Festival 2023

Here’s the winners of the Spring 2023 Paris Independent Film Festival, held in April 2023:

Thriller Feature:
Broken Streaks by Arturo Nunez

Comedy Feature:
Black Stone by Spiros Jacovides

Micro-Budget Feature:
Everything Will Be Fine In The End by Joe Bartone

Low-budget Feature Film:
Snow Angel by Gabriel Allard

Documentary Film:
Too Hot to Work: Qatar’s World Cup Building Boom by Tom Laffay & Ed Kashi

Short Film (Jury Award):
Rat Park by Elizabeth Bluhm

Short Film (Audience Award):
Dear Judith by Mykel Salazar

Short Film (Festival Director’s Award):
Daughter of the Sea by Alexis C Garcia

Sci-Fi / Horror Short:
The Shadow by Martin Berthiaume

Animated Short:
Yellow Dove Aftermath by Rony A. Abovitz

Experimental Short:
Panvaluation by Nikolai Lesnikov

Short Short:
The Wavy Handed God by Zac Gillam

Music Video:
Totemo – My Gravity by Young-Wook Paik

Feature Screenplay:
Max And Maria by Rosalyn Rosen

Comedy Screenplay:
Proper Placement by Michael Ellis

No-Budget Screenplay:
Little One by Daniel A Flint

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Here’s the schedule for the 2023 Paris Independent Film Festival.

All films are screened on the Eventive online platform.

Feature film tickets cost $10 per feature film, shorts blocks cost $10 per 60 minute block. Films can be watched anytime during the festival run, April 24-29.

SHORTS BLOCK 2: [Tickets here]

Too Hot to Work; Qatar’s World Cup Building Boom by Tom Laffay
Dear Judith by Mykel Salazar
The Market by Victor Atkins
Of Love & Loss by Alisanna Vincent
The Wavy Handed God by Zac Gillam

SHORTS BLOCK 3: [Tickets here]

Daughter of the Sea by Alexis C Garcia
Cote France by Palmer Douglas Durr
Compulsion by Alyssa Rallo Bennett
Panvaluation by Nikolai Lesnikov
What’s Stopping You? by Jordy Antonio
Totemo – My Gravity by Young-Wook Paik

SHORTS BLOCK 4: [Tickets here]

The Chosen One by Elazar Fine
Rat Park by Elizabeth Bluhm
Curers by Eva Gauley
The Story of Michael Carbis by Dan Fowlks
Mrs. Eshelman by Kevin Y
Falling In Love In Broken English by Alice Rehemutula

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Feature Film:
Broken Streaks (81m) [Tickets here]
Directed by Arturo Nunez

THRILLER
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Pedro, Pepe and Paco work in a car wash in the middle of the road that serves as money laundering. One rainy day they are forced to be closer than usual, facing what they really think of each other. Boredom, leisure and confinement face the vices and defects of each of the three employees of the car wash. At the same time, a partner in the illegal part of the business gets them in trouble by taking a kidnapped girl. The three men will have to overcome their personal conflicts in order to make the right decision about which side of life they are on.
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Feature Film:
Black Stone (86m) [Tickets here]
Directed by Spiros Jacovides

DRAMA
https://blackstonemovie.com/

While shooting a documentary about “missing” civill servants a filmmaking duo stumble upon Charoula, a distraught, overprotective Greek mother searching for her missing civil servant son. But when his name is linked to government fraud with a foreign female accomplice, Charoula sets out her other, disabled son, Lefteris to clear his name.

With the help of a Greek African taxi driver and a less than helpful antifa group of misfits, the documentary duo follow Charoula on her quest to find and bring him back home where he belongs, even if it means discovering who her son really is.

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Feature Film:
Snow Angel (90m) [Tickets here]
Directed by Gabriel Allard

DRAMA
https://www.facebook.com/snowangelthemovie
In the aftermath of a fatal drunk driving accident in a snowy village at the Eastern tip of Quebec, a screwed-up ex-pro snowboarder decides to pack up her cabin and leave town for good, but someone… or something… seems intent on stopping her.
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Feature Film:
Everything Will Be Fine In The End (96m) [Tickets here]
Directed by Joe Bartone

DARK COMEDY
https://smallfactoryfilms.com/
George, and her best friends Kai and Renka, confront their aimless existence through a single act of violence when they murder a woman during a break-in.
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