2023 Boomtown Film and Music Festival Winners

2023 BOOMTOWN FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL
FILM & SCREENPLAY COMPETITION WINNERS:

NARRATIVE FEATURE
1st Place – The Banality
2nd Place – Hideout
3rd Place – Panash

TEXAS PROUD FEATURE
1st Place – Dangerous Ones
2nd Place – The Quilt: A Living History of African American Music
3rd Place – A Town Full of Ghosts

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
1st Place – Acting Like Nothing is Wrong
2nd Place – PATOU: In Black & White
3rd Place – Icons: Rex Brown of Pantera

REEL FAITH
1st Place – BENNY: Our Musical Lineage
2nd Place – The Dec1sion
3rd Place – Take Me Away

NARRATIVE SHORT
1st Place – A World Free of Crisis
2nd Place – A Future in Question
3rd Place – The Druid’s Hand

TEXAS PROUD SHORTS
1st Place – The Powder Horn
2nd Place – Billy
3rd Place – A Life in Technicolor

SHORT DOCUMENTARY
1st Place – They Will Talk About Us
2nd Place – Rockin Baker
3rd Place – Footsteps

SCREENPLAY
1st Place – Who I Am Now
2nd Place – Thicket
3rd Place – Review

EXPERIMENTAL & MUSIC VIDEO
1st Place – Dance with Destiny
2nd Place – When I take my Eyelashes Off…
3rd Place – For the Skeptical

STUDENT FILMS
1st Place – Brother
2nd Place – A Gift for Grace
3rd Place – Crossing Tides

48 HOUR FILM RACE
1st Place – “Rook to Revenge” by Team Wingin’ It
2nd Place – “Accursed” by Team JWO DEI
3rd Place – “Tony and Curtis” by Team Barking Spider Productions
Audience Award – “Tony and Curtis” by Team Barking Spider
Special Prize for Best Social Media Documentation – “Fart” by Team Got ’em