BLUE FORGE FILMS
The Film Division of Blue Forge Group + Est. 1989
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.)
Forge Flashpoint Film Festival 1
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Best Film: Gender Studies 101
Best Actress: Faith DiMarco
Forge Flashpoint Film Festival 2
Best Film: Tears, Home is Where His Heart Is, Within the Study (three-way tie)
Best Actor: Maxwell DiMarco
Forge Flashpoint Film Festival 3
Best Film: Buyer's Remorse
Best Actress: Stacey Venzel
Forge Flashpoint Film Festival 4
Best Film: Sands of Time
Best Actress: Brianne DiMarco
Forge Flashpoint Film Festival 5
Best Film: Nothing Less
Best Actress: Amber Rainey
Best Actor: Maxwell DiMarco