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