We at Seattle Web Fest would like to extend our deepest thanks to everyone who attended the festival this Saturday. It was every bit the success we hoped and that’s all because of you. To the filmmakers, panelists, audience, judges, & our incredible volunteers, we thank you.
If you couldn’t make the festival, be sure to visit our SWF2016 Schedule page for a listing of all the incredible series we featured this year. Below, you’ll find our SWF2016 Award winners.
Best Production Design
Gamers: Humans & Households
Best Individual Performance
Erin Karpluck, Riftworld Chronicles
Best Editing
Phoenix Run
Best Horror/Thriller
Phoenix Run
Best Non-Fiction
Talent Freaks
Best Local Series
Manic Pixie Dream Wife
Audience Choice Award
Coded
Best Visual Effects
Haphead
Best Ensemble Performance
The Village Green
Best Directing
Il Sonnambulo
Best Action / Adventure
La Supercafetera
Best Drama
Her Story
Audience Choice Award
Hat Trick Bitches
Best Music
MEM
Best Cinematography
Il Sonnambulo
Best Writing
Manic Pixie Dream Wife
Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Riftworld Chronicles
Best Comedy
The Village Green
Audience Choice Award
Thornbrook
Meet our Awards Jurors
Ed Robinson
Ed began his journey in web series in 2008 when he starred on GOLD. Soon after, he created his own series Parings, which earned several awards over it’s two season run. Ed also the co-created Sci-Fine Dining, a science fiction themed cooking show and starred in several more series including Dirty Thirties and upcoming Laced & Loaded. Ed also was a producer and key writer on last year’s IAWTV Awards. He is currently finishing a writing internship at Eclectic Pictures and is in pre-production of his first feature film. After hosting the last two years of the Hollyweb Festival Awards show, Ed is excited to step into the larger role as this year’s Festival Coordinator. However, Ed’s most rewarding project began last July with the birth of his daughter, Zoe-Marie. @PairingsEd
David Schatanoff
David Schatanoff, Jr., began his career working in post-production for film, TV and video games with the major studios including Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and MGM. His aspirations and experiences in production and post production guided him to focus his career as a producer and open his production company, D Studios Productions. David’s award winning projects include Vampires, L.A. Macabre, The Lengths, Claire, and No Place to Fall. He is currently producing the feature film Any Bullet Will Do and is in pre-production for the second season of L.A. Macabre (dir. Dan Ast), featuring 2015 Seattle Web Fest Best Actor winner, Corsica Wilson. David is a member of the Producer’s Guild of America and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Kris & Lindy Boustedt
Kris & Lindy Boustedt are the married filmmaking team behind First Sight Productions. They’ve worked on over 20 shorts and recently finished their third feature film, the paranormal thriller BRIDES TO BE. You can learn more and watch a lot of their work, including a trailer for the new feature, at firstsightproductions.com.
Jason Leaver
Jason Leaver is a web series director best known as the creator of popular Toronto series, Out With Dad, and for his work on Pete Winning and the Pirates and Clutch. @HeyBishop
Nate Taylor
Nate Taylor is a film and visual effects professional who lives and works in the Seattle area. He has experience working the film/FX process in feature, series, advertising, games, music videos, and more. His first love professionally is Sci-Fi work, and he does VFX for the web series Dynamo as his passion project. He is also addicted to manatees and the color orange. nathanhtaylor.com
Ian Hubert
Ian Hubert is best known as the director of popular Seattle web series Dynamo and Blender Open Movie Project Tears of Steel.
Lisa Gifford
Lisa Gifford is a London-based screenwriter and playwright and was the creator/writer/director of the popular British web series 3some. Lisa predominantly works in television and is currently writing for a primetime UK soap opera.
Corsica Wilson
Corsica Wilson was born in Portugal into a Navy family and moved every two years of her childhood until her father retired in New Hampshire. She then started in theater in high school, but eventually found her love for film at Florida State University. She was accepted to the competitive BFA Acting program but chose to earn a degree in Public Relations to allow more time for short films at the FSU Film School as well as several other independent feature films, including SyFy’s Dead Season. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles and began working, booking a small role in In a World… which premiered at Sundance 2013. Her recent work includes a recurring guest star role on the E! Network Original Series Hashtaggers and the film Wiener Dog Internationals, now on VoD and DVD. Corsica won the 2015 Seattle Web Fest Award for Best Individual Performance for her work in LA Macabre.
