Harrisburg-Hershey Film Festival Honors 'Filling In'
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 nominated for Best Director, making him one of only seven filmmakers that received the honor from the 75 films of all genres screened at the festival, which included documentaries, narrative live-action, and animated films.
Listed below is the complete list of nominees and winners in each of the awarded categories from the 2017 Harrisburg-Hershey Film Festival :
Best Narrative Short Film – Comedy
Winner: Filling In
Nominees:
Kill the Engine
Moonshot
The World’s Longest Wait
Trouble in Trainsville
Best Narrative Short Film – Drama
Winner: Manners of Dying
Nominees:
A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud
Icarus
Katie and Ben
Mail.Man
Might
Oak Bones
The Immaculate Misconception
Best Documentary
Winner: Adele and Everything After
Nominee:
Ethiopia by Tuk Tuk
Best Narrative Feature – Comedy
Winner: (Romance) in the Digital Age
Nominee:
John Lives Again Best
Narrative Feature – Drama
Winner: The Father and the Bear
Nominees:
Bad Frank
Happy Hunting
Best Film from a Local Artist
Winner: Filling In (Bradley Hawkins)
Nominees:
The Father and the Bear
The Lost Within
Best Cinematography
Winner: Jessica Pantoja, Manners of Dying
Nominees:
Jonatan Sundström, Might
Lindsay Corriveau, Oak Bones
Michael Schmucker, Carry Me Home
Nico Aguilar, Icarus
Simon Harding, Alfred J. Hemlock
Wesley Hunt, Moonshot
Best Director
Winner: Bo-You Niou, Manners of Dying
Nominees:
Bradley Hawkins, Filling In
Jason Michael Brescia, Romance in the Digital Age
Joe Dietsch, Happy Hunting
John Putch, The Father and the Bear
Karen Allen, A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud
Tom Teller, Icarus
2017 HHFF Short Script Contest
Winner: 12:00, Kristofer Bartol
Golden Strawberry Award (Judge’s Award)
Winner: The Father and the Bear
