2017 Festival Wrap-up and Winners:
(OIL CITY, PA) - Twenty-nine films, from around the globe, screened at the second annual Oil Valley Film Festival on August 31 - September 3. The festival comprised competitive sections for American and international narrative and documentary films, both feature-length and short, and a curated block of women and minority filmmakers. Audience favorite in the narrative feature category receives a prize separate from jury prizes, along with numerous additional prizes for the screenplay finalists in both short form and feature length.
Festival Director Matt Croyle stated, "The quality of films we received this year, films from eleven different countries were again just outstanding."
The Oil Valley Film Festival is presented by and in partnership with InkTip, Writers Store, iPitchTV, MaddyG TV, Oil City Library, Oil City Civic Center, Tipsy Chef, and Bridge Builders Community Foundations. A special thanks is given to Arts Oil City, the Oil City Main Street Program, Billy's, and the Venango Area Chamber of Commerce. The Oil Valley Film Festival receives operational support from One Fish Media.
The following juried winners for the 2017 Oil Valley Film Festival are as follows:
Outstanding Screenwriting - Screenwriting Competition:
- Feature: 'Day of Reckoning' by Lorraine Portman
- Short: 'Brier Hill' by Jonathan Stiffy
- Hour-long Teleplay Pilot: 'Adrift' by Michael Snow
Best Picture:
- Narrative Feature: 'Blockbuster - A Life in Moving Pictures' - Vlado Priborsky, Austria
- Narrative Short: 'The Eliminadora' - PJ Gaynard, Pennsylvania, USA
- Documentary Feature: 'Passfire' - Jesse Veverka, New York, USA
- Documentary Short: '1000' - Abdullah Washington & Tom Weber, Pennsylvania, USA
Best Director:
- Feature: 'Meadow Bridge' - Tijah Bumgarner, West Virginia, USA
- Short: 'The Bouquet' - Julien Segard, Roman Carciofo, France
Best Actor:
- Feature: 'Meadow Bridge' - Micah Gilkerson, West Virginia, USA
- Short: 'The Bouquet' - David Brenot, France
Best Supporting Actor:
- Feature: 'Meadow Bridge' - Kate Morris, West Virginia, USA
- Short: 'Derelict' - William Waddell, Maryland, USA
Outstanding Cinematography:
- Feature: 'Blockbuster - A Life in Moving Pictures'- Costa Konstantinou, Edgar Pfandler, Daniel Steiner, Austria
- Short: 'Derelict' - Hank Vohrer, Maryland, USA
Best Editing:
- Feature: 'Meadow Bridge' - Jena Seiler, West Virginia, USA
- Short: 'The Bouquet' - Jérémy Pitard, France
Audience Choice Award for Best Picture:
- Feature: 'Meadow Bridge' - Dir. Tijah Bumgarner, West Virginia, USA
- Short: 'The Bouquet' - Dir. Julien Segard, Roman Carciofo, France
(OIL CITY, PA) - Twenty-nine films, from around the globe, screened at the second annual Oil Valley Film Festival on August 31 - September 3. The festival comprised competitive sections for American and international narrative and documentary films, both feature-length and short, and a curated block of women and minority filmmakers. Audience favorite in the narrative feature category receives a prize separate from jury prizes, along with numerous additional prizes for the screenplay finalists in both short form and feature length.
Festival Director Matt Croyle stated, "The quality of films we received this year, films from eleven different countries were again just outstanding."
The Oil Valley Film Festival is presented by and in partnership with InkTip, Writers Store, iPitchTV, MaddyG TV, Oil City Library, Oil City Civic Center, Tipsy Chef, and Bridge Builders Community Foundations. A special thanks is given to Arts Oil City, the Oil City Main Street Program, Billy's, and the Venango Area Chamber of Commerce. The Oil Valley Film Festival receives operational support from One Fish Media.
