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Film Festivals

Since 2015, Blue Forge Films has hosted film festivals for both emerging and established filmmakers. Discover a current festival or scroll down to explore past winners.

Current Festival

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Past Festivals & Winners

Cracked Mirror Film Festival

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Best Film: The Harvest

Writing: Lauren Patzer

Acting: Gregor Fjellrev, Alex Dunn

Editing, Music and Effects: Maxwell DiMarco

Midnight Film Festival

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Best Film: The Harvest

Best Actress: Jessica Noel Thompson

Best Actor: Tyler Tanqueray

Best Original Score: The Harvest

Leap Film Festival

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Best Film: Thoughts Past Three

Best Actress: Lisa Rempel

Best Actor: Maxwell DiMarco

Best Original Score: The Fairy Garden

Audience Favorite: Sands of Time

One Room Film Festival

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Best Film: Capitulate

Best Actress: Amber Rainey

Best Actor: Greg Laurel

Best Original Score: Capitulate

Audience Favorite: The Scavenger Hunt

Perspective Film Festival

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Best Film: Hills Like White Elephants

Best Actress: Faith DiMarco

Best Actor (tied): Emmanuel Atkinson, Maxwell DiMarco

Best Original Score: Hills Like White Elephants

Audience Favorite: Hills Like White Elephants

Take 8 Film Festival 2015

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Best Film: Vindicta (The director's cut of the feature film adaptation is due in 2022.)

Best Actress: Faith DiMarco

Best Actor: Gregory Marks

Studio Choice: In the Pudding (Made into the feature film Macbeth the Musical Parody on BlueFlix.)

Take 8 Film Festival Forest

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Best Film: The Niobe Strain (The feature film adaptation is due in 2023.)

Best Actress: Angela DiMarco

Best Actor: Nathaniel Devish

Studio Choice: Caught on Film (The web series adaptation of the film is available here to watch for free.)

Take 8 Film Festival White Room

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Best Film: Talking to Angels (The animation/live-action hybrid of this film is forthcoming.)

Best Actress: Stacey Venzel, Angela Faro

Best Actor: Ed Stone

Studio Choice: Eat (Combined with Park Dead by Rogue Raven Productions.)

Take 8 Film Festival Catacombs

Best Trailer: Park Dead (Combined with Eat by Rogue Raven Productions.)

Blackwood Film Anthology

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Best Film: For the Birds

Best Actor: Bill Read

Best Actress: Faith DiMarco

All participating filmmakers share in the revenue earned from the sale and rental of the dvd and digital edition of this film anthology.

Saint August Chapel Film Anthology

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No awards were granted for this event. All participating filmmakers share in the revenue earned from the sale and rental of the dvd and digital edition of this film anthology.

Wonderland Film Anthology

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Best Film: Promise of Paradise

Best Actor: Erik Rainey

Best Actress: Lisa Rempel

All participating filmmakers share in the revenue earned from the sale and rental of the dvd and digital edition of this film anthology.

Spark Forge Film Festival

Best of Show: Tradewind (Adapted into the short film Trade, winner of the Best Shorts Competition for Disability Awareness and available now at BlueFlix.)