Demon by Georgina Cahill
Study in Blue by Patrick Clement
The Box Pony Express by G.S. Leitgeb
The Burgeoning Death by Chelsea Lutz
The Chamber by Sergio Pinheiro
The Greenhouse by Wylie Rush
The Grip by Alex Gold
The Horror Film Killer by Michael J. Bowler
The Last Schubert Hotel by Sean Hennessy
They Hunt at Night by Rob Walker
Too Many Wades by Stirling J. McLaughlin & Wilder Konschak
Trip by Michael Klug
Until Death by Alyssa Stevens
Video Nasties by Cary McKnight
Where the Devil Resides by Travis Heermann
Why, Arizona by Isaiah Mouw
SCREENPLAY FINALISTS – SHORTS (Top 25)
Again by Dorian Frankel
Blank by Avishai Weinberger & Tova Weinberger
Come Along, Harry Higgins by Kevin Machate
Fear of Falling by Jeffrey Stackhouse
Ghost Chicken by Vincent DiSanti
Gift by Jeff Kallet
Gobble by Trow Dewinne
Gods Lost by Daniel Holliday
Horror Stories by Curtis Threadgold
I Need a Sixer! by Jesse Mattson
Identity by Kurt Choate
Las Nogas by Catya Plate
Murphy’s Gulch by Jeff Bassetti
Not a Creature was Stirring by Michael Hogan
Suck-Up by Gil Saint
The Barn by Sophie Black & Tommy Draper
The Birdwatcher by Lachlan Marks
The Boneyard by M.R. Fitzgerald
The Peregrine by Justin Giddings
The Summoning by Marion McDowell
The Toy Rabbit by Russell Whaley
TheoMORPHIS by Sam Moony
Vermillion by Christina Bryant
Watcher by Alan Sanchez
Zasha by Margarita Zhitnikova & Jeffrey Weber