The following juried winners for the 2017 Oil Valley Film Festival are as follows:
Outstanding Screenwriting - Screenwriting Competition:
- Feature: 'Day of Reckoning' by Lorraine Portman
- Short: 'Brier Hill' by Jonathan Stiffy
- Hour-long Teleplay Pilot: 'Adrift' by Michael Snow
Best Picture:
- Narrative Feature: 'Blockbuster - A Life in Moving Pictures' - Vlado Priborsky, Austria
- Narrative Short: 'The Eliminadora' - PJ Gaynard, Pennsylvania, USA
- Documentary Feature: 'Passfire' - Jesse Veverka, New York, USA
- Documentary Short: '1000' - Abdullah Washington & Tom Weber, Pennsylvania, USA
Best Director:
- Feature: 'Meadow Bridge' - Tijah Bumgarner, West Virginia, USA
- Short: 'The Bouquet' - Julien Segard, Roman Carciofo, France
Best Actor:
- Feature: 'Meadow Bridge' - Micah Gilkerson, West Virginia, USA
- Short: 'The Bouquet' - David Brenot, France
Best Supporting Actor:
- Feature: 'Meadow Bridge' - Kate Morris, West Virginia, USA
- Short: 'Derelict' - William Waddell, Maryland, USA
Outstanding Cinematography:
- Feature: 'Blockbuster - A Life in Moving Pictures'- Costa Konstantinou, Edgar Pfandler, Daniel Steiner, Austria
- Short: 'Derelict' - Hank Vohrer, Maryland, USA
Best Editing:
- Feature: 'Meadow Bridge' - Jena Seiler, West Virginia, USA
- Short: 'The Bouquet' - Jérémy Pitard, France
Audience Choice Award for Best Picture:
- Feature: 'Meadow Bridge' - Dir. Tijah Bumgarner, West Virginia, USA
- Short: 'The Bouquet' - Dir. Julien Segard, Roman Carciofo, France
2017 OIL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES PROGRAMMING LINEUP
(OIL CITY, PA) – The second annual Oil Valley Film Festival will take place August 31-September 2 in Oil City, with screening locations including the National Transit Building's Great Room, and the Oil City Library. Again, a global lineup of films will highlight the festival. The festival is free to attend, and next week you can find the dates and times of all screenings on the official website at: http://oilvalleyfilmfestival.weebly.com/ The following films and scripts are the official selections of the festival:
NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS
- 'Blockbuster - A Life in Moving Pictures' - Vlado Priborsky, Austria
- 'Torn City' - Daniel Pellikan, Illinois, USA
- 'Meadow Bridge' - Tijah Bumgarner, West Virginia, USA
NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS
- 'The Opera Singer' – Steve Kahn, California USA
- 'Marc Chung Protects His Address' - Michael Chan, California, USA
- 'Falling South' - Lorraine Portman, Florida, USA
- 'Vivid' - Paul Chung, California, USA
- 'Misappropriation' - Ana Maria Ferri, Spain
- 'Ayesha' - Ambarien Alqadar, New York, USA
- 'The Bouquet' - Julien Segard, Roman Carciofo, France
- 'Something to Save You' - Vis Vitalis, Russia
- 'Bedsheets and Cigarettes' - Alan Mehanna, Lebanon
- 'Four Pies' - Andrew Huggins, North Carolina, USA
- 'A Funny Man' - Peter JS Regan, Benjamin Wilson, Pennsylvania, USA
- 'Getaway From it All' - Christopher Fernando, Pennsylvania, USA
- 'Summerland' - Christopher Siaens, Kentucky, USA
- 'Derelict' - Griffin Detrick, Maryland, USA
- 'The Necessity - Mack McStravick, Texas, USA
- 'The Eliminadora' - PJ Gaynard, Pennsylvania, USA
- 'Carbon' - Christian Lybrook, Idaho, USA
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS
- 'Passfire' - Jesse Veverka, New York, USA
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS
- 'Chosen' - Kate Stepnowski - Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA
- '1000' - Abdullah Washington & Tom Weber, Pennsylvania, USA
AMERICAN VOICES FOR EQUALITY: WOMEN AND MINORITY FILMMAKERS
- 'Dare to Dream: Cuba's Latin American Medical School' - Jennifer Wager, New Jersey, USA
- 'Disconnected' - Lucy Engelman, California, USA
- 'Exit Strategy #2' - Kym McDaniel, Wisconsin, USA
- 'Bombing' - Gloria Mercer, Canada
- 'Muslim[AH]' - Sarah El Bakkouri, Morocco and Canada
- 'The Orange Story' - Erika Street, New York, USA
NARRATIVE FEATURE SCREENPLAY COMPETITION FINALISTS
- 'Day of Reckoning' by Lorraine Portman
- 'Love' by Bill Redding
- 'Ex Door Neighbor' by Matthew Smollon
- 'Resurrection Time Conspiracy' by James Carroll
- 'Cadeby' by David Keogh
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT SCREENPLAY WINNER
- 'Brier Hill' by Jonathan Stiffy
HOUR-LONG TELEVISION TELEPLAY COMPETITION FINALISTS
- 'Adrift' by Michael Snow, California, USA
- 'Michelangelo' by Roberto Lemos, Brazil
- 'Crisis' by John Spare, West Virginia, USA
- 'Settling for Genuine' by Terri Viani, Connecticut, USA
All films and screenplays selected to the festival are in competition for festival jury prizes, with the audience selecting the Audience Favorite Feature Film. In addition to filmmaker Q&A sessions, the festival will feature an Independent Creators Panel in which an open discussion will take place about the creative process for people working outside of the studio system, and will also feature a Q&A for audience members.
