BEST SCREENPLAY - SHORT FILM
More Juice Screenplay by Gabriel Thibodeau
Ms. Rossi 2: Ms. Rossi Takes the Cake Screenplay by Pat Battistini
Rear Screenplay by Edward Worthy (Winner)
Suzy Makes Cupcakes Screenplay by Bethany Maines
We’ll Want for Nothing Screenplay by Eric Schabla
BEST SCREENPLAY - FEATURE FILM
Everybody Wants to be Loved Screenplay by Florian Plumeyer, Katharina Woll
The Counterfeit Kid Screenplay by Matthew Stoddard Taggart, Ian Hawkes
The Sisters Karras Screenplay by Micah Stathis (Winner)
BEST DIRECTOR - SHORT FILM
Alex Backes - That’s Our Time
Chester Carr - Something for Nothing (Winner)
Dwayne Cameron - June
George Dogaru - Ter Chono: A Mongolian Story
Hilary Eden - Bellybutton
BEST DIRECTOR - FEATURE FILM
Mike Cheslik - Hundreds of Beavers (Winner)
Don Schroeder - Miracle In The Valley
Chad Ridgely - Self Isolated
BEST ACTRESS - SHORT FILM
Angela Wong Carbone - Leaving Yellowstone
Clara Harte - Foxglove
Destiny Faith Nelson - Bienvenidos a Los Angeles
Mary Ritano - Swing (Winner)
Zuzu Weingart - Touch
BEST ACTOR - SHORT FILM
Alexei Bondar - Tito
Kenyon Ebole-Gordon - Remedial
Kue Lawrence - The Cowboy Pecan Pie
Mickaël Pélissier - The Fish Who's Dreaming of Beautiful Oceans But Has to Put Up With an Old Bowl (Winner)
Ralph Ineson - Waving
BEST ACTRESS - FEATURE FILM
Anne Ratte-Polle - Everybody Wants to be Loved (Winner)
Clare Louise Frost - The Sisters Karras
Emily Hoffmann - Miracle in the Valley
BEST ACTOR - FEATURE FILM
Brando White - The Counterfeit Kid
Doug Burch - Self Isolated (Winner)
Ryland Brickson Cole Tews - Hundreds of Beavers
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
8 Days at Ware - Dir. Meg Shutzer, Rachel Lauren Mueller (Winner)
Born Curious - Dir. Julia de Guzman
Founders - Dir. Scott Faris
The Steel Sculptress - Dir. Anthony Stengel
Unbreakable - Dir. Alex Astrella
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Dreams of Daraa - Dir. Reilly Dowd
On These Grounds - Dir. Garrett Zevgetis (Winner)
Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West - Dir. Ashley Avis
BEST WYOMING DOCUMENTARY
Bitcoin Cowboys: Will Wyoming Become the Next Crypto Capital? - Dir. Tim Hedberg
Pronghorn Persistence - Dir. Benjamin Kraushaar
Savage - Dir. Morgan Law (Winner)
The Steel Sculptress - Dir. Anthony Stengel
Wallowing Bull - Dir. Noam Sol Azouz, Dan Lior
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
Bellybutton - Dir. Hilary Eden
Night Ride - Dir. Eirik Tveiten
Stillness - Dir. Rachel Fowler
Suzy Makes Cupcakes - Dir. Jayson Therrien
The Cowboy Pecan Pie - Dir. Paul Cadenhead (Winner)
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
Everybody Wants to be Loved - Dir. Katharina Woll
Hundreds of Beavers - Dir. Mike Cheslik (Winner)
Self Isolated - Dir. Chad Ridgely
BEST WYOMING FILM
Bones - Dir. Ben Browning
Leaving Yellowstone - Dir. Kayla Arend
The Counterfeit Kid - Dir. Matthew S. Taggart (Winner)
The Sun Rises Differently - Dir. Jiayang Liu
Ten Years From Now - Dir. Isaac Larsen
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS
Best Documentary Short - Two Wheel Freedom
Best Wyoming Documentary - Savage
Best Documentary Feature - Savage
Best Narrative Short - Special Delivery
Best Wyoming Film - The Counterfeit Kid
Best Narrative Feature - The Counterfeit Kid
WYOMING 48 HOUR FILM FESTIVAL
01-28-86
Escaping Flames
Everything Left Unsaid
Heists & Hearts
Leading Lady (Winner - Best Use of Prop, Best of Fest)
Locket, Stock It and Two Smoldering Idioms
Pals
Razor City (Winner - Best Use of Dialogue)
Shadows of Deception (Winner - Best Use of Genre)
The Bystander (Winner - Best Director)
The Game
The Maeve Special (Winner - Best Actress, Best Actor)
The Suitcase (Winner - Best Screenplay)
The Twilight Garden
154 Films, 22 Countries, 5 Days of Movies
CELEBRATE INDIE FILM IN THE OLD WEST!
