The Overlook Film Festival : AND THE AWARDS GO TO

Thank you for another great year at Overlook. You warm our cold, dead hearts! You showed us once again how special our horror community is and how lucky we are to gather and celebrate what we all love -- to be scared, shocked, thrilled, and scream together in the dark.

This year we brought you 36 features and 26 shorts from 10 countries, as well as 10 live events and six immersive experiences, making this the largest and most varied Overlook lineup in the festival’s history. You not only packed in as many films, performances, and parties as you could, but also helped us kick off the festival with Shudder’s Second Line Parade led by our Grand Marshal The Crypt Keeper and John Kassir, and celebrated the legendary Rick Baker!

To our amazing volunteers, we could not do this without you, and we are sincerely grateful to the Prytania Theaters for being our haunted home!

On behalf of all our caretakers here at Overlook, we thank you and can't wait to do it all again next year.  

JURY AWARDS

Grand Jury Prize for Feature Film
Never After Dark
Director: Dave Boyle

Scariest Feature Film Award
Mārama
Director: Taratoa Stappard

Special Jury Mention for Performance
Saccharine
Director: Natalie Erika James

Grand Jury Prize for Short Film
Man Eating Pussy
Director: Lee Lawson

Scariest Short Film Award
Ghoststory
Director: Alex Jacobs

Honorable Mention for Best Kitty 
House Cat
Director: Kyle Spleiss

Doomscroll Award for Most Harrowing Digital Nightmare
Homemade Gatorade
Director: Carter Amelia Davis

The Features Jury is made up of filmmaker Vera Drew, programmer Jongsuk Thomas Nam,and journalist Jen Yamato. 

The Shorts Jury is comprised of film critic Payton McCarty-Simas, podcaster, playwright and writer Sharai Bohannon, and filmmaker Jenn Wexler.