The 10th annual Lancaster International Short Film Festival has announced Filling In as an official selection, and have scheduled it for the opening night set of the three-night film fest. which runs from Nov. 9-11, 2017. A total of 48 short films from around the world will be screened at the fest over the three night with awards feeing presented after the closing block on Sat. Nov.11 for Best Comedy, Best Documentary, Best Drama, Best Horror, and Best Animated Short, Additio

Global recognition for Filling In continues with Toronto, ON, Canada now taking notice of our comedy-fantasy short by declaring as a semi-finalist and nominee for the Open World Toronto Film Festival, Nov. 17-19, 2017! Nominations for Filling In were announced late last night for Best Actor (Jared Odrick), Best Supporting Actor (Karl Holtz), Best Story & Screenplay (Peter Fenton and Bradley Hawkins), and Best Sound & Music (Tyler Bailey, Jim Casella, and Ryan Geesaman). Award

Filling In returns to NY state for the fourth time on Sunday, Nov. 5th, 2017 for the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival. According to their website, "the multi-genre festival, now in its fifth year, runs 11 days: Thursday, Nov. 2nd – Thursday, Nov. 9th at Dipson Theatres Eastern Hills Cinema in Williamsville, and Friday, Nov. 10th – Sunday, Nov.12th at the Screening Room Cinema Cafe in Amherst. This year’s program includes 110 films: 40 features and 70 shorts." The Buffal

Making its first appearance in Southern California, Filling in has been selected to be screened on the opening night of the 8th annual Zed Fest Film Festival, which just happens to be Halloween, Oct. 31st, 2017! The four-night genre-oriented film festival runs from 10/31 through Friday 11/3 in North Hollywood at the Laemelle NoHo 7 Theatre. As described on their Facebook page, "Zed Fest Film Festival Was founded in 2010 to honor and acknowledge filmmakers and screenwriters wh

The Celtic Mystery Short Film Festival recently upgraded the selection status for Filling in from Official Selection to Semi-Finalist, meaning that our comedy-fantasy short is now considered eligible for award recognition at the even held in London, England! According to the CMSFF website, "The 2017 Celtic Mystery Short Movie Festival will screen short films from around the world with a theme on Celtic, fantasy, horror or paranormal tales," The two-day festival will be held a

The 4th annual Mount Vernon International Film Festival announced Filling In as the winner of the Best Short Film award on their Facebook page last night. As described on their website MVIFF "is a showcase of extraordinary films from emerging and aspiring artists, filmmakers, and directors that integrate different media formats to produce quality films." Filling In was screened to an enthusiastic audience at MVIFF on Sept. 30, which this year was held at Westchester Community

The prestigious Sydney Indie Film Festival recently published their list of nominations for their huge ten day event held in Sydney, Australia. from September 18-28. 2017. Included on this list is our very own, Karl Holtz who was singled out as one of the top five supporting actors from the 110 short films that were screened at the festival! Filling in was screened on September 23rd at 2:00 PM in a block titled Epic Shorts - Comedy! to an enthusiastic crowd at the (Block #5

The Harrisburg-Hershey Film Festival announced the winners and nominees tonight from their 3rd annual event held at the Midtown Cinema in Harrisburg from Sept. 15-20, 2017. Included on the list of nominees and winners from the international film fest were wins for Filling In for both Best Narrative Short Film - Comedy and Best Film from a Local Artist (Bradley Hawkins), which included nominees of both feature length and short films from Central Pennsylvania. Hawkins was also

The Utopia Film Festival in Greenbelt, Maryland has declared Filling In as an official selection of their 13th annual film festival in Greenbelt, Maryland. The comedy-fantasy short visited Maryland earlier this month as an official selection at a film fest in Cumberland, MD, and will now be screened at the Utopia Film Festival in Greenbelt (near Washington D.C.) on Oct. 14-15, 2017. According to the Utopia Film Festival website, "Greenbelt was one of America’s first planned c

Father/daughter filmmakers, Bradley and Sarah Hawkins, owners of Dadley Productions, was honored when their first comedy short, Roller Coaster was declared at the Way Down Film Festival in Columbus, Georgia as Best Comedy at the inaugural event. Now, one year later, co-founder of Dadley, and director of Roller Coaster, Bradley Hawkins returns to WDFF with his award-winning comedy-fantasy short, Filling In. According to WDFF programmer, Scott Phillips, Hawkins is "one of only