The festival is organized and directed each year by Matt Croyle.
(OIL CITY, PA) – The second annual Oil Valley Film Festival will take place August 31-September 2 in Oil City, with screening locations including the National Transit Building's Great Room, and the Oil City Library. Again, a global lineup of films will highlight the festival. The festival is free to attend, and next week you can find the dates and times of all screenings on the official website at: http://oilvalleyfilmfestival.weebly.com/ The following films and scripts are the official selections of the festival:
NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS
- 'Blockbuster - A Life in Moving Pictures' - Vlado Priborsky, Austria
- 'Torn City' - Daniel Pellikan, Illinois, USA
- 'Meadow Bridge' - Tijah Bumgarner, West Virginia, USA
NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS
- 'The Opera Singer' – Steve Kahn, California USA
- 'Marc Chung Protects His Address' - Michael Chan, California, USA
- 'Falling South' - Lorraine Portman, Florida, USA
- 'Vivid' - Paul Chung, California, USA
- 'Misappropriation' - Ana Maria Ferri, Spain
- 'Ayesha' - Ambarien Alqadar, New York, USA
- 'The Bouquet' - Julien Segard, Roman Carciofo, France
- 'Something to Save You' - Vis Vitalis, Russia
- 'Bedsheets and Cigarettes' - Alan Mehanna, Lebanon
- 'Four Pies' - Andrew Huggins, North Carolina, USA
- 'A Funny Man' - Peter JS Regan, Benjamin Wilson, Pennsylvania, USA
- 'Getaway From it All' - Christopher Fernando, Pennsylvania, USA
- 'Summerland' - Christopher Siaens, Kentucky, USA
- 'Derelict' - Griffin Detrick, Maryland, USA
- 'The Necessity - Mack McStravick, Texas, USA
- 'The Eliminadora' - PJ Gaynard, Pennsylvania, USA
- 'Carbon' - Christian Lybrook, Idaho, USA
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS
- 'Passfire' - Jesse Veverka, New York, USA
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS
- 'Chosen' - Kate Stepnowski - Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA
- '1000' - Abdullah Washington & Tom Weber, Pennsylvania, USA
AMERICAN VOICES FOR EQUALITY: WOMEN AND MINORITY FILMMAKERS
- 'Dare to Dream: Cuba's Latin American Medical School' - Jennifer Wager, New Jersey, USA
- 'Disconnected' - Lucy Engelman, California, USA
- 'Exit Strategy #2' - Kym McDaniel, Wisconsin, USA
- 'Bombing' - Gloria Mercer, Canada
- 'Muslim[AH]' - Sarah El Bakkouri, Morocco and Canada
- 'The Orange Story' - Erika Street, New York, USA
NARRATIVE FEATURE SCREENPLAY COMPETITION FINALISTS
- 'Day of Reckoning' by Lorraine Portman
- 'Love' by Bill Redding
- 'Ex Door Neighbor' by Matthew Smollon
- 'Resurrection Time Conspiracy' by James Carroll
- 'Cadeby' by David Keogh
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT SCREENPLAY WINNER
- 'Brier Hill' by Jonathan Stiffy
HOUR-LONG TELEVISION TELEPLAY COMPETITION FINALISTS
- 'Adrift' by Michael Snow, California, USA
- 'Michelangelo' by Roberto Lemos, Brazil
- 'Crisis' by John Spare, West Virginia, USA
- 'Settling for Genuine' by Terri Viani, Connecticut, USA
All films and screenplays selected to the festival are in competition for festival jury prizes, with the audience selecting the Audience Favorite Feature Film. In addition to filmmaker Q&A sessions, the festival will feature an Independent Creators Panel in which an open discussion will take place about the creative process for people working outside of the studio system, and will also feature a Q&A for audience members.
The festival is organized and directed each year by Matt Croyle.
