The festival screens films and invites screenplay finalists to gives out the following awards:

Film Awards
Best Feature
Best Mid-length Film
Best Short
Best No-Budget Film
Audience Award

Screenplay Awards*
Farce
Romantic Comedy
Character Comedy
Ensemble Comedy
Teleplay
Short

*Screenplay award categories are somewhat affected by the submissions. One year, we got several satires. Another, none. So we reserve the right to honor the work that is actually being done rather than eliminate those good scripts which may or may not fit our preconceived ideas of comedy genres.

Not all awards will necessarily be given.  The festvial reserves the right to withhold or alter the award categories.

2008 FILM AWARDS

Best Feature

Creating Karma by Jill Wisoff

This manic Bollywood-style romp from the 60's  era of free love to contemporary pseudo-spiritual everyday philosophy is big-screen farce  full of fun.

Best Short

Las Perdidas by Laura Somers and Lauren Costa

A road trip to hell story where hell is not other people, it is the gals themselves. 

Best No-Budget Short

You're Too by Meg Weidner

This film finds the humor in just how much advice people feel they can give a gal about herself and how easy it is for a woman to take it to heart sometimes.  And then sometimes not.

Best Documentary

Pursepectives by Wendy Cohen

A fun and funny look at purses and the women who love them. 

Audience Award

The Pussycats by Jill Broadfoot

Four women, who in their twenties took a road trip to Vegas to see Tom Jones, head for the Corn Palace in South Dakota twenty years later to toss their panties at him one more time.

Runners-Up

Two other audience favorites received Honorable Mentions

Oh, Sammy! by Susan Deming

Red Flag by Victoria Cordova

2008 SCREENPLAY AWARDS

Short Screenplay
Citizen Rose by Anne Kruse
Mild-mannered Rose lives and dies by the rule, “never come between a woman, her dog and her bingo.” Unfortunately there are rule breakers, and they will not be tolerated.

Character Comedy
The Happy Dance by Pamela Rodeheaver and Lisa Katz
When a physician’s estranged daughter returns home for her wedding, his calm routine turns to chaos, bu tthe marriage is not the only uniting that takes place.

Ensemble Comedy
Tongue Tide by Gwen Baer and Linda Yandell
When an out-of-work actor leaves his Mafia princess fiancee at the altar, she puts a contract out on his life. He hides out in drag on a lesbian cruise and falls in love - only she thinks he’s a she.

Romantic Comedy
Izzy and Allie by Suzanne Studer Iselt
A fearless Australian country boy brings out the adventurer in a timid American beauty during a holiday fling in Thailand. He then must find the emotional courage to go to America and win her heart.

Pomona Mona by Constance Brenner
A seventh generation ex-stripper whose mother has rhyming echolalia whose grandma who won’t give up the pole cannot get her producer boyfriend to take her strippercise video project seriously.

Farce
What Do You Thinx of Madeline Minx? by Noemi Zeigler
Madeline convinces her pianist boyfriend to move to Hollywood so she can become a pop star where she successfully rises to the middle. But can she stay there?

Teleplay
Suspicious Minds - Pilot by Roxanne Marciniak
Mark keeps losing girlfriends over unfounded suspicions. He forms a support group with other like-minded paranoids.

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