TYLER, Texas (KETK) – The 13th annual Tyler Film Festival recognized several talented filmmakers and actors from across the state and around the globe on Saturday.
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Audiences and filmmakers gathered at Liberty Theater in Tyler on Saturday for this year’s award ceremony. Awards were given out after two nights of screenings for student independent films from East Texas, the wider United States and from as far away as Serbia and Iran.
“These are creative people that we have coming together, so they always have ideas that they’re throwing around and it’s kind of cool to hear all the conversations going on, all the different projects that people are working on,” Tyler Film Festival director Craig O’Daniel said.
The following awards were given out at the Tyler Film Festival on Saturday night:
Jury Award / Best of the Festival ($1,000 and a trophy) – Champions, directed by The AG Brothers of Nevada.
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Photo courtesy of the City of Tyler.
Best Student Film ($500 and a trophy) – Wormwood, directed by Sawyer Goolsby of Austin.
Photo courtesy of the City of Tyler.
Best Cinematography ($500 and a trophy) – The Ohio, Texas Remix, directed by Ya’Ke Smith of the United States.
Best Actress ($200 and a trophy) – Veronika Bozeman in The Ohio, Texas Remix, directed by Ya’Ke Smith of the United States.
Best Actor ($200 and a trophy) – Bobby Soto in EL Lloron, directed by Rodrigo Moreno-Fernandez of Brownsville.
Best Young Actor ($200 and a trophy) – Mokhtar Behrouz in Monkey, directed by Mohsen Habibi of Iran.
Film with the Biggest Heart (a trophy) – Pray for Joe: A Story of Recovery, directed by Sydney Hines and Bailey Park of Lindale.
Photo courtesy of the City of Tyler.
Funniest of the Fest (trophy) – THE STORY OF A THEFT, directed by Mahdi Hadizadeh of Iran.
Audience Favorite (trophy) – EL Lloron, Directed by Rodrigo Moreno-Fernandez of Brownsville. Michael Charron is pictured below accepting the trophy:
Photo courtesy of the City of Tyler.
Filmmakers interested in next year’s awards will have from Oct. 1 to May 1 to submit their film to the Tyler Film Festival online.
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