9th Annual Wyoming International Film Festival
July 5th - 9th, 2023
Laramie County Community College, 1400 E College Dr, Cheyenne, WY 82007
Wednesday 07.05.23
SPA = Surbrugg Prentice Auditorium PF= Pathfinder Building
OPENING NIGHT RED CARPET (SPA)
Starting Time: 4:30PM
Dress in your best and join us on the red carpet! Our opening night event is the perfect way to kick off the weekend and meet filmmakers, actors, stars, VIPs, and all the supporters of the Wyoming International Film Festival.
SAVAGE - OPENING NIGHT FEATURE (SPA)
Starting Time: 6:00PM
An inspiring and intimate portal into the world’s most dangerous sport, through the journey of one man's grit and rugged willpower to achieve the elusive dream of becoming a world champion, in a game that is often life... or death.
Wednesday Night After Party: The Albany
Start Time: 9:00 PM - 1506 Capitol Ave, Cheyenne, WY 82001
Thursday 07.06.23
SPA = Surbrugg Prentice Auditorium PF= Pathfinder Building
TERRY BISON RANCH TOUR
Bus Leaves LCCC: 9:45AM sharp
Join us for a day at the ranch! Filmmakers and guests are invited to join us for a tour of Terry Bison Ranch, followed by a burger bar. RSVP with the festival. Tour bus will meet at 9:30am at LCCC and leave at 9:45am sharp.
THE GREAT OUTDOORS (SPA)
Short Docs Celebrating Nature
Starting Time: 3:05PM
A Journey of Inspiration
High Plains Wild
Counting Cranes
Artist Unknown
Unwitnessed
Born Curious
CHILDREN’S WELFARE (SPA)
Short Films Focusing on Children’s Welfare
Starting Time: 5:25PM
8 Days at Ware
LIVE MUSIC
Performed by Christian Wallowing Bull
Starting Time: 7:10PM
MUSIC & DANCE (SPA)
Music & Dance Videos - This block is free and open to the public.
Starting Time: 7:30PM
You Are My God Thing
Maya Yenn – How Much Sadness Can You Swallow?
Wallowing Bull
Final Orbit
The Process
LIVE DANCE
Live dance performance by Act Two Studios.
Thursday Night After Party: Paramount Ballroom
Start Time: 9:30 PM - 1609 Capitol Ave, Cheyenne, WY 82001
FRIDAY 07.07.23
SPA = Surbrugg Prentice Auditorium PF= Pathfinder Building
CHECKUP (SPA)
Shorts about mental & physical health
Starting Time: 9:50AM
Invisible Wounds: The Story of Matthew Fast
Stroke
FER FILM FESTIVAL SPECIAL SCREENING (PF)
A special screening of films from the Fer Film Festival in Ferizaj, Kosovo
Starting Time: 9:50AM
Human Walkers in Motion
Reach the Vortex
The Human Game
Rhea
The Fish Who's Dreaming of Beautiful Oceans But Has to Put Up With an Old Bowl
CONNECTIONS (SPA)
Shorts about friends, family, love, and loss
Starting Time: 12:00PM
The Woman From Bar Blue
ON THESE GROUNDS (PF)
Feature Documentary: Social Justice
Starting Time: 12:00PM
A video goes viral, showing a white police officer in South Carolina pull a Black teenager from her school desk and throw her across the floor. Healer-Activist Vivian Anderson uproots her life in New York City to move to South Carolina to support the girl and dismantle the system behind the assault at Spring Valley, including facing the police officer.
CRIME (SPA)
Crime and Noir Short Films
Starting Time: 2:35PM
Takbir
Int. Bathroom – Night
A Killing in the Park (at 2:47pm)
DREAMS OF DARAA (PF)
Feature Documentary: Refugee Rights, War
Starting Time: 2:35PM
In Daraa, Syria, 25-year-old Hanadi dreams of answers. The questions: Where is my husband? How can I get my daughters to safety? Is there someplace to call home? As so many dreams turn to nightmares around her, Hanadi refuses to accept the cards she’s been dealt. Relying on her own wit and bravery, she navigates a harrowing four-year, international, wartime journey alongside her three young daughters. From refugee in Jordan to asylum-seeker in Germany, Hanadi cares far less for the labels she’s given than she does for peace and justice. (Preceded by short film “Bienvenidos a Los Angeles”)
WILD BEAUTY: MUSTANG SPIRIT OF THE WEST (SPA)
Feature Documentary: Conservation, Politics
Starting Time: 5:05PM
An immersive journey into the world of wild horses, Wild Beauty illuminates both the profound beauty, and desperate plight currently faced by the wild horses in the Western United States. Filmmaker Ashley Avis (Disney's Black Beauty) and crew go on a multi-year expedition to uncover the truth in hopes to protect them, before wild horses disappear forever.
