March 2022 - Winner

RedWood Film Festival team glad to announce the list of Winner of March 2022 Edition.

BEST 1- MINUTE SHORT FILM

Film: Inner Demons

Directed by: Maddie, Brendan, Chris & Carter

Synopsis: A student wakes up in a haunted classroom, but what is haunting him?

BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM

Film: INVASION

Directed by: Joann Perez-Moya

Synopsis: A Film Noir horror. An Alien Detective hunts down a suspected Scientist trying to prove Aliens exist and possibly reveal their impending plan to invade earth. His job—stop him before he can warn mankind.

BEST LGBTQ FILM

Film: Happy Trans Girl Like Me

Directed by: Fran Sisco

Synopsis: Fran Sisco sings her empowering and entertaining song called "Happy Trans Girl Like Me" at various venues, often along with her daughter Kelly, with clips interspersed showing Fran's current amazing life as a transgender woman.

BEST WEB SERIES

Film: Eye on Entertainment

Directed by: Dawna Lee Heising

Synopsis: http://www.youtube.com/eyeonentertainment

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1850596/

https://dawnaleeheising.me/

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Film: Black City Nights

Directed by: Nathan Castiel

Synopsis: "Black City Nights" is a music video for the disheveled and defeated, a vivid depiction of long sleepless nights, chasing ghosts of one’s past and future, lost bets, and blind optimism that the next big break is just around the corner,” Christoph Hochheim of Always You shares. “It’s about loneliness and what people do to escape it, as well as the hopefulness that keeps us pushing through.” Directed by Nathan Castiel, and produced by Nathan Castiel and Jared Piller.

BEST ANIMATION FILM

Film: The Derelict

Directed by: Dante D'Anthony

Synopsis: A young smuggler flees a deal gone bad in the corrupt Imperial realms. With the rest of his crew gone, he flees to the Hercules cluster Space Station. "The Derelict" is a short film that will be part of the full-length feature "The Magnificent Warriors of Dimension War One"!

BEST COMEDY FILM

Film: NO FITNESS - NO LOVE

Directed by: Yuri Maslak & Olga Tugaeva

Synopsis: You can not only get in shape in the gym but also meet the man of your dreams. Of cause, his heart may be already occupied by someone else...

BEST DRAMA FILM

Film: DID/didn’t

Directed by: Nicholas Bromund

Synopsis: A career criminal has his identity questioned.

BEST EXPERIMENT FILM

Film: Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance

Directed by: Aki Aleong

Synopsis: 1870's America. A Chinese immigrant falsely accused of murdering a white woman is viciously hunted down; he'll have to prove his innocence in a time when people of color had "no legal rights" and could be bought and sold for a profit.

BEST HORROR FILM

Film: Happy Anniversary

Directed by: Chris Borgo

Synopsis: A woman arrives home to find a series of messages left from her husband on their wedding anniversary.

Tagline: Not every love story has a happy ending.

BEST NON-FICTION FILM

Film: DID/didn’t

Directed by: Nicholas Bromund

Synopsis: A career criminal has his identity questioned.

BEST WOMEN FILM

Film: INVASION

Directed by: Joann Perez-Moya

BEST DIRECTOR

Award goes to: Chris Borgo

Film: Happy Anniversary

Directed by: Chris Borgo

Synopsis: A woman arrives home to find a series of messages left from her husband on their wedding anniversary.

Tagline: Not every love story has a happy ending.

BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR

Award goes to: Joann Perez-Moya

Film: INVASION

Directed by: Joann Perez-Moya

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

Award goes to: Chris Borgo

Film: Happy Anniversary

Directed by: Chris Borgo

Synopsis: A woman arrives home to find a series of messages left from her husband on their wedding anniversary.

Tagline: Not every love story has a happy ending.

BEST ART DIRECTOR

Award goes to: Yuri Maslak

Film: NO FITNESS - NO LOVE

Directed by: Yuri Maslak & Olga Tugaeva

Synopsis: You can not only get in shape in the gym but also meet the man of your dreams. Of cause, his heart may be already occupied by someone else...