Cheryl Cain
Cheryl Cain has written for Twentieth Century Fox’s Firefly and Roswell. She also worked in production for Fox’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and NBC’s Profiler. Prior to screenwriting, Cheryl was Marketing Coordinator for Disney’s Feature Films Division in trailers and TV spots.
Bhama Roget
Bhama Roget is an actor, improviser, comedian, and sometimes TV and web personality. This past year she appeared as Quincy/Bart in Mr. Burns at ACT, and as Dorine in Tartuffe at Seattle Shakes. She also starred in the web series WRECKED, for which she won an Indie Series Award for Best Lead Actress in a comedy series. She is currently collaborating with Honey Toad on a new sketch-comedy web show, The Bhama Show, modeled after her 2013 solo show Hippiecrit: I Want to Change the World, I Just Don’t Feel Like It. You can catch Bhama every first Saturday of the month performing with the EDGE Improv on Bainbridge Island. For more Bhama news, find her on Facebook at The Bhama Show.
Mike Donis
Mike Donis is best known as creator/star of popular Toronto series, Pete Winning and the Pirates.
Elisar Cabrera
Elisar Cabrera is a freelance film and digital series producer and distribution consultant with 17 years experience in the international sales of feature films and TV dramas. He sat on the Board of Directors of the New Producers Alliance in the 1990s and sat on the Board of Directors of Film Export UK, (an industry body representing the UK international sales sector.) Elisar also has taught feature film marketing and selling at Raindance, London Film Festival and National Film and TV School courses. An advocate for filmmaking online, Elisar produces the Raindance Web Fest, the VidfestUK attraction at MCM London Comic Con and is a co-founder of Digital Creators UK. @EliCab
Krk Nordenstrom
Krk Nordenstrom runs the Seattle 48 Hour Film Project.
David Wulzen
David Wulzen is a film director, producer, and editor based in Seattle, with experience ranging in fiction and non-fiction alike. Last year, he was awarded Best Editing for his work at the 2015 48 Hour Film Challenge on The Proxy. He recently finished editing the short film, Creased, by Jade Justad, which is making the rounds in the festival circuit. In post-production is his first feature length documentary, Above the Bamboo Room which he is co-directing. It tells the story of a southeastern Alaska bar owner and her dream to be Dr. Phil’s personal songwriter. That is also not a joke.
Aidan Vitti
Aidan Vitti is a costume designer focusing on film productions. In addition, she spends her time off-set working on children’s clothing, specifically for children with physical or mental design challenges. She currently divides her time between New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Other interests include photography, traveling, carnivals, motorcycles, and her french bulldog, Murdock.
Matt Longmire
Matt Longmire is best known for his documentary Cardboard, his web series, The River, and as Technical Director of Seattle Web Fest.
David S. Hogan
David S. Hogan is an actor, teacher, producer, and director. His career began in the theatre, and his work has been seen on many Seattle stages, including Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, The Seattle Opera, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and more. He also works steadily in front of the camera, recently wrapping Paralytic, his first feature film as an actor/producer. Since pursuing on-camera work in earnest in 2011, he has booked roles in short film, feature films, commercials, corporate videos, and television.
Angelique Gray
Angelique Gray moved from her birthplace in Pennsylvania to New York City as a teenager to pursue her dreams of acting and comedy. After several years of working in stand-up and theatre, she discovered her talents as a writer and made the move to Los Angeles. She is proud to have combined all of her talents into the creation of the comedic web series, Not It, which is gearing up to launch its second season. angeliquegray.net
Matt Smith
Matt Smith is a prominent Seattle actor, improviser, and storyteller, known for his roles in Outsourced and The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, as well as his lauded one-man shows, including My Last Year With The Nuns, which was recently turned into a feature film.
Adrienne Ostberg-Pool
Adrienne Ostberg-Pool is a documentary filmmaker under the banner of Lost Otter Productions. She was recently credited on Netflix series Making a Murderer.
Alexander Theoharis
Alexander Theoharis is best known as the creator of popular Seattle series, Job Hunters.
Mark Price
Mark Price is a writer/director known for his short films, Elliot’s Wake and Professional Courtesy, as well as his work on popular Seattle web series, Chop Socky Boom.
Ramsey El-Moslimany
Ramsey El-Moslimany is a screener for Seattle International Film Festival.