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QCFF 2018 AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Allegany Allied Arts and the Queen City Film Festival (QCFF) are pleased to announce the Category Award winners for QCFF 2018, held October 4-7 at The Venue At Mezzos (114 S. Centre St.) in Cumberland, Maryland:

Animation Short (TIE): Railment, Shunsaku Hayashi, Japan
Animation Short (TIE): Pour 585, Patrick Smith, USA
Animation Feature: Harvie and the Magic Museum, Martin Kotik, Czech Republic:
Appalachian Feature: The Mountain Minor, Dale Farmer, USA
Appalachian Short: Family Medicine, Joe Kraemer, USA
Cult Feature: The Theta Girl, Christopher Bickel, USA
Cult Short: Hotel Oswald, Kim Hotterbeekx, Netherlands
Documentary Feature: Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy, R. Todd Stevens, USA
Documentary Short: From a Valley of Talol, Sam Simonds, Shineika Fareus, and Yves Pierre, USA
Horror/SciFi Feature: Lost In Apocalypse, Sky Wang, China
Horror/SciFi Short: The Watch, Paul Prache, France
Kids/Family Feature: A Wish For Giants, Don Swanson, USA
Kids/Family Short: Are You Volleyball, Mohammad Bakhshi, Iran
LGBT Feature: Cas, Joris van de Berg, Netherlands:
LGBT Short: Something About Alex, Reinout Hellenthal, Netherlands
Music Feature: Only In A Day, José Luis Noriega and Rafael Álvarez-Espejo, Spain
Music Short: Istanbul Punk, Ali Kanibelli, Turkey
Music Video: Scandal, Pablo Mengin-Lecreulx, France (Réunion)

In addition to the Category Awards, our Audience Awards were announced on the last day of the festival, Sunday, October 7:

Audience Award Short (TIE): Operation First Light, Irving Nestor, USA
Audience Award Short (TIE): Crazy Night, Dídac López, Spain
Audience Award Feature: Down and Yonder, Christopher Flippo, USA

More information is available at the festival website (www.queencityfilmfestival.org), Facebook page (www.facebook.com/aaa.qcff), or by email at info@alleganyalliedarts.org. The Queen City Film Festival (QCFF) is a production of Allegany Allied Arts, Inc.

ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND AND CONTACT INFORMATION

Allegany Allied Arts, Inc., can be reached by mail at 101 Decatur St., Cumberland, MD 21502. Please visit us at www.alleganyalliedarts.org, www.facebook.com/alleganyalliedarts, or www.facebook.com/aaa.qcff. For more information, please contact info@alleganyalliedarts.org.