BLOODSHOTS Winners Announced!

The judges and juries have spoken, and the winners for this year's Bloodshots festival were officially crowned at the Fantastic Fest Awards Ceremony on Monday night. And now, for those of you who couldn't be there live, here are the results:

First Place
Scottish Rite Productions - Meet the Maydays

Second Place
Clasico Entertainment - Cock Blast: the Game

Third Place
Take Me To Your Leader - Galaxy of Fatality

We'll have details coming soon for the next Frenzy, so keep your eyes peeled! Just don't literally peel your eyes until next year's Bloodshots, because that kind of footage really belongs in a horror film.

BLOODSHOTS Finalists!

The ballots have been counted, the online votes have been tallied, and the results are in – here, in no particular order, are the finalists for the 2008 BLOODSHOTS Filmmaking Frenzy:

Fogar! – Death at Dawn
Lean Mean Green Screen Machine – Killing Time in the Breakroom
Bleutuna – Well, Shit
Scottish Rite – Meet the Maydays
Team Good Enough – Silver City
Clasico – Cock Blast
Image Creation Entertainment – Road to Hell 3
You Got Severed – Episode 43: The Womantis
One Zero Nine – Exhibit H
Strike Films – Blood Oil
Take Me To Your Leader – Galaxy of Fatality

Congratulations to all the finalists, and we hope to see you at the Best Of Screening this Sunday! If you can make it out, shoot me an email and I’ll have two tickets for each filmmaking team available at will call on Sunday afternoon.

At that screening, we’ll be watching all of these movies, and pausing in between to hear feedback from our judges, who will be scoring each film and choosing the ultimate winners. We’ll announce the top three teams at this Best Of screening, but the final winner won’t be known until the official Fantastic Fest Awards Ceremony on Monday night.

Stay tuned for future Frenzies. Our plan right now (which is completely subject to change) is to do some sort of holiday special Frenzy in December. I’ll keep you posted.

Fantastic Fest Bumper results!

First of all, I wanted to thank all the teams who submitted bumpers to the Fantastic Fest bumper contest. We had a great response from the contest and thanks to you, Fantastic Fest audiences will not be suffering from festival bumper fatigue. All of the entries we received will get screen time in front of fantastic fest features.

Based on the audience voting, we have determined the winners in the contest. The top ten films are as follows:

Report Card
Hyper Fighter Joseline: Cookie Warrior
Just a Day
Batty Daddy
Fist of Noodle
A Run to Remember
I Love You Jean-Claude Van Damme
Silent Lucidty
The Boy Who Can't Land
Barb's Baby Back Ribs

These will all be getting heavy rotation before films at the festival and each of these teams will get a $100 prize pack from the Alamo Drafthouse. We will be emailing each of the teams this week to arrange shipping.

The grand prize winner in the Fantastic Fest Bumper contest was both an audience and Fantastic Fest programming staff favorite. From the makers of Hobo With a Shotgun, again starring the curmudgeon hobo himself, Team YER DEAD takes the grand prize with REPORT CARD (embedded below).



Also, the programming staff is also awarding Black Magic Rollercoaster's DING DONG DASH a special jury mention. This film left many of us absolutely speechless and literally gasping for air. The full-frontal male nudity was a bit too spicy for the Filmmaking Frenzy audience at large and it was pulled from the website early in the voting. To the delight of few and the horror of many, however, I personally guarantee it will get PLENTY of screen time during the festival.

Thanks again everyone for taking part and we'll see you on the next Filmmaking Frenzy adventure!