Imaginarium 2023 proudly announces the rest of our 2023 Film Festival Official Selections and all Screenplay Finalists!

We received a record number of entries this year, and our 10th Anniversary will feature the strongest field of projects that we have ever showcased!

The Imaginarium Convention Independent Film Festival screens feature films, short films, documentaries, music videos, and web series from around the world! All Official Selections will be juried for awards consideration, with awards announced at the 2023 Imaginarium Convention Awards Banquet held on Saturday, July 15th, 2023!

Our screenplay awards are also recognized as part of our Imadjinn Awards for writing excellence.


Feature Films

STRANDED

Director – Shawn Burkett


The Tree House

Director – Flávio Ermírio de Moraes


Short Films

The Voice in Isabel Fleiss’s Office

Director- Jim Haverkamp


Spellbound

Director – Robin Rippmann


New West

Director – Jordan Mears


In the Basement

Director – Steve Cleberg


Paleface

Director – Matt Long


The Wedding Application

Director – Joe Atkinson


The BJ (Bank Job)

Director – Seth Young


Mooncheeze

Director – Herschel Zahnd


Time Spent

Director – Rob Daniel Hutt


Ghost-O-Matic

Director – Shane Devon


The Assassin’s Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands

Director – Russ Emanuel


The Box

Directors – David Colao, J.D. Wentzel


In Justice, IN

Director – Brian Snow


Like Son, Like Father

Mark Bethea


Solitaire

Director – Amy Neswald


Little t

Director – Masha Ellsworth


The Mayor Jones

Director – Ethan Avery


Don’t Look in the Corner

Director – Keshia Thomas


Taking Initiative

Director – Mikayluh Bowers


Bump in the Night

Directors – David Wate, Herschel Zahnd


Dark Side of the Moon

Director – Lincoln Reed


Documentary

More Than a Disorder

Director – Mustafa Mian


Bipolar Don’t Give A F***

Director – Amy Leigh McCorkle


The Red Creek Sessions

Director – Justin Harris


Sloane: A Jazz Singer

Director – Michael Uppert


Lynn Ruth and Me

Director – Louise Catherine Johnson


Web Series

Illuminagents (Pilot Episode)

Director – Herman Wang


Recovery Unplugged featuring Cast from Letters to Daniel and Del Weston

Director- Amy Leigh McCorkle


Music Video

Cemetery

Director – Amy Leigh McCorkle


She Dreamt Alone

Director – Nina McNeely


Screenplay Finalists

Long Format Category

Hope and Faith – An Obsession of the Heart Part Two by Adam Poulous

Homecoming to Murder by Carol Preflatish

Pretty Pete by Marshall S. Ferrin

Caesar of Richmond by Logan Harris

Westward Voyager by Silvio Wolf Busch

The Color of Love by Steve Farris

Songbird by Amy Leigh McCorkle and Melissa Goodman

Greenman by Don Stroud and Winter Mead

Avulsion by James Sabata

Echoes of the Garfield Multiverse by Aaron Pryka

Zayde and Becky by Andy Epstein

They Come at Night by Cheyenne Gordon and Shawn Burkett

Badger’s Alley by B.K. Bergman

Santa’s Dog by Barbara Giannini

Jupiterians by Veronica R. Tabares

The Shadow of a Friend by Maureen Sheehan

The Distance to Love by Quentil Pompey


Short Format Category

Red Bird by Sarah Taylor

Infinity by Elizabeth Donald

Traveler by Amy Leigh McCorkle and Melissa Goodman

Screenshots by Dwan L. Hearn

Left Turn by Devin Hylton

Enter the Room by Harry Waldman

Snitches from Heaven by Kevin Dobbs

Unknown Territory of Nador – Marta Jorgenson

Happy Medium by Becca Blackmore

A Lonely Stop by Kristy Strouse 

Young Blues Brothers by Aeric Adams

Hungry Hearts by Ryan O’ Leary

The Haunt by Kyle Gibbs

The Weed by David Hatfield

Muted For Justice by Amy Philbert

The Wild Hunt by Francesca O’Hop

Family Tradition by Natalie Jenkins