Announcing Scout 2017 Official Selections and Category Nominees Hello, Friends! We are fired up about the Scout Film Festival 2017 catalog of offici
Announcing Scout 2017 Official Selections and Category Nominees
Hello, Friends!
We are fired up about the Scout Film Festival 2017 catalog of official selections and category nominees screening this year, June 9-11 in Stowe, VT, USA. The 132 films below were chosen out of 987 total submissions from 67 countries! While this gives us the unique opportunity to consider work that spans a wide spectrum from around the globe, it certainly doesn't make it any easier to narrow those entries down.
Congratulations to all the filmmakers included here, and to ALL who submitted, we look forward to viewing your future work.
Films are listed by category and then alphabetically. As we received hundreds of submissions in the Female Filmmaker category and almost half our official selections were made by women/girls, you will see only the films nominated for Best Female Filmmaker under that heading. They and all other female films are also listed in their respective categories. Nominees in all categories are bold.
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Local Love, Global Love
Your Scout Team
Infokind
Animation
Afloat by Callahan Bracken, Canada
Creation 101 by Raine Bracken, Canada
Fairytale Fallout by Raine Bracken, Canada
Infokind by Jonasz Wiewiór, Poland
Journey by Radheya Jegatheva, Australia
The List by Tobias LaMontagne, United States
Puget Sound
Comedy
Chores by Jake Schwencke, United States
For The Love of God by Sam Friedman, United States
Jimmy the Limo Driver by Brendan Hickey, United States
Puget Sound by Jack Nordstrom, United States
The Loneliness of the Short Distance Runner by Holly Jacobson, United Kingdom
A Dying Man Named Steve by Tristan Surman, Canada
HOV by Lillian Rose, United States
Thaasophobia by Patrick Godino, United States
Herman Wainggai: A Hidden Genocide
Documentary
Behind The Wall by Kiara Ramirez, United States
Bret by Caitlin LeBlanc through Real to Reel Film School, United States
The Cost of Applause by Ilirjana Mimaj, through Doku Fest, Kosovo
Creators Collective "Bell and Oak" by Austin Leih, United States
DADS by Gabriel Valentine through Youth Documentary Academy, United States
Do You Ever Wish by Ash Bol through Connected Media, New Zealand
DOM by Kalia Hunter through Youth Documentary Academy, United States
Don't Get Tagged by Jermiah Victor, United States
Expiration Date by Giles Perkins, United States
Finding Strength by Maya Suchak through Youth FX, United States
Grab My Hand by Elhame Kastrati, Fatlinda Daku and Andi Bilibani through Doku Fest, Kosovo
Herman Wainggai: A Hidden Genocide by Josh Leong, United States
Journey From El Salvador: An Edgar Rivas Story by Charlie Ehrman, United States
Just Another Word by Mercedes Van Royen through Connected Media, New Zealand
KOSOVA TRANS by Albrim Isufi through Doku Fest, Kosovo
Life Rolls On by Regan Yorke through Pacific Arts Movement Reel Voices, United States
LONELY HIGHWAY by Andy Kwiatkowski through Youth Documentary Academy, United States
Madoka by Callahan Bracken, Canada
Motherlands by Winter Smiley through Pacific Arts Movement Reel Voices, United States
My Pit's the Pit - McLean High School Marching Band by Josh Leong, United States
Necessity Has No Law by Ahmed Hamed, Egypt
Rough Waters by Claire Imler, United States
The S Word by Isaac Miller through Lakeside TV, United States
Solidarity by Sylvia Gabriel, United States
Such Morning Songs by James Perry, Canada
TO BE HEARD by Amethyst Drago through Youth Documentary Academy, United States
To Sell a Child by Lucy Rinzler-Day, United States
Welcome Home by Luke Broyles, United States
Little Lost
Drama
4242 by Sara Eustaquio, Portugal
Brainwash by Hannah Gautrey, United Kingdom
Bright and Early by Emma Siegel, United States
Brooklyn by Long Tran, United States
Caterwaul by Liva Lervig Haue and Jakob Leifer Ravnemose through Station Next, Denmark
Cluttered by Emily Wood through Real to Reel Film School, United States
Carpe Diem by Charlie Ehrman, United States
Cheers and Queers by Isabella Richter de Medeiros, United States
Chicken by Aidan Hamell, United States
Christmas Spirit by Kurtis Watson, Canada
Cycle by Caleb Wild, United States
Daddy's Girl by Ellie MacMillan, United Kingdom
Finding Me by Katie Ann O'Keefe, Kaila Sahagun and Charles Brunner, United States