BEST EDITOR

Award goes to: Chris Borgo

Film: Happy Anniversary

Directed by: Chris Borgo

Synopsis: A woman arrives home to find a series of messages left from her husband on their wedding anniversary.

Tagline: Not every love story has a happy ending.

BEST SCREENWRITER

Award goes to: Tiffany Colling

Film: A Colorado Christmas

Directed by: Tiffany Colling

Synopsis: Featuring all levels of service (military etc.) A P.A. to a billionaire finds love in the end after working for a hard ass man who doesn't realize what he wants until the spirit of the season is upon him.

BEST ACTRESS - FEMALE

Award goes to: Dawna Lee Heising

Film: Dark Classics - Monologue from Lady Macbeth

Directed by: Craig Railsback

Synopsis: The Dark Classics team of Dr. Renah Wolzinger, Craig Railsback, Keith Wolzinger and Sean Glumace filmed Dawna Lee Heising performing a monologue by Lady Macbeth from Shakespeare's classic play "Macbeth". The video is part of Brian Barsuglia's documentary "A Bard for the Ages: Shakespeare's Timeless Effect".

BEST SCREENPLAY

Film: Legal Passion

Writer by: JK Jones

Synopsis: A small college basketball player gets an unexpected opportunity to play professionally in Italy, falls in love and tries to make his late grandmother's prediction come true.

BEST CONCEPT

Film: Synesthesia Story

Writer by: Jillian Vitko

Synopsis: Josephine is a musician who has a rare form of synesthesia where she associates colors with people. Through suffering and song, she navigates this confusing condition to make sense of things. Hear her story, listen to her music, see her colors. Based on a true story (& adapted from Jillian Vitko's acclaimed solo show Synesthesia the Musical).

BEST PLOT

Film: EfA

Writer by: Ian Davies

Synopsis: When a lonely Welsh Bomb-Girl throws a note into an ammo box, a love story begins threading its way through the horrors of war-torn Europe.

1944. War is a way of life, even for 19-year-old Efa, a lonely farmer’s daughter in North Wales.

Working with her friends in a munitions factory, Efa hears about dancing, dashing American G.I boyfriends, and love notes dropped in with the bombshells they’re packing, hoping to catch the eye of a handsome and solitary young soldier.

For Efa, Sundays mean chapel. Her Godly parents devour the minister’s solemn sermon. After the service, he scolds Efa’s ungodly and worldly ways.

Back in work. Undeterred by the minister’s warning of eternal damnation, Efa slips a note into the next ammo box she fills.

The Netherlands, two weeks later. Unloading ammunition, Tomasz and Heniek chat about leave. As Heniek drops an ammo box, Efa’s note flutters out. Intrigued, he replies to this girl from mysterious Wales.

Home from a night-shift, Efa finds a letter waiting. Hiding it from Mam, she hurriedly retreats to her bedroom to meet Heniek. Their journey begins weaving its way through the horrors of war.

As Efa watches Mair, a fellow bomb-girl burn to death, Heniek sees the death of his best friend Tomasz in combat.

Troubled by the cruel death of Mair, loneliness and her overbearing Dad, Efa yearns to be in the arms of Heniek.

Traumatized by the death of Tomasz, and yearning for Efa, Heniek deserts. Cold and hungry, he shelters at a farmhouse.

Hans, a German deserter does likewise. At first sworn enemies, a friendship grows as they set off together for England.

Tragedy ever looms. Surviving an air attack, Hans is later shot trying to surrender.

As Heniek is beaten by Polish comrades, British military police rescue him. Returned to unit, he is attacked and wounded by German SS POW’s.

Attached to light duties, Heniek is ordered to escort supply trucks...to the munitions factory. Frantic letter to Efa sent, his journey begins.

True love never runs smooth. Artillery barrages, Doodlebugs and stormy seas beset Heniek, as Efa must stand her ground against Dad, her boss and her friends as Heniek approaches.

Heniek finally arrives. Their journey has been long and arduous, but true love will prevail. Dancing in the canteen, Heniek and Efa kiss as fate still has one last trick to play…

JURY SPECIAL SECTION - FILM