SUSPENSE (PF)
Suspense and Thriller Short Films
Starting Time: 5:05PM
Fascinator Box
The Garden of Adan
Gunslinger
Trouble
MIRACLE IN THE VALLEY (SPA)
Feature Film: Western, Faith Based
Starting Time: 7:30PM
Thirteen year-old Melinda, born out of wedlock and scorned by many, desperately wants to know what happened to her real father, but no one in town will tell her. Determined to do all within her power to find her father, Melinda’s bravery compels some of the townspeople to reveal the dark secrets that they have kept to themselves for years.
HORROR (PF)
Horror Short Films
Starting Time: 7:30PM
Special Delivery
The House Sitters
The Handbook
Decomposition
Half Alive in 125
Friday Night After Party: Flippers Family Arcade
Start Time: 9:30 PM - 1617 Capitol Ave, Cheyenne, WY 82001
Saturday 07.08.23
SPA = Surbrugg Prentice Auditorium PF= Pathfinder Building
HOME ON THE RANGE (SPA)
Shorts docs about life in the west
Starting Time: 9:50AM
No Via Ferrata on Peregrine Cliffs
The Parade Volunteers
The Steel Sculptress
Idaho Babe
Artemis
EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE LOVED (PF)
Feature FIlm: Drama
Starting Time: 9:50AM
Psychotherapist Ina notices something is wrong with her. But she doesn't have time to worry about it: Patients are waiting at the practice, her daughter is threatening to move in with her father, her boyfriend wants to emigrate to Finland, and her self-centered mother is celebrating her 70th birthday. Ina wants to please everyone. But then everything changes.
THE SISTERS KARRAS (SPA)
Feature Film: Drama
Starting Time: 12:05PM
A story about the things that matter: Family, legacy, success, and textiles. Yes, textiles.
Two estranged half-sisters form a complicated bond as they work together to retrieve their rare and precious inheritance, which their late father inexplicably leaves to the mysterious Marco.
DOCUMENTARY (PF)
Short Documentaries
Starting Time: 12:05PM
Bitcoin Cowboys: Will Wyoming Become the Next Crypto Capital?
Datie: The Art Tribe of Tiegang
Bay Area Baseball
Hand in Hand
Four Tracks
1-2-3 The Len Barry Story
OUT THERE: A NATIONAL PARKS STORY (SPA)
Documentary Feature: Adventure, Road-Trip
Starting Time: 2:30PM
A young filmmaker sets out on a 10,000-mile exploration of the national parks with his childhood best friend during the centennial year of the formation of the National Park Service. Along the way, the two record stories of the people that work in the parks and those that come to enjoy them, as part of the rich tapestry of the history of the park system emerges. (Preceded by short documentary “Two Wheel Freedom”)
Two Wheel Freedom
Out There: A National Parks Story
COMEDY (PF)
Comedy and Satire Short Films
Starting Time: 2:30PM
Ms. Rossi 2: Ms. Rossi Takes the Cake
Milk Dreams
Hot Set
Bran-Don of the Dead
SELF ISOLATED (SPA)
Feature Film: Thriller
Starting Time: 5:00PM
After awakening from a coma, a woman searches for clues into her missing husband's disappearance.
HISTORICAL (PF)
Historical and Period Short Films
Starting Time: 5:00PM
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (SPA)
Feature Film: Comedy, Western
Starting Time: 7:15PM
In this 19th century, no dialogue, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
DRAMA #1 (PF)
Drama Short Films
Starting Time: 7:15PM
Expiration Date
Act of War
Foxglove
We’ll Want for Nothing
After Normalcy
Saturday Night After Party: Railspur
Start Time: 9:30 PM - 707 W. Lincolnway, Cheyenne, WY 82001
Sunday 07.09.23
SPA = Surbrugg Prentice Auditorium PF= Pathfinder Building
WYOMING 48 Hour Film Festival (SPA)
Finalists of the Wyoming 48 Hour Film Festival, this block is free and open to the public
Starting Time: 11:00AM
ACTION (SPA)
Action and Adventure Short Films
Starting Time: 1:30PM
DRAMA #2 (PF)
Drama Short Films
Starting Time: 1:30PM
The Little Drummer Boy
Fragile Strength
Runaways
Ten Years From Now
Gene’s 6th Symphony
Night Ride (Academy Award Nominee)
THE COUNTERFEIT KID (SPA)
Feature Film: Western, Adventure
Starting Time: 4:05PM
Jack, a simple farmhand sets out to make a name for himself, ending up on the trail of a buried treasure. Unfortunately, he's been impersonating the infamous outlaw "Bloody" Ben Harris. Now, he will need all his friends to help him outwit Harris, find the treasure, and return to his true love Olivia.
NATIVE STORIES (PF)
Native American Documentaries
Starting Time: 4:05PM
Founders
AWARD CEREMONY (SPA)
The Conclusion of the 2023 Wyoming International Film Festival
Starting Time: 6:30pm