Huntington Beach Film Festival

15th ANNUAL HUNTINGTON BEACH FILM FESTIVAL POSTPONED - SWITCHING TO ONLINE FESTIVAL Hi all, We hope you’re all safe and healthy. Normally, we would have already started to screen submissions for our next program, but of course, nothing’s normal right now. Given the state of world events, we’ve made a couple of tough decisions:... 1) We’re going to postpone HBFF until 2021 (date TBD). 2) We’re moving HBFF to an online-only format for the foreseeable future. There’s simply too much uncertainty surrounding live events at this time. We feel like it’s better to start planning now for a virtual fest, rather than having to make that call later. As always, thanks for all of your support. Keep staying home, keep saving lives and watch a whole bunch of movies. Lots of love, Guy and Alex Guy Davis, Festival Director Alex Graham, Programming Director

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Thanks so much to everyone who came out and supported HBFF this year! We are grateful to each and every one of you. Much love.

Our award winning films from this year's fest! Best Feature Film: Once Upon a River Best Short Film: A Play Best Documentary: Circles... Best Director: Nino Mancuso Best Actor: Ali Baghieri for Summer Snow Best Actress: Kenadi DelaCerna for Once Upon a River Best Cinematography: Soundwave Best Animated Film: Medium Rare Best Surf Film: Of the Sea Best Student Film: Picture Day Audience Choice Award: Huggles With You Congratulations to all of our award winners! And many thanks to all of our filmmakers and writers for sharing your work with us!

Our Screenplay Award Winners! Best Feature Screenplay: The Coldest Horizon, by Jeffrey Howe Best Short Screenplay: The Blackout Menace, by Kyle Smith... And our wonderful Screenplay Finalists! Feature Film Screenplays "The Better High," by Doug Mazell and Charles Ryan "The Coldest Horizon," by Jeffrey Howe "Flat-rate Frank," by Jeffrey Howe "The Funny Farm," by Robert Ward "The Last Solution," by Micheal McAlexander "Mr. Moon & The Sasquatch," by Scott Smith "Oakland," by Andrew Koponen Short Film Screenplays "The Blackout Menace," by Kyle Smith "Chasing," by Cooper Lewis "Mania," by Greg Mania "The Oblate," by Beth Hoover Many congratulations to you all! And thank you again for sharing your work with us!!

@lifeonsetseries will be added to our second locals block tonight! We're excited to share these local filmmakers' wonderful work this evening.

Jeffrey Howe has two scripts in competition this year: "Flat-rate Frank" and "The Coldest Horizon." So glad he's here with us for day two!

The Hilton Waterfront Resort saved our butts last minute and provided us with the SWEETEST DIGS! We are so grateful to them for their flexibility and generosity. And of course for this VIEW! @ Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort

Had an AMAZING first day, and day 2 is about to start! Join us for our first screening at 11 am! @ Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort

Our wonderful volunteers Victoria and Jocelyn! So thankful for their time and energy. HBFF2019

Booster Mom crew after our first local block-- love!

"Like" director Hidde de Vries and team!