Back In January 2022 Glen Wolfe, the head of Warp 66 Studios and man behind the Star Trek Fan Film Series “The Federation Files” announced he was going to award the ENTIRETY of the Fan Film COMMUNITY awards for films that came out in the last year. Now we have plenty of awards, including the BJO Awards that solely focused on Star Trek Fan Films, however Glen wanted to expand on this and allow ALL GENRES to be judged against each other, this meant Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones Fan Films would go head to head.
There were 5 nominated categories selected by the directors of submitted films, there were also “Best in Fest” categories based on vote totals. Those Categories were:
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Director
Best Original Costuming
Best Make-up/ Hairstyling
Best Cinematography
Best Original Music
Best F/X Make-up
Best Audio Mixing
Best Lighting
Best CGI FX
Best Green Screen
Best Screenplay
Best Parody
Best Foreign Fan Film
Best Animated Fan Film
Best Editing
Most Canon Award
Best Ensemble
Most Valuable Crew Member
The deadline for entries was February 22, 2022, Ballots were submitted by March 15, 2022 and the Winners were announced today.
By the submission deadline, a total of 38 Fan Films were submitted, they ranged from Star Trek to James Bond. Here is the list of all the submitted films:
1. Secrets of the Trials – A Star Wars Fan Film—Lachlan McClain
2. Tilt-A-Whirl– A Star Trek Fan Production-Vance Major
3. Running up That Hill-A Star Trek Fan Production-Vance Major
4. CROSSROADS – Project Gemini Episode 1 The Gemini Project-A Star Trek Fan Production-Frank Parker
5. The Devil You Know-A Star Trek Fan Production-Greg Mitchell
6. Doppelganger-A Star Trek Fan Production-Dan R. Reynolds
7. The Binary Belief-A Star Trek Fan Production-Jan “Sokar” Kratky
8. NEOTRON-A Star Trek Fan Production-Jan “Sokar” Kratky
9. Hours at Warp-A Star Trek Fan Production-Samuel Cockings
10. A Long Way From Home-A Star Trek Fan Production-Samuel Cockings
11. Checkmate: A Star Wars Fan Film Ep. 2-Aaron Oberste
12. The Last Padawan 2 – A Short STAR WARS story-Jesper Tønnes
13. Indiana Jones and the Crown of Caballero-Dawson Van Berkel
14. In The Blink Of An Eye: A James Bond Fan Film-Kevin Croxton
15. Agent of New Worlds-A Star Trek Fan Production-Joshua Irwin
16. Cosmic Stream-A Star Trek Fan Production-Joshua Irwin
17. Air & Darkness-A Star Trek Fan Production-Victoria Fox
18. Mia Wilson And The Secret Snitch | Harry Potter Fan Film-Lewis & Gary Wilson
19. STARFLEET LEGENDS – A STAR TREK Fan Production-Markus Bennewart
20. Squadron: A Star Trek Fan Production-Tereza Junova
21. Star Wars-THE CODE-Josiah Monroy
22. James Bond fan film I Expect You To Die-Paul Cusack, Mark Teehan and Colan Eardley
23. The Fair Trade: A Star Wars fan made mini story-Marty Sliwinski
24. ANIMALS-A Star Trek Fan Production-Michael L. King
25. STARSHIP FARRGUT – HOMECOMING-A Star Trek Fan Production-John Broughton
26. A Blaster In The Right Hands: A Star Wars Story-Richard de Carvalho
27. The More Things Change-A Star Trek Fan Production-Randy Wrenn
28. Rain Cross– A Star Trek Fan Production-Vance Major
29. No Good Deed-A Star Trek Fan Production-Glen L. Wolfe
30. Pilot-A Star Trek Fan Production-Gary Davis
31. The Passenger With Baggage-A Star Trek Fan Production-Randy Wrenn & Gary Davis
32. Little Lies-A Star Trek Fan Production-Sean Reimer
33. Egotastic-A Star Trek Fan Production-Trek Ep.3 “TPS Reports”-Matthew Weiss aka Pranakasha Matt
34. Interlude – A Star Trek Fan Production-Victoria Fox and Joshua Irwin
35. Leviathan-A Star Trek Fan Production-Randall A. Landers
36. Razor’s Edge-A Star Trek Fan Production-Jose E. Cepeda
37, Voyager Continues: Derelict-David Whitney
38. Star Trek is Real- Pixi Nereid
here are all the Nominees and winners as announced on the Awards Facebook Page
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Original Costumes
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Best Cinematography
Best Original Music
Best Audio Mixing
Best CGI FX
Best Green Screen
Best FX Makeup
Best Lighting
Best Screenplay
Best Parody
Best Foreign Fan Film
Most Canon(staying TRUE to the subject matter)
Best Editing
Best Ensemble Cast
Best In Fest
All of us here at GeekyKool want to give a hearty salute to all the fan films that were nominated, and congratulations to all the winners. If you want to leave comments, or watch all the films that were submitted, head over to the Fan Film Directors Awards Page located at https://www.facebook.com/fanfilmdirectorschoiceawards/
I know there were a lot of films that I had never heard of, that I now NEED to watch, especially the James Bond film and the Indiana Jones film.
