Screamy New Year!

December 31, 2023 6:49 PM

In a matter of minutes, the monthly Minnesota short film festival Scream It Off Screen. will hold its third annual New Year's Eve Central Time Zone Sphere Drop, including a showing of the festival's winners from this year. (It won't go too long because they stopped doing online-only screenings and haven't figured out how to stream the in-person screenings they're still doing.) There's no telling what you'll see - each month's films are chosen randomly from submissions, with sufficient viewer protests able to 'gong' films to end them early - except that they won in their respective months. As examples, here's the first and second NYE shows. (previously)

And now, a continuation of this list of winning and placing short films, going up to June 2022 since I'm short on time - the rest (except 2023's which will all be shown in the 2023 NYE show) will be listed in the comments:

July 2021 1st Place: D00dbuffet: Tyler's Jackass Audition
July 2021 2nd Place: Le Goushque in 4D (Violence! Nudity! Drugs! VIOLENT NUDE DRUGS!)
July 2021 3rd Place: Beyond the Gloves
August 2021 1st Place: Homeward Clown
August 2021 2nd Place: Forever
August 2021 3rd Place: Pick Me Up
September 2021 In-Person 1st Place: Dough Joe
September 2021 Online 1st Place: Esther Eats
September 2021 Online 2nd Place: Black Jeans Whoa
September 2021 Online 3rd Place: Big Mug
October 2021 In-Person 1st Place: Dome Zone
October 2021 Online 1st Place: Kerfuffle
October 2021 Online 2nd Place: You Missed a Spot (featuring clowns, and lots of them)
October 2021 Online 3rd Place: The Tale of the Bone Collector
November 2021 Online 1st Place: Lucid Dreams
November 2021 Online 2nd Place (tie): Cowboy Joe
November 2021 Online 2nd Place (tie): Damage Control - Official Music Video
November 2021 Online 4th Place: Franc Kooper Investigates Things Podcast
December 2021 In-Person 1st Place: Octavia
December 2021 In-Person 2nd Place: Tennie Ball
December 2021 In-Person 3rd Place: Not Afraid But Scared - Official Music Video
December 2021 Online 1st Place: JUMBO
December 2021 Online 2nd Place: Mittens (plush horror)
December 2021 Online 3rd Place: Flour Girls
January 2022 In-Person 1st Place: Eating Alone in My Car
January 2022 Online 1st Place: Oldboy's Apples
January 2022 Online 2nd Place: Housecat
January 2022 Online 3rd Place: Transcending Duality
February 2022 In-Person 1st Place: Mary Dan Food Review
February 2022 Online 1st Place: SUPER DILEMMA
February 2022 Online 2nd Place: (Just) Balloons
February 2022 Online 3rd Place: The Number 12
March 2022 In-Person 1st Place: Show U What I Got
March 2022 In-Person 2nd Place: The Intervention
March 2022 In-Person 3rd Place: LOST IN THE WOODS (BAPTISM?) HIKING GONE WRONG!
March 2022 Online 1st Place: The Kin
March 2022 Online 2nd Place: Pearl of the Harem
March 2022 Online 3rd Place: Exiled - A Star Wars Fan Film
May 2022 In-Person 1st Place: Look, Mira
May 2022 In-Person 2nd Place: Baby Time
May 2022 In-Person 3rd Place: Ford Clitaurus (linked version is uncut, longer than the 15 minute time limit)
May 2022 Online 1st Place: The Trobie
May 2022 Online 2nd Place: Horror Realm
May 2022 Online 3rd Place: Curtis Yellingmouth
June 2022 In-Person 1st Place: Egg
June 2022 Online 1st Place: PANIC CATTACK
June 2022 Online 2nd Place: The Green House
June 2022 Online 3rd Place: The Interview

posted by BiggerJ (5 comments total)

Update: to avoid confusion, the live New Year's Eve show will not feature any of this year's short films from Scream It Off Screen. Because of this, my list of film links (which I'm still working on) will include all the links to 2023's winners that I can find.
posted by BiggerJ at 8:11 PM on December 31, 2023

The list, continued (including a couple of intros with interesting backstories):

Recently discovered: May 2022 In-Person 2nd Place: Baby Time

July 2022 In-Person 1st Place: Jesus Loves Us (As We Know)
July 2022 In-Person 2nd Place: mi-fi
July 2022 In-Person 3rd Place: Detached (also here)
July 2022 Online 1st Place: holding hands with the moon
July 2022 Online 2nd Place: Impermanence
July 2022 Online 3rd Place: Debauchelor
August 2022 In-Person 1st Place: Thunderhead - Official Music Video
August 2022 In-Person 2nd Place: The Bloody Ballad of Squirt Reynolds
August 2022 In-Person 3rd Place: Agent Danger
August 2022 Online 1st Place: Polterguest
August 2022 Online 2nd Place: Not Quite Quarantine
August 2022 Online 3rd Place: Pursuit of a Jigsaw
September 2022 In-Person 1st Place: All For a Dollar (intro)
September 2022 Online 1st Place (tie): Armchair Homosapien
September 2022 Online 1st Place (tie): Snake Dick
September 2022 Online 3rd Place: One Night
September 2022 Online 4th Place: TIME
Late September 2022 In-Person 1st Place: Every Time We Meet for Ice Cream Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes
Late September 2022 In-Person 2nd Place: Glacula
Late September 2022 In-Person 3rd Place: Kassandra and the Bus
October 2022 Online 1st Place: Preliminary Materials
October 2022 Online 2nd Place: Picky Eater
October 2022 Online 3rd Place: Lullaby
November 2022 In-Person 1st Place: The Dog Sitter
November 2022 In-Person 2nd Place: Gamer + NyQuil = Time Travel?!
November 2022 In-Person 3rd Place: Sleep Machine
November 2022 Online 1st Place: In Us We Trust
November 2022 Online 2nd Place: Killers and Kilos
November 2022 Online 3rd Place: Blossom
December 2022 In-Person 1st Place: Betwixt
December 2022 In-Person 2nd Place: Can Our Love Last?
December 2022 In-Person 3rd Place: Some Guy Goes To Hell
December 2022 Online 1st Place: Nurse Meow and the Hunt for Sexy Bigfoot
December 2022 Online 2nd Place: The Miller's Tale (intro)
December 2022 Online 3rd Place: Disfigurement

Next up: the winners of 2023.
posted by BiggerJ at 9:17 PM on December 31, 2023

And finally, the 2023 link list:

January 2023 1st Place: Scary Car
January 2023 2nd Place: Thirty-One Infinities
January 2023 3rd Place: What The Grinch is doing right now
February 2023 1st Place: Microwave Spider (linked version is uncut, longer than the 15 minute time limit)
February 2023 2nd Place: There's A Spot
February 2023 3rd Place: Water
March 2023 1st Place: I Love You, Jim
April 2023 1st Place: What Ever Happened To Moody's: My Confusing Valentine
May 2023 1st Place: The Dumpling
June 2023 1st Place: Break Up Song but I Get Distracted
July 2023 1st Place: Le Pain
August 2023 1st Place: Junk Puppet Poetry #1
September 2023 1st Place: Boots
October 2023 1st Place: Xagal (Angle)
November 2023 1st Place: Junk Puppet Poetry #3
December 2023 1st Place: Dana's Pineapple Commercial
posted by BiggerJ at 9:37 PM on December 31, 2023

At least of the movies above are vintage - All For a Dollar is from 1963 and The Miller's Tale is from 1972.
posted by BiggerJ at 2:33 AM on January 1

*At least two
posted by BiggerJ at 7:08 PM on January 1