For Isabelle by Tilly Hobkirk, Australia
For Rose by Zoe Miller, United States
Free by Pedro Nogueira, Portugal
the gift of loneliness by Gus Aronson, United States
Glass Breaks on Impact by Andrew Kozak, Canada
Goldfish by Christina Xing, United States
The Grappler by Charlie Ehrman, United States
Hanna by Lea Agmon, Germany
I AM THE PARTY by Borja Ibrahim, Spain
I Don’t Want To Live Anywhere Else by Anton Forsdik, Sweden
If I Ask by Alexia Salingaros, United States
Images by Dean Parker, United States
La Rivière by Erkhembayar Baasanbazar, Mongolia
Little Lost by Jake Kuhn, United Kingdom
Mars is Calling by Astrid Lund Johansen through Station Next, Denmark
Nede by Lorenzo Cassol and Lorenzo Campagnoli through Fare Cinema Produzione, Italy
Noose by Jackson Shipman and Nick LaMarca, United States
On The Edge by Anne-Marie Bjerre Koch through Station Next, Denmark
PROJAM(AWAY) by Utkan Dora Oncul, Turkey
Room 844N by Adam Mehdi Arafan, Morocco
Run Rabbit Run by Eleanor Smith, United Kingdom
Runaway by Rhodes Evans, Cassandra Adair and Matthew Nadel, United States
Sanctus by Charles Wyson, United States
Silent by Lindsey Hunter, United States
Sleeping in the Jungle by Andrew Arehart, Jack Arehart, Matthew Arehart and Larry Boyce, Canada
Standpoint by Erik Hirschhorn, United States
subject by Bahar Safari, Islamic Republic of Iran
Tracks by Jacob Langsner, United States
Traces by Eyal Shpater, Almog Lan, Ella Adar and May Mazor through Ironi High-School, Israel
The Trees Will Remember by Ash Sumpter, Slovakia
Void Loop by Huw Messie, United States
When Waters Rise by Josh Leong and Benjamin Hunt, United States
Where I Left by Tristan Surman, Canada
The Will and Testament of Raymond Burns by Jake Ryan, United States
Facade
Experimental
Daddy Why Are They Stopping Us? by Williemae Fiddemon through YouthFX, United States
The Date by YiFan Xiang, China
Daydreaming by Oliver Marsden, Australia
Facade by Carol Nguyen, Canada
LIFE by Daniel Zibilianu, Romania
Mirror by Sara Eustaquio, United States
Oblivion by Dani González, United States
One Single Butterfly by Nickolas Wolf, United States
Plastic by Alice Wade, United Kingdom
REALITY by Christian Gentry, United States
Rocks by Keyan Kazemian and Neema Sadeghi, United States
The Spaceman by Caleb Garrett, United States
Unsaid by Claire Imler and Jackie Lee, United States
Way Out of Here by Kara Tsenov, Canada
Hanna
Female Filmmaker Nominees
4242 by Sara Eustaquio, Portugal
"Atlas World" Liu Bei (Solomun Day Remix) by Morgana McKenzie, Canada
For Isabelle by Tilly Hobkirk, Australia
Hanna by Lea Agmon, Germany
Mars is Calling by Astrid Lund Johansen through Station Next, Denmark
Runaway by Rhodes Evans, Cassandra Adair and Matthew Nadel, United States
The Red Drop
Horror
The Grove by Jacob Vaus, United States
INSIDE. by Patrick Stagg, United States
Incubus by Jacob Chang-Rascle, United States
Louisa by Alexia Salingaros, United States
The Red Drop by Alba Linares, Melania Medel, Marina Vargas, Verónica Fumero and Melén de la Fuente through Digital 104, Spain
Set Free by Jeremy Herron and Dean Russell, United States
Run
Made In Vermont
Bake-Off by Maddie Kern, United States
Passenger by John Kohler and Elise Wilkes, United States
PHANTOM by Dylan Pollak, United States
Run by Graham Taylor, United States
Silent Suicide by Isaiah Gaskell, United States
Atlas World
Music Video
"Atlas World" Liu Bei (Solomun Day Remix) by Morgana McKenzie, Canada
"Bones" C. Clarkin and The Residents by Kurtis Watson, Canada
"Cushioned Caging" Palehound by Badger Antoniou through Real to Reel Film School, United States
"Juliet" CrashCarBurn by Dewald de la Rey, South Africa
"Made Of" by Claire Imler, United States
"Science" Stacey Green Jumps by Kurtis Watson, Canada
“Searching For Sunlight” Golden Bloom by Marylys Merida through Real to Reel Film School, United States
“Well of Dreams” Keen by Rajaiah Jones, Alexis Villar and Nadia Healey through Real to Reel Film School, United States
Trans Lives Matter
Public Service Announcement
Any Given Day by Azure Allen, United States
False Identities by Ruhi Mansey and Paola Sierra, United States
Trans Lives Matter by Nich Rardin, United States
Unspoken by Blake Sepe, United States
Italia
Sports/Adventure/Travel
Climbing For a Cause by Cris Karraa, United States
Fine-Tuned: A Short Documentary by Rayane Jemaa, Switzerland
