SUNY Niagara Film & Animation Festival
2023 “Best of 716” People’s Choice Award Finalists Coming Soon!
2024 “Best of 716” People’s Choice Award Finalists
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Josh McMillan
(Buffalo, NY)
Box Cutter Horror (15:14) A seasoned serial killer interviews an up-and-coming killer who must prove his worth in this gritty homage to ’70s B-movies and Italian Giallo films.
Taylor Martin
(Buffalo, NY)
Die Dame Horror (11:03) At the tail end of WWII, an American nurse, Betty, finds herself captured in an off-the-beaten-path Nazi experimentation lab with devastating results.
Nick Smith
(Fredonia, NY)
Home Policies Comedy (15:20) Bombastic British politician Miles Spinetti turns to his cocky speechwriter, Jonathan O’Shea, to save his ailing marriage. But the speechwriter has his own reasons for rewriting the married couple’s life.
Richard Fysh
(Buffalo, NY)
Katie’s Ghost Drama (6:11) Katie Cranville is a fourteen-year-old girl who can’t get out of her own head. She’s dealing with fitting in, finding friends, body issues, mental health, and all that normal teenage stuff. But what makes things especially tough for Katie is that her mom has just died; and now she doesn’t know what to do.
Donovan Gale
(Fredonia, NY)
NØKK Horror (16:38) A reclusive man discovers an abandoned camcorder in the woods containing footage that reveals a dark secret and changes his life forever.
John Toohill & Nicholas Reynolds
(Buffalo, NY)
The Hamiltones – Entr’acte to the Hamiltones in Space Animation/Music Video (3:02) A traditional stop-motion animation video for a song off The Hamiltones’ new record, In Space. The video is stylistically indebted to the very early silent sci-fi films The “?” Motorist (1906) and A Trip to the Moon (1902).
Amanda Besl
(Buffalo, NY)
The Harvest Experimental (3:45) This eco-gothic experimental film began as a video installation within a grain silo in the Old First Ward of Buffalo, NY. The historic Prussian blue of the cyanotype stop motion is slightly disorienting; suggesting a repressed memory revisited through the process of cutting, threshing, and winnowing the wheat.
Taylor Martin
(Buffalo, NY)
The Sicks Horror (20:00) A desperate father enters a murderous game, normalized by a society greedy for cheap thrills, in order to save his terminally ill daughter. Win or lose, this is his last chance.
Steven Tedesco & Sean Donovan
(Buffalo, NY)
Two Wars: The Road to Integration Documentary (30:10) Through the lens of Black service members, historians, and family members, Two Wars explores the untold journeys of Black service members before and after integration.
Lukia Costello
(Buffalo, NY)
You’re NOT For ART! Documentary (29:19) Who is an artist? What is art? This film chronicles the endearing and diverse artistic journey of “unknown,” yet cherished, octogenarian artist Sylvia Fahey-Kleindist. You’re NOT for ART! celebrates non-commercial artistic pursuits and the influence that childhood pastimes, interests, and formative memories have on them.
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