With its win for Best Editing at the Wolves International Independent Film Festival in Lithuania in the spring, and the awards for Best Series Pilot and Best Comedy at the Oniros Film Awards in Italy earlier this summer, Filling In has already been honored on an international level. However, the comedy-fantasy short/proof-of-concept for a series pilot is now soon traveling to Sydney, Australia for the Sydney Indie Film Festival (Sept, 18-28) and to London, England for the Celtic Mystery Short Film Festival, October 28-29 as well. More info on the specific screening dates and venues for these two upcoming events will be available in the weeks to come.
The Italian-based Oniros Film Awards declared Filling In the winner for both Best Series Pilot and Best Comedy today for their July competition. The Best Comedy award was an especially exciting achievement since it included comedies in all formats (feature length, short film, web series, series pilots, b-movies, experimental, etc.). Filling In was also a finalist in both the Best Editing and Best Screenplay categories as well. The Oniros Film Awards is a monthly and annual competition, and as described on their webpage, "Discovering quality and ambitious films is our mission, by promoting filmmakers’ works and by helping them realize their dreams. Oniros Film Awards is all about Dreams (ὄνει
The Oniros Film Awards announced the astonishing news today that Filling In is now a FINALIST for July 2017 in five categories: Best Series Pilot, Best Comedy, Best Fantasy, Best Screenplay and Best Editing! As described on their website, "The Oniros Film Awards is a monthly and annual award competition based in Italy, which celebrates films from all around the world... " Winners for the July 2017 Oniros Film Awards will be announced on August 15 in 12 major categories, which includes Best Series Pilot : The winners in 16 additional categories will be announced on August 15 as well, which will include the winner for Best Comedy, Best Fantasy, Best Screenplay, and Best Editing : According to
The Something Wicked Film Festival in Lawrenceville, GA declared Filling In as the winner of the Best Fantasy Short last night, Along with winning this major category at the event, SWFF Festival Director of SWFF 2017, Kevin Powers, also honored Filling In with a special additional award for "Most Believable Fantasy/Science-Fiction Film" of the fest, which included all feature length and short films in either genre. These two new wins for the comedy-fantasy further establish the film as a true contender at genre film fests , especially after its recent win at Westercon 70 in Tempe, AZ last month where Filling In won the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film from all genres (horror, fantasy, an
The next screening for Filling In will be at the Something Wicked Film Festival in Lawrenceville, Georgia, where it is a nominee for Best Fantasy Short Film. The festival is being held at the Southern Performing Arts Academy, and Filling In will be screened in Fantasy Films Block #1 (12 -1:30PM ) on Saturday, August 5th. Director, Bradley Hawkins looks forward to attending the three day festival (Aug. 4-6) and will be participating in panel discussions at the event.
